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Anonymous05/11/26, 04:07No.12564480
What was the hype for Twilight Princess like 20 years ago?
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Anon05/11/26, 04:09No.12564483
It was insane. We were finally getting a darker, serious Zelda after the N64. Then it was the worst 3D game in the series.
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Anon05/11/26, 04:10No.12564489
We had a meltdown on /v/ when IGN gave it an 8.8 instead of 10
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Anon05/11/26, 04:13No.12564492
Hopes and dreams = delivered. Best Zelda until BOTW came.
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Anon05/11/26, 04:22No.12564503
By the time this came out I'd stopped buying consoles entirely.
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Anon05/11/26, 04:41No.12564526
I had a DVD with the first trailer on it that I got with a magazine and would watch it over and over, I was insanely excited for it. I still didn't have internet access at the time so whenever I was around a Gamestop I would pop in to ask when it was coming out. I remember when it was still slated for a late 2005 release but then it became something like March 2006 one of the times I asked, and then the time after that they started telling me about the Wii and how it was coming out for that instead. They weren't even sure if the Gamecube version was happening anymore. By the time it finally came out I still wasn't even really sure what the deal with the Wii was, plus it was impossible to actually get, so I stuck with the Gamecube version.I got stuck on the tears of light section in Kakariko Village and already wasn't really enjoying the game so I just ended up dropping it. I was really disappointed. A few years later, 2008 or so, I finally got a Wii and picked the game up a second time to check out the motion controls. I expected it to play how Skyward Sword plays with 1 to 1 sword swinging but that wasn't the case and so I was even more disappointed than I already was. However the actual game itself ended up clicking with me a lot more that time and I really enjoyed it, it's one of my favorite games now. It's a shame it's so bogged down with pacing issues, in a lot of ways it's one of the best Zelda games, you just have to push past some dull moments to get to the gold. Playing the new PC port right now and loving how smooth it is, and the optional QoL stuff should improve the few shortcomings it has.
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Anon05/11/26, 05:55No.12564592
It was hilarious. Nintendies finally though they were darker and more mature.
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Anon05/11/26, 06:02No.12564603
Back when it was new people made fun of Midna and there was a meme image that was her going GOO GOO GA GA I TALK LIKE A RETARDED BABY
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Anon05/11/26, 09:23No.12564767
It was a big deal. Ocarinafags had a melty over WW so Nintendo released a darker Ocarina clone to appease them and they all hated it.
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Anon05/11/26, 09:41No.12564779
>Ganondorf has somehow returned
I just wanted pig Ganon again if it was gonna be him, not this shit.
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Anon05/11/26, 10:34No.12564829
My brother is a Zelda fan and he loved it. I wanted to like it since it seemed dark and edgier but I lost interest with all the wolf shit.
I will say that it made the combat in WW seem simplistic and imprecise but I would still rather play WW
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Anon05/11/26, 14:36No.12565297
the hype was real. all the ppl mad about WWs cartoon faggotry were super stoked.
and then it apparently came out. i never saw it, not even a copy in stores, and i never heard about it again.
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Anon05/11/26, 14:39No.12565303
E3 reaction: incredible and companies couldn't even pay for that reaction these days
Release: somehow even easier than windwaker, boring, visually ugly even through component, just go play PoPHonestly just read the manga.
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Anon05/11/26, 14:44No.12565310
It's the last video game I remember being excited for
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Anon05/11/26, 15:41No.12565397
Zeldas announcement in 2004 created one of the most famous reaction memes ofnall times. This is back when it was journalists, not over-over-acting youtubers, and back when game journalists were actual gamers.
The whole world felt what these guy felt when from that zelda reveal. It was one of the most naturally hyped things in the history of gaming up to this point.When I went to the Wii midnight launch I dont recall a singlenperson buying the console alone. Virtually everyone lined up that night walked away with zelda. It was the lone reason to buy a wii at launch. The waggle
Itbwas later on that wii sports for 60 year women and little kids drove subsequent console sales for Wii but the launch weekend was exclusively zelda fans.
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Anon05/11/26, 16:48No.12565537
It was insane and then it got so so reviews and peoplebwent crazy snd a lot of people got fired, it was weird honestly. Probably one of the biggest controversies back in the day. I remember saving my money for it and i when saw reviews i skipped it, i was a barely a freshman in high school at the time so money for a game was big purchase. I did buy it used for like 20 bucks years later, and frankly 8.8 was probably too high, it has everything i ever wanted from a zelda game but none of it really comes together, also the opening is way way too fucking long.
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Anon05/11/26, 22:16No.12566091
cooled
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Anon05/11/26, 22:25No.12566098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RieKG7pw6g8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHu7hvxjdww
After Wind Waker was controversial, this was one of the most hyped games of 2005 to say the least as a "return to form".
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Anon05/11/26, 22:26No.12566102
I was super hyped for it. The hyper was super high. It was the Zelda everyone was waiting for. Never seen people go so crazy over a less than 9 review. In retrospect 8.8 was way too high.
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Anon05/12/26, 18:49No.12567693
Bump. Never played the game but the story behind it is fascinating to me from what I'm reading here.
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Anon05/12/26, 19:30No.12567738
Grown men were crying with joy. Stuff like the gaijin 4koma and 8.8 from Gamespot are still referenced, even by people who weren't around for the original event.
People who thought WW looked too 'kiddie' were creaming their jorts at a darker, moodier Zelda game.
The game came out and most fans were thrilled, since it was basically structured like OoT again in higher fidelity but this time your 'fairy' was a tsundere imp that people still fap to today.
It also hints at lore connections that we were going crazy for, long before Nintendo published their "official" timeline that inadvertently killed interest for a lot of folks. Stuff like the vague callbacks to MM and the Hero's Shade were tickling our 15-yr old imaginations.Personally, I still like the game a lot, but I wish the earlier twilight sections were easier to go through quickly, or maybe the wolf form got some new tricks as the game went on.
The overworld looks cool, but there's not much in it to do outside of the scripted fights and the occasional gear-check for a heart piece.
It did have a lot of neat combat moves that expanded on WW's counterhits, and I wish they kept more of that stuff in subsequent games and refined it. If TP had more challenging enemies it would have the best combat in the series, but really only the darknuts actually push you to use all the moves.
TP also probably has the best fishing hole in the series, which isn't saying much admittedly.
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Anon05/12/26, 20:30No.12567840
insane because they released a badass trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RieKG7pw6g8
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Anon05/12/26, 20:36No.12567848
I was in Japan during Wii's launch, TP posters were everywhere. I want to go back.
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Anon05/12/26, 20:40No.12567856
Every Zelda game has hype.But let's say people bought the Camecube or Wii just to play that game, the same with Halo 3 for Xbox 360 at that time.
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Anon05/13/26, 20:27No.12569901
Disappointing
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Anon05/14/26, 20:50No.12572170
Revered
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Anon05/14/26, 20:56No.12572175
>8.8
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Anon05/14/26, 22:34No.12572302
It was pretty big. Being one of like 5 kids in my high school with a wii at launch was pretty sweet
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Anon05/14/26, 23:25No.12572349
THE YEAR was 2006.
Millennial shitheads had just graduated high school. We were adults and it was time to "get serious" about gaming. The Legend of Zelda was supposed to be about gritty hyper violence, nihilistic casual sex, and moral inversion. We wanted to see Link killing children for "the greater good." Instead, the game opens by teaching you how to herd goats in some pastoral fantasy town, and then you enter the first dungeon and do acrobatics with chimps. At this point, we realized the Japanese could never share our vision of gritty hyper violent nihilism and we would have to turn gaming into "art" on our own.