The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker makes its glorious return on the Wii U console with gorgeous HD graphics and enhanced game features.
In fact, the amount of content Oceanhorn lifts from games like Wind
Waker makes it feel less like homage and more like rip off.
Whereas I got through scant hours of Twilight Princess and stopped due to boredom, the charm of The Wind
Waker makes up for it.
It was over ten years ago that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker made its debut on the Nintendo GameCube.
Not exact matches
We've seen awesome games
making good use of it (Wind
Waker HD, Pikmin 3, ZombiU, Rayman Legends, Nintendo Land).
There was a 3DS Hyrule Warriors Legends game, and those levels (focused on the Wind
Waker stages) have been brought over to the Switch version as well,
making this the most complete edition of the game yet released.
Tetra and Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule (otherwise known as the King of Red Lions) of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker fame will
make their playable debuts when Hyrule Warriors 3D hits store shelves.
The Wind
Waker was one of the finest Zelda games ever
made and by not tinkering too much Nintendo are preserving that experience.
When I first heard about the wind
waker HD remake I thought it would have been interesting to see a sort of Wind Waker HD collection: including Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit tracks, it would have taken longer sure but all we needed was technically there: the two screens... And it's not like making a gamer from a portable to a console is anything new, I mean square enix did it with chain of memories a GBA game then into a PS2
waker HD remake I thought it would have been interesting to see a sort of Wind
Waker HD collection: including Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit tracks, it would have taken longer sure but all we needed was technically there: the two screens... And it's not like making a gamer from a portable to a console is anything new, I mean square enix did it with chain of memories a GBA game then into a PS2
Waker HD collection: including Wind
Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit tracks, it would have taken longer sure but all we needed was technically there: the two screens... And it's not like making a gamer from a portable to a console is anything new, I mean square enix did it with chain of memories a GBA game then into a PS2
Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit tracks, it would have taken longer sure but all we needed was technically there: the two screens... And it's not like
making a gamer from a portable to a console is anything new, I mean square enix did it with chain of memories a GBA game then into a PS2 game.
As my first Zelda game, Wind
Waker HD never
makes me bored.
In fact, it doesn't
make sense for Nintendo to dub the Wind
Waker Link model as «Toon Link», because he is the most used character model for Link, appearing in 6 games in the series.
With the release of The Legend of Zelda: Wind
Waker HD, Nintendo has teased us with revisiting classic GameCube titles on the Wii U. With it's new coat of paint and remastered soundtrack, Wind
Waker HD also
makes us want Nintendo to focus efforts on bringing some of those classics to the Wii U in a fresh light, especially considering the port of Wind
Waker HD only took six months once Nintendo dedicated time and resources to it.
Hmm how come the producer (or the director I do nt know the guy who is responcible to
make zelda games) said that it took them (him and his zelda team) to
make wind
waker hd for 6 months and trough that they got to know the console more better so since they finished that work they went back to help the rest of the stuff and
make the new game faster and more better.
While it does support use of the Wii U Pro Controller, Wind
Waker HD is best played with the GamePad, as it
makes great use of it's features.
We've seen what they can do with Wind
Waker; now let's get Metroid Prime and a bunch of others
made into more polished versions of themselves.
Nintendo showed off the cartoony strategy game «Pikmin 3,» anti-gravity racer «Mario Kart 8,» 2 - D platformer «Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze,» 3 - D platformer «Super Mario 3D World,» slick action sequel «Bayonetta 2» and a speedier rendition of «The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker» for the Wii U. For gamers who couldn't
make it to E3, the titles will be on display at more than 100 Best Buy Co. stores in North America this week.
I was commenting on «I don't know about you, but all this
makes me want is an HD remake of Majora's Mask on Wii U, similar to what was done with Wind
Waker HD last year.»
I don't know about you, but all this
makes me want is an HD remake of Majora's Mask on Wii U, similar to what was done with Wind
Waker HD last year.
I felt Nintendo
made those games longer by either having to repeat quests in Majora's Mask or having a very slow way of traveling from place to place in Wind
Waker.
While Skyward Sword and The Wind
Waker HD snag 1st and 2nd with four other Zelda games also
making it onto the list, a whopping 11 Mario titles also sold rather well.
Lego City Under Cover, Nintendo Land, Zelda Wind
Waker HD, Game and Wario, Wonderful 101
make good use of the gamepad.
Getting 5 stars for being almost as good as a «real game» (Zelda)
makes me sad about the state of iOS gaming... On the other hand, Wind
Waker is probably just a 6 star game!
With Super Mario 3D World and The Wind
Waker HD under their belts, they've shown how to
make high quality games for the system, so here's hoping next year will be even better and they'll turn the dwindling sales around.
