Smash bros - Wii U

Oh my was this worth the wait. Everything you've heard from multiple reviewers and sites that you've gone to before reading this, are accurate and true. 10/10. It's faster than brawl, not as fast as melee, (though i don't feel it) and it looks absolutely amazing. I'm going to cover mostly the biggest changes in this iteration of the game. Let's dive right in shall we?


I Don't Own a Wii-U

"Wii-U is a silly console for babies and has no games to play" 
While I understand many people enjoy games that go to other consoles, such as CoD and some ubisoft games, those games are not all unique to THAT console. Is a Wii-U right for you? Have you been on the line? Have you been waiting for smash? Then why the hell are you reading this and not buying one. There are tons of games, and smash just tipped the scale.

Amiibo

Now let's start for real. Amiibo is quite easily the thing i was most enthralled with. You register your Amiibo, set it's skin and can even change it's move set, and level it to 50. How fast is the leveling? It took me about 1-2 hours to level my Link Amiibo. It's fast. But not too fast. 

The difficulty these little guys go up to is horrifying. I am no pro, I've never planned to be pro, but damn, they put comps to shame. These Ammibo's learn your moves. Nintendo is literally getting one step closer to creating artificial Intelligence. Even when it's at level 50, it can still learn new techniques how to handle it's situation. So playing with the Amiibo with TONS of different characters is beneficial. 

It gets tough around lvl 40. I started losing every match. It's painful to say, but if you're like me, you tend to have a style of play, and now i'm aware of it. Amiibo's will punish you for this. They are scary and difficult, yet when they're on a team match with you, it's great.

Also, pitting two Amiibo against each other feels like underground animal fight rings. It's glorious.

This little guy is the face of death.

1080 60fps

I don't think i need to say anything in this section except BEAUTIFUL. But let me go into detail saying more than "It's so good omagd." So firstly it actually caught me off guard at how smooth it was, I actually felt a little lost. Am I saying this is a bad thing? Heck no! Quite the opposite, it was so smooth i had to realize that all of my timing had to be adjusted ever so slightly. But i got the hang of it quite easily. The colours are great, and you rarely lose track of your character. Unless it's 8 man smash, then you might. 

8 Man smash!  

I've only played this mode on classic, where everyone bombards a "Small" stage and attacks everyone. It flowed really well, no lag or anything at all. My only problem was i lost where i was the first time, but i expected something like that. 8 Man smash is definitely a great way to include all the people at your party or get together to smash. Is it that same competitive feel? That "1v1 fox only no items final D" God no, i hated that personally. But it's nice, the giant stages really help it out and give you tons of room to use. Hyrule temple really feels at home in this mode.

Everyone be taunting. 8 PEOPLE BE TAUNTING

Smash Tour

I had no idea what i was getting into, and I got stomped. When they say all players move at one time, they really do. You roll your spinner, and when YOU are ready, move in a direction. Whether you were ready or not, other players will move around. Honestly haven't played much of this mode yet, but i have to say it is definitely NOT mario party, But, it has that "FUCK YOU!" element stitched in.

Custom Stage maker

This was my favorite thing to do in Brawl, although people didn't like the stages I used to make. But in this game, the stage maker is quite nice. Create your own platform shapes and more. While there are less options of things to choose from in this maker, there is more versatility. I've made a stage where if you smash someone off the screen to the left, there will be a cannon that shoots them back to the stage. 

This. Just amazing.

Master orders and Crazy orders

-Still have not tried this mode. I apologize-



OVERALL RATING

Don't have smash? Get smash.
Don't have wii-u? Get smash. Then a Wii-U
Also Get yourself an Amiibo, they're what sold me on the game. 

The hype is real. 

Smash bros 3ds - Demo Megaman and Villager

Oh boy do I count myself lucky to receive a download code for this game, and now you get to get hyped for reading my review on a small portion of a huge game. 

