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## Overview
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It's interesting, given the choice of
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games. You have: Zelda 1, 2, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and a demo
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You have: Zelda 1, 2, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and a demo
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of Wind Waker. So in terms of 2D and 3D Zeldas, you have choices of
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both styles. And unlike the NES and N64, you have the GameCube
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controller to play with, which I think is the superior choice. >\: )
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The value you get out of the bundle is cool - with a
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GameCube and several Zeldas in one! I can tell you that I played
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the fuck out of the Collectors Edition.
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for the screenshots!
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Excited, after getting everything hooked up, we threw in the disc and were met with
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the game selection screen. I remember thinking that there were some missing
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selections...
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## I really missed Zelda: A Link to the Past
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I remember watching the Retrospective movie and wondering, "Why is there
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I remember watching the retrospective movie and wondering, "Why is there
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no A Link to the Past?"
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At the time, my SNES had stopped working a few years before because the power
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pin inside of the socket had fallen out. And though there was ZSNES, I preferred
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to play it with a proper controller, rather than keyboard so it wasn't exactly
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a game I played via emulation at the time. In the collectors edition,
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a game I played via emulation at the time. It had been a few years since our
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SNES stopped working, and I had hoped the Collectors Edition would have
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rectified that.
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### And what about Links Awakening or Oracle of Ages/Seasons?
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My cousin had a SNES jr. For a summer, I would go over to her house
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with my copy of A Link to the Past and we would play it together. There
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was a point where I had gotten stuck on Mystery Mire, so I sequence broke
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the game and completed it out of order from that point. For whatever reason,
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I never walked the prisoner through the light after blowing up the ceiling
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in the boss room. Haha ;p
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TBD.
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Despite the lack of A Link to the Past, I still enjoyed the Collectors Edition
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as a whole! And there was another happy accident that unexpectingly happened.
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## Wind Waker Demo
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Wind Waker was the new Zelda at the time. I remember being alienated by
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its sudden change in art style and had wanted to try it. Immediately
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the save screen presents some premade save files. Looking back on then,
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they were certainly interesting choices.
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There was one that actually hooked me into Wind Waker. It was the Foresaken
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Fortress save. Once you reach the end of the fortress, you're given a
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spectacular sequence of cutscenes and an epic boss battle. Then, you
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make your great escape after encountering Ganondorf.
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And then, you set sail for Wind Fall Island. Gosh, the music when you're
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sailing! I was completely in love. Surely my doubts weren't justified.
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It was a learning lesson for young me, as it was an experience that
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showed assumptions could let to the wrong conclusions. Wind Waker was
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iconic and did not deserve the pushback it received from fans like myself.
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Sadly it would be awhile before I could actually play it properly.
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## N64 Experience
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Let's talk about the emulation experience with N64.
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Ocarina of Time felt as if it were just a native port of itself on GameCube.
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Everything worked as expected - including rumble! I have to talk about Majora's
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Mask.
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Crashes. Bugs. Just wow, there have been many instances where I would be
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doing a playthrough and it would just hardlock for no reason. There was a
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particular challenge run I was doing for myself, where I would play Majora's Mask
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and attempt a 100 percent completion in one sitting. I made it all the way to
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getting the last heart piece when out of nowhere, crash.
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(In Fox McCloud's Voice) Ahhhhhhh!!!
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Sound also would act wonky sometimes. Bassy sound effects would distort
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and pop/click as if they're clipping for some reason. This all was a
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stark contrast to Ocarina of Time.
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Regarding controls, let's just say that GameCube is more suited to
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Zelda in 3D than N64's controller. This is definitely a matter of
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preference, but I just loved how tight the controls felt!
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## Conclusion? Pretty good
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Overall, the selection of games are all solid entries in the Zelda franchise.
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Especially given how Wind Waker was perceived by fans at the time. The 20 Minute
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Demo did more to introduce fans to Wind Waker than anything else.
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I wonder how many others who had picked up Collectors Edition
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also experienced Wind Waker like I did? And getting this for free with your
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GameCube is just a nice way to incentive people to buy a GameCube. If you
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picked this up back then, you got one hell of a deal. Nintendo came out of
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nowhere with Collectors Edition, but honestly Zelda fans were eating well
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during this time as there were a bunch of releases for both 3D and 2D fans
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alike during the GameCube era. I look back fondly to these games to this day!
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### There hasn't been another compilation like Collectors Edition since
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Nintendo never did revisit this concept like how Collectors Edition
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executed it. Sure there was Master Quest, NES Classics, and
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a few bundles, but we never got a compilation of the franchise
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like Collectors Edition. I have a hunch that there may be something
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like that coming for the 40th anniversary for Zelda, but we'll see!
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Nintendo always likes to do things when they're ready, after all.
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Until next time! gm112 waz here, then he wasn't.
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