Zelda vs the Mini Games
So I'm playing Twilight Princess and I realize that it's been a really long time since I've beaten a console Zelda game. I played and beat the original Zelda, Zelda II, and A Link to the Past on SNES, but Ocarina of Time came along and I never made it through. I didn't even play Majora's Mask, and Wind Waker's sailing bored me early on; plus focusing on Zelda with a toddler in the house is a lot harder, as it turns out.
I wondered how much story I had missed (not that continuity between games is important in any way), so I checked out the Wikipedia entries for Ocarina and Wind Waker and well, wow. It turns out I never really made it past the introductory quest-for-these-three Xs that you have to pass before the game sets you off on the real find-these-seven other-Xs. In other words, I doubt I played more than 15% of either game.
Thinking back, I never played much more of Metroid Prime 2 or Super Mario Sunshine, and I got further but never finished the original Metroid Prime. Is the last big Nintendo game I completed really Super Mario 64?
Anyway, I don't know if I expect to play through this latest Zelda or not, but score one for games that don't require such time commitment. The Wii's surfeit of minigame-loaded titles is looking awfully nice these days.