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Is it just me, or does the camera in these Zelda demos drive anyone else crazy? I mean I love Zelda beyond all recognition of possible expressions through vocabulary, but the camera just seems to be...retarted...slow... Anyone?

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Why do people look all tense and stiff when they use the wiimote?

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Link was always a left-handed swordsman in the past.

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o.o Good point, Jonathan. I hadn't clued into the change before. I think that's going to be weird to look at, lol.

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Ah. I guess it makes sense. http://www.thewiire.com/news/484/1/Miyamoto_on_Mii_Marketing_and_Links_Hands Still going to be weird though.

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I'm really excited to try this game out!

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I'd play lefty if they'd let us choose Link's handedness, just to be true to Link.

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It'd be nice if you should pick your handedness, especially if you are ACTUALLY left handed and want to play wiimote in the left + nunchuck in the right.

Heck, I'm a righty, but I'd play lefty just to be true to Link.

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You couldn't see the screen well enough to really get a feel for whats going on, not good enough to even post in my opinion. Kind of a tease really.

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This is actually making me have second thoughts about getting a Wii. There seems to be a 'screw the lefties' mentality toward controls on the Wii. Is it really that hard to include a right/left handed options? I already figured Metroid Prime was going to be a pain to play left-handed. Now Twilight Princess will be too? Is this going to be the shape of games to come?

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"screw the lefties"? Why? The remote has everything centered, so you can use it with the right or left hand equally easily. The nunchuck is a general shape, so it's easily held in either hand. The comment from Miyamoto regarding making Link right-handed for the Wii version of the game was, that, in watching people play the Wii at E3, he noticed most gamers hold the remote in their RIGHT hand -- which is the sword in-game.

That's it. You want to be left-handed? Go for it. Here's what you do: Put the remote in your left hand. Pick up the nunchuck with your right hand. Oh my God, you're playing left-handed! Doesn't even require an in-game option, because you're still pointing the remote at the damn sensor bar.

Maybe the in-game example graphics, if any, would look odd. But that's not preventing you from playing left-handed. It -would- be a good thing to see, in games like Wii-sports, an option for your avatar to be a "south paw". But I think that's been a problem since video games hit the market, period. There's nothing new about that... the only thing "new" is the Wii-mote can be used by either hand just as easily as the other.

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Nearly all of the Legend of Zelda games feature a different Link. So there's no need to "stay true to Link", this one's a righty.

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if any controller since atari has been easily catered to the southpaws, then its the wii.

Gabe, exactly.

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