Let's get straight to the good stuff, the two new characters. At first I played Megaman, easy to learn controls, tight moveset and a seriously awesome tornado that blows opponents off the stage, gradually. Though i was a little dissapointed in Metalblade, Megamans basic "B" move. It doesn't do as much damage as i though nor do his crash bombs. No Megamans real power lies in his forward smash (I mean is this any news that a characters best is the smash?) Anyway! Really though, they undershowed it's potential.

from playing Megaman 2 where metalblade killed everything, seeing it's low damage is a letdown

It's Megamans charge shot, and at full blast it goes 3/4 the length of battlefield stage (All the demo lets you play). The less you charge the less damage it does and also doesn't go as far. I found this to be one of his best attacks, though leaves you vulnerable. Another key thing i enjoyed about Megaman, was his running A; a spinning move that traps the opponent in. I am a player for mobility or immense power, so a attacking move that traps and propels you, is a win in my book.

Though you cannot store his charge shot like lucario or samus, it covers that by being quick to charge and powerful.

Two other moves of megaman that stood out are his uppercut (Holding up and A) and his meteor smash (down A in mid-air). His uppercut is amazing, though you have to have Up ready held to use it, else you'll do up smash, which is different. His meteor smash is amazing, he fires his fist and rockets the opponent downward fast, the downfall is it's range is little less than one would expect. 

These are the main strengths i've noted on Megaman, now onto Villager.

Hoo boy was he hard to get used to. Villager is definitely a harder character to learn. His moves are not as mobile, and the ones that are, put you at risk. His two notable mobile attacks are running A, and forward B, Flower pot drop and Gyroid launcher respectively.

RIDE EM COWBOY

These two attacks are suiting for villager giving him a clumsy look to him. By riding the gyroid though you do more damage and propel yourself into battle. 

while cool looking, i felt this attack left me more open to attacks then being the attacker.

These are by far not even his best attacks. Because i like mobile characters, learning villager was difficult. He is not a powerhouse, he is not mobile, he is tactical. You need to plan a bit when playing him for his best moves are easily avoidable or hard to pull off via timing. 

Bowling ball, forward smash. This thing is amazing. Play on lvl 3 comps to see how far they go flying with 0-50%. Then change the difficulty to 9 and you realize the set up time for that attack is too long to hit reliably unless something is holding them down, or you get them off guard. By far a incredibly strong attack non-the-less.

This is an amazing attack, best used when players on ledge, though they have invulnerability for a time. Extremely short range.

Tree, Down B. By doing this attack 2 times, you grow a tree, and if you do this attack two more times on the tree you can cut it down and having it fall on the opponent, causing a lot of damage. If you so choose, you can leave your tree up and continue Down-B away from it to swing your axe at opponents, it though, is not as strong as one would hope, and takes a slight second to set up.

Pic says it all.

Lastly, his B. Item take. At first i didn't try too much with this attack, but soon i realized the amazing potential. already thrown bumpers? B and rethrow. That sun thing that circles the stage? B and rethrow. See a megahammer but everyones died? B and save, B again to instantly use. See Link about to final smash you? B to cancel (Not absorb).

After really trying to tinker with this ability Villager became amazing! Do not underestimate what you can and cannot take with this thing.

The other 3 playable characters are Mario, Link and Pikachu. I did not play them as much as the other two, but their style and sets are more or less the same. 

5 playable characters, 1 map (two versions) on a 2 minute limit. For those unable to get the demo, Don't despair, September 19th the demo goes live for everyone. Hope you're hyped. Polish those skills, the true smash begins next month (and again a month after that!) 

ALL ABOOOAAARRRRD

WatchDogs - PC version

WatchDogs, It's ok.

Emphasis on OK.

The one thing i adore about open world games, is that you can do anything. Grand Theft auto, RedDead Redemption, Sleeping dogs, Skyrim (mother of all open world games, can't wait for their next real installment) and etc. WatchDogs is ok. it falls in this category, doesn't really add anything to the plate though. 

WatchDogs was claimed, numerous times, that this was a next gen game, that we were getting something we've never seen. The first footage shown at E3 astounded us, and we believed them. Then they showed us gameplay about half a year ago, and we hated it because it looked nothing like the demo, so it was delayed. Do the graphics look good now that they delayed it to fix it up? Well again, it's ok. It doesn't look bad, but modded skyrim looks better, and yes thats a cheap blow because those are mods.

