Legend of Zelda video retrospective (part 3)
Part three of Game Trailers' Legend of Zelda retrospect leading up to the launch of Twilight Princess explores the junkie CD-i Zelda games, top-ranking Ocarina of Time, and the controversial Majora's Mask. Third time's a charm.
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Anyway, these videos are freaking awesome. I can't wait for part 4. When the Wii comes out, I think most of my money will probably be spent buying VC games. >.
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But they haven't even touched on Wind Waker yet... is this a five-part series?
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People made too much of a big deal over the 3 day thing. For one thing, you can easily go back to a bank to save your rupees and start over. Number two, there is an easy to discover song that slows down time more than 2x!
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Also, the game seemed to be lacking in "wow" moments (the inexplicable tree in the moon comes close, but too little waaaay too late in the game), and was more of a game you appreciated because of its nuanced complexity. Ocarina obviously had many "wow" moments because it was the first of its kind. Windwaker had Hyrule Castle frozen in time, that mirror room in the Earth Temple, and a few other surprises here and there. Yet Majora I kind of just played through, having fun, without ever pausing the game to go "holy shit." I think that's what makes it the black sheep.
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P.S. These retrospecs are amazing
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It's an action RPG, that's why. If you go back to the top-down games, they were like Secret of Mana, just without leveling up and that annoying percentage bar. Instead of levels, you have item collection to power up your character. Like in the first Dragon Quest, where you learned that you couldn't travel too far in the world without getting slaughtered by powerful enemies, in Zelda you can't get to travel too far because your inventory won't allow you to. Same concept, different implementations.
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I'd say MM had more "wow moments" for me, probably cause I played it first.
Windwaker seemed kind of lame to me.
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I somehow feel like I've missed out on something special by not having played this series...but I bought a cube last year (primarily for Metroid Prime -- loved it) and I plan on beating Ocarina, and if time allows, MM and Windwalkers before getting the Wii and TP.
I've come to realize that having to go to work really interferes with my plans here, though :) Will sturggle on...
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Just have no interest in them.
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I just got done replaying the first Zelda and I've been looking to play Ocarina of Time again, Just beat the young link part last night, but this video makes me want to play MM just for the fact that I never even got anywhere in the game.
Anyways, I noticed GameTrailers comes out with a new Zelda Retrospect every Saturday. So that leaves 3 weeks into the Wii comes out. Im guessing they will have one of the Gameboy and DS, and then Windwaker and then probably a sneak peak at Twilight Princess or something like that. Great games, Great review and look at the past of the game.
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HEY... LISTEN!
Ugh.
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Is it just me or does anyone else think these games should be called Legend of Link or something like that as Zelda doesn't do anything except get kidnapped!!
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When Twilight Princess was revealed, people were going, "FINALLY! A dark, mature Zelda game!" ...when they already had a dark, mature Zelda game, by the name of Majora's Mask. Majora's Mask's story was just so twisted and deep.
Zelda fans are just like that. They forget their own games, and they are afraid of change. Like all the people who go, "Link has never spoken, and he never will!" ...they forget his small line of dialogue in Wind Waker: "Come on!"
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I think he's talking about PlayStation's ability to show prerendered videos... which makes whoever wrote the script sound like either an absolute non-gamer or just plain ignorant, but that's besides the point. The truth is, because the PSX and PS2 discs had the space (or at least four discs, a la FFVIII) for prerendered videos, most folks uneducated about how all this stuff works assume that the PSX and PS2 were more capable of handling pretty graphics than the N64 and GCN--while the truth of the matter is quite the opposite during gameplay.
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Hey, you're not alone. I loved Ocarina but I prefer Majora's darker themes.
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As an example:
there is absolutely no game that matched Turok 2 on PS in terms of graphic quality. There were other developers that accused Acclaim and Iguana of using PC renders to represent the 64 game. But the 64 version looked almost exactly like the PC version.
I think the comment about the lack 64 graphics compared to the PS is not accurate. Playstation had really good lighting effects and pushed more polygons but 64 could do more effects with the less polygons they pushed. As Perfect Dark, Turok 2, Indiana Jones and many other 64 games have proven, 64 could do impressive lighting effects as well that in many cases surpasses the PS. It was just a pain in the ass to do them.
Zelda FTW. Here's to hoping Twilight Princess continues the legacy.
Can I get this retrospective in one compilation?
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And basically all the commercials for all the Sony games (when i first saw the Dirge of Cerberus Commercial, i thought it was supposed to be for PS3)
Nintendo has only rarely gotten on the Pre-rendered video train (Metroid Prime Hunters, and that was NST) and all those lucious cutscenes in Mario or Zelda games are real time
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Grow up.
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As for the two on the N64, I have to prefer Majora's mask to Ocarina of Time. MM just seemed like it had a bit more imagination and creativity in it. Albeit, I could never get past the temple that was frozen over.
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Did he? He does get paid to pronounce words "neutrally", so who knows. I was never too sure about the pronunciation myself. I always assumed the o corresponded with the o in "coffee" and the a in "ball". So if you're from England or NYC, it's "oar-carina" (since both dialects "r-drop", it would be homophonous with how we say "oar"), but from most of North America it's "ocarina" with a short o.
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Just have no interest in them."
Wow, that's probably unheard of. But I'm not one to talk, I've missed out on the FF franchise and surely more.
I'd recommend everyone at least giving the Zelda series a try or two. At least one 2D game and OoT. It's probably the only Nintendo franchise that still delivers.
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Thanks Gametrailers for the huge nostalgia fest / reminder to go back and play some old zelda when I have time.
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Can't wait to see more.
What about Wind Waker/Minish Cap? Will they get the 5th part, or what?
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OH-CA-REE-NA? WTF, mate?
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