4.5/5 ★ – kimchia's review of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

SPOILERS Only in Twilight Princess can you - sumo wrestle a Goron while shirtless - ride a beyblade while fighting a giant skeleton dinosaur - get in multiple epic bridge jousting battles - engage in a spaghetti western shootout - snowboard down to an isolated yeti mansion and then help mama yeti make her pumpkin soup before fighting her with a ball and chain after she is possessed by a mirror - get shot out of a canon by a clown as a major form of map traversal - fight Zelda!! This game rules. But it has a problem. When I think of Twilight Princess, I think of a textbook example of Nintendo smorgasbord randomness a la 3D-Mario, where the world makes no sense and doesn’t care. But Twilight Princess does care, and that’s it’s problem. It tries to present itself as an adult-themed dark gothic mature adventure. It’s not! It’s wacky and fun and weird and awesome! I see no reason to flatten all that fun stuff into a gray down-in-the-dumps art style with dialogue that takes itself WAY too seriously. Not that this necessarily takes away from the overall game imo, the game is still a great time, but still. In my head I have an image of Twilight Princess with the art style of Wind Waker and I can’t get over the fact that that would have been a frickin perfect game. That’s okay though, happy to settle with “great” rather than “perfect.” Still one of my favorite Zeldas out there!