My first impressions of this game were, "Did they really change much apart from the map", but quickly after that a huge sense of immersion grabbed me and held me for the rest of the day. What can I say after that day? Zelda MM is truely worthy of being part of the series! Whilst the game uses the Zelda TOOT* engine and borrows most of it's characters and animation, there is defiantly a huge amount there for even the most jaded Zelda gamer. Starting off in a new town in an Alternate Hyrule type place called Clocktown (Hence the huge Clock in the middle), Link is pretty much immediately bombarded by the surrounding inhabitants and their lives. The brilliance of Clocktown is how the residents actually move around the place and have conversations with each other! Gone (hopefully) are the days of people standing around stuck to one spot and muttering the same sentence all the time. You can literally (and sometimes have to) follow the characters around the map and see what they get up to. Most of the characters are alternative versions of people from Hyrule but there are some new characters, such as the ultra disturbing Mask seller and the equally (if not more so) Tingles the wannabe fairy!

Graphic wise this game is a lot like ZTOOT* and uses many of the same models, fortunately the new area's I have seen seem to also have quite a few new models that fit well into the Zelda universe and the area's have there own unique feel. Again the time of day effects the colour scheme quite a bit and some area's look quite different on different days at different times.

The sound in this game is HUGELY better thanx to the re-inclusion of the Overworld Themesong that has been in all the games apart from ZTOOT*. You all probably know it but if you don't, here's what it goes like:- dodo dododoo doodlooo dooodleooodleodle dut doodle doo doodle dut dut dut dooodleoodleoodle ....uh yeh, something like that anyway! Again most of the music effects are from ZOOT!

The gameplay is where it really starts to kick in though! Basically this game is just as much fun to play through, from what I have seen so far it could even be more so! It also looks like ZMM is going to be harder with way bigger and badder baddies, which would be good! Zelda1 on the NES was a struggle to get through and had some really mean bad guys - Hopefully Zelda games will be having more challenging bad guys again! Mmmmmmm, I like it like that~!
 

*ZTOOT - Zelda the Ocarina of Time