In the nick of time

Two weeks ago I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on the DS and after countless hardcore hours of gaming, coupled with numerous late nights, I finally completed Phantom Hourglass today; defeating Bellum and rescueing Tetra! I had hoped to complete the game before leaving for Bangkok so I won't have to carry the DS with me there.

Suffice to say - Phantom Hourglass is a great game and one of the best game that I've played on the DS. Am I biased? I do not think so. There are many great game franchises that have stood the test of time and Zelda is clearly a classic franchise. I remember playing my first ever Zelda game on the original GameBoy - it was Link's Awakening which sadly I never got around to complete and the old GameBoy screen is now busted.

Link is now in 3-D on the DS (remember when he was just a wee grey cell shaded Link on the GB?) and he is just so unbelievably adorable with that enormous pair of saucer eyes!

I found the ending of the game rather sad *sniff* and looks like I wasn't the only one who thought so - a fellow gamer at Gamespot voted it as the #1 Saddest Game Ending

Phantom Hourglass revisited

I last played The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass a good couple of months back, found myself hopelessly stuck in one of the temple and then gave up playing it. Inspired by watching sudafan playing Wind Waker recently, I decided to revisit Phantom Hourglass. I reset my old saved game and started afresh.

The game takes place after Wind Waker (seems it's a sequel), and our hero Link has to travel from island to island with the cowardly Captain Linebeck, rescuing spirits to help locate the mysterious Ghost Ship that has abducted his friend Tetra. Like all classic Zelda games, along the way there's plenty of swash-buckling action and witty characters.

The game uses DS features for game controls, which I found a little annoying cos Link is controlled solely with the stylus, making the DS control pad redundant.