RE 4

[A Black Falcon]

Gamespot's paragraph in question. And no it's not that reviewer.

http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/adventu...index.html

All told, the game can be completed in 15 to 20 hours, though considering all the extra heart pieces, treasure maps, and other little optional endeavors in the game, that number can increase fairly dramatically. The game's quest starts out in a very brisk manner, quickly moving you from dungeon to dungeon without delay. The game's final third, however, requires you to collect a series of items before you can gain entry to the game's final sequence. Collecting these items isn't difficult, but the focus on sailing, rupee collecting, and dredging up items from the bottom of the sea is pretty tedious. While this portion of the game has actually been shortened up a bit since the Japanese release, it still feels like it was put in the game merely to pad it out to an acceptable length. Thankfully, the game gets back on track after this portion is completed, and the game's final confrontation puts a nice new twist on the classic Zelda boss fight.

[sarcasm]Yeah that was tough.[/sarcasm]

Took me a while to realize there were 5... most of the time I can't just walk up to a puzzle and instantly see the solution, you know! It's not that simple!

As I said I just solved that puzzle and it was easy but I'd tried it before and for some reason hadn't gotten it... once I finally figured out you were supposed to use a seagull (that took a while), I tried it but I think I got hit and didn't notice 5 (I think I just hit the top one) and gave up for the time...

You can warp to the main points on the map, which makes sailing from one place to another extremely fast. You get the maps, give them to Tingle, then get the triforce pieces. Easy as pie.

Even if you could solve all 8 puzzles for the maps instantly (which I can't; I didn't say most of them were super hard or anything but it takes at least a little time to figure out each one...) as Gamespot says the sailing takes quite a while! I won't call it boring (it's fun really), but it takes time warps or no. It's amazing that you are trying to deny that.

I must admit that I find it extremely amusing that you suck so badly that the mere thought of someone doing so much better than you is simply unimaginable. I'll take it as a compliment.

Yes yes we know you're the best game player ever and no one could possibly ever hope to match your phenominal skills but if you be realistic you'd realize that you are quite certainly greatly understating the amount of time it took. As I said just see Gamespot's review. They said that from the collecting maps part on is the last third of the game and didn't exactly say that it took half an hour. :) So it's not just me, as I knew it wasn't.

There are always quick-money shortcuts in Zelda titles, and they're usually really easy to figure out. There's not just one way of getting a quick rupee, either. I forgot exactly what I did, but I believe it involved finding valuable stuff and selling it to that boat guy. Or was is that rupee grass field that I found? Hmm...

And you wouldn't want to do that why, exactly? Because you LIKE doing it the hard way? You make no sense.

... okay using FAQs for games but not wanting to use a cheat code may not make sense, but I see something of a difference. At least with FAQs you still need to actually play the game yourself... I'd only cheat if I was REALLY stuck or really wanted to see the end of the game or something and even then I don't use them much. Like in Rush 2049... I could unlock everything by cheating, and it'd let me get things that would be extremely hard to get fairly, but it seems like the cheap way out...