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Are you planning to buy Echoes of Wisdom?

I already pre-ordered 7 46.67%
 
Picking it up soon 4 26.67%
 
Waiting for a sale 2 13.33%
 
No, it's not for me 2 13.33%
 
Total:15
Veknoid_Outcast on 29 August 2013
S.Peelman said:
I was probably the happiest person in the world last night.

Of course, I am talking about a Zelda related moment, what else would make me happy at night? Finally. I did it, I beat Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the first time ever. The original cartridge on my NES of course, I don't wuss out by playing it on virtual console. This now replaces beating the original Zelda a couple of years ago as the greatest gaming achievement of my life. Was it hard? Yes, it's brutal.

I had never even been able to get past the first dungeon (not on NES, not on GC and not on 3DS, though I barely tried on the last one), until I found the secret. After first leveling up a few times I was strong enough to get through the first dungeon. What a relief.

According to the counter, I've been game-over 62 times. With the 3 lives you get plus the 5 extra lives I got during the whole game, that means I've died a whopping 191 times! The 2nd, 5th, 6th and last dungeons (those jumping knight enemies!) gave me the most problems. Besides that, the journey to the 4th dungeon, the Maze Island, and the long path towards the last dungeon, the Valley of Death were serious struggles. Especially the latter, it lives up to it's name. As far as bosses go, they're all hard but I had the most difficult time with the 6th boss, the fire dragon. Also, the Thunderbird in the final dungeon gave me a hard time.

Funnily though, the things this game's difficulty is notorious for gave me little problems. Death Mountain and Dark Link were both 'doable'. Yes, they were still hard and still I died, but it didn't took a lot of tries to get through those parts. Dark Link's fight is long, because it's extremely hard to hit him and you have to be lucky enough to stay alive long enough by jumping around frantically dodging everything, but at least he doesn't deal a whole lot of damage surprisingly, contrary to the Thunderbird right before him who kills you in only four hits. I do probably make it sound easier than it was though, because I finished that final battle with only half a pixel of health left...

So naturally I'm in a happy mood still, and with beating this game, I've beaten every Zelda game that's in my possession, and all but one in the series. The only one left is Four Swords Adventures, which I don't have...

Congrats, man! That's no easy task.

Let us know if you track down a copy of Four Swords Adventures. It's not my favorite, but it can be a lot of fun if you have a good group of friends to play with.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 29 August 2013

Wind Waker bundle available for pre-order through GameStop!

http://www.gamestop.com/wii-u/consoles/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-hd-wii-u-limited-edition-bundle/111373

Who's getting it??



Veknoid_Outcast on 29 August 2013

Here it is in all its glory:



Veknoid_Outcast on 30 August 2013
S.Peelman said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

I feel your pain :(

I really want that Wii U. But I can't justify another $350.

Certainly not.

Luckily I didn't see it announced for Europe anywhere (well, it's 'officially' not announced anywhere I think), so I'll have an excuse for not having it .

Here's something that might make up for missing out on the Wii U Zelda bundle:

http://www.gamestop.com/wii-u/games/the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-hd-gamestop-exclusive-limited-edition/111455



S.Peelman on 30 August 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:
S.Peelman said:
I was probably the happiest person in the world last night.

Of course, I am talking about a Zelda related moment, what else would make me happy at night? Finally. I did it, I beat Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the first time ever. The original cartridge on my NES of course, I don't wuss out by playing it on virtual console. This now replaces beating the original Zelda a couple of years ago as the greatest gaming achievement of my life. Was it hard? Yes, it's brutal.

I had never even been able to get past the first dungeon (not on NES, not on GC and not on 3DS, though I barely tried on the last one), until I found the secret. After first leveling up a few times I was strong enough to get through the first dungeon. What a relief.

According to the counter, I've been game-over 62 times. With the 3 lives you get plus the 5 extra lives I got during the whole game, that means I've died a whopping 191 times! The 2nd, 5th, 6th and last dungeons (those jumping knight enemies!) gave me the most problems. Besides that, the journey to the 4th dungeon, the Maze Island, and the long path towards the last dungeon, the Valley of Death were serious struggles. Especially the latter, it lives up to it's name. As far as bosses go, they're all hard but I had the most difficult time with the 6th boss, the fire dragon. Also, the Thunderbird in the final dungeon gave me a hard time.