Now to me, both these images suck. 

Without spoiling anything, after my first mission i got to wander out in the world. I didn't want to start the next mission because i felt that'd be boring, so i walked around. I found an Augmented Reality cell phone game in the game, played it. Did i enjoy it? Meh, i probably wont play it again, unless it becomes a mission later. And for my knowledge i did not actually get any rewards from that game, so to me it's pointless time killer in a game, which games are used to kill time. You know you're in a weird era where there are time killers in a game, like an obvious no gain scenario, zero.

Now enough about that, the thing i like about this game is the bar meter thingie-ma-dinger or whatever. Pretty much do good things you're a more loved person, same for the opposite end of the spectrum. I helped people a lot. But you have to wait until the criminal actually does something before you can stop them eg. Pull out a gun/almost beat someone up, so you have to wait. Oh and here's another thing, if you are spotted or are too close to this criminal, he'll bolt and you won't have evidence and therefore cannot Take him down. Now, the reason i say this is because a lot of these criminals pull out guns and are killing a victim and running at them from a far distance usually means the victims gonna die. 

Save the person get points. Cause that's what hackers do.

I haven't actually played much of WatchDogs, so i'm only reviewing what i have played, and let me tell you this, I was surprised. I stole a car with a person inside of it, and she called the police. Now i never played GTA5, so i don't know if that was in it, but a person called the cops on me for stealing their car. Astounding. Now logically you should be thinking, "well that's the sane thing to do, i'd do that" and good, you should! that's the smart thing to do, but here's the reason i was surprised. I had stolen at least 20 cars before that happened. If it happened more frequently maybe i'd be less willing to run into the street and pull a random person out of the car.

Now for the the selling point of the game. Hacking. This is an interesting concept. Many people have said it's a gimmick and it dies out later and gets boring. I haven't gotten that far so i still enjoy it, but i can see what they mean. Sometimes i want to steal money from everyone i walk by, but the hack icon doesn't show up. minor details but still.

Killing civilians = bad rep

Saving civilians = good rep

stealing money from clinically depressed people who have filed for bankruptcy = huh.

Now if you read that, that's what you also get from this game, when you steal money, you get a small bio of a person, this bio could range from drug-dealer to janitor. And since you have a Reputation meter, you'd think, well if i steal from a bad person nothing happens, and you'd be correct. But if you steal from a clinically depressed person, you'd also have no consequence.

This game is OK.

Is it triple A title material? No.

Did it deserve that many collectors editions and deluxes on a new IP? No

Is this Next gen material? No.

Should you buy this? If you expect the game to wow you at every corner: No

The many, MANY editions of WatchDogs, Which i may remind, is a new IP. (Intellectual Property)

If i knew nothing about it,

7.5 or 8/10

Because of the hype and expectations

6/10

Bonus Review:

Dark souls 2. 

11/10 

What i find disgusting in the video game industry!

What happened to Zelda Week, then turned month? Ah Whatever, i have a bad attention span to actually make a something like that actually happen. Never the less, onto my short rant about the destruction of the one area i am trying to have respect for.

PRICES!

When Ps3 and Xbox360 came out, prices went up for new games to 60$, and that was like whoa, this is a big change. What? Don't remember that? Well i do, and then we got used to it. And now, look at Xbone1 and Need-new-name-station 4, 70$ for a new game. 70! I understand that with new technology that the games cost more to make, but that much more? I originally came to this thought when looking at EB/Gamestops page on The Amazing Spiderman 2, which had front page spotlight even.

Hell feel free to take a look at the page, and if you can't find something wrong with it, then look harder!

http://www.ebgames.ca/browse?nav=16k-amazing+spider+man+2

$35 for 3ds
$60 for wii-U/PS3/360
$70 for X-one/PS4

Now you're thinking probably "Well It IS next gen consoles". Really? You give them an inch they take a mile. Quite frankly this is the kind of thing that allowed the micro-transaction era begin. People not actually caring about how much they spend on a game! I'm not saying you should spend your money elsewhere, by all means i spend most of my pay-check on games. But seriously, game prices will become like gas prices, and they'll keep going and going and going....


