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[mugwhump]

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Anyone think those dual clawshots will be used in an interesting way in battles along with swinging around, or just act as a replacement for WW's grappling hook cutscenes?

Hookshot was pretty interesting in battles in WW. You could bring lighter enemies to you and spin attack them. Or, you could pull yourself towards heavy enemies; when you reach them, you're in the air, and you can jump slash them.

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I'm glad they're combining hookshot and grappling hook, they were rather redundant in WW.
Anyways, this is almost all awesome news.
I like how they're expanding the uses of items, even if some of them sound rather silly (A ball and chain and a spinner platform? That's as bad as Minish Cap's mole mitts.)
5 heart pieces in a container, means the game will be harder, and there will be more heart pieces to find . Unless they had to do that because you get more hearts from dungeons.
Midna laughing through the Wiimote is AWESOME, screw you haters. I doubt it will be annoying, as she's definately not a navi-esque character.
Now, I'm not entirely sold on the wolf combat. I like the idea of making mauling gestures, but it just sounds too straightforward. Can the wolf Z-target? It might be fun having to dodge attacks with no shield.

Did it say anything about the number of dungeons?

 

[bigmakstudios]

Spoiler

9 dungeons

 

[Johnas]

A bunch of crap I should have spoilered

Dude, please spoiler that. I know you can make the argument that people shouldn't enter the thread based on the title alone, but that's a lot of info.

 

[Twilight Princess]

now, can the camera be adjusted like in wind waker?

 

[unifin]

I'm regretting reading now...

WTF NP? HUGE ****ING SPOILERS in the freaking first paragraph. WTF.

 

[jett]

FIVE heart pieces to make one whole? I wish they'd just ****ing discard the whole heart pieces system and go back to the way of the original.

 

[AniHawk]

FIVE heart pieces to make one whole? I wish they'd just ****ing discard the whole heart pieces system and go back to the way of the original.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyno.

 

[jett]

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyno.

Meh, personally I hate searching for those heart pieces, and I hate the pussyfied difficulty of all post-AoL Zeldas. Are hearts in TP gonna break into 5 pieces before a whole gets depleted now? Zelda 1 had it best: only halves.

 

[AniHawk]

Meh, personally I hate searching for those heart pieces, and I hate the pussyfied difficulty of all post-AoL Zeldas. Are hearts in TP gonna break into 5 pieces before a whole gets depleted now? Zelda 1 had it best: only halves.

The article said that if anything hits you: an enemy's broadsword, an arrow, or a leaf from a tree (infused with evil twilight power), it'll take away 1/5 of your life.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

The article said that if anything hits you: an enemy's broadsword, an arrow, or a leaf from a tree (infused with evil twilight power), it'll take away 1/5 of your life.

I fear for the fall season in Hyrule forest then.

 

[cartman414]

The article said that if anything hits you: an enemy's broadsword, an arrow, or a leaf from a tree (infused with evil twilight power), it'll take away 1/5 of your life.

Just 1/5 across all enemy hits, or varying increments of 1/5?

 

[AniHawk]

The former. Nintendo said they didn't want it to be too hard for newcomers- who they're aiming the game towards (hence the more 'likeable' LotR artstyle).

 

[Adagio]

:lol

 

[Drakken]

The former. Nintendo said they didn't want it to be too hard for newcomers- who they're aiming the game towards (hence the more 'likeable' LotR artstyle).

Bummer if true. Part of what makes enemies like Iron Knuckles more fearsome is that they take (well, took) away multiple hearts. When all the enemies take away a fraction of one heart, it's kind of, "eh."

Or wait, are you joking?

 

[Branduil]

This is amazing.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Bummer if true. Part of what makes enemies like Iron Knuckles more fearsome is that they take (well, took) away multiple hearts. When all the enemies take away a fraction of one heart, it's kind of, "eh."

Or wait, are you joking?

he's joking. If you've been following TP at all, you'd know that Nintendo's directly addressing complaints of the lack of difficulty in WW. I can't find a source, but I recall someone from nintendo saying that TP would be one of the hardest zeldas

 

[Scalemail Ted]

Just think of trying to cross this:

Not so easy I tell you!

 

[MadraptorMan]

Please, stop the misinformation, AniHawk! Next thing you know joystiq or some other gamer blog will post a news story about it...>_<'

 

[Kelsonk]

The article said that if anything hits you: an enemy's broadsword, an arrow, or a leaf from a tree (infused with evil twilight power), it'll take away 1/5 of your life.

If you mean 1/5 of a heart, that is incredibly gay. I thought it was ridiculous in WW when 1/4 of a heart was taken away from an enemy hit, and that game was incredibly easy. When you get ten hearts, you can get hit fifty times?

 

[Scalemail Ted]

Hmmmm... it seems like the gif of fall I found just kinda stops.... maybe it isnt to hard to get past it.

 

[cvxfreak]

:lol :lol

 

[unifin]

If you mean 1/5 of a heart, that is incredibly gay. I thought it was ridiculous in WW when 1/4 of a heart was taken away from an enemy hit, and that game was incredibly easy. When you get ten hearts, you can get hit fifty times?

Anihawk strikes again!

Seriously, though - it's getting annoying, man.

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

Holy shit,

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Ball and Chain and Spinner sounds AWESOME.

GOTC

 

[Logan Cano]

How can those be spoilers?? I know Zelda is VERY light on story, but sheez, talk about exagerating.

 

[AniHawk]

How can those be spoilers?? I know Zelda is VERY light on story, but sheez, talk about exagerating.

It's ALWAYS more fun discovering shit in-game than not.

 

[loosus]

Seriously, though - it's getting annoying, man.

Really.

 

[AniHawk]

Really.

 

[Zilch]

Really.

Isn't being an annoying ass in every Zelda thread your schtick? What's Anihawk doing copping your style?

 

[loosus]

Isn't being an annoying ass in every Zelda thread your schtick? What's Anihawk doing copping your style?

HIGH FIVE

 

[Logan Cano]

It's ALWAYS more fun discovering shit in-game than not.

Dude, those aren´t huge spoilers in the least. Nothing of importance in any case. Now, if it was revealed that Link is in fact gay, that Zelda is a man in women´s clothes that all happen to go looking for some back door action from Ganon, now that´d be a huge spoiler.

This?? It´s total and complete overreaction. There's a type of hookshot in the game? OMG SPOILER AM TOTAL!!

 

[Zilch]

 

[Maridia]

Dude, those aren´t huge spoilers in the least. Nothing of importance at least. Now, if it was revealed that Link is in fact a queer and that Zelda is a man in women´s clothes that all happen to go looking for some back door action from Ganon, now that´d be a huge spoiler.

This?? It´s total and complete overreaction.

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There's a type of hookshot in the game?

OMG SPOILER AM TOTAL!!

Can you please add spoiler tags to your post? Thanks.

 

[AniHawk]

Now, if it was revealed that Link is in fact a queer and that Zelda is a man in women´s clothes that all happen to go looking for some back door action from Ganon, now that´d be a huge spoiler.

Uh... This is The Legend of Zelda, not Final Fantasy X.

 

[Amir0x]

5 heart pieces to fill up a container... sounds like there's gonna be a whole lot more heart pieces to find in this game. Which, to me anyway, indicates a longer game

 

[mugwhump]

^^
Or it just means you get more heart containers from boss battles. Link can only have a certain number of hearts, you know. Although I'm sure this will be the biggest Zelda yet.

Dude, please spoiler that. I know you can make the argument that people shouldn't enter the thread based on the title alone, but that's a lot of info.

Sorry. At least I didn't give away any plot spoilers, though.
Those were kinda big.
And I read them all.

 

[Logan Cano]

Can you please add spoiler tags to your post? Thanks.

Oh, ffs there's a hookshot since Ocarina of Time. Next thing you know the presence of summons in a FF will be a spoiler.

 

[Branduil]

Aeris dies.

 

[thefro]

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The "ball and chain" (which I expect will be essentially a mace/whip) and dual hookclaws (ala Spiderman's webslingers) should both be amazing to use with the Wiimote.

 

[gamergirly]

^^
Or it just means you get more heart containers from boss battles. Link can only have a certain number of hearts, you know. Although I'm sure this will be the biggest Zelda yet.

Sounds like the game will be harder. You'll either have to search for heart pieces or sweat out boss battles.

 

[sc0la]

bad as Minish Cap's mole mitts

You shut your dirty mouth.

Next you will be bad mouthing roc feather, or worse yet magnet glove o_o

 

[Andonuts]

5 heart containers to get 1

I have a bad feeling about what this implies...

 

[Scrow]

5 heart pieces to fill up a container... sounds like there's gonna be a whole lot more heart pieces to find in this game. Which, to me anyway, indicates a longer game

oh great, pad out the game time with a cheap collectathon.

sounds familiar

 

[Gearharaden]

Aeris dies.

WHAT? NO!!! Why didn't you spoil that!?!? I'm playing through FF7 NOWW!!!! NOOO!!!

Btw, this sounds really stupid. Minish Cap/Wind Waker syndrome it seems like, all the items you get and only use in like one or two puzzles.

 

[unifin]

oh great, pad out the game time with a cheap collectathon.

sounds familiar

An entirely optional collectathon that encourages exploration of the game world and enhances replay value for completionists, rather than making it mandatory?

Yeah, sounds about right.

 

[Amir0x]

oh great, pad out the game time with a cheap collectathon.

sounds familiar

It's not padding the game, if the game is much longer it makes sense to have more heart pieces to balance the entire thing out.

Of course, i know where you're trying to lead it but sorry you're wrong about that too.

 

[AniHawk]

It's not padding the game, if the game is much longer it makes sense to have more heart pieces to balance the entire thing out.

Of course, i know where you're trying to lead it but sorry you're wrong about that too.

Yeah, The Wind Waker was a great game.

 

[Scrow]

lol, people responded to my post.

 

[Amir0x]

Yeah, The Wind Waker was a great game.

I agree. Wind Waker is awesome.

 

[Kangu]

Ugh, more heart containers? So we're going to have a wide range of sidequest ranging from pitifully simple to mind-numbingly dull to awesomely difficult and, no matter what, we're going to get rewarded with heart pieces?

How about some actual endgame content for once Nintendo??! I want a mother ****ing mega sword/hammer/ice-pick/shovel or something. Something that's an actual reward I can enjoy. Having more health isn't really enjoyable at all. Unless you suck.

 

[Scrow]

How about some actual endgame content for once Nintendo??!

how can you have more content at the end of the game? if it's the end of the game go out and buy another one, you've finished that one. this isn't an MMO.