Funnily though, the things this game's difficulty is notorious for gave me little problems. Death Mountain and Dark Link were both 'doable'. Yes, they were still hard and still I died, but it didn't took a lot of tries to get through those parts. Dark Link's fight is long, because it's extremely hard to hit him and you have to be lucky enough to stay alive long enough by jumping around frantically dodging everything, but at least he doesn't deal a whole lot of damage surprisingly, contrary to the Thunderbird right before him who kills you in only four hits. I do probably make it sound easier than it was though, because I finished that final battle with only half a pixel of health left...

So naturally I'm in a happy mood still, and with beating this game, I've beaten every Zelda game that's in my possession, and all but one in the series. The only one left is Four Swords Adventures, which I don't have...

Congrats, man! That's no easy task.

Let us know if you track down a copy of Four Swords Adventures. It's not my favorite, but it can be a lot of fun if you have a good group of friends to play with.

Thanks!

I'll let you know, I'm keeping my eye on auction sites for Four Swords Adventures. It's for some reason ridiculously expensive on eBay, so I'll ignore that. On a Dutch auction site it pops up every now and then for 30-40 euro for the big-box version with the GBA-cable. Naturally that's the one I want to have, I think that price is doable (on eBay they ask like 200 . I've been having bad luck though, people keep beating me to it...



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S.Peelman on 30 August 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:
S.Peelman said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

I feel your pain :(

I really want that Wii U. But I can't justify another $350.

Certainly not.

Luckily I didn't see it announced for Europe anywhere (well, it's 'officially' not announced anywhere I think), so I'll have an excuse for not having it .

Here's something that might make up for missing out on the Wii U Zelda bundle:

http://www.gamestop.com/wii-u/games/the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-hd-gamestop-exclusive-limited-edition/111455

Yeah I'll be having that .

The console bundle is coming to Europe after all. I think they made that Ganondorf figurine just for those bummed out they already got a WiiU and will miss out on the Zelda bundle. Well, it works. I want the version with Ganondorf. I haven't seen any retailer offering it in Europe yet though, not even Amazon. Guess pre-orders will be up sometime next week or something. It will come here in any case, the European Nintendo site advertises it, it'll have a different box than that one I see:



Veknoid_Outcast on 30 August 2013
S.Peelman said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
S.Peelman said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

I feel your pain :(

I really want that Wii U. But I can't justify another $350.

Certainly not.

Luckily I didn't see it announced for Europe anywhere (well, it's 'officially' not announced anywhere I think), so I'll have an excuse for not having it .

Here's something that might make up for missing out on the Wii U Zelda bundle:

http://www.gamestop.com/wii-u/games/the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-hd-gamestop-exclusive-limited-edition/111455

Yeah I'll be having that .

The console bundle is coming to Europe after all. I think they made that Ganondorf figurine just for those bummed out they already got a WiiU and will miss out on the Zelda bundle. Well, it works. I want the version with Ganondorf. I haven't seen any retailer offering it in Europe yet though, not even Amazon. Guess pre-orders will be up sometime next week or something. It will come here in any case, the European Nintendo site advertises it, it'll have a different box than that one I see:

Nice, I like the European version a lot.

Already pre-ordered mine through GameStop...took a lot of the sting out of missing the bundle. Plus we can get the hardcopy of the game :D



S.Peelman on 30 August 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Nice, I like the European version a lot.

Already pre-ordered mine through GameStop...took a lot of the sting out of missing the bundle. Plus we can get the hardcopy of the game :D

Nice, then you're all set.

Coincidentally I just found a retailer here that has it up for pre-order now, wasn't yet this afternoon. It's 3-o-clock at night here now, but I don't care. They're asking €80, so I'll wait a few days for the other ones to see what their price is (retailers set their own prices for everything here. mostly they're all in the same ballpark, but if I'm lucky it could potentially save me some money) .



S.Peelman on 30 August 2013

By the way, was the box-art for A Link Between Worlds already posted here? Hadn't seen it:

The US art at least, I think it looks cool. Bit of a non-traditional logo and font for the title, but okay. And Gold is the color to have with Zelda games . It does remind me of A Link to the Past. It has similarities with the Japanese box-art and an artwork from that game.



green_sky on 30 August 2013

That Zelda Wind Waker HD Limited Edition game bundle looks quite nice. I'll stick with the preorder of regular retail copy though. Oct 4 and here we go!