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Exceeds all previous Zelda games in presenting Hyrule as a real place that can be fully explored in ways only hinted at (and dreamt of) in OoT. Size and depth of world makes replays just as good as the first time through, sense of exploration almost never dims for hundreds of hours
Good:
* Everything
Average:
* Story almost non-existent although replaced with great environmental storytelling, best backstory and cinematics in Zelda series history
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Almost perfect execution of story, dungeons, gameplay, puzzles, difficulty, exploration, progression, side quests. Overworld feels a little empty, even on release
Good:
* Everything
Bad:
* Showing it's age
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Atmosphere/setting, gameplay, quests improved over OoT but shorter and dungeons/bosses aren't as good.
Good:
* Quests
* Gameplay
* Puzzles
* Progression/pacing
* Difficulty
* Story
Average:
* Dungeons - tedious to play over and over, design suffered from 3 day time limit
* Exploration - good but short
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Way too easy in combat, puzzles, quests. A bit tedious in the beginning and generally all around pretty slow. Boring fetch quest at end, dungeons are average for series.
Good:
* Story - simple but well done
* Gameplay - new combat, fun items
Average:
* Setting - would be good but boring sailing from place to place, small islands and small quantity
* Dungeons - small quantity
* Quests
Bad:
* Difficulty
* Progression/pacing - boring as hell
* Length
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Very long and boring intro, story is too slow
Good:
* Dungeons - best and most numerous in the series
* Gameplay - excellent number of enemies and items
* Puzzles - lots of them and tuned just right, not too easy or frustrating
Average:
* Story - Midna is great, Twilight invasion is neat, but falls back on OoT rehash towards end
* Quests - decent amount but nothing memorable
* Difficulty - a little easy
Bad:
* Setting - OoT rehash with none of the benefits, lifeless world/side characters
* Progression/pacing - terribly slow intro, story stretches too long
* Exploration - nowhere interesting to find or go, empty field
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