The Legend Of Zelda - General Thread

I think the petition appears to be a double-edged sword for those supporting the possible tribute. It's one way to earn awareness from Nintendo about a person who was tragically murdered, and they certainly succeeded in making the company listen. But as TobiasDrake mentioned, it's really up to Nintendo itself to decide to make a tribute, and I doubt being pressured by some fans to do something they ask was ever going to sway it either way. For all we know, the developers may be afraid of paying their respects the "wrong" way—just slapping the victim's name on an NPC surely isn't going to be enough for people who have contributed to the petition.

Nintendo already knew she was tragically murdered.

They mentioned it at the start of their E3 show before the moment of silence.

She was suppose to visit Nintendo in their E3 booth last week.

Yeah, I know. I guess what I meant to say was that the people signing the petition aimed to make Nintendo consider the possibility of a tribute to Christina in Breath of the Wild, and they actually came to address their concerns. They just didn't get the answer they may have wanted.

I guess I misunderstood your post.

I think the reason Nintendo doesn't agree to it is because they don't want to offend the families of person they would be putting the tribute of in the game.

I think they would have to get permission from those families first.

It'd be doable but it wouldn't be right. The families of any club shooting victims who were Zelda fans might come for a tribute of their own as well, and it could get ugly. If they didn't honor those requests too it would spread the message that you're only that important to Nintendo if you're rich, and if they acquiesced to too many such requests in the same game, it risks becoming a memorial game.

Better to honor the dead with moments of silence and spoken tributes rather than in-game references, in this case.

Actually, Christina died just a day before the club shootings. Both incidents just so happened to take place in Orlando. Nintendo gave special mention to her not only because she was a Zelda fan, but because her death was unrelated to the massacre.

Orlando had a lot of terrible shit happen in like a week there.

The theme for this title was, ‘Let’s just forget everything that we knew about Zelda and make something that we want, make something free.’

This is a completely true video:

Not true, Capcom Zelda games aren't "Spinoffs"

Yeah, I cringed a bit because of that. =/

I didn't mind it, mainly because of my personal distaste for the Oracle games.

The only Zelda games to really be spin-offs are the Tingle games, Hyrule Warriors(Legends), and Link's Crossbow Training. They're sometimes viewed as dubious canon(Well, Tingle and Crossbow Training are).

The CD-i games are simply non-canon, but they don't feel like spin-offs, just their own 3rd party thing.

To say the least, sometimes we get some pretty damn good games when made by a 3rd party company(Oracles, Hyrule Warriors), and sometimes we don't(CD-i).

Basically, the only spin-offs are games that don't have the main title of "The Legend of Zelda."

"Zelda II: The Adventure of Link".

Yep.

We don't talk about that game.

Forgot about that, actually. That said, it's the exception, not the rule.

In fairness, it does retain the monicker in the Japanese version. I do prefer the Western one because it has a much better EXP system as well as a unique boss (much like SMB2, which added a boss that wasn't in Doki Doki Panic).

Anyway... I'm really glad that they put so much effort into making a great physics system. Now, we don't have to suffer puzzles that are just "use item on obvious target."

After being turned off to puzzles after playing ALttP, I just might like them again.

"To be honest, for the most part I let Mr. Aonuma take care of the project and I was very surprised to see a smartphone-like device in the game. (laughs) At first, I said to myself: “Can we really do that?” But effectively, since the first Zelda, we have thought about including technological elements and make Link a link between eras through a program. Now that programming has made huge progress and rendered graphics are more and more beautiful, we thought it would be appropriate for the expression of technological ideas."

MatPat and Reggie debate whether or not Nintendo should continue to innovate in Zelda through the controls. Towards the end, there's also some footage from Breath of the Wild that I don't recall seeing anywhere else.

And yet another clickbait title and thumbnail from that guy...

If anything interested was said, mind running it down?

Not a regular sword in the stone, I must say.◊

Haha

We're probably never going to see the Master Sword again in the post Wind Waker timeline.

Heard speculation that this is Downfall.

@Elbruno: You could just watch the video though :P Also everyone on youtube is clickbait.

Anyway, since nobody said it yet, I have to point out that Oracle games are the best two games in Zelda series

I would agree......if it weren't that damned Goron Dancing minigame in Oracle of Ages. Unless you are musically trained or had been through that kind of drilling already, that minigame was the bane of many a playthrough. It isn't that hard and thank god for savestates.