Topic: Question about how to play the Howling game in LoZ: TLP

[Gamebasher]

I have this quite sizeable problem with playing the notes shown on the screen, each time I get to a howling stone. Simply put, I cannot hit the notes, as doing so with the analogue stick seems too hard (I have the GCN version). Each time I don´t hit one of the notes shown in the sequence, the whole music bar seems to change to other notes that are smaller, ackwardly placed, and even harder to hit.

For instance if I need to go from the top, and one step down, and one step up, and next move a short distance horisontally, I may hit the horisontal one obliquely and not get the entire bar-sequence home. I very often miss the horisontal next-to notes, and can just give it up, as the next renewed music bar that comes isn´t the same. Navigating the bar is too difficult with that stick. I tried some times 20 times, and even 30, and then I had enough and went some other place.

Can any of you tell me how you do it?

And I also wanted to ask if the special moves thus earned are available in some other way? I mean, fighting Gannondorf at the end of the game would require them - wouldn´t it? Does any of you have the button combinations I can use to just override the Howling game alltogether, and go straight to performing them?

[Shecky]

Well I wouldn't call it a howling game....

There are only 3 "notes" Up, neutral, Down.  I can't remember 100%, but when you go to howl if you mess up you have to wait for it to start over.  in other words you can't just start the pattern from the middle of the "howling".  Also, as you hit the right notes the lines darken in an attempt to make the next pass easier, if you miss it on the next pass it fades out.  My brother claimed that you could cheat a little bit on the first pass by quickly alternating between the 3 notes on the first pass.  That would darken enough of the lines to make out the pattern easily on the second pass.

[Gamebasher]

Thanks, Shecky.

I have one more question for you, though:

You mention that there are only three notes, up, down, neutral. So I would like to know how you do it when the notes illuminate on the screen. How exactly do you move the analogue stick? Do you just let the stick remain neutral when there are spaces inbetween lines? See, I can understand how to move the analogue stick up, down, or leave it in the middle. What I don´t understand is how I get to cover the ones that are out to the sides (lines/notes).

If I have just taken "out" one note in the top part of the music bar, and the next one that comes is placed to the side, lower down, and with a SPACE between it, and where I am now coming from (the top portion of the bar and on my way down), the spaces are killing my sequence. It seems too hard to suddenly yank the cursor up, from an inbetween space, and then down, and then up, and next down to the middle etc. It is too troublesome somehow. And I have to start over. That is where I go dead.

To navugate with a big analogue stick, in between small lines, rapidly popping up from the side and onwards is a problem for me. I need a description of how to play it. If you can demonstrate to me in words how you do it that would be great. Gotta have those special moves.

Thanks.  

[Shecky]

There are no spaces, or at least none of any significant length.  If you do see a space, your not hitting the right note at that time, or you haven't held the previous note long enough.  Remember you have to hold a note until the next one comes up.  When they show you the sequence they make the start of the notes bright dots on the grid.  You have to remember those for playback as you get no clues except for the darkened lines I talked about earlier.  So if the pattern was UP, DOWN, MIDDLE you would do this:

Hold UP and wait for the next note
Hold Down and wait for the next note
Hold Neutral (aka don't touch anything) for the last note

and by waiting for the next note, I mean the point on the grid that it's supposed to start.  You'll have no reference given to you while your playing... you'll have to visually remember from when you were "listening" to the pattern.

[Gamebasher]

Thanks again. I really appreciate this.

You mean UP, and then STAY on THAT line and just let the cursor hit the oncoming note? And after that, MIDDLE and stay in the middle, and let the oncoming note hit the cursor? And last DOWN, and stay DOWN (on that line) and let the oncoming note hit the cursor? I guess I messed in the way that I can´t figure out ifthey want us to just move the cursor to a specific line and let it stay there until one has seen the note being hit, and then move it to another position in the musical bar where the next note is seen illuminated. Was that how it was supposed to be done?

 

[ShyGuy]

I didn't like the howling songs. It took me like 10 minutes to play the first one. Gotta have the gold wolf attack specials though!

[Shecky]

Watch This

[Gamebasher]

Shecky, THANKS!

Awesome. I am lost for words. But I seem to understand this right now. Cool.

One other question: how did you put all of that out on YOUTUBE.COM? Did you have a real videocamera, or a mobile phone videocamera? I always wondered how such is done. Thanks again for that awesome demo!!!!!!

[Mashiro]

Am I the only one who thinks the wolf should have transformed into an aged version of one of the past Links? Now how cool would that have been =)

[Shecky]

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Originally posted by: Gamebasher
One other question: how did you put all of that out on YOUTUBE.COM? Did you have a real videocamera, or a mobile phone videocamera? I always wondered how such is done. Thanks again for that awesome demo!!!!!!

I didn't  I just figured that someone probably had and did a search.  I've never messed with photo or file sharing online, but had I done the video myself I would have used my video capture card to take the video.

[Gamebasher]

OK, thanks.

YOUTUBE.com is certainly usefull.

[Larsen]

Hi….

A game is a structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.
A human-like race has found itself at war with savage creatures they named 'the Howlers'. The conflict has been going on for quite some time and is the result of constant human curiosity and the urge to expand....Ok enjoy

Make it stop! ~Pale

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

You'll find that HORSE HUMPING is a structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment.