• ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    I was so ticked when they changed him to be right handed just “because that’s what most people are”

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      I played Twilight Princess on Wii and GameCube, and it was pretty fucking cool to feel like I was swinging the master sword. I probably would have just switched hands if they hadn’t. It would have been an adjustment, but I would have gotten there.

      But I can understand not wanting to create a barrier to entry.

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          They can get fucked all the way to the settings menu where the option to mirror it back to lefty-mode is hiding

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                Wii version was mirror / right hand only, it’s the HD version on the Wii U that had the default as left-handed map and the Master Mode using the right-handed mirror map, IINM.

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                  Seems crazy not to implement the option in the original. I’m not a game dev, but I imagine it’s super simple to mirror the controls or whatever.

                  Just Nintendo being Nintendo I guess.

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          Or just letting everyone use their left hand, it’s not like waving around a wiimote requires super fine motor skills

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            Iirc there was a lot of fpv aiming for arrows, slingshot, and claw grabbing. I would have been frustrated trying to aim with my left hand, but then I suppose I could have switched for those sequences if needed.

            Even better, maybe they find a way to allow the player to choose which universe they wanted to play in, left or right.

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            That part wouldn’t be an issue, but swapping which hands have your action buttons vs control stick would be a mess for a while, lol.

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        I’m left-handed and played through twilight princess on the wii multiple times before I found out that link was changed to be right handed. It really doesn’t effect the gameplay at all to swing the sword with a different hand than the one on-screen - I didn’t even notice it was different.

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          Does this mean you moved link with the movement stick in your right hand? Honestly, that’s the crazier part to me.

          Aside of some 8BitDo thing I’ve never heard of, I think the Wii’s controller might be the only one you can do this with.