Posts by Kaynil

    I still buy Wii games if they are affordable, but only selected titles I cared for and couldn't get before.
    Last game I ever bought for me was probably Hyrule Warriors. I held for over a year the itch to get taht game because I felt itw as too expensive and I wasn't sure I was going to like it or not.

    Sarah Brightman is a great source. This reminded me of two songs:

    The first one is one I know by Mecano called "Hijo de La Luna" (Son of the Moon). I found a video with a good enough translation:

    The second song I was reminded the song of the Phantom of the Opera

    Gotta love The Cranberries. Most of the time, their videos are so weird that they completely throw you off from the meaning of the song and the message that the lyrics are supposed to convey. :pokerlink:


    Agreed. To be honest I initially was aiming to link to a lyrics video for that same reason.

    Do you have sad songs to share too? :D

    These days there has been one image circulating that perfectly sums up the Journey, it is quite simple but for many very powerful:


    Originally published on deviantART by Shutwig.

    I am sure it is not the only image around worth seeing and I will be happy if you guys share another touching images for the anniversary, but above all I'd love to know what has been your journey with the franchise. We all started in different points, perhaps in that first adventure we ignored the past.

    The Legend of Zelda started out in the NES, it is a very simple game when compared to what has become but it is still beloved and good to hold its ground within the console even up to this day. The Legend of Zelda was in its time pioneer in many things we take for granted, like cartridges with battery to save your progress. A game that you had to take your time to explore instead of just pumping through levels like the arcade games were used to. You had to actually think. Skill alone wouldn't save you. Hyrule was filled with puzzles. You needed to take your time. The music was excellent and many people spent many hours playing the quest and discovering a harder quest available. Today it is easy to minimize just how much modern gaming owns to The Legend of Zelda. At the time it was released there was no way to know how would this game be received, much less that it was going to spawn a long legacy.

    Every Zelda game that was released after it has added something unique, while the game keeps some elements through most of the series it has not been afraid to challenge opinions and paradigms. Different Links have gone through many different adventures and lands, getting to know in the way many unique and memorable characters as well as to wield different weapons.

    We have grown with different games and today we find ourselves eagerly waiting to return to its land in the new Zelda U. We have a new hero from which we know very little, but it is time to trust he'd guide us back where we want to be. No matter what evil is arising we know we will prevail!

    Thank you Nintendo and Happy Birthday The Legend of Zelda!

    That said, I LOVED Tp. that's right. I said it. I LOVE TP.


    Thank goodness this thread is not all one sided. It has been pretty interesting reading all your opinions about it.

    Having the herding stuff as a minigame to discover would have added a lot of depth and feeling, instead of it being mandatory (and thus linear).

    I agree taht some things from the opening could have been optional. I honestly didn't mind it the first time because you are exploring and talking with people anyway, but it is annoying you cannot skip steps and I could feel a bit of what you meant by forced last time I tried to start the game because I had a vague memory of what to do but the game wasn't ready for me to do it and taht is frustrating. if these minigames like the herding were optional the intro in subsequent playthroughs could be shortened.

    With that said, I usually tend to appreciate the intro as a way to give me a sense of what is the life I have before tragedy strikes. I didn't feel the dialog to be tiring or boring, but it had to do taht I was actually pretty invested in the game. It seemed like it was going to be bigger than the Hyrule I remembered and after Termina and WW isles Twilight Princess with field and horse was pretty welcome to me..

    I never considered it beyond that until now. But that cutscene with the enemies dropping and making the twilight shield to block Link is so tedious! Do they have to play that each time?

    Hahah. I actually felt a bit annoyed about that but it never bothered me enough to retain it. i just know taht when it happens it'd sometime would break the flow for me.

    And another thing. What's the twilight thing all about? I just don't get it.
    "I'm so scared!"
    "Why?"
    "I don't know, I'm completely unaware of my twilight situation, everything seems normal, AARHHHHGG!! SCARY!"
    "So, everything's fine?"
    "Look, a rat!"

