CMV: Twilight Princess HD is a disgrace to gaming.

As a full priced remake of a 10 year old game, it fails on so many levels.

There's a great game inside of Twilight Princess somewhere, but there's lots little annoyances that slowly bite away at the player. While some popular games that were remade had the liberty of not changing much in a remake, TPHD needed changes. The Wind Waker and Majora's Mask are great examples on how Nintendo fixed the frustrating bits.

This could have been an opportunity to change a flawed Zelda game into an amazing one. It's a great game locked inside of a prison of poor design. And Nintendo got lazy.

1. It looks like a 2008 Xbox 360 game - not a 2016 Wii U game.

2. Barely any new content.

3. It's 2016 and the soundtrack still consists of monophonic MIDI loops.

4. Tears of light were not meaningfully fixed. Only 25% of them are gone but you still need to walk the full path so you saved perhaps 3 minutes out of an hour of nonsense.

5. The first 3 hours were filled with nothing but scripted tutorials. Smart games like Ocarina of Time taught you the basics in 15 minutes and then let you to your own devices. The remake could have made the goat herding, target practice, and so on optional.

6. Linearity isn't always bad. But this is a Zelda game. Let me EXPLORE.

7. The overworld looks empty and bloated more than ever. They couldn't populate it with grass, trees, animals, secret exits.

8. My god does this game have so many by-the-numbers fetch quests you need to do before you can start exploring areas, discovering things and tackling on dungeons. So many moments I tell myself "yes, I just do this one more thing and then the "real game" begins.

9. Amiibos were enlisted yet again to be milked.

I'm like 8 hours into the game. Please convince me I didn't waste my money.

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