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It does say "based on the work of original Retro team" or something like that. Seriously, this issue is overblown. If someone needs the credits for some purpose google exists! Besides, why are they only call out Nintendo for this? Wasn't the remaster developed by Retro studios?

If they make a Metroid or Zelda movie it'd better be 100% japanese production. Otherwise they just ruin it.

@Thief
Why is it not worth the full price? At the same time you have all kinds of crappy games that aren't nearly as fun selling at full price.

Surely it's not a whole new game, but you can't really play these games easily today. Unless you pirate the original AW 1 and 2. But here we have both games in a remade package.

This probably guarantees the original games are not coming to Switch online gba. Then again, who cares if you can get better upgraded versions now.

Unlike the live action Mario movie, this was actually tailor made to please the fans of the games. All the easter eggs definitely proves that.

Keeping this in mind, the more negative reviews are not too surprising from your average movie critic who may not know that much from the games.

If you love Mario games, I'm pretty sure you'd like the movie.

She's probably gonna get kidnapped anyway

Emulation is not the best way of playing anything. When you have like 200 games emulated, somehow it just makes you lose interest. Play one game for 5 minutes and then change to another. Not my idea of fun. Also, pc emulation just feels kind of cheap even if you have less roms.

I'm on board with everyone who says playing the original is the best option, but for an easier option, Switch online is pretty good as well. Since the amount of games is limited you get less likely the adhd episode to switch games every 5 mins.

Starting to believe Nintendo succeeds in whatever they wanna do? Other video game movies getting crappy reviews but the critics seem to really love this one. One of them even said it's one of the best family movies EVER? That's a pretty huge compliment for a video game adaptation. Or actually, any family movie.

As for the negativity. What the hell is this site turning to? We have a lot of people hating both Mario movie and the new Zelda despite having not played/ seen either one of them. What are you doing on a nintendo site if you hate all they do by default? If that's not trolling then I don't know what is.

In the meanwhile channels like youtube are full of people who are excited waiting for these things. I'm starting to think Nintendolife is turning to playstation/ xbox fans' trolling ground. Maybe us who love Nintendo should change a site. I'm sure there are other Nintendo sites with less trolling from these salty punks.

@Zequio
World looks exactly the same? You must've missed all the new geography when Link fell from the sky island.

But the comments. How the hell are so many people so negative on a nintendo site? In Reddit and youtube the overwhelming majority of the comments are positive.

What do you people want? A more restricted Zelda game? Yet another rehash of OOT? If you want to play the old games then play them! Don't buy TotK if it looks like crap in your opinion, based on 10 minute gameplay. We don't even know anything about the story, dungeons or boss and new enemy encounters and you think you already know how the game plays?

If you want old school Zelda gameplay you can buy Tunic or some other Zelda clone. Even the smaller indie developers can build games like that today.

The coding in TotK is not something anyone could do. TotK is mechanically a bigger leap from Botw than Elden Ring is from Dark Souls 3. And no one complains about those games.

Nintendolife: 50% of comments are negative.
Youtube: 99% of comments are overwhelmingly positive

Wow, the fuse ability is a game changer! Of course they didn't even show us the new enemies (except 1) and areas. This short clip makes other such games look dated already.

Nice practice work for game making. I doubt he ever completes it.

This list is based on audience voting. I'd like to hear from that guy who said that BotW is really a 8/10 game after the honeymoon period. It seems most players rate it as the best Zelda and that can be no less than 10/10.

This game will be left on the shadow of Zelda unfortunately.

I hope I would think it's nothing but a glorified dlc. That would mean it would go way above my expectations.

@TheChief506
If weapon breaking supports exploration and the crafting system in the game, giving the player the option to just have unbreakable weapons would ruin all this gameplay.

Some kind of repair system might work, though. Or reinforcing the weapons to endure more hits. But we'll see.

You know, the comment saying TotK changes Game World might mean it changes gaming in general. Not that it would change the world of Hyrule.

This was so funny! <3 Especially that intro I suppose this is official commercial?

@HeyNavComm
Hah, keep on wishing.

