I think we saw it in the Life in the Ruins trailer too.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Launch trailer, JP boxart, March 3, 2017
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I think we saw it in the Life in the Ruins trailer too.
FloweryMarston
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Exactly, the lightining i didn't actually notice any changes until pointed out, while other changes felt much more clearer to me, from the textures to some stutters that the game had before. There's also some more details added like squirrels in trees at the start of the game, etc.
Deckard Chapel
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I need to see some retail build footage of shrines to really see if the lighting is good. We're going to be spending a lot of time in those, so I hope the lighting is appropriate.
OrbitalBeard
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Shrine gameplay from the Switch version
It's brighter than shrines in the Wii U E3 demo, but I actually think it looks fine. Certainly better than the opening cave.
To note: The version most people played during these events is not the retail version. Here's a video of the retail version on Switch, commented by Aonuma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSr4Nmk_OM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSr4Nmk_OM
Lord Ghirahim
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No, I still need to finish TPHD, get a new monitor, new headphones, figure out where to buy the amiibo etc
I need February.
OrbitalBeard
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The video I linked to is not the event demo. It was a hands-off demonstration of the final game by a Nintendo rep. It's the same version Treehouse played (1.0)
Deckard Chapel
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Is that final build footage? It looks amazing!!
Omega Kirby
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Omg, awesome. Thanks for showing dude. This game is shaping up to be goat
OrbitalBeard
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Presumably, as it's the same build Treehouse played (version 1.0), which is different from the demo the press got their hands on.
Deckard Chapel
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The blue lighting in the Shrine looks like the original Wii U lighting in the start chamber!
What's going on with the new start chamber lighting then??
SinCityAssassin
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Still wanna know if anyone managed to find that Fire Rod for the Switch demo.
Loadings to get into a shrine are pretty fast.
OrbitalBeard
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Yeah, it's a massive improvement over the E3 build. The loading in general is quite snappy.
GodfatherX
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So with the lighting, are you all specifically talking about the starting chamber? Because that's the only noticeable change I have seen
Deckard Chapel
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It seems that way. Everything else is a distinct improvement and that includes all the lighting in the overworld and in the Shrines as well.
That's probably not retail it is the same version used at the other demos Ver. 12S, you can pretty easily see that at the end of the video in the bottom right corner of the start screen. If any version is retail, or near final, it's the one used by the Treehouse Live event which was 1.0.0 and likely also used for all the other footage we have of non Great Plateau gameplay.
I know Aonuma says it's retail but that could mean final retail content, not literal retail copy.
Why did the voice tell him to follow the marker on his Sheikah slate? I thought this game doesn't tell you where to go? Or is that just an initial thing?
I don't think it's an actual retail copy because that start menu is bullshit and a retail copy wouldn't have a timer that ends with "thanks for playing!"
SinCityAssassin
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It moves the initial plot so you can witness Calamity Ganon.
GodfatherX
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I thinks that's just for the first tower activation
OrbitalBeard
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I assume you're talking about the voice from the beginning of the game. I think that's just to unlock the first tower. Beyond that, I don't believe you're given any direct markers to follow on the map.
Neoleo2143
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Yeah it's just an initial thing. The next objective that you get after that has no such marker.
As for whether the demo is retail. The Balancing looks like the retail version and it's got the animations from the final version of the game for Link. But beyond that, it could just be a later build released as a demo not necessarily the final build. The Treehouse demo on the other hand looks close to final.
That's just an initial thing for you to trigger the first Shiekah tower which is needed to progress (as it makes the others appear in the world too). The game will always give you a quest to progress the main story and you can see your side quests in your quest log. But from what we've seen you can ignore all of that but you're still going to need to trigger that first tower then beat the 4 nearby shrines to be able to get off the plateau and explore the entire world freely.
Lord Ghirahim
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Is this screenshot new?
SinCityAssassin
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That's a big boy.
Neoleo2143
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Is this screenshot new?
