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@shgamer there's no way Nintendo will announce the Switch 2 until after the holidays. Much better to have a big final push on Switch sales with Mario Wonder and perhaps a small price drop and then announce the Switch successor in the new year. If they announce the system before thanksgiving and xmas it will 100% negatively impact their busiest sales period.

@Clyde_Radcliffe yes exactly this. I never really liked his Mario voice as it was nothing like what I expected after loving the original nes and snes games. Wario on the other hand...

I remember distinctly really, really wanting to play this game when it first came out (I think I wanted anything that might be a similar experience to ALttP) but for some reason never got the game in the end - this still annoys me to this day.

@WhiteTrashGuy they're coming out on the same day?! Surprised the media hasn't made more of a fuss over that. Could be an Oasis v Blur type moment haha

@Ainze thanks for the heads up on both accounts!

Also, do these games suffer from the annoying and constant needing to switch items on the Gameboy's two buttons like the original Links Awakening did?

I played through the original LA twice and never completed it because that was so painful for me. Only finally completed it when it was remade for Switch and they fixed that particular issue.

One of these is puzzle based and one combat based, right?

Show me the way to the puzzle one 🙏

@ATaco yeah it's weird huh? Just found the whole thing extremely repetitive, like there's basically no variety, especially compared to what's out there on the ground layer. Think I have completed about 25-30% of the underground and just have no calling to go back

@koffing 100% agreed

@koffing Very true. However there are a lot of people on this site who would argue with your reasoning.

At 130+ hours in and guessing 90-95% of the story complete (Im close to completing the final regional phenomenon) I'm not ashamed to say that I've just started using the OG duplication glitch here and there (I stopped the game from autoupdating when I heard about the first wave of patches).

At this point in pretty much any game Id expect to be powered up to the max and not have to worry about running out of certain items, but this is clearly not the case.

My main bother with this is Zonite - throughout my entire playthrough I've held off building wild and wonderful contraptions as I didn't want to waste my devices etc.

I want to be free of that now. In a game with almost unlimited creativity options, I don't want to be limited by resources this late into the game.

Plus the depths are (imo) not that interesting and I have already spent hours upon hours mining for zonite and picking flower bombs etc - I'm so done with it.

Haven't I earnt the right to just have fun with the game at this stage?

@Bobb.. and also backwards somersaults, since I assume the cartoon predates OoT?

@Bobb yeah that took me by surprise also. Not to mention shield parrying

Although I concede that it might take some of the fun out of it, isn't this exactly the type of problem that we would now look towards AI to solve?

"Of course, zooming in on every frame is not how I will actually experience the game" - do we actually know that it won't zoom in during gameplay? The way the trailer presented made me think that this is exactly what would happen during gameplay, and I can't say I'm a fan if this is the case.

@RubyCarbuncle hey my guy, I didn't mean for my comments to come across as an attack on which games you enjoy or not, apologies if it did come across this way. You're free to have your own opinion, as is everyone else.

I can't speak for "everybody else here" but my comments were merely a genuine interest as to why someone would play a game for 160 hours (almost a solid week) when they didn't like the game they were playing. I guess an analogy would be if someone went into a restaurant, ate a huge plate of food and when they were done licking the plate, said to their waiter "I didn't like that".

Case in point; having never played a Pokemon game before, I got on the hype train and purchased Legends: Arceus when it launched - after 12 or so hours of play I realised it just wasn't for me, so I stopped playing and sold the game - no harm, no foul.

You can still sell TotK and probably make 90-95% of your money back, but there's nothing you can do to get back that week of your life that you spent not enjoying a videogame.

@KateGray nice to see you've returned!

@RubyCarbuncle I asked because you seemed annoyed that the game only entertained you for 160+ hours, like it wasn't enough. If you weren't enjoying yourself for the majority of the time, why did you play for so long?

@RubyCarbuncle do most games you buy generally keep you occupied for 160 hours+? Genuinely interested. I would say most AAA games keep me occupied for 45 hours at absolute max and with that, I'm usually pretty satisfied that I've got my money's worth

Have to admit that I bought into this rumour, mainly because I wanted a new Star Fox game so badly. That being said, the moment they showed the racing mode in the Battle for Atlas DLC, I gave up on any hopes on Star Fox Grand Prix being real.

@belmont ah okay fair enough! Thanks for the response

@belmont with the GG / Amy stuff locked behind a code, does that mean that before you download the extra content there's no mention of the GG games on the title screens etc.? Personally, I'd rather just pretend that those games aren't available in the collection at all and be treated to a cleaner title screen

I have the same experience whenever I happen to log into Facebook

@dkxcalibur there's something weird going on with the pictures. On the page they look fine but if you click on them you can see where they've been crudely cut out from their background (giving a MS paint vibe). Not sure what's going on there

Looks great, but why now?

