The Legend of Zelda-Spirit Tracks
Link, the engineer – “Geez, the Zelda idea well is sure running dry, huh?” was my first thought upon seeing the trailers a few months before the release date. Turns out that I enjoy the train elements more than I expected. The designers give you plenty of stuff to do while traveling, and you encounter a growing cast of enemies as The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks for Nintendo DS progresses. And when there’s nothing else to do, it’s always fun to try your stylus-equipped hand at creating slow and dramatic cinematic camera sweeps of our favorite green-clad hero on his way to save Hyrule. Towards the end of The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks for Nintendo DS, the use of the train figures in more significantly, even including a sort of Pac-Man-on-steroids bit of gameplay. While being able to travel only where the titular Spirit Tracks lay on the overworld map makes traveling a bit more efficient, it does kind of take away from the free roaming exploration aspect of the series.