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Nintendo makes games, games they hope will sell. Skyward Sword HD is evidence enough that Nintendo is willing to recode its gimmicky games with traditional control schemes, but I feel that they would never bother to do so with any of the DS/3DS games. If there was ever a future remake of them, all the unique stylus control methods could be replaced with proper mapping of both analogue sticks. Granted, the Wii U was an appropriate device to give them a second chance, but if anything, it just proved to me that the game shouldn’t have been locked to a touchscreen to begin with. Which poses an even bigger threat for potential proper rereleases of these games in the future.

Fri 28th May I certainly didn’t hate the DS Zeldas, I just thought that the forced implementation of touch controls not only felt tacked on at the time, but made the games that much harder to go back and fully enjoy after the whole “touch generation” gimmick fell to the wayside, especially given that even the 3DS backed off a considerable amount with its first party efforts to force the stylus.

It's almost as though Nintendo's plan was to sneak in new things without totally spooking the fans, like hiding your dog's pills in a piece of steak.

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Even in other Nintendo series released around the same time as ALBW, like Super Mario 3D World, the aesthetics are comfortingly similar.

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For all the company's madcap experimentation, new ideas were often explored in the skins of old ones: Phantom Hourglass is set in the Wind Waker world ALBW is set in exactly the same place as A Link to the Past Skyward Sword is an attempt to patch up a hole in the timeline. It paints over the top of a version of Hyrule we know and love, and shows us that, actually, change can not only be good, but it can be utterly transformative.īut A Link Between Worlds is also a sign of how tentative Nintendo could be in the pre-Switch era. Don't get me wrong - there are a lot of extremely clever design decisions in Zelda games, and the designers at Nintendo are some of the best in the world - but that Hyrule Historia mega-timeline smacks of retconning to me.Ī Link Between Worlds not only plays with convention, it literally takes a sacred childhood memory - the world of A Link to the Past - and begins to shuffle it off the edge of a table like a cat with a glass of water. Image: Nintendo / Nintendo Lifeīut, much like how everyone assumes that every tiny detail in Dark Souls is brimming with meaning, even if it's something like 'this door doesn't open' or 'I used debug codes to clip into this man's body and he has eyeballs inside his feet', people are very happy to ascribe various things in Zelda to the genius of its creators, rather than just being lucky accidents or beautiful mistakes. I think that a lot of Zelda games, especially the earlier ones that branch off in weird directions, were probably the result of the designers getting a bit bored with the established formula, and wanting to stretch their wings a little. Now, I do love a Zelda, but I'm not generally of the opinion that, for example, the team who made Majora's Mask did so with a decades-long legacy in mind.

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