Zelda Wii Thread: Speculation, Rumours, Flight Mechanics

THEMAN · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:43 am�� Post subject:

trailer was pretty ordinary. pastel colours + gamecube graphics.

looked pretty boring.
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admeister · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:13 pm�� Post subject:

Yeah, it's really not selling the game to me much. Gameplay is the same as ever really, the new stuff seems a bit lame. Some kind of flying bug gadget? Tightrope battles? Generic looking boss? Motion Plus minigames? You'll have to do better, Nintendo.
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DancesInUnderwear · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:23 pm�� Post subject:

The 'trailer' doesn't look like its designed to sell the game, though, it looks more to me like it was designed to sell the idea that Motionplus is going to work in a Zelda game ("hey look, you can totally use M+ to swing your sword in specific directions! and balance on this rope! how amazing!"). It seems pretty pointless, actually. Bring on a 'real' trailer at E3 or wherever.
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Jarrod · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:43 pm�� Post subject:

I think M+ is going to be amazing, but they need to show more. They've already sold the idea of M+ through E3, where hands-on impressions were near unanimously positive despite their clunky stage demonstration. We already knew M+ was integral to Link's sword play, and would be used for other items, and puzzles. We'd seen it. We saw a little extra here, but mechanically it's the exact same thing.

As I've said elsewhere, Zelda isn't just about the sword play. There's still so much more; overworld (style and how it's traversed), dungeons, towns, quests, characters, shops, etc. Strangely Nintendo has been really quiet on these things. It's possible we've seen snippets of these, but they haven't really pushed them out and said "Hey, this is how this works", and instead pimping the M+ sword fighting almost exclusively.

Which I can understand. It's a big deal, and it's going to be awesome. But Zelda is more and I'd like to see more.

LeonJ · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:21 pm�� Post subject:

I'm actually int he mood for Zelda. My hungry for this title is rising!
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plazma · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:56 pm�� Post subject:

For photoshoppers and the like, here's a nice big SS title logo.

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WilliamsF1 · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:54 am�� Post subject:

I see on the EBgames website, they're offering Zelda: Skyward sword limited edition.

http://www.ebgames.com.au/wii-154311-The-Legend-of-Zelda-Skyward-Sword-Limited-Edition-Nintendo-Wii

It doesn't say what it includes, but we could speculate, maybe a 25th anniversary CD that includes Zelda tracks? Miyamoto seemed pretty keen to talk about the music of Zelda during E3
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el_supraman · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:08 am�� Post subject:

I do not see why there is so much negative comments. Game looks amazing. I am looking forward to more action based gameplay and puzzles with the sword and motion plus. I LOVE the graphics and think it looks better than anything else on the wii and the style is one of the best on all systems. I am looking forward to this more than any other. The fact its chock full of gameplay and there is different things to do in each area sounds great.

They have changed the dungeon formula as well and are trying something different which is great. Flying looks awesome as well. I remember hearing all this kind of talk before wind waker and that is one of my favourite games ever. Just bought links awakening and will get OoT in preparation.

Also just bought life size zelda shield and sword so I guess im a bit biased

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X10A Freedom · Status: Offline Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 27 $poons: 0.20

Hey... I noticed this... it seems kinda cool - has anyone seen those before?

http://aussie-gamer.com/?p=11205

theory · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:41 pm�� Post subject:

Yeah they have one of them at EB in Melbourne and Nintendo usually have it set up at Zelda launch parties etc.
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Benza · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:01 pm�� Post subject:

it looks... kind of shit. Especially for something that size.
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admeister · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:41 pm�� Post subject:

It's not the same statue that they have at EB, it looks like a lower quality Twilight Princess based one (note the logo on the front). The one at EB looks like this:

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Benza · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:49 pm�� Post subject:

theory · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:54 pm�� Post subject:

Yeah 100 with over 6 days left... this will go for quite a bit I reckon... nerds/geeks got money yo...

Yeah don't compare it to some limited edition well-made expensive statue... this gets the point across just fine... of course it's not perfect but then again it's probably the highest resolution Link I've ever seen...
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X10A Freedom · Status: Offline Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 27 $poons: 0.20

Yeah... that's what I meant... it's only at $100 right!

I'm sure it's the same as the one in EB just probably bad photo's. I'm gonna email the guy on Ebay and ask if he can take some photo's of his one and put them up.

X10A Freedom · Status: Offline Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 27 $poons: 0.20

I asked and he put some more up, apparently he doesn't have any pics of his though because it's in pieces at the moment, but the pics he put up are of the same statue he says.

