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Except when they want to port the game from GameCube to Wii, so rather than modify the game, they just mirror the entire game to make everything gay so the motion controls can be straight.
I was so ticked when they changed him to be right handed just “because that’s what most people are”
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.
Unless it's left-handed people. They can get fucked.
They can get fucked all the way to the settings menu where the option to mirror it back to lefty-mode is hiding
Wait, is that really a thing?
Unless I'm misremembering, yeah. I no longer have my Wii set up to check
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.
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.
Adding a left handed mode was too complex I guess. Minecraft was able to do it.
Or just letting everyone use their left hand, it's not like waving around a wiimote requires super fine motor skills
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kinda. I only have 2 fingers on my right hand, so I usually sat down and held the nunchuk between my thighs while moving the joystick with my palm.
Ohhh, okay. That makes sense.
Oh yeah, him. Totally. Fuck him, and his right hand.
Link, from The Legend of Zelda
You don’t fuck your right hand?
I do often, but I'm not him.
My right hand is operating the mouse.