Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD

@Eel That's great. I've made some research and I can't find anything either. Knowing this I might hold off on buying it until later. Thanks.

$95 Shipped for the Zelda Joycon via Amazon Japan (they ship globally)

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/product/B08WW6G2LD?pf_rd_r=3...

I hope they remembered to fix the gamebreaking bug from the original that basically prevented you from finishing the game. It was late in the game too and Nintendo actually had to put out a patch to correct it. It would occur when you tried doing a certain fetch quest out of a particular order. Anyone remember?

@Zeldafan79 sounds like the origami king game breaking bug lol. If it wasn't fixed before launch I'm sure they'll patch it fast. But I'd imagine it's something they would be proactive about

@NintendoByNature

Yeah even metroid other m had a similar bug that also had to be patched. Pretty sad for Nintendos usual quality standards.

The bug was already patched on the wii so I doubt it’ll return here.

Can't remember this in SS. There's a gamebreaking bug in Twilight Princess still though. I know because I ran into it whilst playing the Wii U version. Annoying as hell that you had to essentially restart the whole game.

@Dezzy

Yeah that'll take the wind right outta your sails!

Wait that glitch wasn't fixed in the Wii U version?

What?!

I wasn't aware of the twilight princess bug. That's news to me. I guess I never encountered it even though I've played every version.

I think it’s related to the book of twilight and the big cannon, under certain situations it’s possible to completely soft block the game if you do things out of order.

I knew about the Skyward Sword bug, though I thankfully did things in "sequence" my first time through and knew about it during my second run. So it was never an issue for me.

Didn't know about the Twilight Princess bug though. I guess I'm just lucky at avoiding gamebreaking bugs?

I wonder if we'll be able to use the Back in Time glitch like on Wii. I'd love to try and mess with my game...

That kinda relied on the reset function in the pause menu the Wii and WiiU have when you press Home. The Switch just sends you straight to the actual Home menu, with no reset option.

Don't think so. Unless I'm misremembering and I'd tried to play the gamecube version about a year earlier. I just remember it being about 5 years ago, so I'd assumed I must have been playing the Wii U version. That was the first version where I actually finished the game. I never completed it back on launch on the Wii.

It was a bug with the area after you cross one of those big stone bridges in the overworld. You fought some of those twilight monsters in an enclosed area. The bug was something like if you saved and quit the game before finishing the fight, once you loaded back into it the twilight barrier thingy would never move, even after you beat the enemies, so you'd be forever stuck there and your save wouldn't allow you to go back before that. Something like that?

Here's some more visual comparisons with the wii original. Looks like the watercolor effect is severely toned down, so far away details are actually discernable now. Which could be bad or good depending on the location.

Yeah I was disappointed to see they'd dialed that back (or had failed to reproduce it effectively) . I liked that effect!

Also, I just heard a youtuber refer to Fi as "demented Cortana" and I'm never gonna forget that.

I think it’s fantastic. It used to flicker like crazy turning the camera. Not only that, you couldn’t even make out objects it was so blurred together.

Also, massive difference visually.

Apparently you can aim stuff like the bow and arrow using the gyro on the pro controller too? That's awesome if true. That's the only time I like motion controls.

Heck ya that’s awesome. They really went all out.

I like Gyro mainly for aiming- when it comes to that it’s superior in every way. But I do enjoy various other uses of Gyro as long as they are well implemented. I think Zelda Skyward Sword is one of those games that has smart implementation for slashing sword. Mario Golf is another. Resident Evil Revelations 1/2 with gesture reloading (which is used in combination with the IR sensor to detect your hand when you reload), etc. The vast majority of use cases that actually makes sense are for aiming, but there are other good uses, it’s just not as much of a guarantee it’ll be good.

I like flying the little robotic bug around in Skyward Sword with motion. I remember doing that in the Wii version and it’s a ton of fun. It doesn’t even go that fast, but it’s just really fun to steer it around.