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Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

Well, this game just got released here, and I hope to get the Limited/Collectors/whatever Edition, or I'll have no motivation to get this game for a while.

Posted: Nov 24 2011 08:03 am

So my copy of LoZ arrived today. I guess it missed some shipping scans. I will hopefully boot it up today before going to my uncle's house.

Posted: Nov 25 2011 05:38 am

So...I picked up a new Wii today and my Walmart's last collector's edition copy (We had some excellent sales. The Wii was $99 and the CE Skyward Sword was standard copy price). I'm so excited to play this now!

Posted: Nov 25 2011 07:52 am

What's the deal with the $99 Wii? I heard that it doesn't play Gamecube games?

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

So, after some play time, I am going to flat out say it. This game rocks once you get into the first dungeon. Getting there was 4 hours of tedious babysitting by Nintendo, however it was worth every minute to get things ramped up and going.

Posted: Nov 25 2011 04:02 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

What's the deal with the $99 Wii? I heard that it doesn't play Gamecube games?

they got rid of the gamecube controller ports and the memory card slots, iirc

Posted: Nov 25 2011 11:20 pm

Ghirahim is the best Zelda villain ever so far. The fights with him are so much more intense than the usual giant monsters for some reason.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

You're all frightening me, stop it.

Posted: Nov 26 2011 02:14 pm

[SPOILER:7bbbf8ba3b]Hey, normally I hate spoilers, but I just wanted to ask you all, what the hell has happened to Kukiel? Did Ghirahim go pedophile on us and kidnap her?[/SPOILER:7bbbf8ba3b]

Posted: Nov 26 2011 02:48 pm

I just beat the game this morning. I gotta say overall, it's a very middle-of-the-road Zelda game. The reviews for this game were way over hyping it. There's really not all that much to do and the stuff they put in to make you keep going back to the same 3 places really feel like filler. I'm not even going to go in depth on the motion controls because why bother? It's the Wii, you already know it doesn't work as advertised. Maybe I'll flesh out my review in the future because there were some good points to the game too. In the end, for a Zelda game, it's kind of weak, kind of tired, and kind of dull.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Sideway I'll agree with you on the running back and forth.

Quite honestly I was expecting like dungeons and stuff in the clouds, as well as dungeons on the surface and all the areas on the surface being connected rather than flying to three different places.

On the note of flying, it's kind of hard to get a good measure of distance while riding a loftwing.
Also, the cloud area didn't need to be spaced so far apart, that was annoying.

Ghirahim = awesome, 'nuff said.

I will go into motion controls though :p
Quite honestly, they tried to make it more precise than the average player is. Stuff like the lizards are hard to keep up with when they move that fast and require precise movements. I found a couple of the boss fights easier to deal with than I did certain enemies.

Also Ky-guy that's part of a sidequest. And no, It's not Ghirahim

I talked to a friend that's beaten it and I am close. So maybe my opinion will change a bit once I beat it

Posted: Nov 27 2011 11:20 am

Hacker wrote:

Also Ky-guy that's part of a sidequest. And no, It's not Ghirahim

OK, good, though I discovered it last night.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

My thoughts so far...

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

For those of you who beat it, what is your total play time?

Posted: Nov 28 2011 01:09 am

My total playtime was 53 hours, I was really cramming to finish it during the days I had off for Thanksgiving. I did spend a good amount of that time on sidequests.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

You know when you're climbing some vines and the game says you can leap via some motion control black magic? Cannot do it. Unless one of you can initiate me into the hidden mysteries of leaping while on vines, I will never make it past this silent realm challenge, because it is required.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Uh... take your Wii remote and flick it in a direction... you will leap in that direction. If you can't do it, you should get a new Wii Remote... or wrist.

Posted: Nov 28 2011 09:28 am

I didn't realize the bundle was only available via preorder. Fucking A. There goes that gift idea.

Posted: Nov 28 2011 11:54 am

Arlock41 wrote:

So that spirit Navi replacement thing sounds like GlaDos. I am frightened.

