Pocket Gamer's Kristan Reed writes: "The arrival of any new Zelda game is always guaranteed to send millions of diehard fans squeeing in unison. The arrival of an official sequel to 1991's legendary Link To The Past might well have caused a dangerous serotonin overload. And at Nintendo's hand-on event today in London, we got an unexpected early opportunity to sample one of the game's levels ahead of the title's release, later this year".
Edge: Released in Japan in 1991 and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, the SNES title The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past has gone down as one of the most revered games in history. It wasn’t the first Zelda, of course, but it set the quintessential adventure template and put the series on a course it has followed for decades. Thus Nintendo’s classic ARPG is considered holy by many, and you don’t mess with sacred artefacts. Not unless you are Eiji Aonuma, a designer who’s worked on the Zelda series since 1998’s equally renowned Ocarina Of Time and who now heads up the team creating A Link To The Past’s sequel for 3DS. We ask him how you follow up a 22-year-old classic on a platform offering a variety of ways to play, and what prompted Nintendo to revisit its world after all this time.
This new Zelda title will feature lots of things that are new to the series; right at the start of the game, there’s a big surprise that will shock players?
thank you
The surprise is that the Link you play at starts out as a painting, get's cursed into being a real boy.
SHOCK AND AWE!
'"After being so heavily influenced by A Link To The Past, how do you feel to be making a sequel to it all these years later?
I’m slightly worried to be making a sequel to someone else’s game, that’s for sure. When I was younger, I would never have dreamed of making a sequel to a game by Shigeru Miyamoto. But now that I’m older, I’m like, “Whatever!”'
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ZD writes: The only details we know about the story for the recently-announced sequel to A Link to the Past are that it will be related to its predecessor, take place in the same version of Hyrule, and that the Dark World will reappear. Considering the series’ track record and other factors, there are three possibilities for the villain that I find likely, which I will discuss here. They are certainly not the only candidates, but they make more sense than other options.
Actually can't wait for this!
Oh my god....YES
This is probably the most exciting news I have seen in a while. Seriously I cannot praise Link to the Past enough. I LOVE this game, if this was for the WiiU I would pick up a WiiU at this very moment just to play this game.
looks like ima have to buy a 3ds now hope its a good a classic as the first
what a simple concept to convince me to buy a nintendo
bring back some great classics that stay true to form and make a new one
I will buy a 3DS just for this game
Hey nintendo, if you want me to buy a wii u then release a full fledged pokemon game that plays just like the handhelds
and do another donkey kong, contra, battletoads, double dragon, side scroller metroid, etc.