GenGAME writes: "Among all the overly-familiar elements in Zelda 3DS, we’ve seen one stand-out new feature so far: the new game mechanic that transforms Link into a hieroglyphic drawing and allows him to walk on walls. So far the reactions have been… well, largely non-existent. We’ve seen a few media outlets talk about its effect on gameplay, but there hasn’t been much in-depth discussion of the idea itself.
"There’s a lot of potential for the idea to open up exploration of the game’s top-down 2D world in a way that just hadn’t been thought of when A Link to the Past was born. But there’s also the question of whether something like this truly fits in with what we think of as Zelda."
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?
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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.
Can't wait for this game! I will be playing LTTP again beforehand. ;p
zelda games are a story, stories come from walls 1st, form hieroglyphics.
So... everyone wants changes in a Zelda game, Nintendo introcudes a change, and "is bad for Zelda"?
The gameplay is what matters, and this is not an ordinary Zelda game. Feels non-canon to me, so I only care about the gameplay here.