@Bunkerneath
It's just one mechanic. It might not even be mandatory.

Obviously, the actual adventure part will take you to many places so that you can fight Ganondorf in the end.

@Axecon
I actually hope they wouldn't show us anything more. I want to be surprised when I play the game.

@chipia
Zelda was the first action adventure game I think. Ultima is an rpg and a very different kind of game.

@YoshiF2
I alredy wrote this: the crafting system may have ruined Banjo because they took off the adventure elements from nuts and bolts in favor of crafting.

This is not the case in Zelda. All the elements of adventure are still there. The crafting system simply deepens what was before in BotW, and probably bring new mechanics on the table.

The NES Zelda was the first open world game ever, likely. BotW was a sandbox adventure game and TotK will follow it. We won't be getting any more OOT clones. That formula was spent to the point of boredom.

The modern Zelda is all about seamless open world where you can do almost anything.

THAT is the future of the series. Otherwise games like GTA and RDR would be the leading franchises in terms of gameplay. Nintendo knows Zelda needs to be on the top and going back to old game design would ruin everything.

@YoshiF2
I come from the commodore 64 generation. You know why my grammar is bad? Because my native language is not English and I write FAST.

In any case, all my points still stand. Comparing nuts and bolts to Totk is a poor comparison which will be obvious when the game launches. If not, I'm willing to eat my words.

Oh yeah, I edited my post preceding this about why nuts and bolts ruined Banjo, and why the crafting system won't ruin Zelda. It should be obvious but anyway.

@YoshiF2
In other words you misunderstood my original post. The only thing I was mistaken was that you can't get off your vehicle, but then again that was formulated as a guess. Besides, if the hub is the only place you can move without your vehicle, it's very different from Zelda. Even if you can get off your vehicle in the levels, the structure is still very different from Zelda. As far as I know, there's not much you can do when you're not riding the vehicle.

I think its obvious from the trailer alone there won't be a separate menu screen for vehicle crafting in TotK. You can do it whenever in the overworld.

Why would this crafting system ruin Zelda? You realize Nuts and Bolts flopped because they took off the adventure aspect in favor of crafting. This will not happen in the case of Zelda. The system simply deepens stuff you can do in Hyrule.

@YoshiF2
You can build anything freely in the overworld? To me it looks like the actual building is done in a workshop screen, which is essentially a menu screen. Have I mistaken? Because that's how they do it in every video. So, can you or can you not build stuff in the overworld, out from the workshop screen?

And the overworld where you can move? What exactly can you do in that place? Collect the parts and build them in that menu screen? What other things can you do in the overworld? Are there levels in the game or not and if yes, what does the overworld have to do with it?

I haven't played the game myself but what I've seen it doesn't look like TotK at all.

Nuts and Bolts is an obscure game and everyone is comparing it to Link's new open world adventure because there is a mechanic that- on the surface- allows you to build similar contraptions. The How is likely very different, though.

I bet these comparisons are made just to bring TotK down. I saw a comment here stating "Zelda Nuts and Bolts is Goty? Laughable." or something like that, proving my suspicions.

It wouldn't be the first time Zelda series changes gaming. The original NES Zelda, OOT and BotW had previously done this. That being said, I doubt the impact will be as big this time.

The "Banjo: Nuts and Bolts"- comparisons are stupid, people. Have you guys even played that game? Go to youtube and see how it actually works. You can't build anything freely. There is no overworld where you could move. Banjo has a separate "garage" menu screen for building stuff and it's a level- based game. I don't know if you can even get off your vehicle. Tears of the Kingdom's crafting system doesn't really look similar at all.

@Uncle_Franklin
Of course they didn't settle to that. That's just a prototype layout. Even if they had used this mushroom-shaped map, it wouldn't have looked like this when completed.

What are Themes?

My order would be this:

1. Ocarina of Time Link is the only one who grows up.

2. Majora's Mask link gets depth because the npc relationships are so damn good in the game. He also gets additional "personalities" by wearing the masks.