Pretty soon we'll end up like the Super Nintendo era where games went for $80! But at the time that was more warranted because cartridges cost more to produce, but even so.

This is the kind of thing that is happening so don't look away, games costing more and more and more, because they are "Triple-A" titles. When i see triple A now-a-days, i think "Day 1 DLC".

The reason people use "PC master race" Isn't only because of our powerful machines, but also we have Steam backing us up.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. N64

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Zelda Rating: 9.0
Difference from Other Zelda's: First Zelda to take a really dark twist, Unique mask collection
Using the Console: No differnce from Ocarina

It's times like these i'm glad i'm not popular, yet, for if i we're i'd be hounded down because i didn't post anything for a week, and I claimed i would do "Zelda Week" and my excuse? I was playing video games and sleeping. Geeze. Oh and eating every now and then. But Lets continue on with ZELDA WEEK!

This game is a doozy, and i mean that in the best way. This game in particular has become quite a Cult hit inside of the Legend of Zelda fanbase, but outside of it, many don't care too much about it, I think. But as you can tell, my 9/10 says that i love this game and too would love a remake, but only time will tell. Now onto the review.

The biggest change from this game from the others is it focuses on Link only, no Zelda what-so-ever (And if you say that Zelda links awakening was his own adventure, that's true, but it was also (SPOLIERS) all just a dream. Also i haven't played that game <- main reason.

So link goes on a quest for his friend, Navi the fairy, and so he goes looking for the little guy in the forest, which forest? We can only assume it's the Lost forest, where if people wander in and get lost, they become monsters. Great place to start right?! So Link is soon attacked by a kid wearing the Majora Mask which holds diabolical immense power...

Those piercing eyes... Soulless piercing eyes...

The kid robs link, steals his horse and flees. So what does Link do? Chase after him of course, and soon he enters a room with no floor and just falls down and down and down... (the rabbit hole). 

Now this game has many theories, that Link is dead, that he died before the theft of his stuff or even afterwards, and i'm not here to discuss that, because i wanna wait and see when they bring it back, because a cameo of majora's mask in the newest Zelda game means they're doing something, hopefully.

So Link gets turned into a shrub person, and has to find his way back to normal. Thus the game really begins. 

He looks so sad, i mean he did get turned into a plant... 

When i played this game as a child, it was the single most horrifying experience i have ever had, my reason being that was because i was going into it with the thought that i was playing a Zelda game, it'll be like a fantasy, but then it throws horrifying things at you. When people say this is easily the darkest Zelda game created, it really is. The moon will kill everyone in the world in 3 days, people don't care because they have a festival to run, and at the ranch run by two sisters, the older one drugs the younger the night the moons supposed to crash to make it easier for her. The younger sister knows nothing about it.

The moon has a face, and is going to kill us all. Alrighty then.

Now everyone's whose played a zelda game knows that there's sidequests, and this game has them, has them everywhere, and i mean everywhere, some quests can't be completed till a certain time, and some quests are completable only at the same time as other quests. How is this possible you ask? For those who have never played the game before let me shed some light on the most unique and evil mechanic this game has. 

Time.

The power to control time, in the hands of a small 12 year old boy. Why not.

So the moons going to crush the world in three days huh, not enough time, so what do you do? Reverse that shit. After the first 3 days you gain access to reverse time whenever you see fit, and why i say this is evil and unique, the only way to save your game is through reversing time. And let me tell you, reversing time does exactly that, reverses it. Did you make a great boding relationship with an npc and almost finish their sidequest but ran outta time. TOO BAD. Did you have to go out with family in the middle of a dungeon and had to save, TOO BAD all that work is gone. 