Could Nintendolife please avoid putting images of custom vehicles/contraptions as the main image for articles? At some point I'm sure I'll very much enjoy checking out what others have made during their time in Hyrule, but for now (and certainly until I've at least beaten the main quest) I'd rather have that feeling that I've come up with the creations myself and not had to rely on the Internet for inspiration (not trying to be snarky but that feeling of personal creativity is a big part of the enjoyment factor for me, which this type of article seems intent on destroying). Thanks in advance

Honestly, it feel like I might be playing Totk for the rest of the year. Had some vauge plans to play Jedi: Survivor, Sonic Origins and Spider-Man 2 when it releases later this year, but will very likely pick all of these up at Christmas and play them next year at this rate

My nephew who's five already has some standard crocs that are covered in Sonic and Mario "Jibbitz". Think this kind of thing is pretty popular for kids around that age bracket so it seems they know their target market well.

Yeesssss! This is my guy! I can't tell you of the constant source of amusement I get from being berated by him when my madcap contraptions fail to keep his sign from falling to the ground <3

If it's done by Illumination my guess is that it would be based around toon-Link from WW/PH/ST/Smash - BotW/TotK Link wouldn't really work with their art-style. I'd rather a different studio tackled it however of course.

hype-levels @ 100,000,000,000,000!!!!

Would love to hear some news on Ex-Zodiac or The Plucky Squire. Maybe some new Mina The Hollower footage will be shown?

fyi UK-based folks - you can pre-order TotK from Curry's for £45 right now using discount code ZELDA25

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/nintendo-switch-the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-10248678.html

prediction: the trailer will show off NSO functionality which will allow players to buy and sell ultrahand creations via Beedle's shops using in-game currency

Lol. "Miyamoto thinks Mario is shady, moonlighting as a fake doctor" would have been an excellent April fools joke

@antdickens amazing! Thanks for responding to my comment, I might well stump up the cash anyway in that case

I'm tempted too - I do visit the site quite regularly (and pushsquare and even a bit of purexbox).

If you could offer paying subscribers a custom feed view based on the topics they follow then I'd join in a heart-beat, I couldn't care less about things like Amiibo, first 4 figures or Pokemon but have to scroll through a lot of junk to get to the stuff I'm actually interested in, so that would easily be worth the extra cost

Do we know if this unknown Giuseppe character and Mario's Dad aren't the same person?

Still hoping Whoopi Goldberg gets confirmed as the voice of Yoshi

okay, one more (I know, I need to get a life here) - I imagine that you'll be able to fuse different abilities to your clothes as we've seen with arrows in the walkthrough. This means all the boring stuff like fusing water-ChuChu's with your outfit to protect yourself from heat/fire and fire-ChuChu's to keep yourself warm in cold climates, but could also have many other ramifications such as fusing ice-ChuChus to make your outfit slippery and able to "skate" on various surfaces, fusing other types of ChuChus to make yourself stick or bounce of objects, fusing boots with metal to allow Link to walk on the ocean floor etc. etc. Talking of oceans - I'm also guessing from the swimming animation used when Link is using the ascend ability, that underwater exploration is going to be a thing in this game, opening up the world even more

Maybe we'll be able to pick up paddle-wheels as an item in addition to the wheels and fans and use them to create things like steam-trains and steam-boats?

I wonder if we will be able to fuse things to walls? Like building a platform on the side of a cliff or something and then being able to use the ascend ability to jump straight up there

Another possibility is that the skills/items that you pick up through completing dungeons or other tasks could add to your crafting abilities. Imagine picking up skills that allows you to reverse the direction of the fans and wheels, or control the amount of power given to them for accurate control over these items?

Then we could have even deeper crafting tools like being able to turn metal items magnetic and with the ability to switch the polarity or switch them on/off through the use of electricity.

Maybe eventually we could even be granted a power that would allow us to give autonomy to our creations, so we can create things like the huge box-golem we saw in the previous trailer?

What if.. the NSO functionality that was discovered on Reddit a few months back will allow players to share the vehicles and creations they have made with other players through shops dotted around the land?

Then players who like focusing on crafting, can design/build lots of different vehicles, weapons, tools etc. and through that generate in game currency from sales of their designs, while players who just want to focus on exploration can use their hard-earned rupees to buy cool stuff.

Imagine seeing an awesome mech someone has designed using Guardian legs and other items and just being able to straight up buy it without needing to gather the various resources if you've got the funds? The possibilities would be truly endless!

I also hope that various combinations of items (along with food) will be able to be saved as "recipes" - allowing players to quickly built more complex designs on the fly

okay so many thoughts here, I kinda hope that in addition to the open-world building of items that there's a more-in-depth building view that allows players to easily build bigger and more complex items.

I think that might have been what they were alluding to in the previous trailer where Link was surrounded by Guardian tentacles in a seemly Sheikah-built location.

disappointed that I'm too weak-willed to skip on watching this

@Would_you_kindly you may already be aware but if not; you can connect the classic controllers to your Switch using this adapter:

https://shop.8bitdo.com/products/8bitdo-gbros-wireless-adapter-for-nes-snes-sf-c-classic-edition-wii-classic-for-nintendo-switch-gamecube

EDIT: Sorry I just realised that your post is almost 2 years old, sure you've probably worked this out by now!

Not heard of XEVIOUS before but recognize the music from this:
https://youtu.be/dos5Bm4eIg4

"I was introduced to this game I knew very little about in the past by none other than our very own Jon Cartwright" - sadly this is no longer true