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New Zelda U/NX artwork + E3 plans
- Thread starter Nibel
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But I'm wondering why they didn't mention Color Splash then... Totally expecting the game either to be delayed till next year or it's still on early stages of development. The least thing Wii U needed right now...
Edit: Oh my sorry for double posting
They didn't mention Fed Farce, either.
Anyways, the artwork is CLEARLY Link. People spouting otherwise is nonsense.
It's just Zelda using magic to take the form of Link, the hero. Opinion, of course
But I'm wondering why they didn't mention Color Splash then... Totally expecting the game either to be delayed till next year or it's still on early stages of development. The least thing Wii U needed right now...
Edit: Oh my sorry for double posting
As Broly said, Fed Force wasn't mentioned either, and--it seems like Nintendo at the last minute decided to show more than just Zelda. So probably new demos/trailers of these two games may just not have been ready on such notice. Nintendo previously said only Zelda would be shown, so I think this is a reasonable conclusion.
I don't expect Color Splash to be delayed. It is likely the sole H2 2016 first party retail release for Wii U.
Joei
Member
I think the face looks very plain in that it could be a boy or girl, but the rest of the body in terms of shape resembles a male.
Shikamaru Ninja
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I don't think that was ever the case. They probably always intended to dedicate some portion of their press opportunity to their robust 3DS line up including Pokemon, Federation Force, Style Savvy 3, Rhythm Tengoku, and maybe their unannounced holiday game N-Stars.
Their headline was always that Zelda would be their focus at the E3 convention and their only playable game at the show floor. Then there was this Treehouse Zelda world premiere showcase as an addendum.. It's just a muddy mess of communication really.
Alex_Mexico
Member
This gotta be our first look at the female option right? That's one girly-looking Link. More than your regular androgynous male Link. And if be fine with that.
If all you're judging it is by Link's face, then you're not looking at the whole picture.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Can't wait for next week so we get a solid answer on whether there's a female option or not so we can stop this constant "no it isn't" "yes it is" arguments.
Here guys I changed some things and created a - what I think - good, modern look for the male Link version, what do you think
Link Simmons sure is looking good.
Pokemaniac
Member
The continued lack of the standard tunic is interesting. That'll probably be significant somehow.
Did Ya Know Gamin'
Link's face is based on series creator Shiguru Miyamoto's. He also wears a green triangular hat to reflect Miyamoto's favourite choccy in a box of Quality Street.
Zelda's face was originally based on series composer Koji Kondo. But after he insulted Aonuma's moustache he was relegated to just composing the 'item collect' jingle which is why he makes sure it plays every time you pick up rupee!
Tingle's face and personally are based on late Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Epona's face is based on a horse.
Link's face is based on series creator Shiguru Miyamoto's. He also wears a green triangular hat to reflect Miyamoto's favourite choccy in a box of Quality Street.
Zelda's face was originally based on series composer Koji Kondo. But after he insulted Aonuma's moustache he was relegated to just composing the 'item collect' jingle which is why he makes sure it plays every time you pick up rupee!
Tingle's face and personally are based on late Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Epona's face is based on a horse.
Well, looking at everything we've seen of the game so far, leaving out the green tunic could actually have some design reasons too. Can you imagine having a character in green running around in those green fields? He'd be damn near invisible.
Of course, this hasn't been a problem in any previous game, but this one seems to take the overworld even further. I think. Maybe.
Serenitynow
Member
Considering the theme of "breaking the conventions of Zelda," I don't even expect the green tunic to be in the game.
And I am okay with that.
That's true. Maybe that's the reason they didn't make a funny announcement video with Mega64 this year. Nintendo was still planning what to show at E3 literally the last week, hah. Hope Color Splash is not delayed since it's the only single game I have interest in getting... wich is absolutely depressing but oh well. Currently playing through my backlog and this past weekend I bought Yoshi's Wolly World wich is already becoming one of my fave 2d platformers in a while.
dampflokfreund
Banned
I'm not hyped. I'm tired of seeing Epona and Link on the grass field for the 30 time.
