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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
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Overall Critic Score:3.6880
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One of the first things you will notice about Minish Cap is that the game is truly gorgeous. Even though the GBA is an aging platform, Minish Cap truly dazzles with its visuals. Backgrounds sport a surprising amount of detail, especially when Link...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Planet Gamecube
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The other big twist that features heavily in dungeon/overworld exploration is Link's newfound ability to shrink to microscopic size. Normal enemies become massive bosses, and unassuming cracks can become doorways to new adventures. The mechanic works...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Modojo
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is pretty amazing. I have an Xbox 360 and I just got a shiny new PC. I'm on the cutting edge of technology. But when I think of all the games I've played over the past six months, The Minish Cap—a Gameboy Advance...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Four Fat Chicks
The game far surpassed my expectations. Even if you’re not a huge Zelda fan, TMC is easy to pick up and has a way of enthralling you right from the get-go....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Just RPG
The Minish Cap begins with young Link and Zelda as childhood friends. Link starts off, oddly enough, without the elven cap that has occupied his head since his initial appearance, and this bareheaded Link and Zelda attend a festival together. However, as...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at UnderGroundOnline
Likewise, Minish Cap dishes out a perfect blend of new concepts with classic implements. The old bow, bombs, and boomerang items are joined by a jar that sucks in objects like Kirby; a wand that flips obstacles upside down; and claws that tear through...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Yahoo! Games
The music in The Minish Cap is simply wonderful. Around 70 percent of the music is composed of previous Zelda music, but redone to fit the new game....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Gaming Age
The storyline for The Minish Cap seems rather simplistic at first, but quickly gets complicated as
"...the best 2d Zelda game ever created."
player's progress through the game. After a brief story of how a hero sealed great evils into a box with a...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at GamersMark
Zelda:The Minish Cap opens up with Link and Zelda being childhood friends. Zelda goes over to Link’s house and drags him along to an annual festival in town. Afterwards you two go to the castle to see who will win the sword fighting competition with...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at N-Insanity
Right from the start things do not look like they are going to head in a good direction. Not at all…Whilst with childhood friend Princess Zelda, the very young Link has to stand back in shock as he watches her get transformed into stone by the evil...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Cubed3
The overworld map -- while bearing minor resemblance to the layout of previous games -- is much larger than you’d think and the dungeons are as big, fiendish and ingenious as ever with a perfect learning curve....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at GameCube Advanced
Capcom have had quite a history of developing Zelda games for Nintendo’s
handhelds over the last few years. After the reasonable ‘Oracle’ series on
the Gameboy Color and the decent re-release of Link to the Past on Gameboy
Advance it seems that...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Team Fremont
Two dimensional adventuring in the land of Hyrule has truly never been better. TMC takes all of the elements that I know and love about my Zelda games, improves on and adds more to them, then moves them to a portable medium and provides a true must-buy...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at RPGFan
When it comes to videogames, The Legend of Zelda reigns supreme as one of the best overall series. Always innovative and most definitely epic, the Zelda series has continued to instill magic in the hearts of gamers. Many have attempted to copy its...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Gamerz-Edge
The same dungeon crawling is here and you get to complete your adventure through the magical Minish, a race of very tiny people. Throughout your adventure you’ll encounter portals that shrink you down to Minish size in order to get into new places and...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Lawrence
Minish Cap's story begins with Princess Zelda inviting a hatless Link (this gets explained later) to the Picori Festival in Hyrule Town. Link obliges, seeing that he has to bring a sword made by his grandfather over there anyway, which is the prize for...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at GameCube Cafe
Well first, a little more about the story behind this game in particular. Link and Zelda are children this time around. The king, Zelda’s father, is still alive and well and in command. Link’s dad is a blacksmith, but not just any blacksmith: He’s...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at eToychest
So Link is back, and once again, he’s been recruited by the kingdom of Hyrule to save it from an evil wizard who seeks absolute power. This may sound like your typical Zelda fare, but with two differences—there’s no Gannon or Triforce in sight....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at All RPG
The graphics, especially when zoomed in, are breath taking and the new remixed classic Zelda tunes fit the game perfectly. Unfortunately, the quest seems to end a little short....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at My Gamer
