Tag: Nintendo Wii

Nintendo of America has posted a brand new How To Play video, where it instructs you on the basic control mechanics of Skyward Sword. It has both in-game footage, as well as showing the person controlling the Nintendo Wiimote. It is a fairly basic video and if you’ve been following Zelda news for the last several months, then this is nothing new. Since they posted it on their Nintendo Wii YouTube Channel, the audience is likely more casual fans who…

Zelda Universe’s 25 Years in 25 Days continues through Zelda history with the year 2004. This was the year that Nintendo announced their newest handheld and newest console, the Nintendo DS and the Wii, at E3. Fans were also shown the first trailer of the new Zelda game that would be coming out on the GameCube. Due to the dislike of the graphics from the previous title, The Wind Waker, many fans were skeptical about this next game. That game…

This question was recently brought up by a commentator of a Kotaku article and it became front page news over at the gaming site. It’s a rather simple question, how could anyone dislike Twilight Princess? I have hinted in quite a variety of news posts over the years over the various things I didn’t like about Twilight Princess. I thought the game had some of the worst collectible items, it was perhaps the most linear Zelda title to date, and…

According to a recent article over at IGN, Eiji Aonuma had considered dropping Motion Plus controls from the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Aonuma had stated that he wasn’t sure if this was the right direction he wanted the Zelda series to go in. It apparently went as far as several months of development continuing without the Motion Plus controls included. Aonuma eventually welcomed the idea once again after Katsuya Eguchi, developer of Wii Sports Resort talked about everything that…

Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime gave an interview with IGN recently and touched on many Zelda topics. He talked about what looks like a drought in Wii software during the first half of 2011 and why this is the case. Moving forward though, he briefly spoke about what to expect in the second half of the year, including some 1st party titles, such as Skyward Sword. Reggie feels Skyward Sword is going to continue to drive Wii’s moving forward…

The above video is a showing of a number of upcoming titles for the Nintendo Wii. What we are most concerned about occurs at roughly 1:25 into the video. There are a series of short clips from Skyward Sword, where it shows Link using the Beetle, fighting a moblin, deflecting an attack from an Octorok, rolling around in a fire like dungeon, and then fighting a stalfos. Most of this material is not new at all, but there are several…

Over the past year there has been so many fans out there that have created fake screenshots that they have claimed to be of Zelda Wii. Perhaps most known of these is the Oblivion modifications that included Link’s character. Nevertheless, the video embedded below includes a slideshow of a handful of the fake screenshots that we have seen for Zelda Wii. They certainly have the Twilight Princess feel to them, but some of them truly do look awesome. We are…

In the latest installment of Iwata Aska, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata sat down with the development team of the upcoming Nintendo Wii title Monster Hunter Tri. They discussed the graphics of Monster Hunter Tri and how it was made a top priority when developing the game. However, Iwata made a hint to the Legend of Zelda in the interview and the quote can be read below. “I can tell Nintendo’s staff has really been galvanized by you. I can tell…

In a recent interview with games™, Shigeru Miyamoto hinted to the possible inclusion of Zelda Wii Utilizing the Vitality Sensor in the upcoming adventure. The vitality sensor was announced back at E3 2009 but there has been very little information concerning the device since. At the time, the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, stated that video games may sound be used as a form of relaxation. Sure, video games are meant to be relaxing in a way, but I’m not…

Nathan Jagrup over at Resume Play has offered a few suggestions as to what he would like to see in the next Legend of Zelda title for the Nintendo Wii. Listed below is a bullet point summarization of all the points mentioned in his article. 1. Voice acting and orchestrated score. 2. More varied dungeon settings. 3. More complex characters (especially enemies). 4. Sidequests that net some great gains. 5. More difficult bosses. We have heard similar cries from many…