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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Discussion (Nintendo Wii U) [game]
 
  Stephen B  
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD on the Wii U
9.51/10 from 19 user ratings

Welcome to the official discussion thread for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD on the Wii U!

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The game doesn't release at retail till early October, but gamers can begin playing this title soon if they buy a special edition Wii U next week. That said, Welcome to the official discussion thread for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD! Whether you're someone who played and beat this game back in 2003, or maybe you're new and eager to get your Link wet, come here to discuss the game!


IGN.com just released their review and I believe that makes it the first review score for the title. What did they give it? You might not be surprised, but you can look at their review here. For the lazy,... 9.8/10

I have fond memories of picking the original game up from my non-standard Gamestop the night before release. They opened the doors at 10pm and let us get the game early just as the box literally arrived. I don't understand why things went down like that but I was always proud that I was nerdy enough to have been the first person to leave that Gamestop with Zelda that night. Now, I have it pre-ordered at another Gamestop, my normal one, because I want that badass statue offer. As Carlosrox continues to point out, the game looks beautiful and now that I've had an awesome Samsung HDTV for a little less than a year now, I am excited to finally embrace HD with Zelda and see how beautiful this game is at 40 inches and 1080p.

Bring it on Nintendo. I have what it takes.

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09/18/13, 05:44    Edited: 09/18/13, 06:03
 
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  Secret_Tunnel  
Just beat this game, and wow, it's better than I remember. A huge step up from the N64 games in terms of technology. Stuff like cutting the rope bridge in the first dungeon or using your Deku leaf to blow seeds from a distance... I'd imagine that, at the time, those were pretty awesome puzzles. Makes me wonder if we'll ever get another step up like that in terms of puzzle-solving.

I love how (aside from one puzzle at the very very end where the game assumes your a first-grader who can't read or even think, really) the game doesn't hold your hand. The King of Red Lions tells you where the dungeons are, but you're on your own in figuring out how to get inside them. There isn't ever anything that's too ridiculously hard, it's pretty much just following the fish's directions, but I love that the game trusts you to have a brain. I forgot what that was like, after Skyward Sword.

Also, I think it's funny how, after the ending of this game, which was all about hope for the future and moving forward and doing away with the past and in with the new out with the old and not relying on tradition, Nintendo went and made Twilight Princess, a.k.a. Ocarina of Time on steroids. Here's hoping that Zelda U fulfills the King's final wish.

Aside from the cell-shading looking really bad whenever Link is close to a light source, this was a really great remake. I like how they didn't mess up the credits like they did with Ocarina of Time 3D. And the Gamepad was perfect.
06/20/14, 08:36   
Edited: 06/20/14, 08:37
  Tranquilo  
I'll probably pick this game up with the free download from Mario Kart 8, anything to know before I jump in?
07/01/14, 17:39   
  Mop it up  
@Tranquilo Make sure you get the Swift Sail!
07/01/14, 20:19   
  Super_Conzo  
@Mop it up
Do you get the swift sail on your first visit to Windfall? I didn't but I've just returned and the auction is cancelled. Hoping it opens again soon. Ocean... so vast.
07/01/14, 20:38   
  Mop it up  
@Super_Conzo No, you can't get it when you're there the first time. I'm not sure what is the earliest point it can be obtained. Sometime after the forest dungeon, maybe.
07/01/14, 20:41   
  pokepal148  
Don't get me started on the thing of jumping around the tree with the stupid springboard buds because nobody wants to invest in Stairs in order to to get the leaf.

Oh did you miss-time your glide before, well screw you. You have to climb yo ass back up our stupid bud thing.

@Mop it up I actually got it before the forest dungeon.
08/01/14, 06:25   
  pokepal148  
Did anyone end up using the miiverse thing who has a better sense of humor then kris?

Also Niko's stupid rope challenge is basically taking every single issue I have so far with this game and mashing it into one god forsaken abomination.

Seriously this game's bizzare focus so far on this pseudo-platforming type challenges in the over world is basically ensuring that twilight princess remains my favorite 3d zelda.
08/02/14, 02:12   
Edited: 08/02/14, 03:19
  PogueSquadron  
That's the worst part of the game. The play forming in the game is super stuff and not fun at all. Everything from jumping to rope climbing to ladder climbing is pretty bad.

The worst thing about that part of the game is that you practically have to criss cross the map for like a half hour/45 minutes doing essentially nothing.
08/02/14, 05:24   
  Super_Conzo  
@PogueSquadron
I feel like I've been doing nothing for the past few hours. But at least I got the swift sail so now I can do nothing quicker! Lol.
08/02/14, 10:19   
  kriswright  
@pokepal148

I can't tell if you're bitching about my Miiverse use or complimenting it.
08/02/14, 18:12   
  PogueSquadron  
@Super_Conzo Yeah I freaking hate that part of the game. You sail to Greatfish...sail to Outset...sail to Windfall...do all that rope nonsense....sail BACK to Windfall...then do some other stuff....

