We recently revealed that Ura Zelda has been effectively canned, but that doesn’t mean the folks behind it wanted to see their work get completely unappreciated. I have in my possession a nice file that contains a lot of bits and pieces pertaining to Ura Zelda, but for now I am just going to release all of the screenshots and concept art contained in the file. There appears to be an awful lot of “behind the scenes” drama, some of which we will elaborate in a different post at another time. For now, lets just appreciate all the work that went into it, with the game mod/new zelda title we will never see. Hop inside.
By now, most of us are probably pretty familiar with Ura Zelda. Originally designed and planned as an expansion for Ocarina of Time alongside Zelda Gaiden, this game was going to include new, alternate, and more difficult dungeons and would be released on the Nintendo 64 disk drive. It was eventually cancelled and only surfaced partially in Ocarina of Time Master Quest while its brother Gaiden evolved into Majora’s Mask. For years now, a fan project was in the works…
Did you know that Majora’s Mask was only released due to Eiji Aonuma’s lack of desire to create a mere expansion for Ocarina of Time which they referred to as “Ura Zelda?” This is the game that was eventually revised and released for the GameCube on a disc along with Ocarina of Time as a bonus for those who had pre-ordered The Wind Waker. Yes, originally the plan was to get a second Zelda title out on the N64 within…
Our friends over at GlitterBerri have recently put together an article discussing how Ura Zelda became Majora’s Mask. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, Ura Zelda was a game being designed for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive expansion disk of the Nintendo 64. Put simply, it was a second quest of sorts for Ocarina of Time. Things got quite blurry in its development cycle as the planned Nintendo 64 Disk Drive never made its way outside…
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