Zelda: Twilight Princess Game Review

Story
A young man named Link awakes to yelling outside of his house in a village named Ordon. He peers outside and finds a man calling him to come down. The man is the town rancher and asks Link to herd some goats for him. Link completes the task and is asked to find the mayor's daughter, Ilia, who is washing Link's horse, Epona, at the spring. Ilia tells Link that she has heard he is going to travel to Hyrule Castle Town with the town leader named Russel. Link then goes back to his house and a night passes. The next morning, Link is asked to test his swordmanship and aiming with his slingshot to impress the children of the town. Link does just that and the kids are in awe of Link's ability. A monkey appears in front of the children carrying something Russel's son, Colin, owns. Colin goes chasing after him and doesn't return. Link is asked to go across the bridge seperating the town from the forest to find Colin. He finds him, and returns to Ordon. Link then goes with Ilia to the spring and a huge rumbling occurs. Out of nowhere, a huge ogre on a giant boar comes in and knocks Link out, kidnapping Ilia. Link awakes to find that all the kids have been kidnapped and a strange aura is surrounding the forest beyond the bridge. Link goes across the bridge and is taken in by a giant hand. Link gets up inside a dark and desolate area. As soon as he recognizes it is the forest, he is transformed into a wolf. He fights two creatures but is knocked out and taken to a jail cell. Once in the jail cell, a strange imp named Midna taunts his misfortune. Link (still in wolf form) escapes the cell and is accompanied by Midna through the sewer system of wherever he is located. Link learns that a great power has taken over the land of Hyrule and the land is now covered in twilight, causing him to turn into a wolf. Midna and Link navgate their way through the sewer system and find that they are actually in the underlings of Hyrule Castle, which is now covered in Twilight. Link then follows Midna across the roof of the castle to a little corridor in which they find an open door. Upon entering, Link and Midna see the figure of a cloaked person standing by the window. The figure starts talking to Link, telling him that they sense a connection between them. The cloaked figure unmasks themself and turns around, revealing themself to be Princess Zelda. Princess Zelda pleads for Link's help to travel throughout Hyrule and vanquish the evil that has come upon the land. She tells Link of a man named Zant who is the cause of all this destruction and the twilight. From there, Link makes his way back to Ordon and the story takes true form.

Gameplay
The gameplay for this game is actually pretty simple. You use the wiimote to swing your sword and you use the sensor on the wiimote to aim arrows, your slingshot, etc. Running is down with the analog stick on the nunchuck, and your items are stowed inside your item gallery where 3 items can be placed on the d-pad of the WiiMote at a time for use. Doing just the story, the game will probably take you 20-30 hours but completeing all the sidequests will take you an upwards of 80 hours.

Graphics
The graphics are pretty solid for it's time. There are a bit of iffy textures here and there but the large world is just beautiful and at nightime the stars are actually in correct places that they are in reality, and you can even spot constellations.

Music
The music is this game is MIDI, but I find it to be very beautiful. A lot of the music has a somber tone since this is one of the darkest Zelda games aside from Majora's Mask. The music really sets the mood and is beautifully done.