Spirit Tracks Rank + Recap: Sacred Realms Podcast

Max Nichols joins us to help sort out our feelings on Spirit Tracks!
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[@Adventureruler]

SPIRIT TRACKS!!! 🤩🤩🤩

[@samuelgregmen949]

Spirit Tracks is actually a good game.

[@rowk19]

Spirit Tracks my first ever Zelda game

[@Brythegamingfan]

Mine was Majora's

[@aether892]

If they ever decide to do a Spirit Tracks movie dub, I scream the mess out in my pillow. Because the after just finished watching the Wind Waker movie dub, THAT ZELDA VOICE IN ACT 3 WAS SO ON POINT! If decide to use the same voice actor if they do a Spirit Tracks dub, it may work due to Link and Zelda having more time to develop a bond between them in the game.

[@aether892]

I will literally scream the mess out of my pillow.

[@LoinkLoink]

I listened to the entire podcast, and while I understand many of your points, I still think that Spirit Tracks doesn't deserve all the hate that it still gets. Does it have a lot of problems? Yes. But it also improves on a ton of things from Phantom Hourglass. I think without question it is a better game than Adventure of Link, and I prefer it over the original Legend of Zelda. And, while I am very much biased due to it being my very first zelda game, I find it a pleasant time to replay it every now and then(minus the Spirit Flute). I enjoy traveling across the overworld by train, listening to the banger theme, it makes me really feel like the engineer that Link is supposed to be. There's also a crap ton of worldbuilding potential that Spirit Tracks offers to the rest of the series, with Malladus being another Demon King alongside Demise and Ganon. Meaning that there may very well be multiple demon kings all over the world. And I have a personal theory of my own that the Spirits of Good were actually New Hyrule's interpretation of the goddess Hylia(if anyone is interested, I can go into detail. I didn't come up with it out of the blue-there's actually a lot of subtle hints towards this). I also find New Hyrule to be such an interesting setting and really hope that we will see a future zelda game set in it, because the fact that it's so vast in Spirit Tracks that you need a locomotive to travel across it sets a precedent for a future game to have an overworld much larger than anything we've experienced before. I'm at least happy that Nintendo themselves seem to really love this game, as they continue to reference it to this day in games like Totk and Smash Ultimate, which is why I really hope they'll some day make a future game set in New Hyrule.