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Today we will be reviewing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD for the Nintendo Wii U. If it sounds like you have heard of this game before, as in some years ago, then youre right. It is an HD Remaster of the original Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker title from the Nintendo Gamecube.

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Legend of Grimrock 2 for iPad is 100% complete

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An updated list of discounted videogame art books includes The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia (44% off to $19.63) The Art of the Uncharted Trilogy (34% off to $26.48), The Art of Dragon Age: Inquisition (31% off to $27.76) and The Art of The Mass Effect Universe (32% off to $27.19).

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The next Legend of Zelda game for Wii U is finally dropping the drawbriges and letting us loose upon Hyrule's vast majesty. Here's what we want to see when we start exploring.

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Hey Poor Player's Francis DiPersio writes - "While beloved in Japan since its inception on the PC Engine, Nihon Falcoms Ys series has often struggled to find relevancy in the western market. With Nintendos phenomenally successful The Legend of Zelda series claiming the action-adventure throne, the Ys series has largely gone unnoticed by generations of console gamers, and thats a crying shame."

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How would Nintendo solve that? How would they create a consistent story but still allow non-linear exploration? I have an idea, and it's pretty simple: they could decouple the narrative progression from the item and dungeon progression. Look at The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for an example: the Zora storyline is a self-contained arc which unfolds primarily in the Great Bay. The Gorons' snowy plight is resolved by completing tasks within Snowhead itself. These "story pockets" often required certain items to resolve, and you could bookmark them and return to them if you did discover where that item lay. However, access to those pockets was still restricted by the hub and spoke approach to its world, as in Ocarina of Time. Resolving these narrative events with items is far more satisfying, and feels far less artificial, than opening a new route to travel through, or overcoming a physical barrier to exploration. When exploring an open-world Hyrule, I shouldn't run into those barriers. But if I want to progress the narrative? That's when a hero like Link should run into problems to resolve.

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How would Nintendo solve that? How would they create a consistent story but still allow non-linear exploration? I have an idea, and it's pretty simple: they could decouple the narrative progression from the item and dungeon progression. Look at The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for an example: the Zora storyline is a self-contained arc which unfolds primarily in the Great Bay. The Gorons' snowy plight is resolved by completing tasks within Snowhead itself. These "story pockets" often required certain items to resolve, and you could bookmark them and return to them if you did discover where that item lay. However, access to those pockets was still restricted by the hub and spoke approach to its world, as in Ocarina of Time. Resolving these narrative events with items is far more satisfying, and feels far less artificial, than opening a new route to travel through, or overcoming a physical barrier to exploration. When exploring an open-world Hyrule, I shouldn't run into those barriers. But if I want to progress the narrative? That's when a hero like Link should run into problems to resolve.