IGN review: Zelda The Minish Cap
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9.0 Presentation
This fully original adventure keeps with the Zelda tradition, just missing the mark Flagship nailed with its first GBA Zelda game.
9.0 Graphics
What made Four Swords gorgeous remains gorgeous two years later, while still seeming quite modest in its imagery.
9.0 Sound
Link's vocal grunts make more sense in this context than they did attached to Link to the Past. The music, beautiful.
9.5 Gameplay
It's not quite up there with Link to the Past's length, but Minish Cap offers something entirely new and fun while keeping with the successful formula.
7.5 Lasting Appeal
As far as Zelda games go, Minish Cap is a bit on the short side, but the quest still lasts a hefty amount of time regardless.
9.0 OVERALL
(out of 10 / not an average)
"The Minish Cap is certainly worthy to sit among the best of the Zelda best. The slight repetitive nature of the kinstones, the slightly shorter quest, and the lack of the four player Four Swords mode does put this new adventure slightly under the previous GBA effort. It's still a fantastic offering on the handheld, retaining everything that makes a Zelda title so great, improving the single-player quest with ideas the team introduced in the first multiplayer Legend of Zelda title. And it definitely bodes well for the future of the property when the development team moves these ideas into another 2D adventure for our Nintendo hero."
This fully original adventure keeps with the Zelda tradition, just missing the mark Flagship nailed with its first GBA Zelda game.
9.0 Graphics
What made Four Swords gorgeous remains gorgeous two years later, while still seeming quite modest in its imagery.
9.0 Sound
Link's vocal grunts make more sense in this context than they did attached to Link to the Past. The music, beautiful.
9.5 Gameplay
It's not quite up there with Link to the Past's length, but Minish Cap offers something entirely new and fun while keeping with the successful formula.
7.5 Lasting Appeal
As far as Zelda games go, Minish Cap is a bit on the short side, but the quest still lasts a hefty amount of time regardless.
9.0 OVERALL
(out of 10 / not an average)
"The Minish Cap is certainly worthy to sit among the best of the Zelda best. The slight repetitive nature of the kinstones, the slightly shorter quest, and the lack of the four player Four Swords mode does put this new adventure slightly under the previous GBA effort. It's still a fantastic offering on the handheld, retaining everything that makes a Zelda title so great, improving the single-player quest with ideas the team introduced in the first multiplayer Legend of Zelda title. And it definitely bodes well for the future of the property when the development team moves these ideas into another 2D adventure for our Nintendo hero."
Father_Brain
Banned
Can anyone who's played the US version tell me how, if at all, it differs from the European version?
Rocket Punch
Member
Me want this game 
ALttP only takes about 5 to 6 hours to complete. A speed run can be done in about an hour or two. Is MC shorter than that, or has the memory of LttP turned into a mythical epic (I'm trying to avoid the pun)?
Also, for those who have played this and the Oracles games:
I've loved just about every Zelda game I've played, but didn't like the Oracle games. I was about third dungeon in Ages and got bored with it. Is MC more like the Oracle games or LttP? Hopefully you already recognize the differences between the games, because I can't explain it.
Also, also, john tv can you endulge me about how the development of this game came about? I honestly haven't heard it before and I guaranty that I'll remember it for the future.
Also, for those who have played this and the Oracles games:
I've loved just about every Zelda game I've played, but didn't like the Oracle games. I was about third dungeon in Ages and got bored with it. Is MC more like the Oracle games or LttP? Hopefully you already recognize the differences between the games, because I can't explain it.
Also, also, john tv can you endulge me about how the development of this game came about? I honestly haven't heard it before and I guaranty that I'll remember it for the future.
radioheadrule83
Banned
Disappointing score. But a good one none the less.
It's probably the best GBA game I own. Highly recommended!
It's probably the best GBA game I own. Highly recommended!
Justin Bailey
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Yeah it seems that IGN pocket finally stopped dishing out 10s all over the place.SantaCruZer said: