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It amazes me that the Wii U can't even handle an eleven year old game perfectly.

Zelda and Link deserve better.



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Love his reviews. Still think he's being too generous.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.

"It's unfortunate that it isn't available right from the start"

You can get the Swift Sail after completing Dragoon Roost Cavern. Although unless you saw the Nintendo Directs there isn't really anyway of knowing that; I'm not sure if the game ever tells you of the existence of the swift sail, there's probably an NPC but who knows.

Edit: also getting the swift sail is tedious, I don't know what the chances of appearing in the auction house are but god dammit it took me a long ass time to finally show up.



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Nintendo should do like most publishers and make bare bones HD remasters and sell them for 40$. The gamer in me would love that. I don't want no stinky 60$ HD remasters with improved gameplay and a new lighting engine! :P



7.5 only?! I haven't played it yet but I'm kinda regretting pick this up instead of Pikmin.



    

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RolStoppable said:
osed125 said:

"It's unfortunate that it isn't available right from the start"

You can get the Swift Sail after completing Dragoon Roost Cavern. Although unless you saw the Nintendo Directs there isn't really anyway of knowing that; I'm not sure if the game ever tells you of the existence of the swift sail, there's probably an NPC but who knows.

Edit: also getting the swift sail is tedious, I don't know what the chances of appearing in the auction house are but god dammit it took me a long ass time to finally show up.

The chances of it appearing increase when there are fewer items in the rotation. Since the swift sail didn't replace any item from the original release, it brings the total to five. That puts the initial chance at 20%. Buy other things to increase the chance to 25%, 33%, 50% and 100%.

Yep I know that, but at that point in the game (after Dragoon Roost that is) you really don't have much cash, so you can't really buy all items to increase the chance of the Swift Sail to appear; and iirc the Sail can costs at the lowest 200 rupees and there are other items (like a Piece of Heart and Treasure Charts) that cost around the same...I guess you can grind for rupees, but again, at that point in the game it would be extremely tedious.

This isn't a problem later when you have more cash.



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Slarvax said:
"This isn't the best Zelda by any means"
...
You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?


This.



RolStoppable said:

The initial rupee bag's size was increased from 200 to 500. It's hardly a problem to return to Windfall Island with a full bag of rupees, because the minigame on Dragon Roost Island reliably nets you 75+ rupees per attempt. That is, if you even have to play it more than once, because there are plenty of treasure chests with rupees even early in the game. Proper bidding allows you to come in at around 160 rupees per item, so you could buy three of them without having to stock up on rupees. There are plenty of pots that contain five rupees scattered around Windfall Island, the money should respawn just like the pots themselves.

What minigame are you talking about? The card throwing one? that's the only one I can think off at the moment, and if my memory serves me well, you can get at best 35 or so rupees (and that's an extremely good score).



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I never played the original and the HD version is only 50 bones in Canada, so I'm very pleased with the title.



RolStoppable said:
osed125 said:

What minigame are you talking about? The card throwing one? that's the only one I can think off at the moment, and if my memory serves me well, you can get at best 35 or so rupees (and that's an extremely good score).

Yes, the one where you sort the letters. Your reward increases everytime you reach a new threshold. At first you get one rupee for every two letters, but if you manage a score of 20, it increases to one rupee per letter. Manage a score of 25 and it increases to three rupees per letter.

Never knew that (or I probably never paid attention), I only did that game so that I could get the letter from the normal dude and get the piece of heart. 



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