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Breath of the Wild is the official subtitle for Zelda U/NX, first gameplay trailer
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I await your post in a couple months about how BotW is "the biggest disappointment of my gaming career".
This sentence is pure mango madness.
MrSaturn99
Member
Didn't care for SS or PH. Replaying TP now and I'm still not terribly fond of it, either; it's not until the third dungeon it stays at a consistent good quality, imo.
Breath of the Wild is shaping up to be everything I've wanted from Zelda. Won't surprise me in the least if it ends up being masterpiece tier alongside OOT/MM/ALTTP.
Breath of the Wild is shaping up to be everything I've wanted from Zelda. Won't surprise me in the least if it ends up being masterpiece tier alongside OOT/MM/ALTTP.
I agree, it's insane how different this is from the past few games. It's like they read all the complaints about Skyward Sword and decided to address them:
-no boring 2 hour tutorial before anything fun happens
-more difficult and complex combat
-a fully connected world that doesn't look like a theme park
-a large variety of regions
-exploration
-non linearity
-less emphasis on controller gimmicks
-tons of beautiful views
-no insulting handholding
-happiness
I hope he spends 15+ minutes just over-analyzing the map
I fucking love map analysis lolTangled Up in Blue
Banned
Truth.
TheMoon
Member
GameXlain analysis is live. Made a separate thread here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1273795
It's "only" 2 hours long.
It's "only" 2 hours long.
Truthfact
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
OMG!! He is not looking at link :O
Astral Dog
Member
i guess they went too experimental with Skyward Sword, less technical limitations definetly helped to define the direction this game was going to take.
Did you play the game on mute, or... do you just have bad taste?
Fi's Theme
The Sky
Ghirahim
Koloktos
Demise
Bamboo Isle
Sand Sea
Lanayru Harbor
It has some of the very best music in the series, and often fully orchestrated. The only complaint you could possibly make is that some of the small-scale midi music filling the gaps between the big orchestral pieces sounds a little weak in comparison.
I personally love Skyward Sword even though it has some faults. Not sure why it just seems to be getting more and more negativity over time.
For me at least, my opinion was cemented early on. I actually don't actively disliked it, but I feel like I was barraged with many of the things console Zelda had been building up to: way too much hand holding, extremely streamlined, practically non-existent overworld and those fucking annoying text messages when you pick up anything ever.
I also just simply do not like motion controls 99 percent of the time and the entire adventure was based around it.
It's a Zelda game though and since I tend to love Zelda adventures, I was still happy to see it through to completion, I just think outside of Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, it was the least memorable Zelda I've played. Even the dungeons didn't really sit right with me.
Someone people love it, more power to them. Personally, I couldn't be more excited about the route Nintendo took with Breath of the Wild though because it's hitting on all the right notes for me.
ErrorMacro
Member
I like everything we've seen thus far from this game, but one thing: the approach to music.
I understand the minimalistic approach is related to the "wilderness" theme of the game, still I can't help but miss a more traditional composition for the field. But we never know, maybe later in the game the overworld shifts to a more traditional music.
I understand the minimalistic approach is related to the "wilderness" theme of the game, still I can't help but miss a more traditional composition for the field. But we never know, maybe later in the game the overworld shifts to a more traditional music.
Yes impressionistic music annoys the crap out of me. It's like improv jazz but somehow even worse. Still, I have to applaud them for doing something differently. And I also have faith in Nintendo in this regard. If they can make big band work with a racing game to create the best OST of all time, then this deserves the benefit of the doubt.
I would imagine the music will pick up as you start meeting other people in the world (if they even exist). On the plateau, you're kind of isolated from everyone and everything besides monsters, the Old Man, and nature. Pretty quiet and serene environment otherwise as well.
TheMoon
Member
I hope you've all see this, regarding the music in BotW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHtziJgFJI
don't expect to suddenly get catchy tunes again later in the game.
don't expect to suddenly get catchy tunes again later in the game.
I'm a little concerned about the soundtracks' minimalism as well. I'm hoping that we get some memorable themes at various points throughout the adventure.
I can't speak for the other poster, but while those tracks are aces, there is a lot of filler that's fairly mediocre. And sadly, those are the tracks you are hearing a majority of the time, because they are the overworld themes for the various zones/dungeons/etc.
I can't speak for the other poster, but while those tracks are aces, there is a lot of filler that's fairly mediocre. And sadly, those are the tracks you are hearing a majority of the time, because they are the overworld themes for the various zones/dungeons/etc.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Never been much of a Zelda fan, a Nintendo fan yes but Zelda I usually take or leave. I am really liking what I have seen of this game though, looks excellent.
Im not concerned about the minimalism. I sometimes find myself a tad bit annoyed by repetitious tracks in extended play sessions in some Zeldas... Then there's Shadow of the Colossus which had an AMAZING sound track that was used sparingly in favor of atmospheric soundscapes for the large majority of the time.
OMG!! He is not looking at link :O
Oh wow he really isn't.
What is he aiming at?
Huge Succeeded
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the only acceptable Zelda games to link to under that phrase are on the CD-i. everything else is just factually wrong.
