Honestly, the Zelda series has been so impressive under his leadership, we'd trust the guy if he said Phantom Hourglass was an unintentional remake of Kabuki Quantum Fighter. ... Come to think of it, we'd totally buy that game. But if you're looking for something more traditional, you can get that old Zelda feeling for yourself when the portable Wind Waker sequel drops next week.
Honestly, the Zelda series has been so impressive under his leadership, we'd trust the guy if he said Phantom Hourglass was an unintentional remake of Kabuki Quantum Fighter. ... Come to think of it, we'd totally buy that game. But if you're looking for something more traditional, you can get that old Zelda feeling for yourself when the portable Wind Waker sequel drops next week.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 4:32PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:12PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
Hmm... I haven't found many (if any) parallels between PH and the original Zelda. And this is after beating the Japanese version. Aside from the fact both have a top-down camera. But even so, PH has an element of 3D gameplay (areas with different elevations and whatnot seem more natural in PH than in actual 2D Zeldas; boss fights).
Still a great game, though. Easily one of the bests in the series.
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Still a great game, though. Easily one of the bests in the series.
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 5:41PM JoshMilewski said
If anything, it's closer to A Link to the Past than any other previous Zelda (minus Wind Waker, of course).
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:14PM (Unverified) said
Good interview.
Got my reserve in and I'll be picking it up next week. The game looks terrific.
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Got my reserve in and I'll be picking it up next week. The game looks terrific.
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:15PM (Unverified) said
Kinda like how ZTP was an unintentional remake of OoT.. with more monkeys and somehow zero advancement of gameplay mechanics, Zelda cliches, plot, and graphics.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:20PM The Wicker Man said
both of you shut up. (phatie and fernando) thats enough negativity today! ;)
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:26PM mr nimblewick said
@ fatso
Tell me about it! The graphics are so bad in TP I used to play it with the TV off, using the controller noises to make my way. Much more enjoyable!
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Tell me about it! The graphics are so bad in TP I used to play it with the TV off, using the controller noises to make my way. Much more enjoyable!
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:52PM (Unverified) said
yeah, twilight princess being similar to a game in the same series of games makes it bad.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 5:05PM (Unverified) said
Yeah, or like how Halo 3 was an unintentional remake of the first two, or how Super Mario Galaxy's going to be an unintentional remake of Super Mario 64, or how all games in a series actually play in a similar way, so they must all be sucky remakes, amirite?
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 5:16PM (Unverified) said
And by unintentional remake you mean a game that intentionally takes place 100 years later in the same world with better graphics and controls and without time travel and now with the ability to TURN INTO A FUCKING WEREWOLF, right?
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:16PM Fernando Rocker said
Eiji Aonuma has the voice a little femenine.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:46PM (Unverified) said
I imagine your voice to be similar (that self pic avatar of your pretty much seals this assumption of mine) or as you put it in your broken and mispelled english, you "has the voice a little femenine."
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Posted: Sep 29th 2007 3:52AM ThornedVenom said
Oh come on guys! He was just kidding because there was a female narrator! =(
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:37PM (Unverified) said
Hold on.... How do you unintentionally remake a game?
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 6:39PM (Unverified) said
He's not saying that it's literally a remake, he's saying it recaptures the fun, the freshness, and the basics that made the first game.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 3:54PM (Unverified) said
Does that say next week?! I am so stoked, I have no idea when the game actually comes out.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 4:06PM JoeTheRed said
Dammit! When I first skimmed this post, I thought Aonuma actually said that Phantom Hourglass was an unintentional remake of Kabuki Quantum Fighter. I had no idea how that could be, but I must admit that it made me quite happy. When I actually read the post, I was severely disappointed.
Nintendo needs to make HAL develop another Kabuki Quantum Fighter game. Someone with more power than me, make Nintendo do what must be done!
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Nintendo needs to make HAL develop another Kabuki Quantum Fighter game. Someone with more power than me, make Nintendo do what must be done!
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 4:17PM (Unverified) said
I want a new Kabuki Quantum Fighter game... or at least the original on the VC
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 6:51PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
Not as far as I can tell. But my limited Japanese knowledge prevents me from knowing all about the game (and I refuse to look up GameFAQs until after I'm done with the English version).
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 5:19PM (Unverified) said
Let's play money making game!
It's a secret to everybody!
Eastmost peninsula has the key!
Dodongo dislikes smoke!
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It's a secret to everybody!
Eastmost peninsula has the key!
Dodongo dislikes smoke!
