The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks Review

 

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                The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks is a quirky little adventure game that keeps alive the spirit of the Zleda series on the Nintendo DS. The game is a mix of classic adventure that you will find in a Zelda game, and puzzle solving.  The game has a very the classic adventure story. A young adventurer is thrust into helping save the kingdom that he lives in. In the game, your world was once under attack by evil forces until those evil forces were locked away in a tower and under ground by train tracks. As a young train engineer you are conscripted by Princess Zelda to help figure out why the Spirit Tracks (train tracks) are disappearing. It is discovered that the evil chancellor has been making the train tracks disappear in order to bring the evil back to the world. He steals the princess’ body to help give the evil a new life. So it is up to you and the spirit of Princess Zelda to restore the train tracks and stop the evil. Your character and the spirit of Princess Zelda travel around to different areas of the world to help restore the spirit tracks and stop evil from spreading.

                The game play was extremely easy to grasp on the Nintendo DS. Your player walks around the screen where ever the gamer touches the stylist. To attack an enemy, you tap the enemy and your character swings the sword; very basic controls. The game play becomes more difficult when you are controlling both your character and Princess Zelda, who inhabits knight armor. It takes a little practice switching from your character and Zelda quickly but as a gamer you do get plenty of opportunities to try it. Also, your character has multiple weapons to switch through, and switching between weapons quickly only becomes an issue in battle or you are doing a timed task.

                The best part of this game was all of the puzzles needed to complete to get through boards. Sometimes it was actual puzzles a player needed to figure out, but most of the time the puzzles were the boards. A player would have to figure out which switch to hit around the board, or look at patterns that occur around the board and figure out the patterns to open up doors. I found the puzzle aspect of the game to be a lot of fun. The part of the game that I found to be most annoying was traveling from town to town by train.  There are actually things called “force gems” that allow you to move quickly, through warps, from area to area, but I never learned how to do that. The game never taught you how to use force gems, and they are difficult to find. Travel was slow, and I wish the travel was quicker.

                Overall the game was fun. Some of the puzzles can be tedious and take some time, but they are a good challenge for the mind. Some of the game play takes a little time to master, but the game gives you enough time to learn it. The story was okay. It was the basic adventure story, the world is in trouble from evil, and it needs to be saved. For these reason, I am going to give The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks an 8.3 out of 10. 

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