Speaking to Nintendo Power magazine in the August issue, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that the next Wii Legend of Zelda title wouldn’t stray from the series’ roots.
“I don’t think it’s going to be that radically different,” Miyamoto said.
Just to be clear: we don’t have our hands on the latest issue. Our postman likes to take our magazines home with him for a couple of weeks before bothering to stuff it in our mailbox. We’re not exactly sure where the quote is or what context it’s being used in. We’re leaning on Aeropause strictly for the quote.
As for what Miyamoto said, it’s a shame: as wonderful as most Zelda adventures are to play through, they’re becoming much too familiar. Ice Temple here. Bow and Arrow there. Boomerang in this place. Pick up this Heart Container in this hole. The Zelda house has a strong foundation, no doubt, but the guttering is starting to sag. It’s time to try something new.
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4:20 PM on 07.02.2009
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What happened to the creative power Nintendo once was? Remember when Mario Sunshine/Galaxy 1 came out, or Majora's mask? They were mind-blowing follow ups to the original. This is really disappointing news.
There have beens some rumours of Zelda in space and such stuff, so it may've been an answer to those, as far as I'm concerned, stupid ideas. Zelda does need changes, and I really hope they come this time with WM+, but those must remain in the gameplay front. Changing the setting and the feeling of the series is meaningless, and would fit a new IP better.
I still wish they would just skip the Wii and put it on the next console... Before anyone attacks me, I do own a Wii and it IS underpowered. There's only so much you can do with it. Remember how revolutionary and WIDE Ocarina felt? It gave people a new perception on gaming reality. That was a really absorbing, immersive game. I wanted a breathing world, with charismatic characters with their own routines, like Windfall Island meets Oblivion. The basic mechanics don't have to change, but the scope surely needs to be widened. And it doesn't mean making Hyrule Field a huge, yet beautiful, lot of nothing. Kind of like what Super Mario Galaxy did to the Mario franchise. It just made things magical again.
Twilight Princess felt too similar to Ocarina of Time and I expect no less from Master of Swords here. I'm not saying it's not a solid formula, but it could use some more variety. Don't be afraid to shake it up the Zelda formula, Nintendo!
Well, anything except horrid motion controls. Make those optional.
"Twilight Princess is the last of this kind of Zelda"
Oh neat! Maybe we'll finally see something that isn't copy pasted from other Zel-
“I don’t think it’s going to be that radically different,”
YOU MOTHERFUCKER
I wanted to write a monthly musing on this, but never found the time. I wish they'd stop with the same-but-different stories, and let Link and the rest grow as characters. I'm talking long, involved stories that arch over multiple games. Legend of Zelda: Half-Life. Something like that.
Also on topic, I think it would be cool if they took the premise of Zelda (the master sword, the triforce, some other magical mainstays of the core series) and put them in a different time/world. Not really futuristic or anything like that but just like, something new. People would be all "arg they're destroying Zelda": at first but hey, it's better than another similar sequel.
I don't mean with the sailing, I think that would get old even more quickly, but just another completely new experience. Something that I can spend an entire afternoon playing, without really progressing, and still feel it's not wasted time.
Less story would be a plus. I love the 3D Zelda's but they need to tighten up their narratives to the bare minimum. You guys know what I mean (It takes like an hour and a half to get to the first dungeon in most of them (only Ocarina didn't waste your time on that). The game makers need to know when to shut up.
Cutting down the items would be another. It feels like we get all these items that seem to get 1 time uses (Ocarina/WW=Hammer, TP=Boomerang) when they could have cleverly used an older item instead (PH does this).
Taking us out of Hyrule would be nice. Some of the most interesting Zelda games have been out of Hyrule (AoL,LA,MM,PH) so let's leave that drab land behind. Wasn't that the point of WW's ending anyway?
The point of the Wii is to take gaming back to when games were simpler (but not less complex (oxymoron?). The original Zelda is devious, and it's 8-bit, has less story, less items, and is strangely more compelling and clever on the whole. Why can't we have that same deviousness with the current ones? It's time to start anew.
This fact disappoints me greatly.
And stop whining people, all we have is a quote and no context. Let's wait until we actually know something about the game before passing judgement.
also wind waker>ocarina. there i said it.
Then, Resistance 1.5
Now, Zelda: Twilight Princess 1.5
Where the hell has all the originality gone?
Also, Bioshock 1.5 & Mario Galaxy 1.5 CONFIRMED
I could probably go on.
More games like Plants vs Zombies, Flower, Braid, LBP, etc...
GO SABA!
I'm with springsteen on his first point. I mean, we can't really define what "radically different" means at this point. We have just one quote, and most of the commenters so far have jumped to to conclusion that they are just going to change Gannon's name to Harry and resell Twilight Princess to us again. Then again, I've been around Dtoid long enough that this very common type of overreaction doesn't shock me anymore. That, and all the main Zelda games are just Link to the Past with a new skin.
Is he really not taking a lead role in this Zelda game, or is he just being coy with us?
Maybe they should widen the gameplay possibilities. I think at this point in videogame history, Zelda's cryptic nature may have gotten a little old. I love the series, but sometimes it felt very arbitrary in the old games. As long as there are inventive puzzles, I'd be ok. Being inventive is very different from being cryptic. You can play through a very difficult puzzle going "Snap!" several times through it without having to sit and wonder what the hell you're supposed to be doing. Wondering where to go is very different from wondering how to move. I guess they'll pull it off, though.
They have a formula that hasn't failed them for a long ass time, so why try to change it? The thing about Mario is that over the past couple of games the formula has been changed every game (From Mario 64 to Sunshine to Galaxy, the concepts of the game were different), while Zelda hasn't changed a whole lot. Why fix what ain't broken?
But it's also true that too many games with the same formula is a little repetitive. So while keeping the core aspects, they have to experiment a little to keep things fresh. Either way, it'll sell millions anyway.
The storyline from Twilight Princess was okay. I liked the wolf part of the game. But that's all I liked about the game. The graphics were ugly. I sit relativly far from my TV and I could still see every pixel of the textures all over the game. Even Wind Waker (which I love by the way) which was made... what, six years before? Even It had better detailing graphics than this thing did.
The game was so disapointing that it cracked me. I gave up on Nintendo until I heard about the new Galaxy game being for veteran gamers. I only own Nintendo systems, so there wasn't much I could do but get hooked right back onto them.