I know we've had our disagreements in the past Moon but... they all pale in comparison to this one, Phantom Hourglass is a steaming pile, I'll fite anyone who disagrees IRL m8
When you throw the Master Sword it'll just shoot a beam instead :3
I know we've had our disagreements in the past Moon but... they all pale in comparison to this one, Spirit Tracks is a steaming pile, I'll fite anyone who disagrees IRL m8
Spirit Tracks is the best DS Zelda. And it's damn memorable, at least to me.
OMG!! He is not looking at link :O
Yeah even the GameXplain video mentions that. Now I'm intrigued to know what could be more important than Link on that moment... HYPE!
Dark Cloud
Member
I really do love everything about this game.
I honestly think Skyward was the most fun to play 3D Zelda, loved the combat, some of my favourite dungeons and bosses in the entire series, Ancient Cistern might be the best dungeon of them all.
Koloktos is so good, easy to tell it's a Yokota track as well, it's very Mario Galaxy'esque. While I really love the minimalistic approach for Breath of the Wild, I do hope we get at least one huge bombastic orchestral track for the final battle.
Yeah, what happens is at the end of that cutscene is most likely it making a hasty look down, and discovers Link, gets ready and charges its laser and then an off screen NPC fires one of the tech-arrows and disables it. Then we get some Guardian exposition on how they've been corrupted by Calamity Ganon's presence and how Link must use a Sheikah Arrow to disable them. I'm 99.9% certain that's what'll happen.
Koloktos is so good, easy to tell it's a Yokota track as well, it's very Mario Galaxy'esque. While I really love the minimalistic approach for Breath of the Wild, I do hope we get at least one huge bombastic orchestral track for the final battle.
Yeah, what happens is at the end of that cutscene is most likely it making a hasty look down, and discovers Link, gets ready and charges its laser and then an off screen NPC fires one of the tech-arrows and disables it. Then we get some Guardian exposition on how they've been corrupted by Calamity Ganon's presence and how Link must use a Sheikah Arrow to disable them. I'm 99.9% certain that's what'll happen
.Looks like the Guardians are protecting Link, not fighting him.
Something like this feels like it would deserve a thread just because of all the cool music theory here.
Huge Succeeded
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Well, the 2 on the ground are dead, so we can't say they were helping Link, and the one that's active is being controlled by Ganon so it's definitely not protecting Link.
Remember, guys, that it doesn't have to tilt its head to see or to fire its laser up or down. The stationary one at E3 couldn't tilt its head up or down at all and was still capable of seeing and blasting Link at any angle. So just because the one in the trailer isn't "looking down" doesn't mean it's not looking at and preparing to fire at Link.
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
Although it's near impossible due to how Skyward Sword plays out but I'd much rather have Lord Ghirahim return than another new villain.
Ghirahim was literally just a pawn of Demise, having even less individual power and agency than Zant. There's no way I can see him as a legitimate villain.
A boss, probably.
Personally, my hope is that
Zelda is some kind of old woman who can only speak through telepathy, which is why she sounds younger than one would at 100+ years old.
ReyVGM
Member
I know we've had our disagreements in the past Moon but... they all pale in comparison to this one, Phantom Hourglass is a steaming pile, I'll fite anyone who disagrees IRL m8
Correction:
Phantom Hourglass' Temple of the Ocean King is a steaming pile, and that's what killed the game for me.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Cyber-magic ninja Impa
That clip is from a scene where she single-handedly dispatches a group of guardians with her cyber-magic sword
Ah, the Temple of the Ocean King. Just played PH last year and was awed by its tight design and clever use of repetition to keep you coming back and finding new ways to stealthily traverse the floors, dispatch the guards ans find new hidden treasures. Some neat little puzzles in there, too. Along with the Silent Realm in Skyward, the best use of stealth in the Zelda series.
I kind of liked Temple of the Oven King, it was satisfying to speed through the old areas with your new items. Still, Spirit Tracks had the better phantom dungeons. PH suffered from bland music and visuals + boring overworld design, while Spirit Track's train travel got aggravating quickly.
He was working for Demise, but he still had a ton of personality.
Look at something like The Matrix. Agent Smith was just a program pawn of The Matrix, but after being separated from The Matrix he went nuts and became a villain of his own merit.
I think Ghirahim has potential to return. He was a computer program inside a sword that was an anti-Master Sword; the antithesis of Fi and the Master Sword. Ghirahim is the biggest mystery of Skyward Sword that is never explained. We know why the Master Sword was created; it was commissioned by the Goddesses as a countermeasure to the Triforce. I'd like to know more about this anti-Master Sword.
While the anti-Master Sword evaporated at the end of Skyward Sword, that doesn't necessarily mean we've seen the last of it. Demise evaporated afterwards as well and then was sealed inside the Master Sword, so it's possible Ghirarhim was, too.
If Ghirahim returned, they could have him go mad from having failed his master or they could have him serving a new master.
I watched the trailer countless of times and it is until now that I notice that the Guardian actually move the rest of the guardians broken parts in which he puts his legs AND when this happen the legs adjust in a way that avoids moving the main body too much.
GAWD.