Nintendo PR has been actually brilliant lately, everything about this remake has been literally best case scenario despite all my cynicism.
Zelda series Producer Eiji Aonuma says one of the reasons they remade Ocarina of Time is to help new staff understand the significance of the original to help them make new Zelda games in the future!
"This year marks the 40th anniversary of the very first Legend of Zelda game. With that in mind, I was thinking about what I should create as the producer of the series.
Many of the team members who work alongside me on Legend of Zelda games today have only experienced developing the more recent titles. That led me to wonder, “Do they truly understand just how significant The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was to the series as a whole?”
Of course, there are team members who vaguely know the game, and those who played it in their childhood days. But I started to wonder how they'd interpret The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as they go about developing future Legend of Zelda games.
By learning the game structure and development style behind the original The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and by actually rebuilding it as a full remake, it may trigger new insights that they can carry forward into future development. If we could achieve that, I thought it would be incredibly valuable. That’s what led us to the conclusion that now is the right time to revisit The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time once again."
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Me when I overcorrect
Final Fantasy 14: Evercold's story will have a faster tempo, with worldbuilding in side quests pcgamer.com/games/mmo/final-…
I started Silent Hill 2 (again x2) and it’s pretty good so far but I can’t help but feel very unenthused by how the “dungeon crawling” in this game is just frantically opening every door as fast as possible so you can actually get to the puzzles. Feels like busy work.
My uncharitable take is they're approaching this alternate shard stuff in a really lame way. My reasonable take is this doesn't necesarilly mean anything good or bad and we'll see what they cook up with it, it could be nice.
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Can't speak to these specific scores, but imho it would have benefited the industry if everyone had used a 5 star system.
A 100 point system is inherently ambiguous... not to mention way too granular. Never understood how you decide a game is e.g. an 87 and not an 86 or 88?
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something about valentine's day, or something
关于情人节的事，我也不知道
(thank u sea for helping translate the overthink to cn)
日本語/한국어⬇️
#何潮 #记忆管理局 #FalseMemory
It’s quite common to hear people say something about the political state of the world and follow it up with “I guess these are just the insane times we live in”. I’ve started in the last couple years to think to myself “when exactly were things not insane?”