In this week's Default Settings, all bets are off as columnist Alex Carlson revisits the horrors that are the Zelda and Mario games for the Philips CD-i. But are these bad decisions just stains on the franchises' legacies or are they something more, something that Nintendo needs to stop pretending doesn't exist?
Screen Rant, "The return of one controversial character could have an incredible effect on The Legend of Zelda, prompting the introduction of new features."
Honestly I really changed my mind on Fi with the remaster because they didn't make her interrupt your gameplay every 5 seconds, that drastically changed my views on her
Technically she's in ToTK but obviously can't take any other form than the sword she was made into. Also the companion feature has been done plenty of times in Zelda, I don't think it'll add anything new. If anything should be brought back it should be the Minish.
Matt from We Game Daily writes "The Legend of Zelda series has gone in a different direction. One which, try as I have, I just can’t get on board with. Here is why I think Zelda should return to its 3D roots."
Amen! A good, tight, Zelda game with a focus on dungeons and puzzles. Let people have the new style Zelda if you gotta, but let us have the OoT style games too. That's not without precedent either, the handheld 2D Zelda's in the style of A Link to the Past etc have coexisted alongside the 3D Zelda's before
As much as I like BoTW, TotK, I need my traditional Zelda games as well, I could not endlessly play the open world Zelda games, plus it's harder to keep those fresher than the traditional games.
BotW was just as fresh to the franchise as OoT was. TokT was great but the next LoZ would have to move from that formula to be fresh again. There's only so much they can do with the hardware. I think they focused too much on making the world big instead impactful. I felt the world was sort of empty and repetitive in TotK, sure there was a lot to do but no more difference a Ubisoft game..
Wind Waker had a perfect balance of open world and a cool, well hand-crafted design. Maybe try to keep the open world but put in effort to make more memorable story driven quests and locations.
A fan of The Legend of Zelda has recreated the iconic Japanese monster Godzilla in Tears of the Kingdom using the game's Zonai devices.
I like it would also be cool if some created Dragon Caesar in the game I would love to watch the two going at it.
Man are the cut scenes gold though :)
Ha! I was talking about this the other day when someone proposed Nintendo pair up with Sony. That's the other side of this fiasco - Nintendo banked on Sony and Kutaragi, but they couldn't negotiate licensing. They fell out.
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Then Nintendo decided to continue with Phillips. Phillips was Sony's competitor, so they wanted to thumb their noses at Sony. Phillips had a CD idea too. The CD-i. And they had the license to make a few Nintendo franchises without approval. They were going to do a sequel to Super Mario World, but when *those* two fell out, they just said "screw it" and made these.
Honestly, I think it would be the best merger ever if Nintendo and Sony got together. Sony excels especially at leveraging its European studios for great games - its Japan studios do well too, most of the time, when it isn't The Last Guardian, but the addition of Nintendo would seal the deal for old-school gamers like me, against the Xbox, the PC, the Ouya, the iPad, etc.
But they won't. They're so frightened by what happened with the friggin' CD-i, when really, it's probably this guy's fault: a cutthroat lawyer who drove Nintendo's legal team for years. They won a little *too* much with Sony (that's not how negotiation works) and probably drove them out:
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Yeah they started a bunch of youtube poops which have helped me lose my mind. Mah boi, dinner.