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New Zelda 05 info has arived

webmasterbob

webmasterbob

The Webmaster
Courtesy of the Legend of Zelda Union, I give you this fabulous new information regarding the upcoming Zelda 05. The following information bits came from a Spanish magazine. The writing was translated to get a few very interesting points from the editor who played 3 demos, most likely the demos to be presented at this years E3.

    • Link is 16 years old when the game starts, but they emphasize that will "mature" during the game, whether this is just mentally or physically as well is not clear.
    • The Village shown in the scans is the very first village in the game, called "Taoru Village". A tutorial area.
    • Controls will remain more or less unchanged from The Wind Waker, this includes the return of L-Targeting as well as Auto Jump.
    • Game will be "two to three times as large as Ocarina of Time", with more than 70 hours of total gameplay (estimate, of course).
    • The developers have aimed for a very realistic approach with the water, and there will be an underwater part of the game as well (could indicate the return of another "Water Temple").
    • Eiji Aonuma wanted the graphics for the game to be as refined as possible, which is why they didn't use the graphics from the SpaceWorld 2000 GameCube Tech Demo, featuring Ganon and Link.
    • The amount of mini games in this game will, just as in The Wind Waker, be fairly large, and an example of a mini game is where you have to lead some cows in to a certain area while on your horse back.
    • The Writer of this article got to play three different demos of the game (which are most likely the ones that will be displayed to the public at E3):
      • The 1st Demo was in Taoru Village, and was an "introduction" for the game, helping them get to know the controls etc.
      • 2nd Demo was the mini game were you had to lead the herd of cows in to the special area, which the writer pointed out to be a lot of fun.
      • The 3rd and last Demo was a horseback fighting scene where he fight an armored enemy riding a boar. He had the option to fight either with the sword or by using the bow and arrows.
    • The Article also talked about Four Swords for the DS, which is said to be quite different from Four Swords Adventures, but it will be featuring the same unique gameplay as FSA did.
Now, these bring together an END to some of the theories surrounding the game. The control style will be the same as the WW. On top of this, the aqua theme in place can give us an idea of how the game will run. Nintendo assures there will be no more huge ocean to cross;). The return of a water temple too (one of the hardest yet most interesting temples from OoT may return in some way). In addition, just to bring up something interesting, if the game is released in the holiday quarter of 2005, it would have been 7 years since the release of Ocarina of Time (November 1998). Just to add something interesting for those who love OoT like I:).

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