And yet you can kill it with Bubblebeam...

I don't get Mike's excitement. Other than, perhaps, the world building mechanic, every "new" idea they talked about at the reveal has been done or will be done by other MMOs.

It holds up a lot better over time.

She explains in the video. She cites it as an example of tweaking the damsel in distress stereotype by.... SPOILERS.... suggesting that the damsel in distress just might have been trying to get away from the protagonist the whole time.

It's a VERY old game now, sheeesh.

"Some use them to aid their completionist tendencies."

Aww, that made me sad.

Ahh, sense and logic.
I was going to post this but refrained as the idea sickened me.

Agreed, I'm one of the 12 Americans who owns a Wii U, and I didn't even notice it. The gamepad is the defining feature, and it's in the photo.

It's very, very rare when I do in-app-purchases, but watching Usain Bolt run from a giant demonic monkey is too fucking hilarious to pass up.

Zelda has been reinvented many of times, while also going to different settings like in cell shaded world sailing the seas, or flying on winglofts in the sky, or turning into awold, or having a dark world with a giant evil moon, etc.

Great name.

Would finalists at the World Series of Poker say "fuck it, we're splitting the pot"? Imagine how ESPN would react?

maybe I should just get you to write all my responses :D

yeah, but it's still pretty creepy. In the original universe, she's the player's daughter. His own flesh and blood. Then suddenly she's the vixen getting a light from him? TOO WEIRD. it's still in people's minds that he's the dad, making dad jokes in some dad jeans.

Now THAT is a spoiler.

"I just don’t care that much because we made the game we wanted to make. It’s financially successful for the company.”

Wow, what an incredible display of missing the point.

You took your Wii-U camping? Kids these days...