Find Zelda's diary in the Castle, she's pretty far from the sweetheart empty shell of Spirit Tracks.
She got personality, I can totally see her losing patience at some shitty NPC asking her to do menial things lol.
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Kotaku:Ambitious Mod Reworks Breath of the Wild To Make Zelda The Hero , 20 person dev team
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She got personality, I can totally see her losing patience at some shitty NPC asking her to do menial things lol.
It's the same damn game with a different model.
I also don't assume you have a Wii U and the Wii U version of the game and the homebrew ability to play the mod when it comes out so I'd suspend my excitement over it being "free".
It's a cool mod but it annoys me when people take their low-standards for mods and fangames and try to put it on the same level as the original.
What does it matter? Devs can give her any power they want.
It's not like they're doing this against the modders' objections, though? They reached out to them to get the quotes and artwork used in this piece.
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Helps that most if not all of the "modern cutscenes" are realtime compared to the flashbacks which are all video files
Such a cool idea! And l love how they designed armor sets for her!!
Reminds me of Peach and all her nice outfits when she went on a world tour in Odyssey.
Reminds me of Peach and all her nice outfits when she went on a world tour in Odyssey.
There's also a mod that let's Link enter the Gerudo town with any armor set, they should just have that permanently active with the mod, would be a bit weird to get thrown out because you're a dude while playing as Zelda lol.
I'm no saying that she can't or shouldn't be physically active. But giving her the Master Sword and having her do everything Link does doesn't do justice to her character and doesn't make any effort to express her capabilities in a unique way. Give her her light arrows, some new magic powers, and put her in a new situation that isn't just fighting Ganon again. This mod, as elaborate as it is, doesn't do anything of the sort. At it's core, it's just another "Zelda in Link's place" mod that's already been done in ROM hacks of earlier games.
Give Zelda something more. Introduce new enemies, new gameplay concepts that haven't been explored by the series before. Do something creative. Don't just settle for Zelda cosplaying Link.
I understand that, and I've said as much in an earlier response. I know that this is a mod and there are limitations to what they can do. But I've seen "Playable Zelda" mods before and though this is technically impressive as a mod, it doesn't excite me at all conceptually.
They won't believe the Princess of Hyrule would come all the way to Gerudo Town alone, so you have to dress like a gerudo as a disguise.
Or something.
EDIT: Actually, everyone believing that Zelda died in the Calamity would be an interesting story beat.
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We're not from the timeline where this is feasible via modding BOTW.
Only gripe I have though is why doesn't the Sheikah armor literally just make her look like Sheik? like, I imagine it would be way easier to modify the existing armor pieces for Link, which are already halfway there, than to make the set from the ground up into what they're planning in the artwork, which does also look really cool, but I'd rather have Sheik.
I'm not arguing that this could or should be done with Breath of the Wild. There are other avenues.
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Mipha's been playable for months.
With extra features like the inability to drown.
I get your point, but not really.
1) Making games is hard. Especially if you don't have millions of dollars.
2) A signifcant Zelda fan game would definitely get hit with a C&D. Mods are shaky grounds but Nintendo does not tolerate whole fan games at all.
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Sure. But if you've got a team of twenty modding a game, you might as well just go for broke and make something original, even if it is a smaller scale. You run the risk of getting C&Ded either way.
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They could have a hundred people working on a mod and they still wouldn't be able to accomplish what you're requesting. We're not talking about GTAV or Skyrim here in terms of flexibility, or anywhere near close to it.
You keep assuming I'm talking about something on the scale and scope of Breath of the Wild. I am not.
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My dude you're asking for full blown development of a new game in a thread about the mod of an existing one...
Because it wouldn't make sense and require a lot of time they're pushing towards the next Zelda game?
Honestly i'd just be happy with a mod that deletes all of Zelda's voice clips from the main game
10/10 mod, better version of Zelda, better version of the game
10/10 mod, better version of Zelda, better version of the game
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The same reason Bethesda doesn't release an official version of the Morrowwind expansion mod for Skywim.
Conceptually playable Zelda would be easy to differentiate. Link's key items are The Master Sword, Hylian Sheild and Boomerang. Then he has his abilities Bombs × 2, Freeze Time, Ice, Magnesis
Traditionally Zelda's key weapons have been Daggers, and a bow. So keep those (Daggers act as a sword and shield by having a parry function and regular DPS) Zelda's Bow replaces the master sword/bombs by being her main DPS weapon while Bombs are replaced by Arrows that make the bow always useable with a slight cooldown. Finally the Boomerang can be replaced by the rope swing (whip?) As it can be used to quickly target multiple points within range.
Now its about remixing Runes. Removing them would break the game but here goes. Stasis is replaced by superspeed and the ability to transfer momentum. Ice is a permanent platform under her feet that can even turn lava to stone and magnesis works the same because changing it would break the game.
Essentially you have made Zelda a stealth focus'd glass canon ranger (compared to Link as a tank) with a Stealth/CAG based moveset where she is overpowered by requires a higher skill ceiling to use properly.
Yeah, sure. And that's because I find all this effort to stick Zelda in Link's place just really disappointing and lackluster. I'd rather see the team do something original with a playable Zelda that isn't just piggybacking Breath of the Wild or another existing game. Yes, that would take a lot of time and effort. Yes, its chances of being C&Ded would be greater. But I would personally love such an effort more than yet another character swap, regardless of the amount of effort put into the swap.
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its just a model swap mod
they aren't redeveloping the game
And seeing as BotW isn't a PC game, this is essentially a hack. The people doing this are probably in it for the experience just as much as the publicity.
If you aren't blown away by a model swap then that's fine, i mean you really shouldn't be, it's the most common form of modding that exists, but saying it's stupid to pursue just because for some reason you believe they have infinite time, money, and access to the source code in order to do what your asking is a bit unreasonable.
Zelda got dat thang in this game
i see u nintendo
i see u nintendo
with cemu it is a pc game :P mods got really crazy after Cemu happened.
with cemu it is a pc game :P mods got really crazy after Cemu happened.
weeeelllllll alrighty then there you have it
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I'm not sure you know what the difference between modding and full blown game development is on top of expecting too much from a mod team.
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These are literally all proof of the statement that he's expecting too much. As they're all asset swaps.with cemu it is a pc game :P mods got really crazy after Cemu happened.
That sounds pretty cool, actually!
I never said it was stupid. Just disappointing, if anything. I know they're a team of twenty that don't have access to infinite resources. I still wish that they put their effort to something more original. And no, I'm not talking specifically about a more elaborate Breath of the Wild mod.
Obviously, this mod is where their time and interest is focused, and I don't begrudge them that. But I can also be disappointed.
ye old "then why don't you just go do it yourself" then becomes a fair response to your disappointment
I do understand the difference.
I know that it takes a lot more effort to make a game from the ground up than it does to swap out a character model. I also realize that this team, despite its size, may not have the right combined skill set to develop a game from the ground up. But I have also seen a lot of truly impressive mods, and while I would never expect this team to do a total conversion-level mod, when I hear "twenty people are modding Breath of the Wild to make Zelda playable" and it's literally just an elaborate model swap, I'm really just disappointed. PC modders have been screwing around swapping out Link with other characters for the better part of a year now. I'm pretty sure other people had already done a Zelda model swap before, too; just not on this scale. Breath of the Wild model swaps in general just don't impress me at this point.
Maybe I do expect too much from this team, and that's probably unfair, but that's just the way it is.
