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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
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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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  Zero  
I don't understand what is going on here but Kris' stuff is hilarious and some of the best stuff on NW. I know it's not just me that thinks this either because it is also some of the stuff that gets the most hits too, which I'm assuming is coming from people passing it around and stuff, because not THAT many random people stumble upon NW content.
08/03/14, 08:15   
  Super_Conzo  
This is too surreal.
@kriswright is so funny (and clever) that I actually think he has created an alt account called @pokepal148 to fake-troll himself in a splendid piece of Kaufman-esque performance art. Bravo Kris, bravo.
08/03/14, 10:31   
Edited: 08/03/14, 10:53
  r_hjort  
kriswright fanclub member reporting in.
08/03/14, 13:13   
  Stephen  
ITT:
08/03/14, 13:27   
  NESVolleyball  
Super_Conzo said:
This is too surreal.
@kriswright is so funny (and clever) that I actually think he has created an alt account called @pokepal148 to fake-troll himself in a splendid piece of Kaufman-esque performance art. Bravo Kris, bravo.

That certainly sounds like the kind of thing Kris would do.
08/03/14, 17:01   
  James  
OOOooohh, looks like things are finally getting good!
08/03/14, 17:16   
  Mop it up  
@Super_Conzo That and to use it as an excuse to post a list of his best work! Brilliant!

Makes me wonder how many people here are actually his alts...
08/03/14, 20:53   
  kriswright  
@Mop it up

It's only you and me, here. Will you marry me?

Actually, as much as I'd like to take credit for being some sort of brilliant Andy Kaufman, I should mention that I'd never be able to bring myself to attack Wind Waker to the degree Pokepal has been doing. Not even with an alt.

Also, his links are all to NWR and everyone knows I'm too lazy to go to another website than this one.
08/03/14, 22:46   
  TriforceBun  
I didn't think it was possible to actually be a message board heckler, but here we are.

Ultimately, I'm just sad I missed this Tingle Bottle kriswright tomfoolery. Sounds like fun!
08/03/14, 23:41   
  PogueSquadron  
And here I am all prepared for trouble.
08/03/14, 23:48   
  Stephen  
@kriswright

I checked them out. There was a poll asking who at Nintendo had the biggest package, one saying the vikings in DKC:TF are actually Minnesota Vikings' players, and another one that I'm not even sure is a joke because it just looks like sarcastic complaining about Nintendo's VC selection. I don't think any of them had more than 10 replies.

I would also like to say that the prospect of reading kriswright messages while playing Wind Waker has greatly move WW up my to do list.
08/04/14, 01:23   
  pokepal148  
I guess Kris's humor sorta, didn't float with me on that occasion,

[ref=id=10368&pagenumber=12#413066]@PogueSquadron[/ref] Well I'm getting outta here and making that double.

[ref=id=10368&pagenumber=12#413072]@Stephen[/ref] That third one is a little bit of satire/humor inspired by Sega's stance on Virtual Console. Heck I even loosely based that articles structure on the NWR story on that subject. My style of humor in general tends to lean on satire.

Both of those two are examples of me (ok screw it this url thing isn't working,)[/ref][url=http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=43976.msg828315#msg828315]making fun [/url] of

[url=http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=44256.msg831183#msg831183]something going [/url] on

[url=http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=44741.msg837446#msg837446]in the NWR forums[/ur].

I even gave Gui a nice, [url=http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=44568.msg835462#msg835462]amusing little birthday wish thing [/url] (sadly nobody else on NWR wanted him to have a happy birthday.)

The Vikings one is really unpolished tbh and could have used a bit of work. It would help if I actually payed attention to sports.
08/04/14, 08:23   
Edited: 08/04/14, 08:58
  Super_Conzo  
In Wind Waker news, I made it to a dungeon (Tower-in-middle-of-ocean Dungeon) so things are getting good again. Yay!

I got so many sidequest options on Windfall but I've already forgotten them. Who cares, dungeon time!
08/05/14, 12:07   
  pokepal148  
Everyone go to shark island and do the little puzzle with the boots and the hammer and then go in the cave for awesome PRIZES!!!!!

I feel like I'm forgetting to mention something in between... oh well.
08/05/14, 22:20   
  Jargon  
So I've been playing this lately and I'm trying to do the bonus content that I missed out on the first time (which is a lot). The first time I played, for example, I didn't do any of the pictograph stuff. Now I've been collecting the figurines. Is there any reward for getting them all? I feel like that's a huge undertaking, especially since some are probably pretty easy to miss and you can only hold 12 pictographs at a time. I'll happily collect some of the more interesting ones, but I'm not going to go get every little character unless there's something in it for me.
09/19/14, 08:13   
  Secret_Tunnel  
@Jargon

I don't really think there is. For the record, some of them require at least two playthroughs, and a lot of them are missable.
09/19/14, 08:29   
  Jargon  
@Secret_Tunnel

Probably for the best then.
09/19/14, 08:52   
Edited: 09/19/14, 08:54
  Shadowlink  
@Jargon

lol @ only hold 12.

Spare a thought for those of us who tried to do this when you could only hold 3.

I'm not sure how close I got, but I took a LOT of photographs.
09/19/14, 09:17   
  TriforceBun  
@Jargon

A lot of them are missable, but if you take the right pictures at the right time, you can get them all in one playthrough. These are the guys to make sure you don't miss if you're going for all of them:

Gohma (not too bad since you can get him much later in the game, but you have to get him at ONE of those points)
Kalle Demos (same as Gohma)
Kogoli (this guy's kind of a pain. He's one of the Rito outside on a cliff on Dragon Roost Island. He arbitrarily disappears after about 2/3 of the game, so you gotta get him before then)
Phantom Ganon (same as Gohma)
Helmaroc King (this really is a one-time only thing, get a picture of the bird)
Tetra (really only available during the brief moment she's with you after the Helmaroc King [bird] fight)
Jalhalla (same as Gohma)
Wizzrobe miniboss (this is the summoning Wizzrobe in the Wind Temple. Make sure you get his pic before killing him!)
Molgera (same as Gohma)
Big Octo (got six chances for these, at least)

I think that's all of 'em. And what makes it nicer is that you can get Tingle bottles for any of these pics, which is how I snagged a couple I'd missed, so nothing's REALLY permanently-missable.

Also, it's soooo much easier to do this quest now than it was on the GCN. There you only had 3 photos at once, and you had to wait an in-game day for EVERY figurine! Still a massive quest, but it was a pain back then.
09/19/14, 16:51   
  Mop it up  
Don't you also get the better PictoBox earlier in this game?
09/19/14, 22:00   
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