2012-11-12, 03:21 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overworld"]
"An overworld is, in a broad sense, an area within a video game that interconnects all its levels or locations. They are mostly common in role-playing games, though this does not exclude other video game genres."[/URL]
Go on. Tell me you think the barren, empty sky is a better overworld than Hyrule field in ocarina/twilight princess, or Clocktown/termina field in MM, or even wind wakers ocean. At least wind waker had inhabitted islands and people living on the sea. The sky just has... skyloft and the pumpkin island. Yeah.
I didn't play wind waker, although my friends tell me it is one of their favorite games. Regardless, I felt the sky overworld wasn't that bad. Hell, it was much quicker to get across it than it was in TP where I had to run as a wolf for ages to reach things. At least the flying system was unique and when you found those cubes in game, you had to come back up and search for them up in the sky. Also that "barren, empty sky" did have an inner area once you unlocked it, providing more content to explore and interact with. I also thought the system that let you fly down to certain areas in maps once you had visited them was helpful for gathering items for the item forging system.
I guess my point is that the overworld wasn't bad and your reasoning is not good justification to declare this a bad game. The small amount of time I spent in that 'oh so terrible wasteland' was easily balanced out by doing quests in Skyloft and that area, playing the actual game, and doing boss rush mode.