Zelda - The Bear and Badger

cockbeard

The tri-wing anti-tamper screws, and then a huge gap at the top of back of the console?? Such a level of detail then completely thrown out by mounting the cartridge in a position as if you tried to load a GBA cart into ogGB. Looks purdy as a package though

cosmicjellybean

I heard issues with slowdown from previews at E3, with later builds being much better (but still having noticeable slowdown in the overworld).

I don’t think it’s something they’ll patch, I think this was as optimised as they could get it for now. Apparently the ‘blur’ used to mask loading is more prevalent in handheld than docked too.

I remember hearing this was done in Unreal 4, which is also what bloodstained ran in right? Guess it’s really hard to get it running well on switch.

EvilRedEye

Thing is it's still not officially out until tomorrow so there's no knowing whether they're planning for this to be the day-one build. It is quite surprising how much post-processing stuff they chose to go for given it doesn't run particularly well.

EvilRedEye

I'm already stuck.

Minnesänger

regmcfly wrote:

It's not an issue but it's very unNintendo

Hopefully it gets patched. Looks like a cool game by all accounts.

Minnesänger

EvilRedEye wrote:

I'm already stuck.

Go north.

hylian_elf

EvilRedEye wrote:

I'm already stuck.

Frame rate is that low, huh?

monkey

Second dungeon down. I’m really feeling this. The slowdown is jarring. I’m happy to pay that price as it looks unbelievable. Nintendo’s toon shaders get better and better.

It’s not great that the hardware can’t seem to cope with first party output. Generally performance gets better and this console is only mid-cycle. Still, there may be patches on the way.

mk64

£50 too much for me. Will get second hand and play lttp on SNES in the meantime.

mistercrayon

Someone will have finished this before launch day I bet.

cockbeard

Does this mean that GB > Switch??

To the Dogs fred

Kernowgaz

mk64 wrote:

£50 too much for me. Will get second hand and play lttp on SNES in the meantime.

You can get it for £40

Moot_Geeza

Or you could get it second hand in 18 months for....£36.80

Moot_Geeza

regmcfly wrote:

That slowdown. It's rotten at points. It's really significant, and feels very un-Nintendo.

Stewing on the stuttering a bit. Cinty mentioned slowdown in BotW, but I'd describe that as far more forgivable - yet still annoying - due to the sprawling game world, the dual platform development, the non fixed perspective and so on. 'Un-Nintendo' is right imo, I'm very surprised this shipped with any more than ultra low level framerate issues. Ninty usually polish their big releases to the nines in my experience, both on Switch and Wii U, so letting a flagship franchise loose in a slightly wobbly state sets a bad precedent that I hope they don't continue. They can usually be trusted to make their games look good without going into the creaking-under-the-weight-of-its-own-ambition zone.

Not that it matters in the scheme of things, but I won't be happy if they don't fix it.

EvilRedEye

So apparently it has been confirmed that it's not UE4 and is apparently Nintendo's in-house engine. Also, apparently the issues are due to memory management and thus vary a bit depending on whether you're playing from internal memory, SD card or cartridge. Bit weird.

mk64

mistercrayon wrote:

Someone will have finished this before launch day I bet.

Already seen speedruns for it on YouTube. Not wat he’s as spoilers but yes people frantically going for wrs.

ChopperByrne

Does that Collectors Edition actually have a functioning GameBoy with the original game?

LtPidgeon

I didn't realise it was Link's Awakening that had been remastered, I thought it was LTTP.

The Daddy

ChopperByrne wrote:

Does that Collectors Edition actually have a functioning GameBoy with the original game?

No, it’s just a case for the game.

Kernowgaz

What difficulty are people playing on? Want a challenge but not rock hard - gonna pick Hero me thinks.

The Daddy

I just went normal. The combat’s not hard cos you can hold shield then strike so Hero shouldn’t be too bad, but I figured the extra damage and lack of hearts would just annoy me more than anything.

b0r1s

I’m just pootling around on normal enjoying the ambience. I’ve forgot so much of this game and pretty sure I didn’t finish it.

hylian_elf

You don’t remember the last bits? You’re in for a treat.

[Deleted User]

Started playing this earlier, making it my second (well, kinda third, but really only second) foray into a Zelda game, and it's really rather lovely. I’m going to enjoy this.

Kernowgaz

The Daddy wrote:

I just went normal. The combat’s not hard cos you can hold shield then strike so Hero shouldn’t be too bad, but I figured the extra damage and lack of hearts would just annoy me more than anything.

Yeah tell me about it, didn’t realise there’s a lack of hearts.
Done the first dungeon.

I guess I can’t change back? There’s no option screen as such is there ?

cockbeard

What?? The tip doesn't count????

Kernowgaz

Didn’t really read it

Paul the sparky

I'm stuck as fuck. Level 2 - Bottle Grotto.

Spoiler:

monkey

Paul the sparky wrote:

I'm stuck as fuck. Level 2 - Bottle Grotto.

Spoiler:

There's a room with a circling fireball thing, two lamps in the center of the room which I can't light and a door that shuts if I step on the floor tiles. I can jump over to the lamps in the centre and the door doesn't shut, but I can't jump from there to the door without it closing.

Possible solution but if I’m wrong about where you are it’s a possible spoiler

Spoiler:

monkey

Some of this is nails. I used a walkthrough for a couple of the overworld bits. No shame because the solutions, while fair, would have taken so much legwork and trial and error and stuff to have discovered naturally. Different back in the day when you might get stuck and sick of a game then come back to it in a couple of weeks and have a rethink. Once I stop now that game is gone forever.

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