Yeah that's new. It's also Rad as Fuck. It's like Dark Souls and Zelda had a child and this Abomination was it. It seems you fight more of of them and the Steppe Talus in this game which I like. I find one off bosses while cool, could also help pacing a bit if they were used more often. What if you only fought El Gigante once in RE4? Would feel like a waste of a good enemy design.
Also I think this enemy has some of the AI of the regular enemies as the trailer depicted it with a weapon, meaning it can probably pick stuff up. Also I really like that it's got a necklace of weapons, presumably from the travelers that its killed.
Is this screenshot new?
Ahh yes, your typical Zelda enemy with one eyeball. Can't wait to see how many one-eyed monstrosities roam in the game.
FloweryMarston
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Was that posted on facebook?
Neoleo2143
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Well, not all of Link's Arsenal is visible. Just the ones that he's currently equipped with. So there's still hammer space.
But I do like that he can pick up any weapon dropped by his enemies, that's like something so many games don't do that (especially action-survival games like TLOU where enemies should have more ammo on them than they drop) it's really refreshing to see one that does.
Also does anyone get El gigante Vibes from this guy?
Prof. Bathtub
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Well, he can still pull hammers out of, er, hammerspace, but it's nice that the bow and quiver is visible, given that arrows have story significance.
Is this screenshot new?
Where did you find this screenshot?
Graphics Horse
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Lots of giant ribcages in this game
Is this screenshot new?
The colors look real nice in this one love it, the monster looks awesome. Such a huge step up in this game with npc and enemy design.
Lord Ghirahim
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What's the source for these images?
Lord Ghirahim
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Amazon.
Vanguard771
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This guy looks a little grabby. The ragdoll physics could be very entertaining if this enemy throws link a good distance.Is this screenshot new?
Oh cool. Thanks.
They have a high resolution image of the map from the special edition. I've only seen a small picture of it so far.
I wonder what this very unnatural cloud in the background is hiding. I feel like it's a part of the open world that they're really nailing, the fact that you can see so much of the world from any point. The flying bird, the giant thing on Death Mountain, the cloud that hides the summit of the hill... just looking around is filled with mysteries. Such a cool feeling.
Tathanen
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Can get some real good direct comparisons outta this, despite different times of day here and there:
Some weird HUD differences, no forecast on the Wii U ones.
Hmmm the switch version certainly looks better.
NinjaCoachZ
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Maybe it's the compression making technical improvements less pronounced, but all things considered these are actually really close. It's that one horizon shot where the draw distance differences seem most pronounced.
That church one is weird though. The temple seems clearer on Wii U?
Tathanen
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It's weird, the Switch ones are all 844px high (maybe it's 844p, not 900p?), but all blurrier, as if they've just been scaled up from 720.
Main difference in those first shots seems to be the sunrise actually illuminating all the water on Switch, and not at all on Wii U.
Older version, probably didn't have it back then.
Also, kinda hard to make a judgement because of the completely different lighting due to different time of day.
General texture work and trees seem improved.
NinjaCoachZ
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Good call on the water, I am seeing some differences in the lighting there. The time of day is probably closest there and in the cliff pic.
And huh, that is weird. Makes me wonder if they were captured in handheld mode or something like that.
Confused Cheeseburger
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I've never been a zelda fan. I liked phantom hourglass a good bit but that's it. That fact has always made me a weird ninty fan. Then it occurred to me, I've really enjoyed zelda like games, a lot. Owlboy and Hyper Light Drifter are zelda as all get out and i love them. Botw looks incredible, but i'm having a weird revelation at the same time.
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That first picture makes it look like there might be some significant improvements to draw distance/visibility in the Switch version. That'd be nice, since large draw distances are one of my biggest preferred graphical features. Also, the last picture makes it look like there might be slightly more grass in front of the Shrine in the Switch version? I wonder if the grass is randomly generated, though.
The fact that the HUD is different suggests that perhaps the Wii U version's screenshots were taken from a non-final build, but that would be odd.
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