Talk:The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

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Is the box art shown standard for the US?

I live in the UK and so can't know, but is the box art shown at the top of the article the standard art? I've seen copies online that have metallic-style shiny print, and as the image is obviously digital, there's no way to tell. If all North American boxes are a metallic, shiny print I think that an actual photo showing a physical game case should be up instead. groovygower (talk) 21:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Request

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Moved to Talk:The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker § Merge Request

– This discussion was happening on 2 different talk pages at once, I have copied the comments here to the other talk page. Any further discussion should be continued there. The1337gamer (talk) 22:05, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion there's very little new content in this re-release to warrant a separate article. The plot section is just a copy and paste, and even the minor gameplay differences are described in greater detail than needed for a general-use encyclopedia (as opposed to a Wikia or GameFAQ). I think we can put this as a subsection under The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Even Ocarina: Master Quest (which does have completely redesigned dungeons) is only a subsection of the main Ocarina of Time article. 01:31, 15 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.181.22 (talk)

Plot and gameplay are of very low importance in a video game article anyway. I would support getting rid of 90% of the content of these two sections, and only summarize them concisely. Then, looking at the actual unique content, which are the important development, release and reception sections, I think there's plenty of content to warrant a unique article. I've never really been a fan of combining different games (such as done with Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U), so I would oppose to this merge. Merging the development, release and reception sections of this article into the Windwaker article might get that article out of balance. ~Mable (chat) 19:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I could go either way too. On one hand, the game's are largely identical. On the other hand, I do believe the HD version did receive a lot of exclusive coverage, and elicited commentary for a few things the original did not. (One of the first Nintendo HD remasters, releasing the game a month earlier digitally, etc.) Sergecross73 msg me 13:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If the issue is that it includes a lot of duplicate content from another article, then simply remove most of that content and see if the article holds up. I think there is plenty of original coverage here to keep it separate from the original game. ~Mable (chat) 14:56, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When it's an issue of overlap, I tend to prefer merging. The content here really doesn't look too substantial to me - the Development section I threw together for Digimon Racing a few years ago is about the same size, and that was just cobbled together from some tangential E3 articles and stuff. It might have the potential for some expansion, and likewise so does Reception, but... I mean, I hate to ask, but would users really care enough for us to host a separate page just for that? We don't even differentiate console and handheld versions of games >99% of the time (the only exception that jumps to mind is Over the Hedge for the DS), let alone upgraded ports (e.g. Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Resident Evil 4 for Wii, Super Mario Deluxe, Super Mario Bros. 3 for GBA [God, I miss that]). Why are remasters treated differently? Tezero (talk) 23:20, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep separate. I created the article for TWW HD because of the large amount of content unique to the topic. The two games have unique histories, and the gameplay differences are sizable. People often call games like TWW HD "remasters," but this one especially is a remake. It's a new game of its own right, with plenty of unique information about it. Reliable sources treat it as a separate game and indeed many readers will want information that applies uniquely to this remake. Resoru (talk) 07:39, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Plot

Could someone create a short - one paragraph - synopsis of Wind Waker? I'd figure it would be something like "Player-character Link lives in a world that is mostly flooded. He goes on an adventure to defeat the evil Ganondorf." or something along those lines, with perhaps a few more details (titular Zelda's role in the story in particular). I don't know the game well enough to be able to do this plot summary justice, but we should have the shortest possible explanation of what exactly happens in this game. ~Mable (chat) 11:57, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of composers request.

It has come to my attention that these composers are credited despite the fact that they did NOT compose for this particular remake. Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi and Koji Kondo composed music for Wind Waker... NOT Wind Waker HD. Their compositions are simply reused/remastered and unless more than one compositions are new then no-one should be credited in accordance to wikipedia standards. Thank you. 27.96.204.95 (talk) 02:02, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is not the correct way to handle this. See the consensus about it here. Unless a new consensus is found, your approach is against consensus, and editing against consensus will get you blocked from editing. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 03:22, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A composer is defined as "a person who writes music". It doesn't matter who played the music, anyone could do that. Dream Focus 03:54, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think his concern is more that the composers wrote the music for the original game, not particularly the remake. But as the consensus I linked to said, it doesn't matter, they still composed the music itself, so they should be listed. Sergecross73 msg me 04:50, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]