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@Cia in your OP you didn’t say “you can build inside the levels” or “freely in the overworld”
You said “you can’t build anything freely” … which isn’t true.

Also, if there’s a building system in TotK there will obviously be a different menu to do that, akin to that BK garage. But that’s not the point. The comparisons come because there shouldn’t be this vehicle building stuff in a franchise where there wasn’t none before. Just like BK Bolts and Nuts. It ruined what Banjo Kazooie was before and people are afraid it will happen the same with Zelda.

Maybe you weren’t around when BK Bolts and Nuts released, but it ruined the IP to a point where it’s still asleep after almost 15 years. And that’s why people complain about that stuff.

Also, in Bolts and Nuts… In the overworld you can drive and move with or without your vehicle. The overworld is a HUB … or a really huge level, where you can get to the other worlds. Just like Mario 64’s castle.

@Cia “have you guys even played that game?” … immediately goes to say:
“I don’t know if you can even get off your vehicle”
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To answer your questions,
-yes… you can get off your vehicle.
-Yes, there is an overworld where you can move
-Yes, you could build anything freely

The comparisons are valid, as they are OBVIOUSLY, comparing only the “vehicle building” aspect of TotK because it feels out of place (just like it felt in a BK game)… not the whole game itself… as it’s OBVIOUSLY not a carbon copy of Nuts & Bolts

It’s starting to sound more like a Nuts & Bolts Minecraft and I don’t like a single bit of that idea. Not for Zelda.

Next week do OG Resident Evil 4

I’ll definitely get it as I trust everything that purely Platinum develops. However this is a busy month, going through Theatrhythm, Metroid Prime, Fatal Frame, then RE4 Remake… and then Bayonetta.

But I will as I’m a Bayonetta fan all the way

I'm curious about what Computer Space really is about.

I wish they add FF16 songs when the time comes on the impending release this June. Would be great to feel like it’s a celebration to all Final Fantasies up to date.

That would have been great if there was an actual track … that’s just the Ocarina of Time map with racers on it … it was a fun watch though ….

Great... the same ones you can find in the Smash line ..... Bring back the Boo, Wario, Koopa and Goomba amiibo!

Gotta say … I love this little game

One of the best games on the 3DS… it surely is among my top 50 games of all time.

It’s time for a new game on Switch!!!

Theatrhythm Final Bar …. Bought the premium deluxe … over 550 songs with 3+ difficulties each … oomph got content for quite a while.

There’s a unique satisfaction to completing each song on the hardest difficulty that you can’t find in many games anymore. Totally worth the price.

Pokémon Excel … teaching you how to crush your adult dreams

@GreenNinja500 when you have games like Xenoblade it’s OBVIOUS that Scarlet/Violet’s development was to blame, not the power of the hardware 😆

This month is surely packed!
I’m just gaining the wallet strength to buy Theatrhythm Final Bar and this just happens
-Bayonetta
-Fatal Frame
-Metroid
-Resident Evil 4

And I’m going to buy RE8 DLC too!
When am I gonna find time to play all this!!!

Great game ... and Im not a big Tower Defense fan .... but the unique gameplay with the WiiU. That and Nintendoland, even Fatal Frame. Still love my WiiU.

@TheDragonDAFan that is the concept of a game. For it to be a game there are a set of rules the developers choose to for it to be on par with the experience they are looking for.
Not a single game is completely free for you to do whatever you want to do, if so that is not a game. Even a sandbox has a set of rules.

That’s like complaining why doesn’t Resident Evil have infinite ammo from the start? "Why do they care how I want to play the game?"
Yes, you can do it eventually after you finish the game (in Pokemon's case, after a certain period of time) ... but NEVER from the get-go as it would ruin the experience they designed for Resident Evil. And that's only one example which can be applied to EVERY game in existence.

And that’s their reasoning, not mine, but I do understand where they come from. When you also have online play in the mix, I can see why they choose to add Home support after a while.

People miss the point that they deliberately wait to add Home support a few months because they argue that you would be transfering your whole Pokedex from the get-go ... thus missing the whole point of the game in the first place and breaking the experience.

@Tempestryke I don’t remember Spirit Tracks having the Master Sword… I think it was the Lokomo Sword.

And the Oracle of Seasons/Ages … well technically you are correct about that one.

So the total of games is actually 8 out of 16.

In PH it was the Phantom Sword.

