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Posted 23 June 2007 - 01:47 AM




I've just got home from sitting in a cafe for two straight hours playing it. I left after I started to get some strange looks.

Anyway, I'm loving it so far- the graphics are incredible for the DS, as you've probably seen, it mimics the 'Celda' style of Wind Walker, and while it obviously can't match a Gamecube, it's easily the best looking game thats been released on the handheld so far.

If you're thinking of importing it you'll obviously need to know some Japanese, BUT, for those of you who can read hiragana, know a decent amount of vocab, and/or have access to a good Japanese dictionary, you might be happy to know that (in a brilliant use of the touch screen) if you touch a kanji with your pen, the hiragana reading pops up above it!

A very early puzzle has you write a number on a sign to roll back a boulder in a cave, so it's possible that later puzzles will have you write kanji too, but again, the kanji readings system I mentioned means the game is obviously aimed at a broad audience, so if it did ask you to write kanji at some point, I doubt it will be very difficult.

So, if you know I bit (seriously, I think only a bit will get you through- ability to read hiragana is a must though) of Japanese, this game is shaping up to be fantastic, and will probably massively improve your vocab in the process.
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Posted 23 June 2007 - 09:47 AM

I think my best hope is for a English version as part of the virtual console (unlikely at the moment). It looks really cool. I much preferred the cell shaded Wind Waker to the more "real" Twilight Princess.
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