So I managed to play through this game in one sitting splitting time with my sister and her boyfriend over the Thanksgiving holiday. I have to admit-it was a great experience.

First of all, the graphics/art style is gorgeous. The many effects the developers use to make the sand look different between levels are just great. For some reason I kept thinking to myself that thus is how a "next gen" version of Zelda should look. Imagine the mountain the the background of the game was "Death Mountain"?

The music is also fantastic and very atmospheric. Loved everything about the presentation about thus game.

Now, while I found the multiplayer component on the game interesting, I did wish I was alone for the entire game. There were several "levels" where I felt like my second player was just busting through the game and advancing the game faster than I would have done it myself. This just made me get from objective to objective faster so I could feel like I was doing something rather than having my second player essentially play the fame for me. While an interesting implementation of multiplayer-made things a bit more stressful than I anticipate the developers wanted.

Now anytime people brought this game up (when it was first released) the entire "video games as art" debate seemed to raise it's ugly head. Now this game is gorgeous. The music-fantastic at setting mood. But does this game manage the transcend other games that came before it? In my mind-not really. I appreciate how it looked and feel, but was it really any better than the multiple of action/adventure games I've played before? Is it better than Zelda? Is it better than Hid of War? I don't really think so

Anyway, loved playing the game with the family. It is definitely a game you need to play on one setting on your first time.