Adventure and Zelda

Since I've been really busy, I haven't had a chance to play and evaluate any games since my first post, so I will probably have multiple posts over break to make up for it.

The first 2 games I played were "Adventure" for the Atari 2600 and "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" for the Nintendo GameCube (and Wii). Both are adventure games created about 23 years apart from one another. The time difference really shows any possible way you look at it.

In Adventure you are a cube that has to find the enchanted chalice and bring it to the golden castle. You have to find keys to two castles and slay bird-like dragons, while going though a maze. The game is really strange to play since the movement is difficult with the joystick and the maze isnt very wide. You must move from the golden castle with an item that appears to be a sword. You must travel the maze to find the Black castle and bring back the chalice, at which point I think you win, it dosent really tell you. Overall, this game is pretty bad. The graphics are horrible and the colors off. It olny takes about 10 mins to play and is really more annoying then fun, there is just to many better Atari games to play.

In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker you play a young boy, on a small island, who's sister has been kidnapped by a griant bird and brought to the forbidden fortress. So you leave your island to find her, traveling from island to island to get to her. In the game you learn to control the wind and change it's direction to help sail on your small sailboat. Along the way you have to go through dungeons and fight bosses on each island. Anyways, this game is pretty good. Its really fun to play and the cell shaded graphics are really neat. It takes alot longer then 1omins to beat and has so much more to do than Adventure.