E3 2014: Hyrule Warriors looks great!

Now THIS is more like it! The graphics in this game look clean and sharp and colourful and the character designs have a genuinely cool bad-ass look. Princess Zelda herself has never looked this good and she gets to kick serious butt! All the characters look like they have been sculpted to perfection.

Contrast this with the new Zelda reveal where we can barely see anything with the blurriness.

E3 2014: New Zelda reveal from Aonuma looks really bad

Oh dear. I absolutely hate the way this looks. It appears that this is continuing the blurry, bloomy, blindingly bright look that made everyone hate Skyward Sword. Wind Waker HD suffered from this too and made the in-game text almost impossible to read in both games.

Compare this to how good Hyrule Warriors looks! If I was working for the "Zelda Team" I would be very nervous!

Nintendo Digital Event E3 2014 today

I watched this on YouTube where the stream was decent enough. I would've used the Twitter feed but Twitter doesn't show the latest tweets first any more.

Lots of nice stuff were announced! New Zelda looks crap compared to Hyrule Warriors it must be said.

"Shard of Nightmare" eh?

The rumoured Zelda title for Wii U as we approach E3 2014! It sounds like something from the "good vs evil" theme that runs in the Kirby series or a frivolous Castlevania subtitle. It also stirs memories of Twilight Princess wherein the mirror shards were sought.

16x16 pixel tribute to Zelda1

http://labs.benpurdy.com/zelda/

Wow! I think I like this better than the real Zelda1! Don't have to do those stuffy dungeons.

This was done as an entry to a programming competition. Very nice effort I must say.

Sonic Lost World Zelda dlc - how to find all three extra heart containers

1st is on one of the pillars you have to shimmy up in Hyrule Field.
2nd one you have to use the black bomb wisp item to blow up a crack in the floor of the cave. Hold the GamePad flat or else it'll roll away!
3rd one is further along the path in the cave.

This dlc was a nice weird tribute to Zelda. It's not as good as the Yoshi stage but it's cool to experience. The best part for me was "filipping" the Deku nuts back at the Scrubs.

DS games coming to Wii U VC!

This is good news! Maybe this is the chance for games like the two Zeldas for the DS to get proper analogue stick controls!

Misadventures of Link series on Nintendo Video

I've watched a few of these. The first one or two tried to be funny and it just had me wonder why they'd put out something like this. Afterwards they showed things like maybe you could see them as tips on your journey in Wind Waker's world and I liked that more. It's a fine advertorial for the recent releases in the Zelda series too.

Hyrule Warriors

Wow, that announcement was a mindblow wasn't it? I haven't played any Dynasty Warriors games before but I bet loads of copies will be sold somewhere. The game itself is looking very nice.

Link to the Past 50 Hz on Wii U again :(

Corrected aspect ratio so no borders and there was optimisation in the original release but still. Fuck sake.

Link Between Worlds doesn't force you to re-read what a gathered ingredient is when you restore from a save!

You just collect it like it's an ordinary item! This was another major thing that was wrong with Skyward Sword and it also affected Twilight Princess. They repeated the same message at you when you switched the game back on after a save.

In fact, the text in Link Between Worlds really doesn't interrupt the flow of the game and that's a really nice thing.

Link Between Worlds has text that's easy to read!

Skyward Sword and Wind Waker 3D had really horrible text presentation. The reddish orange text on the keywords just wasn't legible most of the time and the rest of the text didn't display properly when shown against certain backgrounds. This was particularly appalling in Skyward Sword.

Link Between Worlds has lovely text presentation of a good readable size AND you can press A to fill the box quickly while it's scrolling.

Nice to see Nintendo back on form with this! :)

Exploring Hyrule with rented items

Since it's Winter here in Ireland I have to take frequent breaks from playing Link Between Worlds because my hands get too cold to play—so let's blog!

The rental system is beautiful. I got the hookshot, bombs, hammer and other things that enable me to explore the big wide world of Hyrule with ease(apart from the bad guys). Like other Zelda games it's so much fun to find and navigate caves and mazes for treasure. There's a damn fun chicken avoiding sub-game as well.

I've yet to fully judge the impact this has on the plot — I haven't progressed since I started renting — but my belief is that enabling adventure without having to earn it through exposition should be encouraged as much as possible.

Aonuma's Mii coming through SpotPass lately (playing Link Between Worlds)

Be sure to connect online to get Aonuma's Mii again through SpotPass. The last time he was available was when E3 was on. We got nearly the entire company that week!.

So far, A Link Between Worlds is even better than A Link to the Past!

Bold thing of me to say but I'm enjoying it so much! The animation is so smooth and the switch to a painting mechanic is such a cool new feature that I'm willing to believe that the rest of the game will top Zelda 3!

I must note that although Zelda 3 is the favourite of many, it isn't my favourite Zelda(though I do love it to bits).

Link Between Worlds is out today!

Yay! GameStop is selling it for 50 Euro but shop around if you have the time.

Like 3D World, this game is getting some good review scores! That game comes out here next week.

Game Grumps know their constellations!

Nice cosy moment in the Game Grumps Wind Waker series where Arin and Dan identified Orion and Ursa Major in the game's night sky—before going on to talk about... something else. They are among the truly cultured :P

It's a good skill to have when you're going on dates. You can go right up close to your date—like, cheek to cheek—and point out a couple of constellations in the night sky.

The other skill is good to have too when you have a gf.

Cool adventure-y ad for Link Between Worlds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVoq1H9yLMI

Ahhhh I really like this ad. Exciting and adventure-y and someone even said in a comment section somewhere that it was practically "Raiders Of The Lost Link".

Game Grumps not doing Wind Waker HD properly, but what a hoot!

What is properly anyway? They're just exploring every inch of the island, finding cool stuff, hanging out and making us laugh lots!

The snotty nose kid and the pigs become highly developed comedy characters through their individual gameplay. It's quite beautiful!

Game Grumps doing Wind Waker HD

Always a moment of joy when they do a game you love!

The red text in the game looks absolutely dreadful and I wonder if they or any of the community will talk about it.