essentially this is the solution nintendo came up with to sell more wii's

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I should clarify, I don't want to waggle a sword around anymore than I did in TP, but here's hoping.

Won't be as good as Ocarina of T--

Oh, bollocks.

Zelda with MotionPlus will be absolutely amazing. If the bow and arrow will be anything at all like Wii Sports Resort, I'd buy it just for that.

@Cadtalfryn, or maybe it'll suck because it's BETTER than Ocarina of Time....

i'm still kinda pissed that all motionplus does is make the wii live up to its original selling points

The sword play in wii sports 2 sold me the motion plus, if it plays like that, awesome.

I'm the only one NOT impressed with Wii Motion Plus? I really hope this doesn't require it.

@Xzyliac
I assume t was the Reekfish yes?

I can see them using this on special enemies and bosses in a beefed up wii sports style, but for typical enemies staying with a simple button. It's all about implementation, and they rarely mess that up in a Zelda game.

I look forward to the new Zelda. Can't wait until I can find out more!

Over the past few decades, I would stick by any Nintendo console and hand-held because I knew that I could expect great Zelda and Metroid games that built upon the series' strong foundations and formulas. The current generation finds me feeling like all of that is at an end, since Nintendo has pretty much decided to shoehorn both of these series into two systems that completely throw aside the traditional control schemes out the window. With this, Nintendo has put the last nail in the coffin on everything an older gamer like myself liked about the controls that ushered the series forward through five generations of console development. I recently played through the delightful Wind Waker and the even-more-delightful Minish Cap and realized part-way through that these two games represent the last hurrahs of both the series' time-tested 2D control-scheme, as well as the 3D innovations that had been used so well since Ocarina of Time. Twilight Princess doesn't really count 100%, since it's fairly obvious that numerous aspects of the game were toned back in difficulty for the ease of implementing the Wii's clumsy control mechanisms. I've not played Phantom Hourglass, but I heard that the game was dreadfully easy and relied entirely on the stylus, two huge reasons why I could care less.

At least the art design still looks to be following the same shit-tastic design scheme that made Twilight Princess such an ugly and inappropriate (to the series) mess. Between that game's presentation and those frightening Kid Icarus teaser photos, I'm not sure which I despise more.