Jarrod · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:51 am�� Post subject:

Aonuma was interviewed by Famitsu, and spilled some more details on Skyward Sword. 1up has the scoop. Here's the bits.

- In this game, Zelda starts out as a childhood friend of Link's -- and not royalty. "She's not a princess this time," Aonuma said, "which is something I'll pretty much have to put forth right now in order to talk about this title. She's a childhood friend, but she goes away in the midst of the game and it's Link's job to search for her."

- The starting plot unfolds quite a bit differently from other Zeldas. "This game's plot is something like a school drama, you could say," Aonuma noted with a laugh. "The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of a like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda."

- Despite this, though, the game progresses in a somewhat similar fashion to a previous Zelda title. "The game starts in Skyloft, this city that's floating in the air, and you'll come back to this town multiple times," Aonuma said. "Things are always proceeding along in town, and in that respect it's very much like Majora's Mask. Like with Majora, there are a lot of game events involving the townspeople that get intertwined with the main story. Link, Zelda and their other friends all go to the same boarding school, and you've got teachers and a principal as well. It's a bit of a different setting from previous Zeldas."

- Aonuma's team is making a deliberate effort to give Link new items -- like the boomerang-beetle in the E3 demo -- early on in Skyward Sword. "With previous Zeldas," he said, "the common pattern was that the really neat items wouldn't show up until later on in the game. You need to have the basic item set or it wouldn't be Zelda, so the new items tended to get shunted to the latter part of the game. [Shigeru] Miyamoto said that had to change, like 'This is neat, let's bring it out from the start.' So a lot of neat new items will show up pretty early on."

- Is Skyloft the entire 'world' in this game? "Yes, it's only the people in Skyloft," Aonuma responded. "Nobody on there thinks anything of it, though, because living in Skyloft and flying around on birds is normal to them. They don't have any awareness of there being a mainland beneath the clouds and so forth -- that gets expanded upon once Zelda goes missing, and you get access to the areas under the clouds."

- Does everyone in Skyloft have their own personal avian transport? "It's the custom for each person to have one bird. Link has a red one, and it's actually a special and very rare breed of bird -- which is something that makes him get picked on, like 'Why do you get this fancy bird and we don't?!' But it turns out that you need that red bird in order to access the mainland. So the hand of fate gets involved here, like it always does in Zelda games sooner or later."

- Ghiraham, the enemy Link fought in the E3 demo's boss battle, is definitely going to be an important character in Skyward Sword. "The demo shows when you first meet him, and plainly he's looking down at Link, stopping his sword with his fingers and so forth," Aonuma noted. "In terms of story image he's kind of like Dark Link [from Ocarina of Time]; he sees right through Link's moves in battle. You can sort of swing your sword wildly and still hold your own against a lot of foes, but there's no way you can beat Ghiraham like that. You need to keep your distance and watch his moves, and it's something you'll need to change your strategy for. I think he's a pretty good change of pace as bosses go, and he'll change gradually throughout the game."

- Will Ganon show up? "This game talks about the birth of the Master Sword, and it touches on why Ganondorf showed up. If you play it, I think you'll get some understanding on that. It connects to Ocarina, so if you play Ocarina of Time 3D and move on to this game, I think you'll catch on to a lot of things."

- How's development going along? "The whole game is complete, and we're fine-tuning the balance right now. We were going to have it wholly done by around E3, but there's so much volume to it, neither I nor Miyamoto have gotten to fully play out every aspect. The non-English localizations are proceeding along now, and we're trying to make this a simultaneous worldwide release. You have to put Zelda all out at once or else the story's going to get spoiled -- although, really, there's a ton to enjoy here even if you know a little about the story beforehand."

I cant fucking wait.
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WarAdept · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:23 am�� Post subject:

Interesting, a prequel to OoT.

Colour me interested.

Although I'm still finding the art style to be a little underwhelming. I'd love it if they'd be able to texture it so it had those wonderful brush strokes and ink splatters like the concept art they displayed last year but meh.

It's Zelda. I'm going to get it regardless.

Peveus · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:48 pm�� Post subject:

Im not surprised its a prequel as in Twilight Princess they said the Hylians were originally from the clouds, and this game starts in the clouds! Lolz.

The ""This game talks about the birth of the Master Sword, and it touches on why Ganondorf showed up. If you play it, I think you'll get some understanding on that" sentence just convinced me to bother with this game, because Zelda fan though I am I've just about given up after the much underwhelming TP...
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plazma · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:43 pm�� Post subject:

Jarrod · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:22 pm�� Post subject:

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the_spensa · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:03 pm�� Post subject:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't get it, what does the symbol mean.
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Esposch · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:00 pm�� Post subject:

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