The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was released on the Nintendo DS and is the direct sequel to the first DS Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.


Story

Gameplay

Gameplay involves Link defeating enemies, exploring New Hyrule using a train, and solving puzzles. First Link must create new tracks by defeating a level in the Tower of Spirits obtaining a Railmap. Then he must enter the sanctuary of the specific realm and play duet with a Lokomo creating the tracks necessary to enter the Temple of the specific realm. After defeating the Temple Link must return to the Tower of Spirits to obtain yet another Railmap. He must defeat all five Temples and all six(?) levels of the Tower of Spirits and then defeat Malladus to complete his epic adventure.

Controls

The controls for yet another DS Zelda game are basically the same. Use the stylus to move, swipe to attack, tap to use a jump attack, make a circle to do a spin attack, and thrust forward to stab. Tap the Menu button to open the menu and the items list to select an item. Tap the items icon to use it and tap on the screen. Double-tap to roll; it just wouldn't be Zelda without it.

Items

Main article: Spirit Tracks Items

Heart Containers

In Spirit tracks you start of with three hearts and can collect five more via completing dungeons. Beside these, there are eight more you can collect.

  1. "Take 'em all on."
    For this one, you must beat level one of the "take 'em all on" minigame in Castle town. The woman will give you the container for completing it.
  2. "Rabbit Hunt."
    Catch five rabbits from over the world and return them to the guy at rabbit haven. He'll give you the heart container in return.
  3. "The inflation of sanctuaries."
    There is a shop in the snowfall sanctuary, which happens to be selling a heart container. Buy it for a whopping 2,000 rupees.
  4. "Swordsman's challenge."
    You can get this by playing the Swordsman's challenge minigame. You must get at least 60 hits for the heart container.
  5. "Whip race."
    Do the whip race minigame. Beat it in under 75 seconds for the heart container.
  6. "Pirate rescue."
    The pirate rescue minigame holds this heart container. After beating this minigame for the first time for the forcegem. Do it again so that there is a goron you have to save. Beat it with at least 4,000 points for the heart container.
  7. "Golden Beedle."
    After spending at least 5,000 rupees at beedle's air shop, you will have 500 points and will become a gold member. As a gift beedle will give you a heart container.
  8. "Block puzzle."
    Beat all the three block puzzles at the ends of the earth station to find it in a golden treasure chest.

Characters

Main article: Spirit Tracks Characters

Enemies

Main article: Spirit Tracks Enemies

Reception

Spirit Tracks has received generally positive reception by both critics and users. GameInformer gave the game a score of 8 [1] and Spirit Tracks has received an average press score of 8.7.[citation needed] Improving in nearly all aspects, Spirit Tracks trumped its predecessor, Phantom Hourglass.[citation needed] Negative feedback mostly centralized on the mundane overworld design, as the train took away the freedom of exploration and was boring.[citation needed] As of May 5th, 2012, the game has sold 3.08 copies worldwide.[citation needed]

Walkthrough

As always, Zelda Dungeon has a text walk through for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, found at the official ZD website.

Text Walkthrough [2]

Trivia

  • The names of bosses, temples and other things have different names in the European version.

Merchandise and Product