Hopefully we will get a nice trailer of dungeons, story and villages at E3
Hopefully we will get a nice trailer of dungeons, story and villages at E3
At least, we can agree their messaging about this has been awful.
April 27:
May 5:
Last week and today: a whole bunch of other stuff will also be shown. But not specifically FP games other than Pokémon. :/
I was sure I read some press release or comment from Nintendo that they would only show Zelda and no other games, some kind of PR clarifying comment I want to say. But I can't find it now so I can only critique their murky messaging rather than provide any proof of clear internal contradiction.
In re: intending to dedicate some portion of their press opportunity to showing off Pokémon, Fed Force, Style Savvy, RH, and N-Stars: we know now that they are showing off Pokémon. But if they always intended to show off any of these or other games, why are they now announcing they're showing off several third party/localized games but none of the other games above, nor Color Splash? That's part of what leads me to think they planned on only Zelda and if they'd had plans to show more from the get go, that they would be mentioning first party games then, or at least be mentioning those now instead of only third party games. When do you foresee them showing off these 3DS games at this point? I'm setting my expectations low at this point and as such am sort of expecting press assets for them only and a Direct focusing on them after E3, perhaps.
I realize I'm just speculating here and we only have evidence that they are now telling us the plan is to show other games also, but given the unusually haphazard messaging, it leads me to speculate as to behind-the-scenes murkiness more than I usually would. Hope that makes sense. I don't disagree with you per se, I just wish we had better or clearer messaging surrounding all of this, and a clearer picture of whether the plans have changed or not. I know I can't prove they have changed, but the murky messaging through multiple waves of slightly differing messages (last week's PR made it sound like Pokémon would be shown before Zelda, this week's sounds the opposite) doesn't help Nintendo come off as having had a consistent plan throughout.
Mr Waluigi
Banned
Great, thanks!
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Well you will be hyped when you see the game next week so whats the big deal? lol
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
To me, this is what Skyward Sword should have looked like but couldn't because of the system power.
Then again, we have barely seen any actual game footage of the new one so hopefully it looks close to
this style.
Might be the best art style in the series for me but that remains to be seen.
You mean 30 second? Because that is what we saw of the game so far.
dampflokfreund
Banned
The deal is that I fear Zelda U will be all about grass fields in a sandbox, rather than interesting places to explore. I meant they showed nothing else but grass fields so far. I really hope E3 proves me wrong and tells us more about the story, the dungeons and interesting places. I don't want it to be Zelda 1 in modern age.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I expect it fully.
I would hope breaking the conventions goes a bit deeper than what he's wearing.
TheCongressman1
Member
For sure, but that still doesn't mean that it will be in. I'd be pretty sad if it isn't though.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
This reminds be of back at E3 2014 when people saw the reveal trailer and thought that Link was female to the point that Anouma had to state otherwise.
mrmickfran
Member
Sitting here waiting for Tuesday like
ReyVGM
Member
They've been making it clear they want to set this game apart by turning typical Zelda conventions upside down, and from this image they're clearly trying to recapture the feeling of the original Zelda (manual art anyway):
I doubt they'll do a full reboot, tossing out all the lore and timeline shenanigans, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this game is treated more like a starting point for the future of the series, akin to Zelda 1.
Have you seen the other Zelda 1 artwork? How awesome it would be if they also recreate the other ones ingame?
Specially this LttP one:
EU is tomorrow. We get it next week. (Unless we also get a 5th Anniversary Sale tomorrow, but I'd be surprised if we saw two overlapping major sales.)
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Masks are always fun in any game.
~goes back to replaying Guacamelee~
ReyVGM
Member
As much as I would want to see the entire game RIGHT NOW, I think it would be best if they don't show the map, so that it's a surprise what the final map will look like.
But my guess is that they will show it to 'prove' how big the game is.
