Nintendo blames... itsself???

[A Black Falcon]

Well I was challenged by OoT. As I've said, it took me a month and I died a lot and got stuck plenty of times. In WW, while I have gotten stuck sometimes in puzzles, I haven't died and have found combat pathetically easy... there's just one time that I had any chance of dying in a battle and that's because I didn't know how to hurt the enemies. But I had two health potions in thatt battle, so no problem... :(

And OoT only tells you where to go next in the most general terms, which means that you spend a lot of time exploring and looking around for what to do next... unlike WW where it makes it abundantly clear exactly where to go and what to do. That's annoying, and not really welcome.

I get the picture -- you found it a lot easier then I did. Okay. But it is true that OoT has far, far fewer hints than WW and many of those hints are entirely optional -- QUITE unlike WW's hints! And that's really annoying! Not as bad as the pathetic difficulty of the combat, but quite annoying...

I know you disagree, but I'd rather see a enemy mix closer to OoT or MM's percentages then WW, no question. Lots of swordfights? I just don't see why you find that so great...

As for X5 its really not that bad. Alia doesn't talk that much... you make it sound like she's constantly talking! She's not... its infrequent outside of the training level and its not like it gives away secrets of how to find the truly hidden items or anything...