[Wii] The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Discussion Thread

So, does anyone remember that bit about a different camera angle in the dungeons info released May 04? This article mainly. I sure haven't seen it used in any videos released so far, not sure if they dropped it. Wasn't too big a fan of that decision anyway, I'd prefer the dungeons to be more atmospheric.

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Originally Posted by Prime Blue

But as we know Nintendo with their real-time cutscene politics there won't be any movies ("The Wind Waker" had two - the demo video and the epilogue with staff roll, but both are no real FMVs because they were just recorded ingame graphic scenes) and at most a few prerendered BGs ("Ocarina of Time" had 35 static and something like two dozen 360° prer. BGs, "Majora's Mask" and "The Wind Waker" had none).

They weren't recorded. They were done real time in the game engine. The only difference was you didn't have to press 'A' to scroll through the text. Goes the same for the intro movie, just a bunch of scrolling images and some fade in and out text. Recording those for use on the disc would be a waste of space.

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Originally Posted by Prime Blue

title_loop.thp
end_st_epilogue.thp
These are the two files in "The Wind Waker"'s movie folder.
THP is a GCN movie format that stores videos by separating the frames into pictures in a format quite similar to JPEG. Audio is stored within these frames, too.
title_loop.thp is the trailer that was shown at E3 (or TGS, I'm not sure) before the game was released. This one is played when you leave the controller untouched at the title screen (when the logo is shown in front of the ocean).
end_st_epilogue.thp is the epilogue and staff roll movie. It starts after the farewell scene from Hyrule. Link and Tetra being rescued by the pirates is a movie, NO real-time scene although it was recorded from real-time graphics. The same goes for the staff roll. The last scene where they all depart in search of a new Hyrule is real-time, though.
The intro ("The Legendary Hero") is of course no FMV - that would have been a total waste, indeed as its just the camera scrolling over some TPL textures.

Fair enough. I suppose using the movie format for the demo/ title screen, where the game has to go through many areas quickly, is justified.

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Originally Posted by Monkey King

In my ideal world, the game makers sat down and played Shadow of the Colossus, and said to themselves "Hey, we should do something like this."

Try here. Start of paragraph 32.

Wishful thinking, maybe...

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Originally Posted by majario

If this question has been asked already please forgive me but is Twilight Princess going to have an ost and when is it going to be released?

Seeing as the last few console Zeldas have, I'd say it's a given. No details as far as I know though.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Quote

My god, today and yesterday seem like the day when the internet was finally flooded with tons of Zelda videos, even though tons more are to come. Is anyone else trying to fight the temptation of watching the videos/looking at the screen shots and to wait to play the game completely fresh and unknowing?

I'm trying, but it's soooo tempting.

If you do fall to temptation, the videos don't really tell you much for all they're worth. Those 5 second clips work really well, too- just giving a glimpse of the game.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?