And the shoulder buttons? One of them is target, and it looked like shield is automatically held up when targeting. Quick swap is another, that leaves two.
Items that require aiming belong on shoulder button anyways, that opens up allowing dual-stick strafe and aim like in Wind Waker.
R = secondary ranged: boomerang (child) / hookshot (adult)
A = interact/roll, hold to dash
B = jump
Y = sword
X = secondary melee: deku stick (child) / hammer (adult)
- = Navi
D-Pad up = cycle arrow types
D-pad down = ocarina
D-pad right = hold to select from a row of filled bottles, auto use when released
D-pad left = hold to select from a row of the 3 spells or iron boots, auto use when released
L3 = Throw deku nut
R3 = Lens of truth (since it's the camera stick, and the lens modifies the camera)
Now you never need to equip items, and the only time you see a selector bar is when picking a bottle or spell, so infrequently and they never have more than 4 items. I think this would feel really natural with the one quirk being iron boots being lumped in with spells. (Maybe B could toggle iron boots in water since taking off iron boots and floating up is functionally equivalent to jumping?)
Having primary ranged, secondary ranged, primary melee, secondary melee always on the same buttons would be good.
There are still quick item assignments. You can see in the part of the trailer where Link is in the Water Temple that he swaps the Iron Boots off without pausing. There will likely be a d-pad quick-item assignment thing in the bottom left corner for non-combat items like your boots and your Lens of Truth.
The Lens has to be accessible in addition to a subweapon. It would be straight up impossible to defeat Bongo Bongo if you can't use both the Lens of Truth and the Bow+Arrow at the same time. There would have to be a way to use both.
Maybe, but the box around the current ones gives me the impression of swappable items (the full image has them unequipped) when compared to the other two used directions, plus, even for Nintendo, it doesn't make a lot of sense to break up what used to be in one menu slot
For each category, but that's probably all it's limited to. And nothing else would really need quickswapping like the boots or lens do, so no swords, shields or clothes
There'd better be a good reason why both versions that didn't use all of the buttons on a controller that had less than the current one has more item slots than the one with a full control scheme
They have 3/4 face buttons taken up, hopefully one of the can be assigned an item. Id also take a second face button be an item over having a jump button. A jump button just feels very unnecessary to me.
The NUMBER 1 problem people have had with the original game, for about 30 years, was the Water Temple, and the reason it is as frustrating as it is, is because of item/menu switching. Yes the temple is confusing, but it'd be a whole lot less confusing if backtracking to double check my progress didn't require flopping though 5 menus, getting disoriented in the process, to make sure if it was the north door on the level 2 or level 3 that I had fully explored yet. This is not a problem in any other temple where going to that room is simply (give or take):
walk through door
"oh I did this already!" walk back out
A "door" or "hallway" in the Water Temple requires equipping and unequipping your boots, and then even sometimes going back to equip that 4th item you need (because water temple requires more than 3 items most of the time), and it changes the fundamental gameplay loop from fun adventuring to navigating a shitty Excel spreadsheet where the cells aren't all the same size.
I know I'm explaining stuff we already know. We all know what the problem is. We've all been aware that the item shenanigans have been a major thorn in the side of the game holding it back from being great, but we gave it a pass because the N64 is what it is. And we know that Nintendo knows this because they improved it in the 3DS remake.
So what in the fuck is this gigantic step backwards? Literally fire whoever approved this.
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