Miyamoto and Reggie Discuss Zelda and Pikmin

I hope this different approach doesn't mean on-rails shooting or something stupid.

Been done in Link's Crossbow Training

I'm hopefully for a decent new Zelda, I'm sure Nintendo know that TP wasn't really all that. Good game at the time, but in retrospect got a bit lost and was an anticlimax in the end really.

Right on there J-Bizz.

It needs to be a thoroughly new approach. It's encouraging they're saying this and I trust Minimoto to get it right. Unless he's doing a Wii Music/Zelda spin-off where Link must master the Orchestra of the Sages to conduct the Symphony of Light in a recital of The Nocturne of Temporal Darkness to transport his unborn fetus 4000 years into the future where Hyrule has become an intergalactic funk-brothel ruled by resident Pimp-Daddy, Frod Nonnag.

Maybe they could introduce some sort of flying mechanic. Zelda hasn't done that yet. Kid Icarus'll turn up and teach Link the basics. Maybe he'll lend him some wings.

Twilight Princess was very very special already.
I dont get this hatred of the game.
Longer, more interesting,much less repedative and more interesting items then TWW,and Midna! Midna kicks arse but most people prefer TWW...crazy. I put it down to the style. Once people got over the shock, I think cell-shadeing was prefered even though gameplay was grossly inferiour and the game was clearly rushed out.

I look forward to more Zelda, and more *different* Zelda, but I hope to god all this media preasure isnt making him rush
The core exploration/puzzle structure of the game should be kept no mater what. That IS Zelda.
The dungeon structure should be dumped though, and puzzles should be more like Zack & Wiki ones.
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Also, why on earth ask for 2D games :?
Look, theres many fantasic 2D games out there, and certainly some work better 2D (Sonic).

But Mario and Metroid have proved themselfs to work in 3D. Galaxy and Corruption were two of the finest games ever made.
If you really want a 2D bit in a 3D game you can do it (and they have done). So I dont see any point of making a 2D game from those franchise\'s.

Give us eppisodic DD Mario Galaxy levels.

Give us a new Metroid Hunters on the DS.(same wonderfull controlls, but more puzzles/exploration and better boss\'s please!).

And let Retro take a break from metroid and work on something new

oh, and if we must have a rushed out Zelda to please people, lets have a new Four Swords eh?

( Edited 08.09.2008 11:09 by Darkflame )

Icarus would be too busy slitting his wrists.

Once Link grows a beard he could certainly lend him a a razor though.

TP was a good game, just a bit stale. Its good they know its biggest flaw, its sticks to closely to the formula.

Pit would be too down in the dumps with his whole emo curse thing to be flying high.

Also the Wii can't do them technix!!

Twilight Princess was incredible and anything but "average or lower". Decent Zelda game = world implodes. It's either really good or it doesn't exist.

So you can understand why I'm worried about the Wii Zelda. it might end up like Dragon Quest Swords or something...

And Link will probably be right handed, which means I will boycott it, until launch date. After that I'll just rant LOADS AND LOADS about it.

First person zelda with motion plus swords built in me thinks.

LOZ: TP was ment for the Game Cube. Don't you remember the game being pushed back I think thats where some of the hate started, since it wasn't built from the ground up on Wii. And playing just wasn't as special as expected to be; especially if the 1st Zelda you played was OoT. Every thing only felt new in the visual aspect.

I enjoyed playing Z:TP, however do realize it was just another Zelda. It is still better than about 95% of the games released on the Wii though. I do agree that the next one needs some major changes to keep it fresh. That is the same way I feel about the next smash brothers.

I think the major thing Zelda needs is writers.

Zelda has had some decent and funny characters and scripts, but in recent games it's gotten a bit standard and stale in recent games. To the point where you're tapping A a lot more frequently to skip through.

I think they really need to get someone outside, a team of decent writers and thinkers, to rehash the franchise. Have it more character driven, and less predictable. Temples should be there, but less obvious that they are "dungeons", shorter event-driven quests and more dynamic and interesting characters.