That's always the part of WW when I'm like...yeah, now I remember why my memories of this game aren't the fondest.
08/02/14, 19:40   
  pokepal148  
I like how all the bomb bag upgrades are done through not stupid bomb minigames but with the fairies.
@kriswright let me put it this way: reusing the same joke twice isn't funny
08/02/14, 19:40   
  TriforceBun  
@PogueSquadron
I typically just use this part of the game to fill in a bunch of my sea chart and explore--there's no shortage of stuff to do on the sea. I think a lot of people's issues with TWW stem from wanting to move the story along, but my favorite part of the game is probably this exploration/sea travel, so I generally welcome these little "breaks" from the dungeons.
08/02/14, 20:00   
  PogueSquadron  
I guess that's the thing for me - I never found that aspect of Wind Waker fun. I like exploring but not if it takes forever with little payout. You have to get bait and talk to the fish to do your map and I just found it kind of excruciating. Could you imagine having to jump hoops to fill up your map in any other Zelda game? I get it from an immersion standpoint but it just wasn't fun for me.

And honestly the last thing I wanted was to get sidetracked at that point in the game. You don't have a warp which is annoying, and you'll likely spend hours sailing around and finding places that you can't do anything until later in the game (since at this point you only have basically two major items). I always felt that that part of the game was pretty badly designed.
08/02/14, 21:01   
  kriswright  
EDIT: I'll tell you what, man. You've attacked me three times over the last few days without provocation now. I have no idea who you are or why you've got me in your sights, but I've noticed the trend at this point.

What I can say, though, is that if you don't think I'm funny, you're free to have that opinion. You can drop me from your friends list on Miiverse and never see my stupid jokes again. That is, if I don't get to Miiverse first.

Also, I invite you to write some articles around here that are funnier than the ones I've written. I'd be happy to read those and I'm sure they'd be good for Negative World.
08/03/14, 02:14   
Edited: 08/03/14, 02:34
  TriforceBun  
@PogueSquadron

Fair enough. I do think the Swift Sail makes things considerably faster though (and easier, with the auto-wind change).
08/03/14, 02:40   
  pokepal148  
I just found a triforce chart and I don't even have the master sword yet. Sequence breaking ftw I guess.

@kriswright behold the power of satire.

Oh and some fun reaction thing I did to DKC:Tf

And this horrific monstrosity in response to a certain NWR listener mail thing.
08/03/14, 03:29   
Edited: 08/03/14, 03:31
  Secret_Tunnel  
@pokepal148

The first paragraph of the Tropical Freeze thing + the image made me laugh.
08/03/14, 04:17   
  kriswright  
@pokepal148

Pretty funny.

Now...

White Knuckle Scorin'
Boogerman
Babysitting Mama
Spider-Man vs. X-EMN
Depression Cast
My Additions to the Games Database
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Podcast 009
Top 10 Reasons Popeye Should Be in Smash
Bayonetta Has Short Hair Now

...and I could go on. Do I need to link to all 25 iterations of my Talk to Boys advertisements, the dozens of Swapnote 3D News items I circulated for over a year, or any of the hundred of silly spur-of-the-moment Photoshops I've done? My advocacy for Dog Football? My contributions to the SEGA April Fools Day event? The many hours I've spent joking it up in chat, including heckling E3 presentations (Flo-rida!)? How about I go old school and bring out the Wii Lobby Activity Book from IGN? Or that time I made an animation of Pluton stealing an Eggplant Wizard's purple ass?

How about my webcomic? Wait. Forget I mentioned that.

Point is, you can say you don't like the comedy callback I did to the "bad vacation" gag in Wind Waker. Fine. Not everyone is going to like everything. (Though I should mention that repetition can sometimes be the whole structure of a funny joke. For the record.) But don't attack my sense of humor or lecture me on what does and doesn't qualify as comedy. At this point, I think I have proven that I have as much of an idea about that as anyone else around here.

Except for T-Bun and Gamewizard. I know when I'm beat.
08/03/14, 05:07   
Edited: 08/03/14, 05:50
  pokepal148  
Got the master sword and all things considered this game as a whole has only one thing over TP.

It actually has dungeons that seem to keep you using all of your items.

Other then that it may take the second worst Zelda slot (based on what i've played) from OOT. (Although I don't think it can possibly top SS.)

To be honest outside of the boat WW, especially in dungeon design, feels closer to OOT then TP does.
08/03/14, 06:50   
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