Nintendo revamping Zelda

[Inflexus]

I wanted to get a bit of a discussion going as to what do you think will happen for Nintendo when they do something new for the Zelda series.

I think it's likely for any DS Zelda games to have more enhanced multiplayer modes than previous Zelda games, even adventures that are as co-operative as 4 swords, or even more so. I definitely think that can be anticipated.

There may even be a two-to-four player versus mode, not like what happened in Phantom Hourglass, but more like the Four Sword game that required 4 different gameboys and the Gamecube link cables.

I also believe that Zelda on the Wii will take a turn for more of a "toon link" feel, and that it will definitely have a new feeling to it in terms of weapons and controls. I don't think Nintendo wants to sit around on the success of Twilight Princess when they can address younger fans with a much less serious toon Link.

Not that I like toon Link that much, but I definitely think there will be more of him in the future.

What are your thoughts to what Nintendo will do?

[zeypherlink]

Shiggy or Eiji (forgot which one) already said they're using a realistic approach to the console Zelda games (like TP), and cel shaded for the portable Zelda games (like PH).

As for the 4swords thing... that will surely come. After all, their inspiration for the DS was Four Swords for the GBA.

[blackice_cc]

Yeah, it seems definite that a new FS for the DS is coming. I don't know about the Wii, but it seems like they could do a more realistic looking game with it's graphics capabilities.

[Y2K3]

I like both the Toon Link and realistic graphics, but they serve different purposes. What I'm worried about is them 'changing Zelda as we know it'. I thought the way it ran was fine, and that it doesn't need to be overhauled. If it turns out to be amazing, then I won't care, but I just hope it doesn't ruin anything for me. Just my two cents.

[EponaOwns]

Yeah, it seems definite that a new FS for the DS is coming. I don't know about the Wii, but it seems like they could do a more realistic looking game with it's graphics capabilities.

I agree. They probably want more people to buy their Zelda games and more people have a DS than Wii so I'm feelin' pretty good about a new ds game but this time much harder I hope.

Wii games take time to make.

Probably four player games will come out but not much because sometimes it is better just to figure it out by yourself

[Onilink89]

i dunno but i have a feeling that nintendo will bring out a new zelda for the wii.
why you ask, well tp was meant for the GC in the first place, so i really hope for a zelda game that is 100% exclusive only on the wii.

[proctorFFVII]

I've sorta been thinkin' that Nintendo will be releasing a new Zelda game sometime this fall because of what the back of the September '08 issue of Nintendo Power said that they'd show a game that was not unvieled at E3. Probably they'll go in the direction of Final Fantasy VII and make it futuristic.

[El Bagu]

I like both the Toon Link and realistic graphics, but they serve different purposes. What I'm worried about is them 'changing Zelda as we know it'. I thought the way it ran was fine, and that it doesn't need to be overhauled. If it turns out to be amazing, then I won't care, but I just hope it doesn't ruin anything for me. Just my two cents.

If they ruin it for us I guess we´ll have to play the old games over and over again!!

[linkman8]

If they ruin it for us I guess we´ll have to play the old games over and over again!!
Or switch to Final Fantasy. :D jk

But we all know Nintendo better than that, they won't ruin it for us, because they've radically changed things in Zelda before, like the transition from LoZ to AoL, and they never failed us, so I can't see them failing in the future.

But on a FS for the DS; that would be interesting if it had online cooperative play. A few of us would have to hook up and play. :)

[alttp]

I think a co-op game could be cool. A sequel to TP where Zelda and Link work to re-establish a link to the twilight realm and save midna.

[Petman1325]

OK, I admit it, I like the cel shaded style of The WindWaker, but the Wii should try to re-create them. Phantom Hourglass has shown how powerful the DS is, but I'm sure that the DS can do more. The two links that were stated are Link and Toon Link.
Link shows the texture capabilites of the console. Toon Link shows the polygon and color capabilites of the console. Give the Wii Toon Link (not the Brawl version, but the WW version) and the DS should get Link. We can see the full capabilites of both consoles.

[Mastersworddude]

Well toon link doesn't need much detail so it would much easier on the DS.
And PH was originally Four Swords DS

[Josh]

I like both the Toon Link and realistic graphics, but they serve different purposes. What I'm worried about is them 'changing Zelda as we know it'. I thought the way it ran was fine, and that it doesn't need to be overhauled. If it turns out to be amazing, then I won't care, but I just hope it doesn't ruin anything for me. Just my two cents.

Now that, I have to agree with you on. I like Zelda just the way it is.


I've sorta been thinkin' that Nintendo will be releasing a new Zelda game sometime this fall because of what the back of the September '08 issue of Nintendo Power said that they'd show a game that was not unvieled at E3.

Well, I don't quite know when the idea of Zelda came around this statement. Nintendo is a big company, they make a lot of games, that could have meant anything, because, what important was shown at E3 anyway?


Two things I am thinking.

1. That there is going to be a hell of a lot more multiplayer, with what they have done so far, why stop now?

2. With what they have been saying about incredibly harder, I'm hoping that they will go in that direction, but with the direction that I have seen them going in, my gut would have to say them revamping it, but then it's just going to be as easy as it is now.

