The Legend of Link
Everyone’s gonna think the protagonist is named Link. What a terrible idea.
Wait, you mean the girl with the wand is not Link?
The Lelda of Zelda
Been waiting for a new 2d Zelda game since link awakening was rereleased. So far it looks interesting. The only issue I can see with this game is that it to is going to be $79.99 CAD and from what I’ve seen it’s so not going to be worth that. Hoping for a $49.99 or $59.99 CAD price tag, but this is Nintendo.
The Link’s Awakening remake got released at full price, so there is a 0% chance this will be a budget title even though it probably in reality should be.
I know, I just hope that they don’t point to it and say “this is the reason we don’t make 2D Zelda games” like they did with Chibi Robo and that god awful 3DS game, or Star Fox and that god awful Wii U game.
Do you get vouchers?
I find buying vouchers brings the per-title cost down to au$67.5.
In comparison Sony is charging au$125 for a 1st party title like the last of us part 1 so Nintendo feels like they are priced competitively.
We do, but they aren’t that good of a deal, especially since you can get the same discount… if not more, if you buy used. And you can sell the game when you are done rather than being stuck with digital.
That said, outside of Nintendo, who rarely if ever discount their games, most games on modern systems get heavily discounted months if not a year after they come out. You are a fool if you buy the latest Ubisoft Game new since it’s usually $15-$30 before it’s been on-sale for a year. Even Sony first party IP, I got most of them for $10-$20 a pop new or digital, since I bought in at the tail end of the PS4 generation.
This looks fun. I am eager to pirate this and play it on PC :)
And I will pirate it and play it on my Switch!
I enjoyed the Link’s Awakening remake and Link Between Worlds on 3DS. It looks like it’s got a similar style as those games even if the gameplay might be different.
It might also be setting up a full-blown BoTW-style game for Switch 2 as well. I could totally see this as a “Let’s work out how Zelda’s combat works because Switch 2 is going to have you play as both Link and Zelda.” Kind of like how GTA games have multiple protagonists now.
I had a very similar thought myself.
They said the next big Zelda was going to be different than TotK/BotW style, so after getting some baseline skills/items/ideas that Zelda uses in this game, they could leverage that for the next big game where you can swap between the two.
It’d just be cool to play as Zelda in 3D.
It looks to me like they’re reusing the Link’s Awakening map, like they did for BotW.
I’m gonna pick it up, if only to encourage Nintendo to give Zelda her own full-size, mainline game.
It’s clearly Hyrule, though. Similar art style, but new map. Death Mountain is shown towards the end of the trailer.
Not sure how I feel about no direct attacks by Zelda, but I’m sure it won’t disappoint
If you look to the left of the screen it does look like there are 4 shortcut slots, one in this video taken up by the wand. My hope is that she gets some other items to use along with the wand. Zelda has always had bows, for example, so that’d fit right in.
If they give a bow, no one will use the wand except to solve puzzles though 😁
It sounds painful, and I’m concerned there will be too much menuing, but in general I’m trusting Nintendo on this one. (Well, maybe wait for a demo/review.)
Looks cool, and a major first letting players be Zelda
This isn’t the first game where you play as Zelda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_CD-i_games
Wow, today I learned. Nintendo is pretty protective of its IP, so it’s nuts that these were allowed to be made by another company in the first place.
Looks fun. Unfortunately I’ve given away my Switch to my cousins children. Maybe they will borrow it to me for a while.
Damn, imagine disliking someone for giving away their switch…
I’m glad Nintendo is finally starting to realize the potential of playable Zelda. Her style of gameplay will put a fresh new spin on the series. I also hope to see somewhere down the line a game where you can choose to play as either Zelda or Link and your choice will give you a different experience and cause puzzles to have different solutions, which would be good for a replay. Such a game would also have the potential for two-player co-op with vastly different abilities.
The Legend of Zelda… & Knuckles. I like it.
This is nice and all, but where’s WWHD?!?
Wish they’d add the new games to the website so I could wishlist them. I’m looking forward to this.
It’s the only announcement I’m excited about in the whole Nintendo Direct.
The only downside is that, for the moment, I don’t really see the point of summoning crates rather than tables (or vice versa). But summoning monsters to fight is so cool.
For me, it’s most likely a Day 1 purchase.
Crates are opaque where tables aren’t so you can hide from baddies behind a crate?
Or “We’re Nintendo so we have to take this to some logical extreme?”
Crates are 1 block high instead of 0.5, and the number of triangles you have limits how many things you can summon. There will certainly be gratuitous echos though.
Oh so you you can stack 3 crates twice as tall as you can stack 3 tables if you can only summon 3 total things.
I fell in love with the concept of this game instantly. I think they will probably spin off these concepts into it’s own series. Or at least I hope they do.
I feel a lot can be done with the whole enemy spawning thing. Obviously I haven’t played it, but I bet it’s going to merely open the window to it’s full potential. Forget the tables, and plants…I think you could have a whole game type where the whole thing is just being essentially kamiek (from the mario series).
If you have enough enemy types, and some kind of balancing system, I think that would be cool. Make it so you CAN just spawn endless guards…but maybe it’s not the best choice. You can still DO it…you can do anything. It’s a modern Zelda game after all. But some situations might make more sense to use 2-3 of one enemy type rather than 500 of another. But you do you.
I’m just so hyped for this game. 3 days before my birthday! I may be turning 41, but I’ll get MYSELF a birthday present. And maybe an ice cream cake.
