The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Comments by Tom Bramwell

Sounds good and you can buy it with a nice gold sp too. Hmmm you know you should just wait for the ds but..........

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's too short. I've even put it to the side for the moment (there's a Pikmin2 to finish), because I don't want it to end too soon.
Near perfect game though, apart from the figurine collecting bit.

This game is utterly fantastic. I was up until half-two last night playing it - I just couldn't put it down. If the battery warning light hadn't come on I might still have been there now.

If the postman wasn`t so dam useless I would be playing the game now. I saw him coming to our house, he got out of the van, got back in and drove away again.
Stupid Royal Mail

Cons

The world is smaller than LttP. Hints are practically non-existant.


Pros

It's a Zelda game, there are too many to list.



When you get a new item/skill you never know what other uses it has aside from the obvious. Usually you discover these uses by accident or through the desperation of trying all items on everything when when you get stuck. It's also a little slow until you start getting the special items.

Overall it's a great game but so far it doesn't even touch LttP.

So Tom, is it better than A Link to the Past?

I'm loving this - but you're right TigerW, there are less hints and bombable areas are less obvious.

You have got an 'instant hint' option of sorts though - pressing select gets your hat talking.

I probably won't remember it as fondly, but it can be just as charming and ingenious while it lasts.

Eklo's hints are usually the blindingly obvious and are usually not location dependant. So when you get stuck but know you are at the spot you should be, he just says the same thing.

lttp is one of the greatest games ever, will be playing this as soon as i can get through my backlog of games....

....the list is long.... I'm taking 3 weeks or so over xmas tho so with some solid overtime I may be able to clear the intray

/adds to xmas list

How short is short?

I wish I knew how to build the last bloody house. My only major complaint with the game is that you can seemingly miss some upgrades. Don't worry about people disappearing so you can't fuse Kinstones with them anymore, the fusion just jumps to another NPC. The same can't be said of that last house though, at the end of the game there's seemingly no way to build it anymore, if you even could before the town 'changes'.

As for bombable walls, I really liked Links Awakening's because they're so subtle. All of ALTTP's and Wind Wakers Walls are stupidly obvious so you get little satisfaction from finding them. The Minish Cap has a mixture of obvious can't miss them Wind Waker style ones and completely invisible one's that are marked with two objects either side of the square you need to bomb. And of course the sword chink.

chink-chink-chink-chink-chink-woobelrrrrrrrr!

Woohoo

/Gives that damn Leisure Suit Larry Pop Up the Finger....

With the fiasco of waiting all-hours for Steam to wake up, thank god I had Minish Cap on hand! It's great so far, Bionut - it's got exactly the same feel as Link to the Past (a game I loved on both SNES and GBA). I'm only through the first dungeon so far, but the feeling of adventure coupled with the ol' Zelda themes and jingles are making it a joy to play.

Zelda is the best RPG ever!!

What a well crafted insight...

Woo!

I was trading in some stuff last night and grabbed this one on impulse. Will suit me for the train journey in; will see what it's like tonight.

Good review !

decent game, but i'd say its my least favourite gameboy zelda
too short and not as enjoyable as the others, though i do think this has something to do with the number of zelda games ive played

Definitely sounds good and one to go on my ever increasing Xmas list I think.

/resolves to spend more time GBA gaming

"I wish I knew how to build the last bloody house."

At the moment nobody knows. Which is odd since that leaves one girl homeless...

I like the lack of hints; the only time I had a problem was early on in the game when you had to be in a certain place to trigger an event. Also this game is closer to Oracle of Seasons than Link to the Past.

I farted in excitement

I'm really enjoying this so far, but knowing that there are only five dungeons (nearly half the number Seasons/Ages have) has made me careful to avoid rushing through it.

I'm currently up to the third dungeon. There hasn't been anything too challenging yet. The puzzles seem to be easier than previous Zelda handheld titles. Although having said that, some of the bombable walls can easily be overlooked. Some have the telltale cracks in them whereas others (usually ones that are important to your progression) look no different from regular walls.

Graphics are great -- Capcom have beautifully captured the look and feel of Wind Waker within the sprites, animation and backdrops. Sound and music are also top notch, although like Tom said the music is mostly recycled from previous games with very little in the way of new tunes.

Still, it's great to have an exclusive Zelda game on the GBA. It'll be a pity if I finish it this weekend, but I'll certainly have enjoyed the experience. Here's hoping we don't have to wait too long for another Zelda handheld experience, be it on the GBA or DS.

I`ve been playing this game pretty much non-stop for the past day. It`s pure Zelda genious, I had never played a GBA Zelda before but purchased this because of the good reviews. It`s pure genious, it`s up there with Advance Wars as the best game on the GBA.

I disagree with the ppl saying the map is too small, if the map were any bigger it would be pretty easy to get lost. I think its just the right size.

The US version is meant to have WAY more features.

Is this true?

I don't think anyone said the map was too small, just the game is in general. Still, I think even though Link's Awakening's overworld is split into loads of little squares giving the impression of being massive, it's still over double the size of The Minish Cap's overworld.

Well, this gets the thumbs up from me. Played 2 hours of it today on the journey into work and it's excellent. Graphics are top notch and I'm really enjoying it.

I don't know where all this 'it's too short' business is coming from. I've been playing it for bloody aaaaaaaaaaages now and I've still not finished with it. Are you lot ignoring all the Kinstone pieces and other 'non-essential' stuff, or what?

Blerk: How much time do you reckon you've put into it?

/thinks

At least 15 hours. Probably more. I've still got two squares of the map 'greyed out' because I haven't even been into them yet. I can feel I'm getting towards the end, but I certainly wouldn't say that it's a 'short' game. There don't seem to be as many dungeons as LttP, but there's far more to do 'overground' than there was in that game.

About 20 hours in now and still not finished. I still don't see why everyone thinks it's 'short'. It is a bit on the easy side, though. otto would love it!

i am loving this game!

it's great! really made me appreciate my gba again which is a great thing : )

Up to the last boss now. Proving trickier than the rest of the game put together!

I shall beat him, though. I'd have gotten him last time if I'd figured out how to beat his second-to-last form more quickly.

From a fucking shop, you miserable pirating bastard.

I agree Blerk!

Go buy the game nachox!

the game it's great!
really great!
the attack and defend is cool and the sacred "S..."
I'm Cofusend sorry" ^.^