The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- Shigeru Miyamoto (general producer)
- Eiji Aonuma (producer)
- Daiki Iwamoto (director)
- Tōru Minegishi, Manaka Tominaga, Asuka Ohta, Koji Kondo ( composer )
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Japaneseゼルダの伝説 大地 の 汽笛, Zeruda no Densetsu: Daichi no Kiteki, literally " The Legend of Zelda: steam whistle of the earth" ) is a video game developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS portable console. It has been published on 23 December 2009 in Japan and was released on 7 December 2009 in the United States and on 11 December 2009 in Europe.
Spirit Tracks is to Link 's Awakening and Zelda Phantom Hourglass, the third title for a portable video game platform, which was developed within Nintendo, and the second Zelda game for the DS.
Action
Link embarks with his trainer after Hyrule Castle, as he gets there be an engine driver diploma awarded. A letter from him, where Princess Zelda is slipped in which she asks for a meeting in their private chambers. He goes there and is already expected of Princess Zelda. She tells him that the rails of the gods gradually disappear. Therefore, he should go with her to the Tower of the Gods to where the "wise Shiene " to hit. On the way there are Link, the princess and links trainer that comes with them, attacked and kidnapped Zelda's body of villains, but their spirits can escape. Link and his instructor to pass out of the guard brought back to Hyrule Castle where link after waking up the princess Zelda's spirit appears and this henceforth accompanied him. The two make up again on the way to the tower, and finally arrive at Shiene to. This tells the two that the sinister demon king slowly breaks out of his prison in the Tower. This can only be prevented if the link can make the rails of the gods locate and reactivate.
Spirit Tracks is the first Zelda game in which Link accompanied and supported directly by Princess Zelda. Furthermore, it is to The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass ajar and is also related to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker together as in the story many similarities to its predecessors exist and allusions are made.
Game mechanics
The game uses the engine of his predecessor, Phantom Hourglass, and is therefore of the game mechanics are very similar. The game is controlled almost entirely via the touch screen of the Nintendo DS. Link can be moved by tapping the stylus on the touch screen, attacks happen either. By touching the opponent with the stylus or the swipe of the stylus on the touch screen For certain commodities (items) as the boomerang can be drawn in a certain radius around the player character trajectories, while other items such as bows and arrows or whirlwind at any angle of 360 ° can be used to the player character. Here also the internal microphone must be used for some items.
In the game the player has to visit several thematically different mazes and defeat the final boss in order to reactivate the rails of the gods again can.
A special labyrinth represents the Tower of Spirits dar. This can only gradually be explored by the player, as he is also decay by the disappearance of the rails of the gods. After each dungeon successfully completed a new section of the tower can be explored. In these sections, the player can also take control of Zelda, which penetrate into the phantoms already known from the predecessors and can control them. The control Zelda takes place indirectly by the player using the stylus records the travel path and Zelda can perform on their way to target certain actions such as attack enemies or activate switches. Depending on the type of the acquired phantom while there are other possibilities for action available.
The player can move by train on the rails of the gods between the individual venues, as well as satisfy transport requests, which in turn activate other optional railways.
Multiplayer
In multiplayer mode, up to four players can go as a link to Force - crystal hunting. The winner is the player who has the most at the end of these crystals. However, a game is designed quite varied by computerized phantoms and items.
Technology
Spirit Tracks uses the same cel-shaded graphics engine as Phantom Hourglass.
The microphone of the Nintendo DS is used for a variety of puzzles and playing the pan flute.
Review
The average rating is loud critify.de 90/100 at 20 book reviews as well, according to metacritic.com 87/100 based on 46 reviews.
At gamescom 2009, the game was named the best handheld game.