I'm the only one around here who thinks the same thing. Everyone else here likened it to autotuning for some reason.

Posted: Dec 07 2011 12:44 pm

Thought you guys might want to know about a major bug to avoid. It doesn't look like you risk massive spoilers by reading this.

Posted: Dec 07 2011 04:21 pm

So, there's a glitch that if it occurs, (involving collecting the Song of Heroes so this is Sixth temple stuff here), stops you from beating the main game. How to avoid it is covered here:
[SPOILER:7f65af5105]We have been made aware of the issue that results in being unable to progress in the Song of the Hero quest. If the game has been saved after completing the sequence of events, it will no longer be possible to proceed through the game on that save file. The only options at that point are to either start the game over or to use an earlier save file to continue.

The situation is caused by performing the following sequence of events during the Song of the Hero quest:

1. At the beginning of the quest, go to Lanayru Desert to retrieve the song of the Thunder Dragon.

2. In the Lanayru Mine, speak with Golo the Goron.

3. Complete the Thunder Dragon's event, and receive his song.

4. Before heading to the forest or volcano regions, speak with Golo in the mine again.

5. At this point, the forest and volcano events will no longer occur, making it impossible to continue.

Solutions:

• This issue WILL NOT OCCUR if the Fire and Water Dragon songs have already been collected before collecting the Thunder Dragon's song. Talking to Golo in the Lanayru Caves will also NOT trigger this issue.

• If the game has been saved after completing the sequence of events, it will no longer be possible to proceed through the game on that save file. The only options at that point are to either start the game over or to use an earlier save file to continue.

I wish I had a better answer, but I'm afraid there currently is no other fix available. I can assure, however, that we are documenting all feedback we receive on this issue. Thank you for your patience and support.

Sincerely,

Sharon Matheny [/SPOILER:7f65af5105]

I don't usually sequence break with Zelda games so it shouldn't affect me.

Title: Naunie Joined: Dec 07 2008 Posts: 1026

Let it be known that I fucking hate the Lanaryu area.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

lordsathien wrote:

So, there's a glitch that if it occurs, (involving collecting the Song of Heroes so this is Sixth temple stuff here), stops you from beating the main game. How to avoid it is covered here:
[SPOILER:cf35158271]We have been made aware of the issue that results in being unable to progress in the Song of the Hero quest. If the game has been saved after completing the sequence of events, it will no longer be possible to proceed through the game on that save file. The only options at that point are to either start the game over or to use an earlier save file to continue.

The situation is caused by performing the following sequence of events during the Song of the Hero quest:

1. At the beginning of the quest, go to Lanayru Desert to retrieve the song of the Thunder Dragon.

2. In the Lanayru Mine, speak with Golo the Goron.

3. Complete the Thunder Dragon's event, and receive his song.

4. Before heading to the forest or volcano regions, speak with Golo in the mine again.

5. At this point, the forest and volcano events will no longer occur, making it impossible to continue.

Solutions:

• This issue WILL NOT OCCUR if the Fire and Water Dragon songs have already been collected before collecting the Thunder Dragon's song. Talking to Golo in the Lanayru Caves will also NOT trigger this issue.

• If the game has been saved after completing the sequence of events, it will no longer be possible to proceed through the game on that save file. The only options at that point are to either start the game over or to use an earlier save file to continue.

I wish I had a better answer, but I'm afraid there currently is no other fix available. I can assure, however, that we are documenting all feedback we receive on this issue. Thank you for your patience and support.

Sincerely,

Sharon Matheny [/SPOILER:cf35158271]

I don't usually sequence break with Zelda games so it shouldn't affect me.

Read directly above you.

Posted: Dec 09 2011 04:46 pm

My very first game ruining bug came from another Zelda game. In Link's Awakening, I used a key on the wrong place in the water temple which prevented me from ever obtaining another key so I could get to the place I needed to go in first. I was pretty pissed.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

I did that in Zelda 2, used a key from the fourth temple in the fifth one, so I had to start over again.