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     * Rudie: While having a beautiful cartoon style, this is also the point that the //[[game:the_legend_of_zelda_series|Zelda]]// franchise starts to break in half.  There are extremely awesome moments in this game buried under an underwhelming huge overworld and collecting the map pieces to collect the map pieces to collect the triforce.
     * diplo: Count me as a person who kind of thinks //WW// is the best-looking 3D videogame yet. Back then, I was content to be engaged simply by the sea- and sky-scapes. I'm harder to please now, but the game's sights are still such a pleasure to take in. Wonderful night skies. It's great that the water's appearance and color change from time to time. Just thinking about that kind of stuff makes me want to jump back in, but the last time I tried I got bored after a few hours. :[ Maybe I need to to wait for a week where I'm sick.
-    * gatotsu2501: A flawed epic. If it weren't for the stupid Triforce quest in the last act, this would probably be my favorite game of all time. Yes, I even loved the sailing. Coasting through uncharted waters, the wind blowing at my back and my eyes glued to the horizon for new and undiscovered islands, is a pure, exuberant joy that no game has captured for me before or since. The visuals are astonishingly beautiful to this day, and the plot is one of the best of the Zelda series, a surprisingly bittersweet parable about growing up that makes better use of //[[game:the_legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time|Ocarina of Time]]//'s legacy than any of the subsequent games that have dwelt in its shadow. If it's disappointing in various ways (and it is), that disappointment is only relative to its own promise.
     * Felix: Gorgeous (really gorgeous), inventive; doesn't quite work. Marked any number of awful turning points for Nintendo.
+    * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Some really incredibly great ideas in narrative, aesthetics and design offset by some crippling fumbles and hints of //Zelda//'s oncoming dark ages. In 2017 //Zelda// is finally, officially Cool again, and with the benefit of hindsight we can see that //Wind Waker// was in some crucial ways kind of a trial run for //Breath of the Wild//. Still worth playing.
   ***//The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King//** (also on: PS2, Xbox)
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   ***//P.N. 03//** - [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=1924|forum thread]] [[http://www.insertcredit.com/reviews/pn03/index.html|Insert Credit review]]
     * Sniper Honeyviper: //[[game:Dodonpachi]]// meets //[[game:God Hand]]//. Really dull in comparison to both of those games, but the combo system is great fun.
-    *The Blueberry Hill: Brilliant game. Something like a [[genre:shooters#Vertical Shooter|vertical shooter]] (maybe even //[[game:Space Invaders]]//, but played from a third-person action game perspective.
+    * The Blueberry Hill: Brilliant game. Something like a [[genre:shooters#Vertical Shooter|vertical shooter]] (maybe even //[[game:Space Invaders]]//, but played from a third-person action game perspective.
+    * notbov: Man, //PN03// is a good vidcon. I think my first go around, I just didn't get it, but I'm messing around with it now and something clicked. I love this game. It's mechanically pure in a way later [[people:shinji_mikami|Mikami]] joints (I'm thinking mostly of //[[game:Vanquish]]// here) kind of miss. It's like //[[game:Gungrave]]//, but good because you actually have to dodge shit and abuse/take advantage of stuff instead of being a dumb tank. It feels good to play, to the point where I'll forgive having special moves mapped to d-pad motions (it sure would be great if the [[hardware:Gamecube]] had a d-pad bigger than a penny). Man, it even looks good too some 14 years later because they went all in on minimalist design and color pallet and threw a shit ton of polygons and lighting around. It is a Video Game-ass Video Game.
+    * Silverboy: I consider it Japan's answer to //[[game:mdk_series|MDK]]//. There's a lot more spatial awareness going on in that game than almost any other [[people:shinji_mikami|Mikami]] game made before or after. Not as conscious as //MDK// spatially but far more so than most 3D action games coming out at that time. Hell, I would say most action games miss this nuanced element overall even to this day.\\ Might be one of Mikami's best, imo.
   ***//Resident Evil//** (also on: PSN, Wii, XBLA) [[http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=252| Action Button review]]