Something to piss you off: Right now, as I sit here sipping a chilled mimosa and you glued to your monitor, Kotaku's Mark Wilson is playing Twilight Princess. (Actually, he's probably dreaming about what he played today, but still.) What does he think? No clue. Seriously. Why? Nintendo of America has embargoed it until Friday.

Something else to piss you off: Right now, millions of Japanese people are reading in depth hands-on reviews of Twilight Princess, reviews that you cannot. Why?

To piss you off.

The good news. These early Japanese impress indicate that the game is gonna rock. There's Link. A wolf. And pure goodness, apparently. So. I'll dive in, try to highlight what Game Watch Impress and Famitsu, both of which got to try the game out on October 27 in Tokyo, said about the way it looks and how it plays. I've heard there's a lag, but didn't see that mentioned. Maybe it was there, and I missed it. If so, feel free to add anything I missed in the comments section. Onwards!

Game Watch
Flicking or shaking it causes Link to attack. Game Watch noted that the controller is light and does not cause the wrist to get tired after extended play. Play is intuitive, and Link moves smoothly. Controlling Wolf Link is like controlling human Link. The game's graphics, they liked them. The site states, "Controlling Link and moving the controller and seeing Link synchronize with the movements was a different kind of exhilaration from anything out there." Game Watch calls the one-two compatibility punch of Twilight Princess and the Wii-mote "preeminent." In short, they dug it.
Famitsu
The website writes, "The oneness with the character has improved greatly than a past controller." Take mini games, like fishing, which are done with the Wii remote. They called the Wii-mote operation "more intuitive." Buttons are for things like jumping. While the new controller and nunchaku are for moving and attacking. Likewise, they couldn't say enough good things about the game. The November 10th issue of Famitsu will feature a more in-depth look on paper. So you can touch it.
Mark Wilson's impressions will be here on Friday.


anyone who gets the gamecube version is a fool ;p

i really say that because miyamoto says he cant go back to playing it on GC because he enjoys the wii version so much

I preorded the GC one
Guess I'll go change it to wii, even though I might not get one

Its too late to switch pre-orders to Wii zelda lol.

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great new zelda videos, the intro to the game rocks

http://www.n-europe.com/media/Zelda_Wii ... _small.wmv

a brand new trailer

http://www.n-europe.com/media/Zelda_Wii ... _small.wmv

and some new gameplay shown

http://us.wii.com/viewer_zelda.jsp?vid=8

Damn those trailers look cool. The videos of the guys playing it were kinda cool too. Damnit I'll still be playing FFXII when this comes out It's gonna collect dust in my room for a while.

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http://wii.ign.com/articles/744/744044p1.html

choice parts
Two Systems - One Game
Twilight Princess may have started as a GameCube title, but it finished a Wii one. There remains this faction of gamers that refuses to accept the possibility. You know who you are. You continue to argue that because the controls were originally designed for the GameCube pad there is no hope for the Wii build. You say that your arms will get tired using the Wii remote. You speak of mirrored worlds and right-handed Link. And you know what? It's all crap. If you buy Twilight Princess for GameCube and not Wii, you are a fool. And I state that without meaning to suggest that the GCN iteration is flawed - it isn't. It's an amazing swan song for Nintendo's older system. But neither is it as good as the Wii incarnation. In fact, were it up to me and not Nintendo (and in my dreams, it is), I'd have scrapped the GCN build altogether, forcing everyone to exclusively buy the Wii version. Honestly, Nintendo gave you five good years with GameCube; it doesn't owe you a damned thing.


If Wii Sports is for the non-gamers, Twilight Princess is for the hardcore. After I spent 10 hours with the game, I barely managed to squeak by two temples, with the third so far off that I could scarcely imagine getting there, let alone approach the objective. (For the record, out of 30 or so journalists, nobody came close to the third temple.) I asked how long it took Nintendo's testers to complete the entire game the first time through. The answer is a whopping 70-plus hours. Adding insult to injury, diabolical Nintendo translator and localization manager Bill Trinen told me that he was working on his second play-through of the game. Knowing what to do and where to go, and skipping cut-scenes, Trinen said that he had logged about 27 hours to make it about two thirds of the way through the temples themselves - and that doesn't account for any of the side quests or time sinks like fishing, a single operation that could easily add hours upon hours to Zelda's depth. .

There is every reason to get Zelda on Wii, but if you're still not convinced that the controls work just fine, consider that I was just as skeptical as you are now before I put some serious play time into the game. So were the other 30 or so journalists who played alongside me. And when the gameplay session came to its too-early end, everybody in attendance agreed that the Wii remote and nunchuk combo performed beautifully. Nobody's arms were tired. Nobody felt that the continuity of the game universe had been sacrificed because the landscapes and items had been mirrored. And nobody complained that Link was a right-hander. In fact, we had a couple lefties who said playing with the game on Wii felt very natural.

Wait, is Link right-handed in this game? Never noticed in the screenshots. That's lame if he is. . .

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yeah cuz they wanted it to be more realistic with the wii controller, they just mirrored the image lol

Wow ghey.

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idc

Haha... left-handed people.

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lolol gl playing this game efficiently, first you have to lear how to use a mouse and now a remote lol

I'm ambidextrous but it bothers me that they changed Link from being left-handed to being right handed just so you could swing his sword around en vecu. -_-

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Hey, Hey, back off, or I'll backhand you with my non-ambidextrous left hand, and just be grateful that the game IS

rather than is NOT.

True true, sorry sorry. And I just realized I said irl in french at the end of that last post lol. God I'm retarded.

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