Though, once you "Complete and finish" a portion of something, you can log it into your logbook and it's completed forever, even if the people's lives are reversed because of your time control power and it looks like their life has gone back to shit, you still got the reward from whatever you had to do before reversing time, so why waste your time with the inevitable, I mean you already got the reward.

Evil father time is evil. 

It is by far the most unique mechanic implemented into the game, and i wouldn't be pleased if it changed if they made a remake. That sense of fear that time was not on your side, even if you had control over it, you never really had "time" having your back. 

There are couple ways to make things bearable, you can slow time down to get more things down, and a banker who saves your money even if you reverse time, you get to keep all those precious Rupees, (their currency).

Now the mechanics in the game are amazing yes, but the one thing that makes this game different from the overbearing ocarina of time, was it had four dungeons, and you may compare them from time to time and think, well this game had four and the other had ten. Ten is bigger than four, but when any of the four is harder than any of the other ten, I must say kudos to the team who made this game. 

The first dungeon is so baffling hard at times, and there's so much to do in the dungeon besides the "get to the end". And for that fact as well, when you get to the end, the bosses are so painstakingly hard in comparison, the first boss has no visible weaknesses. Just attack him and pray you damage him more that he hits you, also, he's a ticki totem man who shoots flaming locusts at you. There' that too.

So to quickly summarize, this game has 4 dungeons only, and yet it feels like the game goes on forever because of the amount of content packed into the game. The difficulty is much harder than ocarina of time, and is truly unique to the Zelda franchise.

Pros:
-Hard difficulty
-immense amount of content
-Detailed Npc's each with their own problem to solve
-Unique bosses
-Depressing and well written story

Cons:
-Saving only when reversing time can be a pain if the game freezes. (happened to me)
-A lot of masks (can be good or bad depending on how you look at it)
-I want that damn'd remake, or even a sequel.
-Hard difficulty

"You've met with a terrible fate haven't you?"

Paper Mario Sticker Star: 3DS

Making a paper Mario game with a new mechanic; Stickers. Now i'm not against change, 2D jumps to 3D and sometimes even new whole takes on the game. But my god this is how to butcher a game series, take everything which made it what it was and ruin it. Now lets go back to the beginning, the real beginning, the start of the paper Mario series, and if you can already guess, i'm talking about Super Mario RPG. 

Super Mario RPG, an old game for the Super Nintendo, was a brilliant game and it had a whole new cast of characters, old characters had a new but not contrasting personalities, and the game itself was brilliant. I remember in my youth playing this game, but i had never beaten it, always though hoping for a sequel. Super Mario RPG had a turn based combat system, meaning in fights each team took turns to battle each other. It was a mix of final fantasy (The old ones) and Mario.

Now many people wanted to play another Mario rpg, and luckily it became the parent of two Mario RPG themed game series. The first being Mario and Luigi's super star saga series, where the two Mario brothers go out on an adventure of sorts to quell evil yadda yadda. The second, which came before Mario and Luigi, was the comical fun adventure of paper Mario.

One of the most innovative games for the SNES

Paper Mario was the most entertaining thing to see, it was if the developers at Nintendo decided to parody themselves. Take the world of Mario that you know and simply put them into a world of paper and see what happens. Because they were made of paper, they could do things that you normally wouldn't think of but makes sense because, paper.

Now as i said briefly, this game was highly comical. While Mario never talks (like how link talks in his game with gestures) the genius comes from all the other characters. Luigi goes on his on adventure in one of the games and he constantly tells mario how he's going to save a kingdom, but he's scared. Mario meets with these 4 masked koopas, and my god are these my favorite villians. The game is constantly having fun. 

The Koopa bros. What type of cameo are they? Some say Ninja turtles, some aren't sure...

Now since Super Paper Mario for the Wii, the formula for the game has been changing. Now i personally liked Super Paper Mario, it was not turn based but rather real time jumping and stomping, but the one reason i can overlook it is because MR.L. I firmly believe he is the best character of this game, and it shouldn't be a spoiler but it's Luigi. 

I DON'T KNOW WHO THIS MASKED FIGURE IS!

