And after both bars did their DOWNLOADING and then INSTALLING, it finally said I was finished and could play the game!
I tapped on the Zelda icon on my gamepad's homescreen!
NEW ZELDA GAME MOTHERFUCKERS!
Oh.
(This is despite making sure I had a couple of GB above what the original purchase said was required as free space on my console.)
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Through seriously gritted teeth, I deleted Rayman Legends off the console, which is the only thing left on there that would free up enough space.
(Do remember that my Wii-U is the 32GB 'deluxe' one with the 'large' internal storage option.)
It now seems to want to do this, although it estimated four hours just a couple of minutes ago, so 24 minutes is definitely an improvement.
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