Next to that, the exclusive Nintendo 3DS Linkle and Wind
Waker levels
make their HD debut on Switch.
This is a testament to the efforts of Tequila Works, as even over a decade later Wind
Waker holds up as one of the best looking games ever
made.
This is why I don't understand doomsday articles this early in a consoles life span, The Wii u barely has any games worth buying yet, but as soon as it does then the sales will skyrocket, I like the Wii u, Now I just wish I had more money to buy more game's, Man I want Lego City, Think about it if Monster hunter can
make the sale's raise this much what will happen when Super smash bros Wii u, Pikmin 3, Mario kart U, Yoshi's yarn, 3d Mario game, Zelda Wind
waker HD, Zelda HD, possible Metroid game, possible Gamecube games coming to the VC, The VC being fully released with GBA games, What ever Retro is working on, Game and Wario looks fun I doubt it will be a console seller, And many other unannounced game's are released all the «Is the Wii u doomed?!»
Super Mario 3D world probably isn't going to take as much time developing as the Galaxy games so
making this one was a great choice since it will be ready in time for Christmas and hopefully pick up sales along with Wind
Waker HD!
If I were to
make a guess, I predict that the WiiU's sales will roughly stay around 40,000 units a month until it gets a significant boost from Wind
Waker HD's release later this year.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind
Waker HD: Playing through Link's cel - shaded adventure with its new glossy veneer will
make you question why anyone balked at the graphical style at first blush: Wind
Waker HD is truly a gorgeous game.
This is not surprising considering that no cel - shaded games have managed to
make these types of things look better than what The Wind
Waker accomplishes.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker HD - Faster sailing and beautiful graphics are just a few things that
make the Wii U version of this Gamecube title stellar.
What was once aimed at being the prized Zelda title on the Gamecube after relative disappointments with Wind
Waker, the game was plagued by delays after delays,
making many wonder if the game was ever going to
make it to retail.
Near completion in my eyes mean fall 2014 release and with Hyrule Warriors being the buffer Zelda game for this fall, just as Wind
Waker was last year, odds are that they
make a mention of it with maybe a trailer and nothing else.
1 had his 3DS stollen and he had a lot of downloaded games and several others bought the Zelda Wind
Waker Wii U and got their stuff transferred to their Zelda Wii U so I know they do it, but I also know they
make you jump through a few hoops
Technically they were sequels but they played much differently to Wind
Waker, especially going from a 3D perspective to top down and more importantly took advantage of the DS's capabilities
making it more like its own thing.
Wind
Waker is still one of my favorite Zelda titles and seeing people figure out new things in these games to
make them faster all the time is just amazing.
Long time ago, i guess it was the 2003, me and Fabio Pagetti (the artist who
made the pixel art below) almost convinced our managing director to let us produce a demo for a GBA version of Wind
Waker.
Personally if they try to go for more new characters from Wind
Waker I seriously hope to see Medli
make an appearance as a fighter, anything is possible.
The reason Wind
Waker never
made it into the final product was «as it differs so drastically from the other titles with its visuals and the world, it was hard to bring those games together», so the idea was forgotten.
an argument people
made against Wind
Waker (a discussion for another day).
While Breath of the Wild eschews the big - headed character design of The Wind
Waker, it offers a glorious return to the bright, vibrant color palate afforded by the cel - shaded art style, which I would argue
makes it the most visually stunning Zelda game to date.
Plus, there are rafting sequences and Koroks hidden all over the map to
make the Wind
Waker connection even stronger.
From the bloom that
makes the tropical areas of the game seem so warm and inviting, to the special effects, such as the torches that lighten dark caverns, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker HD looks superb and sometimes simply jaw - dropping.
It's hard to play through this game and not
make comparisons to The Wind
Waker at every waking opportunity.
By Christmas the Wii U actually will have some good exclusives so they should
make sure everyone knows that and putting attention on Wind
Waker seems counter-intuitive.
We already know Wind
Waker HD missed out on amiibo due to being released the year before amiibo came out, but both amiibo and dlc did
make it into the Zelda spin - off Hyrule Warriors.
I don't think Nintendo is
making any intentional statement with a Wind
Waker bundle, I just don't think the public will infer the correct message if the game most associated with the Wii U this Christmas is a remake of an old game.
Tingle first appeared as a map salesman in N64 adventure Majora's Mask, but is probably most well known for his appearance in Wind
Waker,
making use of the «Tingle Tuner» if you owned a Game Boy Advance.
11) Phantom Hourglass — This game took everything I liked about Wind
Waker, but somehow
made those things terrible.
Although Ganondorf does not
make an appearance, he is mentioned in the prologue, which is a summary of The Wind
Waker's events.