Now you might be wondering why i spent the last couple paragraphs reminiscing on the past. If you've played paper Mario sticker star, you'd understand. In this game Bowser returns as the villain. Now over the years Bowsers become a weak Villain, capture princess ect. Now i have not beaten this game, so if theres a big twist i can be wrong, but from what i played i did not enjoy, so i will not rate the story portion too much.

This game centers around stickers, you use them in combat, you use them to unlock areas, you even use them to help toads (the mushroom people). Now i would be fine with this concept, expect if in combat you run out of stickers, you run out of things to do and are forced to run. Granted nintendo does a great job, no sarcasm, putting stickers everywhere, literally. The boss fights require each a special sticker that can be used on them and does mountains of damage, trying to beat it without it, simply means you'll lose (when you run out of stickers).

The biggest problem i had with the game was the way the levels were separated. In traditional Mario games the levels are separated by and overworld map with World 1, world 2 ect and in each world smaller sub stages. eg. World 1-3 would be stage 3 of the first world. In the paper Mario series it was a giant world, no overworld, and to get to other areas you had to walk, which sounds tedious, but it felt like a real adventure.

Welcome to the world map, go have fun on the very linear stages.

In Sticker Star, the stages are ordered in the traditional Mario game setting, eg World 1 stage 3. It also has an overworld. While that doesn't sound so bad hearing about it now, it really takes away from the game. It doesn't do the series justice. The first two games in the series had you finding new companions to help out in your adventure. The version for the Wii had you switching between princess peach and bowser, though this one, for what i played, has you playing with only mario with a single sidekick.

Now over the years mario has become more of a blank slate persona, but thats where the paper mario series thrived, it made mario look as weak as paper. Pun intended. I remember when the first one came out and you had to fight bowser and jumping on him, the only thing that happened was a ting sound of nothing affecting him. In this one it looks as if a battle will start between bowser and him, but then it just cuts to the next scene, no fight, no nothing.

Paper Bowser, you were quite the villian. And comic relief. 

Overall Paper mario sticker star feels like a sad attempt at trying something new. They throw in a new mechanic to keep the game fresh, now i am ok with most of the sticker element, but other parts do not meld well. I like the museum where you collect the stickers you use in battle and spend them to put them on the wall, though it is seriously costly, and i can tell nintendo did that on purpose. Do i recommend sticker star? If your a huge fan of the series,  tread lightly, if you saw this in Gamestop or walmart and decided to buy it with no knowledge, you'll be fine. It's more of an ungraceful addition than it is a bad game. So Overall, a bad game to the franchise, but if you had no idea what paper mario is prior to this... you'll be fine.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. N64

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Zelda Rating: 9.5/10
Difference from Prior Zelda Titles: Entered the 3rd dimension, Target System, Fishing, Ganondorf
Using the Console: Another Item slot due to controller increase, Z-Targeting

Boy do i remember purchasing this game. Well, by purchasing i mean getting the game from my sibling from a blockbuster bin. Yes, this game, this holy grail of game, one that you find in a retro game store, cartridge only $50+, was in a bargain bin for $15 at Blockbusters. This is why i feel sad when i hear blockbusters is gone. 

Enough of sentimentalism for a video store off to the game! By now, if you've followed and read the other entries i've done, you can kind of understand the rating system, and see that this one scored a 9.5, why? Because it's my favorite Zelda title, ever.

It gives the Demon a face, Ganon, great pig monster, is seen as a man, a man who thrived for power. But a man non-the-less. Ganondorf. Now you may not think much of it because so many games these days have seen it happen, Ganondorfs a human/pig monster ect. But this one show's the current evil happenings of Ganondorf. During the game he kills, steals and freezes the people Link saves, except for the one he killed... sorry deku tree.

Probably one of the few real sad moments of the game, your surrogate father just died even though you saved him...

In the first three games, even the show that isn't canon, show Ganon as a pig monster, no human feature, wielding a trident like spear, on occasion. Whereas this game changed all that. They gave the monster a face, a background a History. 

Ganondorf, scary looking yes, but now i'm going to tell you how tall he is. 7"6.

