or is it?), the shield sort of looks like a face in a way, and the mass of 'hair' and 'beard' makes this thing look like it has some sort of bizarre anatomy that we're not privy to. There's a depression that almost looks like an eye (it's not. Look at these Twilit Messengers! Their entire face is nothing but a metal shield, and yet you still sort of 'see' a face in it. All the enemies you meet so far have been either animals, mutant plants, or the still sort-of-animal-based Bokoblins. Otherwise also known as the 'Shadow Beasts', the Twilit Messenger is a pretty cool being, huh? It just screams otherworldly.
Together they discover that the Twilight Realm has been taken over by the 'usurper king' Zant, and they have to go and stop him and his increasing allies in both Hyrule and the Twilight Realm. As parts of the land of Hyrule gets consumed by a strange dark quality that consumes entire regions, the farmer boy Link, while in the process of pursuing a bunch of shadowy creatures that kidnap his fellow villagers, finds out that while trapped in this Twilight Realm, he has gained the ability to transform into a wolf, and makes an ally out of the strange imp Midna.
Again, as I saw more and more Japanese material it perhaps isn't as unique as I thought it was (and even in Zelda itself it's kind of a riff on the Dark World from A Link to the Past, which is one of the contenders for my favourite Zelda game) but I really did love it. The story is honestly pretty standard Ocarina-of-Time ripoff fare, but I feel like the addition of the whole 'other realm of shadows' is something that felt like it truly added something more and made the story unique.
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