Reddit mentions of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Instead of opining on which version of TP is best, how about I give you what I feel are the strengths of the GCN and the Wii versions and from this information you can make an educated choice as to which better suits you?

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GAMECUBE VERSION:

• There's a Web site called GameRankings, which averages review scores and is respected as an authority by Guinness World Records. On this site, the GCN edition is more highly rated than the Wii edition; the former has a rating of 96 while the latter has a rating of 94.58. The critical hivemind thus considers GCN TP to be slightly better than Wii TP.
  
  
• The sword controls are more solid and less gimmicky. I had more fun with swordplay in the GCN TP than I did in any other Zelda game. On the Wii, to swing the sword you swing the Wiimote. In my view this did not feel intuitive but shoehorned, and it sometimes did not work when executing the Hidden Skills.
  
  
• Hyrule is properly oriented. To make Link right-handed, the Wii version flips the whole world of Hyrule on the x axis. I disagree with this for two reasons. First, the locations of Hyrulean places are inconsistent with their locations in other Zelda games. Second, this introduces a number of unresolved curiosities, such as the one where the sun rises in the west and sets in the east (?!).
  
  
• The game can be completed more quickly by speedrunners. This probably doesn't matter unless you are a speedrunner or intend to speedrun the game sometime in the future.
  
  
• There's modware called Action Replay (AR), which changes game offsets and is marketed as a cheat device. As the GCN AR has been around the longest, the AR community has discovered more codes for the GCN TP.
  
  
• The GCN TP does not have the Shad glitch. Essentially, if you save and quit in a specific area of the Wii TP, a character named Shad disappears. Because talking to Shad is necessary to advance the plot, it becomes impossible to advance your file without special external fixes.
  
  
• The player has more control over the camera. This can be a blessing if you're big on exploration, a quality for which the Zelda series is known.
  
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  WII VERSION:
  
  
• The Wii TP can render in the 16:9 aspect ratio. This makes for a better picture on a standard HDTV.
  
  
• You have two additional item buttons. On the GCN edition, items are assigned to the bean-shaped X and Y buttons and the sword is mapped to B. On the Wii edition, items are assigned to three of the four cardinal directions on the directional pad. The Wii TP maps the sword to the motions of the Wiimote, which further frees up B. With more item buttons you can do more actions in less time.
  
  
• There are items and parts of the game which require you to aim. Not only are the controls for these parts better on the Wii version, but for some of them you can move while aiming. This isn't possible on GCN.
  
  
• The Wii TP is cheaper. On Amazon, the GCN TP sells at a price over 3× that of the Wii TP.
  
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  In addition to this, there are minor differences that are neither good nor bad. For example, the Wii version features a fairy that functions as a targeting reticule. I won't bother to comprehensively list these.
  
  Hopefully you'll find this list to be of use.

You might want to use Amazon's "Customers who viewed this item..." feature.

Apart from clicking around on their site, it works like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Twilight-Princess-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B000FQBPCQ/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt

Take the part after /dp/, so B000FQBPCQ in this case. Put http://www.amazon.com/sim/ in front, and /2/&pf=video_games at the end, like this:

http://www.amazon.com/sim/B000FQBPCQ/2/&pf=video_games

New Super Mario Bros.

Mario Kart

Mario Galaxy

Mario Party 8

Legend of Zelda


You don't HAVE to buy new.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000FQBPCQ/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1408546808&sr=8-3

Um...what? The two facts that (A) Wind Waker still looks great on televisions with minimal updating and (B) lots of people like myself never played it are the exact reasons why a Wind Waker re-release was a slam dunk idea on Nintendo's part.


If they want to do Majora's Mask, it would probably be on the 3DS where graphical expectations are lower. And Twilight Princess is easily available to Wii U owners already while Wind Waker is not.


They also weren't looking to re-make the game, but simply re-release it to make it widely available and rake in the cash while they develop new, original games that require much, much more money and manpower. The HD tweak is just an excuse to do a new print run on a newer console with minimal overhauling.