    For me it was just that unsettling feeling of knowing something is wrong and not being able to put your finger on it. I think the state gave the resident a perpetual state of tension. Like the infrasound that makes you feel on edge even if you cannot consciously perceive it. I never thought their fear needed an explanation as I thought their being consudemed by twilight was the source of it, even if they weren't aware of what had changed.

    Oh yeah, and I also happened to help TS port the Super Spinner AR cheat code to the PAL versions of the game back in the day. Seeing this quote...

    "Huge thanks to Papayo of ARCentral.net for working with me to get this ported to the PAL(E) region!"

    ... still makes me all warm and happy inside, lol! If anybody's interested in seeing the cheat in action:
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    That's so cool! I had no idea. That cheat gives a lot more to do with the item. Out of the designated areas there really wasn't much you could do with it.

    Yeah. it surprises me just how much detail they can take out to flesh a full story about how things worked before and after the games. it seems like some people really believe in this dark era of the Hyrule family and the big abuse the Sheikah had to go through. It is just so much taken out of little things here and there in the game.

    Regardless with what I might or not agree, it is quite interesting seeing peo9ple diving so deeply into the series.

    The problem with the skins idea is that (if I've got it right) the color of Link's hat would be dependant on the skin of the poster - but really you'd want it to be based on the skin of the viewer, otherwise it's a little pointless. And that sounds a lot harder to achieve.

    If I conditioned a set to a skin then you guys would have no control. It wouldn't be "I'm posting this red hat smiling Link". It would just be smiling Link, and depending the skin is how it would appear to the viewer. So if the viewer had a different skin,they won't see the same smilie you did.

    In the end, it helps a lot to know what you guys would prefer because in the end it's for the community to enjoy. Even if it might take a while activating them. I have no problem going the "extra" step to get them all up and available regardless of skin. I just want to know people want this.

    It looks a bit pointless repeating the same set many times if there is no interest.

    So, @Sardonic Pickle wanted to make something in light of the 30th Anniversary coming close, so we made a joint video talking about some of the Zelda games we owned and tried to play through the beginning of each of them. It is done in parts. You can check his channel if you want to see them directly, if you don't mind waiting then feel free to just watch this thread instead.

    I hope you can enjoy it! Please let us know what you think!

    PART 1 - Adventure of Link (NES)


    Anyone who knows the beginning of AoL will get a headache watching us trying to understand where to go, hahah.

    PART 2- MAjora's Mask

    PART 3 - Twilight Princess

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    The Cranberries

    What's interesting about Beetlejuice, the animated series, is the fact that it was the first and probably only attempt of regular Cartoon Network animators to adapt to Tim Burton's drawing style. You know how recently some artists took it as a challenge to adapt various cartoon and tv shows characters to Tim Burton's style (such as Doctor Who and various Disney characters just to see what they would look like? Well, Beetlejuice was exactly the opposite of this. They took characters that had originally been created by Tim Burton and tried to adapt them as much as possible to a child-friendly, Cartoon Network-ish show. They do resemble Tim Burton's earlier cartoons (e.g.: Vincent), but also have a more Hanna & Barbera look to them and a more fluid way of moving than the stiff movements that are characteristic of Burton's cartoons.


    It is pretty interesting. back in the day I didn't know that a movie existed until after the cartoon was well known and watching it you realise that the cartoon really took liberties with some aspects of the characters, including beetlejuice himself. Still you were sucked into a world of its own and I think it was a success. I don't think it is easy to adapt Tim Burton's style into child-friendly cartoons wand still keep the atmosphere vibe. The awakening of Beetlejuice from his grave in the opening of the second season still gets me.
    Honestly the past year were filled with grizzly reboots of fairy tales and recounts of old historical figures with a supernatural fantasy mixture. I hope the wheel turns around soon enough.

    I've never watched any of the ones mentioned in this thread so far. I'll have to check them out when I have some free time.

    If we're talking about old cartoons, does "Cow and Chicken" and "Beetlejuice" fall into this category? Those are the earliest cartoon shows I remember watching as a kid.

    Cow and Chicken was probably after but Beetlejuice might actually make the 1995 limit cut.
    And I want to add that I freaking loved that show! ♥