Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 69.24% (36 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 68% (34 reviews) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Allgame | |
| Eurogamer | 5.0/10.0 |
| GameSpy | 4.0/5.0 |
| IGN | 7.0/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 6.5/10 |
As of July 9, 2008, the game has sold 194,849 copies in Japan, according to Famitsu. As of September 30, 2008, Nintendo has sold 2.75 million copies of Link's Crossbow Training worldwide. It was the 16th best-selling game and seventh best-selling Wii game of December 2008 in the United States. It was in the Top 10 on the best-selling Wii games list for nearly two years until being surpassed by Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, and later New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It now ranks #11 on the list with approximately 4.8 million copies sold as of May 2010.
Reviews have been generally mixed to positive. Nintendo Power stated "In the way that Link's Crossbow Training shows the potential of the zapper, it couldn't be much better." However, they criticized it for being "Just too darn short–you'll probably make it through the entire single-player mode in just over an hour (add another hour to get platinum medals on every stage)." IGN stated that while the game was enjoyable, it was also too short. IGN's review also panned the Wii Zapper as actually "making the game more difficult" to play and generally frustrating to use.
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