Just buy it from Amazon Japan people, don’t feed the scalpers. This problem exists because people keep buying from them.

What is more surprising, that I never realized as a huge Zelda fan, is the fact that the Master Sword has only appeared in 6 out of 18 main games

Gotta agree with @Bobb … I despise Minecraft with a passion but, as another Megaman X fan, THAT DLC looks amazing.

Great! The first two were awesome and addictive fun

@Gerudo_Guy ok man. And I didn’t mean that I didn’t want to discuss it. I meant that everyone should be credited for their work, but let’s not go in circles. I agree it’s the healthy thing. Good luck with the kid and take care 👍

@Gerudo_Guy so you don’t share the opinion that this could be easily solved with skippable credits including the OG team AFTER the remaster team?

Don’t you think that is just being a contrarian just for the sake of it?

What I mean that there’s no room for discussion is that everyone should be credited for with their names. Not a “general sense”. As an animator myself I would be really pissed if I see the exact same animations I DID in the game that they are using right now and I’m not being credited for, be it 2, 10 or 50 years down the line.

That’s the concept of credits in the creative industry.

If your work is timeless, then it should be recognized as such.

@Snatcher yeah, I’m in the same boat. Waiting for the physical edition. But you’ll enjoy a lot out of your first experience with a Metroid Prime entry rather than the 10th time with a Pokémon title.

@Gerudo_Guy they can have the spotlight by being first in the credits …. Nothing stops anybody to put the original credits too after the remaster’s team. That’s usually the way it goes in remasters.
There’s no room for discussion. Putting something as skippable credits for the OG team doesn’t mean much for you or for me, but it’s a whole difference for the teams involved.

@Snatcher definitely Metroid Prime. It’s one of the best games ever made. It’s cheaper, looks better and the Pokémon experience is largely the same.

Metroid Prime is unique, you won’t find something like it somewhere else.

@Gerudo_Guy the comparison is exactly the same. An update by someone else over someone else’s work and then just crediting the “Nintendolife team” in the “general sense” as you put it. 🤦‍♂️

And it’s a basic example, because it seems people doesn’t understand the basic concept of what credits are for.

@Gerudo_Guy hey, maybe whoever wrote the update to this article should put his/her name instead of the original author of the original article.

And then put “This article was originally brought to you by the “Nintendolife team”

LOL … yeah, that’s not how things work.

@Rika_Yoshitake “No original assets remain”……no? And what about level design? Creature design? Sound design? Character design? Animators, Illustrators, coders, and a looooooooooooooong etcetera that is the base of the game. That’s basically the whole game in which the new team used a fresh coat of paint.

People keep forgetting this is a remaster… not a remake.

If I just paint over blue eyes to the Mona Lisa… should I just put my signature on it, claim it as mine and then say “thanks to the original author whoever he may be”?

No new console until 2025 Nintendo… play the long game, play the winning game

@Serpenterror what are you talking about? All those games you mentioned have a section in the credits for the original team. Resident Evil 2 & 3 don’t count as they are remakes, completely different games than the OG.

@B3RTAY you’re missing the point. Credits are not for you or the gamer to see or enjoy. It’s the mark for the developers to say “hey, I did this” and further down the line prove they were part of a project for future jobs.
You are completely missing the point about WHAT are credits.
Also, yes, the original team should be acknowledged, each and every one of them, because they were the designers and programmers that actually DID the whole game. The other studio worked on the painted canvas they already did before.

I REALLY don’t believe you work as an illustrator because you would know this, as it is the most BASIC thing in the design industry. And I’m saying this as an experienced digital designer with more than 15 years in the industry.

@SalvorHardin whaaaat? Pikmin is one of Nintendo’s greatest IPs.
It cemented Nintendo’s exploration and discovery for new IP after the 64 era.
If it wasn’t for this game you would still be playing only Marios and Zeldas.

Also, Pikmin 3 is a beast of creative video game design. It’s a really fun game.

@CazSonOfCaz you can’t be serious. Beamos are turrets with giant eyes … Armos are giant armored statues that come alive…. it totally fit with the weirdness of alternate fantasy themes. And besides ONE or TWO singles enemies are ok. You can’t compare that with Link riding motorcycles, flying on drones and traversing on giant cars. It doesn’t go with the theme.
Horses and beasts are ok, the ocasional enemy is ok, even the balloon fits the theme, but come on… what’s next… spaceships?
We don’t play Zelda for that kind of stuff.

