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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Zelda Megathread: Tears of the Kingdom coming May 2023
 
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John Lee
Mar 2, 2013

A time traveling adventure everyone can enjoy

Harrow posted:

Interesting.

I think my fear with the orbs is that they'll be glorified experience points. I really hope that the way you get heart containers and stuff is entirely by exploring and finding those specific things, rather than amassing orbs and buying them. Fundamentally I'm sure it's basically the same--explore, do a mini-challenge, work towards an upgrade--but I find it more satisfying to go hunt down upgrades specifically rather than hunting down upgrade currency.

Form pages ago, but I agree with you on the feel. There is one advantage to buying upgrades with a magic orb currency, though: It'd be easy to do a more challenging mode by simply buying few or no heart containers, and going all-in on weapon/ammo upgrades or whatever.

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John Lee
Mar 2, 2013

A time traveling adventure everyone can enjoy

 But Nintendo DOES have a non-interference policy for fangames? Like, it's fine if you make a Mario fangame, you just can't make "Super Mario World 3D" or whatever, because SMW is a real game that already exists, and upgrading the graphics and releasing it for free isn't a 'fan' game so much. The 3D Zelda 1, AM2R, SM64 HD, they were all remakes of actual Nintendo games that Nintendo was selling.

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