[blackice_cc]

Yeah, it seems likely we'll get some DS FS game. As for the back of Nintendo power thing, that could even have been about Fire Emblem. I don't think the difficulty will go up much, because I'm sure that Nintendo would lose a bunch of it's "casual" players that it gained with PH and TP. Or that's at least how they will look at it I think. Also, I think we are going to get a big graphical upgrade for Wii, because TP was with GC graphics, so Nintendo hasn't shown how far they can go graphically for Zelda.

[Dexter]

the next zelda needs to be kinda like elder scrolls oblivion, but not with the first person perspective.

[Darkdragon]

Or switch to Final Fantasy. :D jk

But we all know Nintendo better than that, they won't ruin it for us, because they've radically changed things in Zelda before, like the transition from LoZ to AoL, and they never failed us, so I can't see them failing in the future.

But on a FS for the DS; that would be interesting if it had online cooperative play. A few of us would have to hook up and play. :)

hehehe....
im already prepared with 5 FF games,

but anyway, personally, i think most of nintendo's series are going to end up in ruin, because, i hate when games like PH are completely stylus used. and the wii is worse, when i play a game i want one thats easy to control, doesnt misread controlls, and is fun
wii games:
1) half the timeyour standing up to play the game and generally have to make yourself look like an idiot
2)also, a simple twist of your wrist can put in a wrong command on the wii
3) game with terreble controls is almost NEVER fun

[Midna666]

I think a co-op game could be cool. A sequel to TP where Zelda and Link work to re-establish a link to the twilight realm and save midna.

I like that idea.
I want to see Midna again.

[Petman1325]

They need to make a foursword game for the DS. And have it support single cartridge (Cause I can't find people with Link to the Past/Four Sword!)!

[waldo12]

i dont not like the cel shade but i way prefer the tp one and there will be a new zelda game but it will take forever cuz its being built from the ground up

[Chris]

I think that Nintendo will make a Toon Link for Wii because Wii really has that toon look in most games.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

For the next Zelda game for the Wii, I hope they would use Link instead of Toon Link.

I've enjoyed Link games more for some reason.

[Wings]

I wouldn't mind either Toon Link or regular Link for the Wii. I love the art style of WW/PH, and the game play of wind waker (the baton would work well with the wii motion plus, I don't trust the wiimote the way it is), but Link games always have a more real gritty feeling and almost feel alive somehow. However, really the only thing I'd like to see is the Wii controls for sword assigned to a button or made more natural. TP for the Wii was great and all, but during the puppet zelda fight, the only timed sword swings in the game, I had to move real close to the TV so that I almost couldn't see the fight. I also got sick of shield attacking when I wanted the spin. Wii controls and the darker story of TP were a step in the right direction, but it needs to be fine tuned. TP was a rough gem, and if it had had a little more polish it could have been the next OoT.

[adrock]

I want PH on Wii, cel shaded like WW, even if uses the GameCube controller. They should do ports between platforms. Nintendo designs a new game for DS or but doesn't port it to Wii, they lose out on sales. The cost to port and re-render is much less than a new game development.

As for new concepts, its about time they went with some new macro themes (large scale). How many more times do I have to kill Ganon? Always with the Triforce and the same Master Sword? This is where I think WW was SO fantastic because the landscape was massively different and unique, but still tied in with prior macro themes. How about a new antogonist NOT named Ganon? How about some other bad wizard, other hidden secret powers (like the power of the very Earth itself being tapped and drained of magikal energy) so the antogonist travels between time and dimensions to gather the elements needed to pentrate the fortress of New Bad Guy who is sucking the planet dry. Do a swerve on it: Bad Guy is sucking Hyrule dry to save his other world in Other Dimension, because over there his world is dying from an unknown malady. Bad Guy Wizard isn't really "bad", just bad for Hyrule. For his world he's a savior. After antogonist finally penetrates Bad Guy fortress and having gathered the strength to do so in Hyrule, instead of killing Bad Guy Wizard he banishes you off into his Planet/Dimension to get you out of his way. To get back and to ultimately save Hyrule the second half of your adventure is to actually solve the primal malady of their Universe (I'll leave it to the Zelda designers to earn their paycheck and figure out whatever malady that might be). Two games in one.

Or swerve it even more: You change protagonist when Link meets up with Bad Guy. You fight and "defeat" him, but not kill him. He tells you his story and emplores your help, as clearly you are a capable hero. When he send you into his world you "take" the body of some other being, maybe a girl (become Zelda?), maybe a magic user, something cool and different. You are still You, but your form changed (not unlike the wolf in TP), but to a more versatile character than the wolf. Becoming Zelda might be cool, but not a swords-woman, maybe a magik user or a stealthy-type thief-type. (For anyone who thinks that a female protagonist doesn't sell, check the best selling computer game of its time, Kings Quest 4 in 1988 -- before most of your time perhaps).

Just some ideas.

[Bluelink6]

i tihnk they need a new story line, like you say, revamped. Maybe another game with toon link, but maybe one not involving zelda and with a main antagonist that's not Ganon or ganondorf. Like in majora's mask, it was totally seperate from other Zelda game strylines. Something different. That's what I'd klike to see.