Sound guess. 6th it is then (as it's the US date that's missing). October 4 is already confirmed for EU.
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Special Edition Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD Wii U confirmed [Hero Mode trailer]
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Sound guess. 6th it is then (as it's the US date that's missing). October 4 is already confirmed for EU.
One of the God of War collections had that game directors live thing that was the directors of all the games talking and answering questions. The Team Ico Collection had themes for the PS3 and tons of behind the scenes videos including footage from The Last Guardian. Sly Collection had a set of four Playstation Move minigames. Those were actually some of the best HD remakes.
Better examples of lazy Sony HD ports would be the Jak Collection or the Ratchet and Clank Collection.
Glorified G
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None of those games were charged full price. This is
GrotesqueBeauty
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Eh, hero mode reminds me of Metroid Zero Mission, where easy is insulting, normal is too easy, and hard mode overcompensates for the cake walk they subject you to first. WW definitely threw way, way too many hearts at you, but they should balance the frequency with which they appear, not ditch them altogether. Enemies doing twice the damage is a fine start, but they could have just cut the three heart drops and halved or quartered how often hearts dropped overall. But no, it's all or nothing.
This seems to be Nintendo's solution to any criticism about their games being too easy. Offer baby mode or fuck you mode. Kinda bummed that this WW is only going halfway to address the problems with the game. Even when they acknowledge the shortcomings of the original product the solutions are clumsy or inadequate. We'll speed up the boat for pacing (a good thing), but won't throw in a handful of mini dungeons where the game is clearly lacking content. And that would be fine if it was priced like a normal HD remake, but they're charging full price for band-aid solutions to a game that the director has openly acknowledged was left unfinished. Kinda weak imo. I will pick it up eventually, but it's sort of at the bottom of my priority list. Maybe next year after a price drop...
This seems to be Nintendo's solution to any criticism about their games being too easy. Offer baby mode or fuck you mode. Kinda bummed that this WW is only going halfway to address the problems with the game. Even when they acknowledge the shortcomings of the original product the solutions are clumsy or inadequate. We'll speed up the boat for pacing (a good thing), but won't throw in a handful of mini dungeons where the game is clearly lacking content. And that would be fine if it was priced like a normal HD remake, but they're charging full price for band-aid solutions to a game that the director has openly acknowledged was left unfinished. Kinda weak imo. I will pick it up eventually, but it's sort of at the bottom of my priority list. Maybe next year after a price drop...
Agreed. Anyone could create their own hero mode in a Zelda game. It's called a 3 heart run.
I wish they could have taken the effort to actually remix the dungeons ala OOT Master Quest, or at the VERY least changed the enemy placement around in Hero Mode to make it harder.
TheCongressman1
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This.
Early adopters aren't fucked over unless they are stupid. Early adopters get to play with the latest and greatest first but also get a ton of incentives like 10 NES and 10 GBA games for the 3DS as well as a crap load of other free games and sales to take advantage of. I've got a load of free retail and eShop games on my 3DS since launch thanks to NoE.
Wii U got the 30p Virtual Console games, and early adopters got to play with the Wii U first. And since I was extra smart I got my deluxe Wii U for £180 day one. Why would I be upset with a bundle a year later? I got my monies worth out of my Wii U already.
lwilliams3
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Actually, there were already a few mini-dungeons in the original game. Due to the long time sailing and the money grinding, though, they felt far inbetween and were likely underappreciated. We also don't know if they have made other changes besides the ones they announced.
Honestly, having no heart drops is probably a good way to go considering that the game did have an interesting potion system that most people didn't bother to use unless they were doing the bonus dungeon. When we consider things like that, I believe there was a focus on balancing the game so that people will actually use and appricate the features that the original already had.
IrishNinja
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might try hero mode...but man i want that controller now, maybe ill get a decent decal later or something.
actually i'd dig a zelda 3DS XL model already, loved my OG one but i can't go back
actually i'd dig a zelda 3DS XL model already, loved my OG one but i can't go back
Sorta Maximus
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I for one like the Wii U Zelda bundle golden art. I like it better than the 3DS Zelda art.
You can't do a completionist three heart run.
I've often felt that hearts shouldn't be findable in the environment. It's the only way potions will ever matter, and it makes finding and collecting bottles more useful.
Sorta Maximus
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I like the hard mode. And me doing my own hard mode works just as well as cookies on the top shelf. If they are in the house I'm eating cookies.
Azure Dream
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Maybe the pack-in copy is a digital code, and the bundle is more likely to hit store shelves before the retail disc?
Am I blind, or has there not been a thread about the North American release date? October 4, just like Europe
http://www.nintendonews.com/wii-u/nintendo-celebrates-wii-us-wind-waker-hd-with-epic-concert-event/
http://www.nintendonews.com/wii-u/nintendo-celebrates-wii-us-wind-waker-hd-with-epic-concert-event/
Wow! How is this fucking early adopters? The way you are going off, you would think there were never any SE 360s or PS3s. Yep, it's just Nintendo. Maybe, just maybe, they waited to release the Zelda SE console at the same time as the game it celebrates.
Awesome. Was expecting a 2-3 week delay from europe. Kinda odd, since when does NOA release games on Friday? Hopefully it's a trend, Sundays suck for amazon etc.
Black Republican
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I already have a cheap wii u basic but ireally want the zelda bundle now lol. I got two purchase downloads on my wii u already (mother & nsmb) am I screwed? 
plus I can take advantage of the digital points deal.
plus I can take advantage of the digital points deal.I already have a cheap wii u basic but ireally want the zelda bundle now lol. I got two purchase downloads on my wii u already (mother & nsmb) am I screwed?
yes, you're screwed. You could maybe copy your Earthbound and Mario saves... maybe? But yeah, the license is gone if you move to another WiiU
I already have a cheap wii u basic but ireally want the zelda bundle now lol. I got two purchase downloads on my wii u already (mother & nsmb) am I screwed?
What you need to do instead of going on a messageboard is ring up Nintendo's customer service and say that you want to upgrade and ask if they could help you out (hoping they might give you eShop funds or something). It's not a guarantee but as we have heard multiple times ...if YOU are nice, maybe THEY are nice to you too.
Until they introduce updated, transferrable accounts that's how it is.
I already have a cheap wii u basic but ireally want the zelda bundle now lol. I got two purchase downloads on my wii u already (mother & nsmb) am I screwed?
You can buy the Zelda Wii U, keep the new gamepad since that's the only thing special about it, and gift the new Wii U and your old gamepad to someone else or sell them.
I heard that the upcoming summer update will add system transfer and it would make sense to launch with the new Zelda Wii U - so hopefully that happens. One of the guys over at Kotaku implied that would happen when I asked on Twitter about it.
nobody knows WHEN it's coming. it's all rumormill stuff. we know Nintendo is working on features like that but we don't know if they'll be in the "summer" (fall) update.