With great graphics, good sound and a relatively long quest, players will definitely feel as though they have been rewarded once again for purchasing a Nintendo published game....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Da GameBoyz
When coming into playing this game, I wasn’t expecting one of the best Game Boy Advance games to date. I’ve had run-ins with the previous Capcom-produced Zelda games, and I really didn’t enjoy them very much. When I heard of The Legend of Zelda:...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Game Vortex
improve on it. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is one of the finest examples of what an adventure game should be, but will be over before you know it due to its relatively short life span. Even that is a small complaint, though, compared to everything...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Nintendophiles
The Picori (or Minish as they prefer to be called) are a race of tiny beings that can only be seen by children who are pure of heart and, fortunately, Link. They live amongst the rest of the much larger Hyrules and can only be accessed by a series of...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at DS-x2
Tiny Link has a big task ahead of him, as he sets out to save Hyrule from the sorcerer Vaati in The Minish Cap....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at GameSpot
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is another great...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Armchair Empire
marvellous new toys are introduced, including a vacuum-cleaner-like jar and a cane that shoots energy bolts. Players can even clone Link to overcome obstacles. Dungeons are filled with ingenious puzzles demanding intelligent use of all gadgets.Completing ...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Sydney Morning Herald
Nintendo's famous swords-and-sorcery champion Link faces some enormous challenges, as he journeys through the Lilliputian lands of the Minish folk in this Game Boy Advance adventure. Though it may be too small for a normal-sized person to ever notice,...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at AllGame
The first fully original GBA Zelda adventure continues the legacy in style....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at IGN
For all of the items in Minish Cap's "Pro" column, there is but one item in the "Con" column: it's just too darn easy. The dungeons, though fantastically designed, are fairly small and light on monsters....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Deeko
Once again, Princess Zelda is in trouble and needs saving. This time the evil wizard Vaati has turned the princess into stone and it's up to Link to save her. To help the Princess and reverse the curse Link must use the Sword Of Legend, but there's one...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Nintendo Spin
A beautifully designed, quirky game. If you like Zelda, you'll love it. If adventure games and bus rides are your thing, pick it up....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Electric Playground
A joint development project between Nintendo and Capcom studio Flagship (developers of handheld Zelda titles since the Oracle series) Minish Cap serves up a top notch gaming experience. And despite the fact the game lacks a desirable length it’s...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at NZGamer
If you can accept that it won't last you as long as you might like, then your quest is clear: leave no stone unturned in your search for this game, and then leave none of its stones unturned either....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Eurogamer
From the opening screen you know this is going to be a good experience: the music hits you, it feels familiar, you name your character Link - cos if you name him anything else you really aren't a fan - and you are instantly brought back into the world of...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Gameplanet
What I am beginning to find most troubling is the developers penchant for including items and characters from previous games to the point of ad nauseum already. Anyone who has played a Link game will be totally familiar with the numerous items in the...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Cheat Code Central
Those out of'their'gaming groove may probably'be saying, 'Capcom' Why'' Well, the combination of Capcom and Nintendo (called Flagship) already have experience working with one another to bring big name exclusives to the Nintendo consoles'some being the...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Amped IGO
Simultaneously a beautifully holistic encapsulation of the entire history of Zelda and a worthy new chapter to the series in its own right, Minish Cap is quite simply one of the most engrossing portable games ever made -- and it ranks pretty high among...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at 1UP
For a game about shrinking, it grows on you quickly....read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Gaming Target
There are few things in life I enjoy more than a Legend of Zelda game. I have made it a mission to make sure I finish every Zelda game I play simply because I don’t want it sitting on a shelf waiting for me. I have enough games sitting on...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at GameZone
Throughout the history of video games, there have been certain names that are so iconic, their mere presence on a game box implies greatness. One such name applies not to a scrappy hero, off to save the day yet again, but rather to a petite princess who,...read the complete The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap review at Game Helper
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