Ran across an article about that controversial game Night Trap on the Sega cd and it reminded me of middle school when I got straight A’s (a rarity for me) because my parents said if I did I could get a gaming system so I picked the Sega cd since it was the newest thing. We get to the checkout and my dad sees on the box that it can’t run unless it’s connected to the Genesis. So we got that too. Sega cd flopped and I ended up playing the Genesis until I got a job in high school and got the PS1.
Any of y’all ever have a Sega cd, Neo geo, turbo Grafix, lynx, CD-I, etc?
Twilight Princess was at least a preference difference. I much preferred the Gamecube because I fucking hate Motion Controls. I don't recall there being any other major difference between the two besides the world being flipped.
Most of the Wii U games I'm thinking of were objectively better on it, sans Breath of the Wild lagging due to some weaker hardware. From being able to skip a shit ton of time menuing, to something like Pikmin where it was designed around it so much that the game is immensely frustrating to play without it.
I got twilight princess for GC after beating Wii and got lost because of the flip.
The flip is minorly annoying, because Link was lowkey famous for being Left Handed and one of the only major characters in any gaming franchise to be so. It was literal actual "minority representation."
And the flip only happened so they didn't have to deal with that little detail, so they lazily made it so Link used his sword in most people's dominant hand.
The flip made Link right-handed in future games since then, with the cop-out excuse from Nintendo that, ackshyually, Link was always ambidextrous with a left-handed preference.
The only way I'd accept that excuse is if we get a dual wielding Link just fucking dominating future combat encounters.
Its not like anyone uses the shield in these games after the first dungeon or so anyway outside mandatory puzzles, the newest games its more used as a fucking sled instead.