Azure Dream
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I'm going to guess the price is wrong, and that it's not going to launch at that. $60 is way too much unless they're doing massive, massive work on completely redoing the game. And all signs so far point to this not being the case. Wind Waker might be a fantastic game, but it's still a game they developed for GameCube, over 10 years ago.
If people made a fuss about EarthBound being $2 more (when there's lots of potential reasons why they yanked up the price besides greed), they sure as hell better make that same fuss if Nintendo tries to market an "HD Remaster" of a single 10 year old game at premium price. Even if they go back and redraw some of the textures, improve the models, and so on. Which so far, we haven't actually seen.
If you want to preview it and do have a 3DS, I converted someone's (unfortunately non-widescreen) stereo screenshots to 3DS format a while back. Just scan this link with the 3DS's camera and it'll take you there:
If people made a fuss about EarthBound being $2 more (when there's lots of potential reasons why they yanked up the price besides greed), they sure as hell better make that same fuss if Nintendo tries to market an "HD Remaster" of a single 10 year old game at premium price. Even if they go back and redraw some of the textures, improve the models, and so on. Which so far, we haven't actually seen.
Not only that, if you have the equipment for it, you can view the game in full stereoscopic 3D, which the Wii U doesn't officially support. (No reason it couldn't beside Nintendo being stubborn about the 3DS 3D being "superior".)Not too noticeable, although the heat wave effect is still glitchy.
I actually play TWW on the Devolution homebrew loader for Wii with widescreen enabled, and it's glorious, enough to keep me patient for the HD remake.
If you want to preview it and do have a 3DS, I converted someone's (unfortunately non-widescreen) stereo screenshots to 3DS format a while back. Just scan this link with the 3DS's camera and it'll take you there: