Zelda Mirrored

[Teuthida]

Seems as though they flipped the entire game to make Link right-handed. That's so...odd.

[Ginkasa]

That'll really be weird if you play both versions, since the GCN version still has a left handed Link...


/me shrugs and walks away

[Typhoid]

If you look at the two maps, they're also slightly different, despite being reversed.

[Jonbo298]

So thats why it took a year, just to mirror the game from GCN and Wii

[DeathsHand]

Could it be that the images are just mirrored? I've seen that happen before with preview material... Well, in movies at least (in the cheesy Silent Hill movie TV spots, as Dark Alessa says "I am the Reaper", she's on the left side of the screen facing right... In the actual movie she's on the right facing left)...

If they really did mirror the whole game... Then... Well... What about the left-handed people?

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Could it be that the images are just mirrored? I've seen that happen before with preview material... Well, in movies at least (in the cheesy Silent Hill movie TV spots, as Dark Alessa says "I am the Reaper", she's on the left side of the screen facing right... In the actual movie she's on the right facing left)...

If they really did mirror the whole game... Then... Well... What about the left-handed people?

I thought the same at first but there's text on both pictures.

[GameMaster]

It's just a gimmick to get you to buy both the Gamecube and Wii version.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

I thought the same at first but there's text on both pictures.

By golly you're right!
So... This begs the question... Why not just flip (or edit/remake) Link's character model instead of y'know... Flipping the entire game?
Perhaps it's just that one area?

Perhaps our written language has evolved and now has the power to correct itself when mirrored?

[Ginkasa]

Maybe Link just has to go back through that area? Or the screenshot was just taken while Link was turned around? It could, perhaps, be symmetrical.

Or maybe there's just a very very similar area...

Unless they say, "We switched the whole game" or someone plays both and realizes its been switched, I would think it'd be safer to assume it hasn't been flipped around...


/me shrugs and walks away

[Spasmolytic]

Maybe it's like a race game; after you beat the game you unlock "mirror" mode as a cheap form of replay! YAY

But, look at the mini-map. Yes, the Wii version is mirrored on the Y-axis, but there's more to it than just that: rather than having the area exit be north, it now exits to the northeast. Perhaps the layout change was made to fit with the next area's entry (i.e. entry from the southwest). And, to justify the mirroring, perhaps the northeast part of the map was unaccessable under the original design, and that it was easier to mirror the small area rather than reconstruct the northern section. AND, maybe they couldn't have altered the northern part of the map even if they wanted to, due to some sort of puzzle... such as mirrors. (, sorry)