I’ll leave the analysis of Indiana Jones for another time.

Btw, Armos are stated to have once been human soldiers that were turned to stone in the original game’s manual…. So that point is moot.
Beamos are like the predecessor of the Guardians… which nobody is complaining about them… they still fit.

@LikeWhoa meh... to be honest if I wanted to play those fan made games I'd play them on my computer.
What I DO want is to have the games as they were released. It's a retro app. Why would I want something colored by random fans?

I want the original games as they are. That's the point.

@smh yeah... and that doesn't mean they should have ... if that is the case then there's a reason they didn't do it for 25 years... because it was a ludicrous concept at the time as much as it is now.

It's tone-breaking .... its exactly the type of thing that the writers did with Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ...... aliens. Imagine if suddenly Indy finds a lightsaber and starts piloting spaceships. Will it still be an Indiana Jones movie or something else?

@FishyS get into a family plan with a group of 8 people and pay just $1 a month

@Uncle_Franklin agree... it was passable and an exception because it was an optional DLC, which, by design its understandable that you want to bring an extra oomph to justify the existence of the DLC.

But this modern type Zelda is not the reason I play Zelda in the first place and I know all the Zelda fans pre-BotW don't either.

This was an escapism from all those GTAs, FPS, modern settings we have all throughout gaming.

Keep Zelda exclusively to an alternate world unique old-fantasy setting.
And ffs ... get rid of the runes (or keep them, but don't let the game focus solely on the rune system all over again) ... we want creative unique items back.

For such an amazing experience that BotW was upon release... I think it did hurt the series more than it has benefitted it.

I've played every Zelda since its release on the NES and I still can't get why I'm really not feeling this Zelda. It looks samey...

Not feeling the hype at all for the first time in my beloved Zelda series :/

And is it just me... but I don't think vehicles are suitable to the style of what Zelda is supposed to be or play.... a motorcycle was weird enough in the BotW DLC ... it's supposed to be a fantasy setting ... not this kind of weird modern-fantasy pseudo alien-steampunk style they keep trying to push...

Also, change the voice actors ffs .... or get rid of the voice acting. They sound really forced in their roles, it doesn't sound like a person is speaking naturally ... ALL OF THEM.... specially Zelda, Mipha and Daruk .......... and now it seems Ganondorf too.

*sigh ... disgruntedly clicks pre-order

This year will be the year for a new FZero if the rumors are real. I think we will finally be getting WindWaker and Twilight Princess revealed for the second half of the year.
Pikmin 4 releasing soon is also a rumor floating around.
The only mystery now is Metroid Prime 4.
Advance Wars seems likely to release in these couple of months according to yet other rumors.
Also the third Xenoblade DLC releasing at the end of February surely.

@Ade117 there was never a Star Fox for Wii.

We need unique items… get rid of the runes

Ohhh is that the ugly Deku Tree which doesn’t look like a tree at all? That only has like three leaves in its canopy?

@MSaturn yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I realized it was the same map when I replied to you. "Maybe it didn't feel that bad because it was decades later"

I sincerely hope they give us a new map. Monolith Soft are really good at making landscapes feel unique and it would be wasted potential just to reuse the same map and not ask them again to make a beautiful world.

I'm genuinely worried about Totk, because, well, at least ALBW was a 20 hour game with the same map... I REALLY don't want to explore a 150 hour map twice tbh.

I do like much more a more focused Zelda experience like pre-BotW .... wish they can hit a sweet spot between old Zeldas and new.

@MSaturn wrong… A Link between worlds actually reused A Link to the Past map :/

@croz at the end that’s an opinion not suitable as a valid argument. Fundamentally, yes, you’re wrong since this one has more content than the last, which was your initial argument.

@croz sorry but you’re wrong.
The original game had 77 songs
The sequel had 221 songs (which is a 144 increase)
The third game will have 385 songs (which is an 164 increase)

So, no, it’s not “less content” it’s actually more content than the sequel gave us initially coming from the original. It’s an actual improvement in added content for the third game.

I loved the first two entries on the 3DS ... this will be amazing. But the lack of touchscreen controls worries me.

Hope they add more than the usual tracks from other IPs other than Final Fantasy as they are usually good and a great palette cleanser after hearing lots and lots of FF songs after a while.

And 10 years have passed since the second one????!!!! -_-