Ganondorf is born into a tribe of thieves called The Gerudo. Now, this tribe is all women, and once every 100 years a boy is born among this tribe. BUT WAIT WHAT?! How can a tribe of only women give birth or even have children? Geeze c'mon this isn't earth where we discriminate because of race. The gerudo's occasionally went away from their tribe to find boyfriends. Because of this i'm sure you can put two and two together. 

So eventually, Ganondorf is born, and when a male is born among the Gerudo tribe, the male becomes King of the tribe. Having this taste of power from ruling the gerudo tribe, Ganondorf seeks out more power, Hyrule. Ganondorf begins to cozy up to the king, and learns of the secrets of the Temple of time, and goes throughout Hyrule, his first stop, the Great Deku Tree. 

Ganondorf curses this tree because it refuses to relieve itself of one of the keys to the door of the Temple of time, for behind the door lie two things, one, the Master sword, and two, the sacred Realm, and within that realm, the Triforce.

The Spiritual stones, three magical keys that open the Door of Time.

And this Ladies and Gentlemen is where Links story begins. He destroys the curse on the Deku tree, clears out a cave of monsters for some rock eating Mountain creatures, called Gorons, and rescues the fish people's, called Zora's, Princess.

So because of Links adventures and saving people, he was given the magical keys to the Temple of time, Link opens the door and see's only the master sword, he goes in pulls it and is forwarded 7 years...

Now when you play the game, you just find out you've been sleeping for 7 years and the game continues, and you eventually, bit by bit find out what happened. I will tell you, because it's all really trivial.

After link opens the Door, it stays open, like no security or anything, and Ganondorf goes in, and finds the "sacred realm" which quite honestly i don't believe exists because in that room there was only a sword... so i don't know how Ganondorf found the triforce... 

Anyway, he found it, and it split apart because of the many rules of the triforce.

1. The one who lays his or her hand on the triforce will have their wish granted, whether it be good or evil
2. If one who touches the Triforce does not have their will's   in order, Power, courage and wisdom, The Triforce will split and the person will only inherit the piece they believe in the most.

So Ganondorf touches it, it splits up, and Link gets the Triforce of courage and Zelda gets wisdom. 

You may be thinking now, this is a review of OOT, where's the review. And all i've got to say to that is, There are tons, TONS of generic reviews, Link does this, and link does that and gameplay.

No Love for Link...

From what i've reviewed, you can in the least understand that this game is heavily story driven. I've barely talked about Link and the multiple Dungeons and Temples he goes in. And trust me, i can talk about a single dungeon and the mechanics behind and niche with them for a good while. And i chose to review this game by talking about Ganondorf, why? Because when i get to Wind Waker (Gamecube/Wii U) i'll bring it full circle.

And now a brief paragraph on Gameplay. The game brings back many items from previous titles. Hookshot, bow and arrow and bombs. But because it's in the Third dimension, things have to be changed. So Link enters first person when using the Bow and Hookshot, which is quite nice, or if you wanted you actually can be in third person when using them, though strictly to combat.

The controls are well done, and i find are well suited to this kind of game. Z targeting works because the Z button you use so often, is right in the place your finger lands on by simply holding the controller. 

Three spots to hold the controller. GENIUS. if we had 3 hands.

The only area, which personally i never had a problem with, is the water temple. Theres a way to actually never be able to finish that temple, by using the key in the wrong door. This was fixed in the 3DS release of the game. Which was a perfect remaster for anyone considering it.

And the reason that, for me, the water temple is my favoite, is battling Dark Link. It's just a shame that he's only a mini-boss...

The final boss of Zelda II, becomes the mini-boss of not even the final temple.

Pros:
-Ganondorf is created, background given
-Easy target lock system made for the 3rd enviorment
-Detailed storyline
-Diverse npc's
-A lot of Sidequests (Not covered in the review)

Cons:
-Water Temple
-Some, camera problems
-Dark Link reduced to Mini-boss

And now i leave you with the average players final fight with Ganondorf.