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E3 2006: Twilight Princess In-Depth
We play through the entire demo and break down the details.
by Peer Schneider

May 10, 2006 - First there was one, now there are two. Nintendo announced yesterday that it would release two different versions of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- one for GameCube, as previously shown, and one for Nintendo Wii. Shown at numerous demo kiosks in Nintendo's booth, we were able to go hands-on with the title this morning. Does the Zelda formula work with Wii's new controllers? Or will long-time fans be disappointed with the changes? We sent one such long-time fan, self-professed Zelda nut Peer Schneider to go in-depth with the title. Here are his impressions:

Let's cut to the chase: yes, it sure works. When I initially heard that Nintendo was adding Wii controller support to my most anticipated videogame, I was worried. After all, Zelda titles aren't really about pointing and clicking and more about fighting and puzzle solving. I had a feeling sword-slashing freehand controls would feel gimmicky in a third-person game and ultimately be far less accurate than the traditional lock-on/button control. In hindsight, I should have had more faith in Nintendo's Zelda team. The developer smartly integrated Wii pointer and nunchuck control to deliver something that not only works, but feels fresh.

Remember playing Majora's Mask back on the N64? Despite the novel three-day setup, some players found that it felt a bit too similar to The Ocarina of Time and thus simply wasn't as exciting and fresh. I have a feeling Twilight Princess might have turned out the same way. It's a gorgeous game filled with great puzzles and characters -- and apparently it's a longer and more involved quest than any Zelda game before it -- but it's firmly rooted in the TOoT-style of gameplay. Well, not anymore. The changes the control setup in the Wii version adds to the game profoundly impact the game's feel. Fishing feels new. Blocking feels new. Shooting arrows feels new. Even the spin attack has a new twist to it. So even though you may encounter a familiar looking puzzle, the new control dynamics give everything a fresh coat of paint. Yes, you can get excited now.


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Fucking anti left handed assholes.

it makes more sense, i guess.

at e3, before the sword control was that close to 1:1, it was certainly a little disappointing slashing with the nunchuck attachment, when the grip and feel of the remote is much more ...uh... swordly.

no. no gay jokes there.

Buy me one.

Zelda delayed on GameCube

Twilight Princess won't release alongside Wii version as planned; game now set for December 11 release.
By Tim Surette, GameSpot
Posted Sep 14, 2006 12:13 pm PT

Today was a good day for Wii news. There was an abundance of information on the system's release date, price, and launch games, and the Wii's multimedia functions were revealed and displayed in video form on Nintendo's Web site.

While future Wii owners celebrated en masse, the GameCube faithful hung their heads. The most anticipated game for the current-generation console, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, has once again been delayed.

Thankfully, the postponement won't be as torturous as last year's lengthy delay and will instead be limited to just a few weeks. Originally planned to launch alongside the Wii version of the game with the next-gen console's launch, Twilight Princess for the GameCube is now slated for a December 11 release.

Nintendo did not mention a reason for the game's delay, but the timing is a bit odd. The GameCube version was announced in 2004, but the Wii version was revealed long after the current-gen version had already been in development. Though logic would presume that the GameCube version would be finished well ahead of the next-gen version, this simply doesn't appear to be the case.

A fairly polished version of the GameCube version was on display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2005 and drew hours-long lines from hordes of Zelda fans. At this year's E3, however, the GameCube version didn't even make the trip to Los Angeles, and the hours-long lines at Nintendo's booth were for the Wii and its roster of games, which included the next-gen version of Twilight Princess.

new trailer:

title intro:

aaaaaaaaaaaaand i just beat the fucker. 62 gameplay hours for me, though i'm pretty sure a good chunk of that is from accidentally leaving it on over night. but still, i know i missed a few side-quests that i might go back for, so even with teh sleep incident, thats pretty ginormous.

but by gawd, t'was a pretty, pretty game.

I'm like 30 hours into the game. Enjoying it a lot, though the bosses so far have been kinda boring. Only the one in the desert was kinda cool, but even that one was easy.

yeah i heard that the easy bosses were one knock on the game...

there's a lot of great art and style and a lot of creativity in the main bosses, but thats an excellent point -- they are easier than they should be. i wouldn't call that much of a knock to the game, though, at least in my vantage.

the final boss battle of the game was amazing and challenging.

really my one and only critique on the game, which i'd otherwise dub simply friggin amazing was the ending, post-final battle. without spoiling anything, i'll just say that i found hugely lacking -- to the point where i'd dock points from the game (which i otherwise felt was damn near perfect) because of how anti-climatic the payoff was.

That was like the coolest final boss ever. I liked the next to last one too (if only because it was neat looking and creative), but I woulda been disappointed if it turned out to be the last.

What was so different from the other endings, Rob? You did stick till the end of the credits, right?

yessir, i saw it through. i just honestly felt it to be very lame. for a game that took me 60 some-odd hours to beat (over the course of months), and a zelda game larger in scope than every other already-amazingly-large zelda game, i was really hoping for some dramaticy, kick assy ending. or at least something that lasted a few minutes.

outside of the credit scroll sequences, the ending was maybe two mintues long. and anti climatic.



i just felt a little cheated. with such a HUGE build up and the game being so amazing, even up to and through the final boss, the ending sequence woefully undercut the rest of it, for me.

I think they just took what could have been a long ending sequence and merged it with the credits. Still wouldn't have been as cool as the one in OOT, though.