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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: April 25, 2005, 05:02:00 PM »

just in case you haven't seen it yet

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Written by Lars, Monday, 25 April 2005
More details on the new Zelda game!Thanks to various foreign sources, we have much more information about the upcoming Legend of Zelda GC for you. And as if that wasn't enough, we have fresh magazine scans for you as well. All information inside!

First, let's start out with the new scans. They were originally posted by JeuxFrance.com, but they did not specify the source of the images in the article. However, I am 99% sure that it comes from the EGM article, since it was coupled with some information from it. If someone can confirm or deconfirm this, it would be nice so that I can edit the name of the album in the Media Gallery.

EDIT: We have gotten confirmation on that these new scans are in fact from the latest edition of Nintendo Power, and not EGM as previously thought. We will try to get a hold of the EGM scans as well.

Now, for the new information. Most of this comes from a German gaming website called GameFront.de, which has it from the EGM article.

* Link does not come from Hyrule. Taoru village is aparantly not a part of the Kingdom of Hyrule, but a neighbour to them. The citizens of Taoru are farmers who earn their Rupees by selling food and animals to Hyrule
* Every year the leaders/mayors of the different villages gather in a large meeting of sort, this is to keep the bond and relationship between them tightly knit. However, this year the Mayor of Taoru can't go, and sends Link instead. This is how Link's adventure gets started.
* Ganon and Zelda are both in this game, but the developers have pointed out that the story of the game is not identical to what has become tradition in previous games.
* Apparantly, the fact that this game takes place after The Wind Waker in the Zelda timeline was not fact, and now Aonuma says that they are not sure when it takes place.
* There is said to be an specific item that will be very important to the flow of the game, but they don't want to reveal what it will be yet.
* According to Eiji Aonuma, they title has not been decided yet. They are pondering on giving it a "mysterious" title which will only make sense during playing the game.
* EGM points out that they combat system is very similar to that of The Wind Waker, but Aonuma says that they will/have been further developing the system where the A button "glows" at a certain time to do a counter attack. There is also a new jump attack.
* This game will be larger than all previous Zelda game. The fields and plains will be large, making to horse essential to the gameplay. Buildings will be huge, but there will also be large, empty fields. In short, everything will be larger, because it makes it more realistic, according to Aonuma.
* This time, Nintendo hopes that people don't even have to play the game to understand the choice of the more mature graphics, which was the case with the opposite, more childlike graphics in The Wind Waker.

Aonuma also says that they are aware that there were people who did not play The Wind Waker just because of the cartoon like graphics, and this makes him sad, but they still insist that they were right for the game.
* Link will have to communicate with animals in this new game, however Aonuma does not want to reveal exactly how.
* Apparantly the game is not quite finished yet, and there is still a possibility that Link will have a "sidekick" in the game, which supports Link throughout the course of the game giving information about the various things.

There's more to come, so be sure to stop by frequently as we will keep you updated!

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