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 6:17PM (Unverified) said
Ok, if this is a remake, it puts the game in the "somewhat messy" timeline as in the same place as the first game. Anyone willing to redraw the whole timeline with this new information added? (since we've to assume that the newer version is the now factually accurate game as opposed to the original)
Also.... does that mean there'll be the 2nd quest? :o
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Also.... does that mean there'll be the 2nd quest? :o
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 7:58PM (Unverified) said
Looking at it it DOES look like Zelda 1 in a way. Anyways, this will be the first DS game I've bought since Phoenix Wright Justice for All.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2007 9:00PM DomoBraden said
I suppose there is the old man and the sword in a cave at the beginning of both...but that's about the only similarities I can think of, (granted I've only played about ten minutes of the Japanese version...DS+Emulator=Epic Phail).
I'd say that a better comparison would be Link's Awakening...i.e. Leaving on a boat after the events of the previous game, (Link's Awakening is supposedly a direct sequel to aLttP), falling off the boat, waking up having washed ashore a distant island, etc.
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I'd say that a better comparison would be Link's Awakening...i.e. Leaving on a boat after the events of the previous game, (Link's Awakening is supposedly a direct sequel to aLttP), falling off the boat, waking up having washed ashore a distant island, etc.
Posted: Sep 28th 2007 9:52PM (Unverified) said
LINK'S AWAKENING IS THE BEST ZELDA EVARR I WANT TO MARRY IT I'M HAPPY 'CUZ YOU MENTIONED IT YAY!
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Posted: Sep 29th 2007 12:47AM (Unverified) said
isn't every zelda a remake of the last one?
get three things
then get 8 or so things
maybe get the triforce.
all the while you collect the same swords, hookshot, bow, special arrows, tunics, ability to lift things, heavy boots, musical instrument.
theyre all the same.
i still buy em though.
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get three things
then get 8 or so things
maybe get the triforce.
all the while you collect the same swords, hookshot, bow, special arrows, tunics, ability to lift things, heavy boots, musical instrument.
theyre all the same.
i still buy em though.
Posted: Sep 29th 2007 12:05PM (Unverified) said
It's not of what is done, but how it's done. Similar to how most stories follow the monomyth, but most of them doesn't succeed in the way LotR did.
Also, Zelda has never been as story focused (more of culture and environment focused), like SMB and Metroid. In fact, quite often if the game plays significantly different, story tends to be more critical and different from other games in the same series.
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Also, Zelda has never been as story focused (more of culture and environment focused), like SMB and Metroid. In fact, quite often if the game plays significantly different, story tends to be more critical and different from other games in the same series.
Posted: Sep 29th 2007 11:01AM mrmobius said
This is now very depressing. I have a Medicine essay to have done by end of October so how the hell am I going to play this game? I feel sad knowing my whole gaming will be close to zero for the next 5 years.
On the plus side, 2nd hand games will be extremely easily came by at that time.
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On the plus side, 2nd hand games will be extremely easily came by at that time.
Posted: Sep 29th 2007 2:00PM (Unverified) said
"isn't every zelda a remake of the last one?
get three things
then get 8 or so things
maybe get the triforce.
all the while you collect the same swords, hookshot, bow, special arrows, tunics, ability to lift things, heavy boots, musical instrument."
That was done in like 3 zelda's, out of 10.
A Link to the Past
Ocarina of Time
Twilight princess.
The rest of them are actually original. Now OOT I can see cause that Shigeru himself said he went into the game wanting to create a 3D ALTTP, but TP was just a blatant copy of ALTTP's formula.
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get three things
then get 8 or so things
maybe get the triforce.
all the while you collect the same swords, hookshot, bow, special arrows, tunics, ability to lift things, heavy boots, musical instrument."
That was done in like 3 zelda's, out of 10.
A Link to the Past
Ocarina of Time
Twilight princess.
The rest of them are actually original. Now OOT I can see cause that Shigeru himself said he went into the game wanting to create a 3D ALTTP, but TP was just a blatant copy of ALTTP's formula.
Posted: Sep 30th 2007 1:52PM (Unverified) said
I wasn't going to get it Day 1, but I guess i will.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2007 2:25PM Guspaz said
I tried the Japanese version of PH quite some time ago (the Japanese version has been out for months). I really did NOT like the new stylus controls. I find them difficult and unwieldy, and I don't like the feeling of not being in direct control of the character.
I'd much rather have my D-Pad back.
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I'd much rather have my D-Pad back.
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