ReyVGM
Member
Problem some of those people have is that they probably don't follow news that much, don't read dev interviews, among other things. They pop their head on GAF or twitter a couple of times a week and hear people complaining and or giving false opinions about how Miyamoto ruined Paper Mario and Star Fox Zero and they just regurgitate the same statements every time the topic comes up.
Thanks. I hope we (in the EU) get all the same discounts and bonuses.
Skittzo0413
Member
You leave Sarah Jessica Parker out of this!
Have you seen the other Zelda 1 artwork? How awesome it would be if they also recreate the other ones ingame?
Specially this LttP one:
Yeah I'd love that! This one too:
I love the exaggerated fantasy terrain/cliffs/buildings in these pieces of art, and it's really not something we've seen in any games all that often.
ReyVGM
Member
My hope is that they will take the best things of past Zelda games, and implement it here. So the different outfits from Tri Force Heroes can hopefully make a comeback here. Same with the Timeshift Stones and crafting from Skyward Sword.
Anonuma soft of confirmed that the worldmap boss enemy you saw on the first trailer was inspired by Hyrule Warriors.
Dark Cloud
Member
I mean that's what gamers nowadays care about. They want a big open world and I think Nintendo will definitely want to show how big it is. Lol
Sure thing. And I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news if this is a disappointing sale list, but these are the EU discounts:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1229439
No mention of E3/MyNintendo discounts/bonuses. Hopefully they will do a separate, larger E3 sale for you next week. (And certainly, it's entirely possible that the NA sale will be disappointing--we just don't know what the sale items are yet or what the MyN bonus is, i.e. whether it's extra coins, a digital good, a discount, or something else entirely.)
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Guys, the blue shirt looks is obviously just the outfit you wear during the the opening segment where you start off in a small town doing menial tasks before some shit goes down that forces you to go out into the world and save whoever's kidnapped. You'll probably get the traditional green tunic after the first peudo-dungeon portion of the game, at latest and be stuck with it for the rest of the game barring maybe one or two "special" tunics/armors that give you heavily situational advantages but otherwise do nothing.
ReyVGM
Member
perfectchaos007
Member
Nintendo could win their fans over by putting a Zelda U demo on the eshop after the treehouse presentation. Even someone like me who has only beaten 2 zelda games in my life I would love to explore in the new Zelda
for the love of fuck can we have a zelda that doesn't start like this AGAIN
please
ReyVGM
Member
People who think Nintendo were always planning to show more games and that initial PR statement was just misinterpreted are delusional.
It's obvious they decided to add another Treehouse day to show other games after the backlash from fans complaining about it. If you went to Nintendo's E3 site previous to the second PR announcement, you would see the calendar only had 1 day to mark, now it has 2.
lord_of_flood
Member
That art is gorgeous. Still surprised that they're going in hard with the blue clothing that Link's wearing, and we still haven't seen a green tunic.
you'll get your damsel in distress story and you'll like it!
aesupreme1
Member
As one could infer from my avatar, The Legend of Zelda is my favorite series of all time. This game has been my most anticipated game for far too long, and I was supremely disappointed when it wasn't shown in any capacity last year at E3.
Even though Zelda U won't release until 2017, I am more than happy that we finally get to see the next Zelda in all its glory next week. My expectations are slightly high, but I've never truly been let down by the Zelda franchise. The only game I was somewhat frustrated with was Skyward Sword. Specifically - The end game of retrieving your equipment, the musical notes, and the more linear world design. Everything else was awesome including the motion controls. Game was still a 9 - 9.5 for me.
Even though Zelda U won't release until 2017, I am more than happy that we finally get to see the next Zelda in all its glory next week. My expectations are slightly high, but I've never truly been let down by the Zelda franchise. The only game I was somewhat frustrated with was Skyward Sword. Specifically - The end game of retrieving your equipment, the musical notes, and the more linear world design. Everything else was awesome including the motion controls. Game was still a 9 - 9.5 for me.