3. Wind Waker Link is just so cute and has this childlike wonder- kind of personality.

4. Twilight Princess Link has his additional wolf persona.

5. Breath of the Wild Link has a clear backstory defining him. He's the only Link who is "mute" for a reason.

6. Link's Awakening Link's trippy quest is bittersweet.

7. Skyward Sword Link is... heroic? From this point down are the lower tiers. Most Links are mainly just proxies for the player, even though somehow Link still feels like Link in every game, and not a no-personality.

The combination of sound and image is madness- inducing.

Jim Sterling will give it a bad review because the price is slightly higher.

But for real, it's just 10 dollars. The game will probably be ahead of the competition anyway, so I see no problem with the price reflecting on that. If it was 80 or 90 dollars, now that would be a problem because the difference would be too blatant.

@Nf157
I really recommend getting at least all the party members and heroes and doing their ascensions quests so that you can get every class to lvl 20. Otherwise you may lose almost half of the actual story content and also 50% of character developments. Hurrying through the game gave many players a lacking lasting impression of the game.

Fusion has the best music out of 2d entries, imo. It's my third favorite game in the series after Prime and Dread.

Doggo Doggo Doggo

Nice to see Xenoblade 3 in top 5.
My list would look something like this:
1. Xenoblade 3
2. Zelda: Breath of the Wild
3. Metroid Prime Remastered
4. Metroid Dread
5. Monster Hunter Rise

I'm glad this game is just a spin-off and not a numbered entry. I would rate the 2d Metroids like this:
Metroid: 7/10
Metroid 2: 7.5/10
Metroid 3: 10/10
Metroid 4: 10/10
Other M: 5/10
Metroid 5 : 10/10

They need to have a launch game for the next console too. I think they may save Mario for that.

But honestly I wish the Switch would live another 5 years.

We are all too old to play these kiddy games. *goes back to play Mario

Checked every leaked page from various sites. There's more than 200 pages so don't fool yourself if you checked only from one source; it is a big leak. And it is pretty bad. It's even possible to guess certain story beats from it.

The trailers really were just scratching the surface, so Darwin award goes to those who thought the game was nothing but a BotW dlc pack.

It should've been obvious it's gonna be a new game if it takes 6 years to develop...

People complain about all rpg maker games resembling each other, but I think these 2d hd games are doing the exact same thing.

Prime may be the best game, but as far as suits go Dread is the clear winner here.

Xenoblade 3 had a perfect ending, but I'm still curious about the upcoming story dlc. It seems to be something that gives a closure to the entire trilogy. I'll probably download all the dlc when that's released.

Elderand. Everyone knows which game comes to mind from the title. Quite cheap.

Also, I'm starting to get tired of the 2d Metroidvania genre, not counting the actual Metroid and Castlevania games.

My top list

1. Metroid Prime (remastered or not)
2. Metroid Dread
3. Metroid Fusion
4. Metroid Prime 2
5. Super Metroid
6. Metroid Prime 3
7. Metroid: Samus Returns
8. Metroid: Other M
9. Metroid 2: Return of Samus
10. Metroid

@gergelyv
Nintendo leads the competition. The Switch is silent so I don't know what you're talking about. It keeps no noise at all. And the games load immediately, especially if you continue a game from sleep mode. As for the controllers, why not get a pro controller? You will never have issues with it and it's been many times rated as the best controller. But for all means, get rid of Nintendo and go play Pc games or something. We will be enjoying the best games ever in the mean time.

I'm using pro controller only so got no problems.

@gcunit
You can't just implement free saving in a game that was not designed for it. Part of the challenge comes from the save points. Death actually means something.

I mean, you can't save anytime in Dark Souls either? Did you complain about that?

One more thing about the review: it says you're unable to move while aiming when using the classic setup? That's not true. You clearly don't know how to use those controls properly. I also think most gamers who disliked the original controls didn't really even learn how to use them.

It's pain in the ass to change beams when using the dual stick setup so I think I'll be using the classic then. It's just so much easier to fly through the areas when you can change beams on the move with the right stick.

Yeah, the cartridge has more space than normally would be my bet.

You can combine twin stick controls with gyro aiming. I think the reviewer did not find the option from the settings?