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I’m kind of hoping it’ll be a condensed/best of version of BoTW Hyrule for the ground portion of the map, saw something on Twitter earlier where a shot in the latest trailer had been pretty much lined up with an area of BoTW. Except it being probably too big, BoTW’s map was amazing, it might have felt too big due to how empty the majority of it was though.

I really hope the sky isn’t the only new part of the map as well, I’d be slightly disappointed if, after showing Link and Zelda going underground, that we don’t actually get to explore at least some of Hyrule underground.

I’ve every hope this is going to be great

Hmmm, looking up pre-orders for this and they are all up at £50 whereas most new Switch games usually land at £42.85. Just retailers adding a Zelda premium or a sign that Switch games are going to be rising price?

They better have loftwings in it either way

Balladeer wrote:
I feel like these are two opposite ends of the spectrum. One is stirring up negativity that I'm pretty sure is needless. It's Nintendo, they've spent 6 years on it: it's not going to be a simple rehash.

five years. the first was spent on making botw dlc. and i'll remind everyone that covid happened during it

EPD3, the dev team, have also released Link's Awakening and Skyward Sword HD in that time. I suspect the partner devs (Grezzo and Tantalous respectively) did most the grunt work for those but they were still involved and when you factor in DLC and covid like shy guy says too, it's certainly not 6 years flat on this.

Having said that, they started with the engine ready built and a lot of reusable assets so that's gotta be a massive headstart in comparison to BOTW.

Cuttooth wrote:God could you imagine if Zelda dies in this?

She technically did in Spirit Tracks

Tomous wrote:EPD3, the dev team, have also released Link's Awakening and Skyward Sword HD in that time. I suspect the partner devs (Grezzo and Tantalous respectively) did most the grunt work for those but they were still involved and when you factor in DLC and covid like shy guy says too, it's certainly not 6 years flat on this.

Having said that, they started with the engine ready built and a lot of reusable assets so that's gotta be a massive headstart in comparison to BOTW.

Got to assume that Monolith Soft will be on support duty again as well, they've had no shortage of people to make this as good as it can be in the time since BOTW

There is no way this will be a BotW map repeat with a sky world above, and there is no way it won't be a stellar sequel that everyone will love - perhaps in an iterative but clarifying way like Galaxy 2 (supposedly) is. And I'm as BotW-agnostic as anyone.

To prove this, I would like to say that my main concern was that it wouldn't have skydiving/aerial mobility as visceral and fullsomely animated and emphasised as in Skyward Sword, and the lacklustre snap-to-stillness animations in this trailer prove it.

Game might be grand though. I thought BotW felt too flat and surface without meaningful interiors or caves or underwater and whatever else, and all this sky realm (and cave talk) makes me think this will improve on that. Also climbing the side of floating places is cool and is like Laputa.

Actually pretty worried about this game. I hope there are substantial changes and additions from BotW. I just don't want it to be as empty and as lacking in towns and stuff as BotW. More gameplay variance in quests too.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:I’m a lifelong pessimist, but given how good BotW was (for me at least), I can’t imagine this being a dull retread of the same thing with no interesting new ideas.
I don’t think we need to worry about this being a Majora’s Mask situation.

But Majoras Mask was better than Ocarina

Here we go again....

WW>BOTW>OOT>SS>TP>MM

Skyward Sword is the worst 3D Zelda

Oh no, not in my thread with this nonsense. Got back to the grcade ranks thread if you want to do that

Zelda thread rankings:

SG64 > ORKN

Decent trailer and really gave me as much information as I want - which is a title and a release date!

However much I'm interested in a game there's only three trailers that matter to me; (1) Announcement trailer (confirmation the game is actually happening that we was given years ago). (2) Early gameplay trailer (i.e. the trailer we got in the June 2021 Direct - ideally this would have had the subtitle reveal). (3) The big story reveal cinematic trailer that's issued a month or so before the game is released. The new trailer is really an extension of '2', hasn't told us much new other than the title (which they maybe could have revealed last June) and hasn't made me anymore or less excited than the previous trailer. I don't watch full directs on a single game - the trailers are enough for me.

But anyway big hopes for this

twitter.com/gematsu/status/1593457557397508098

Could mean we will get a new trailer soon, maybe at the TGA’s

Ah yes, the classic Zelda content warning; drugs, handcuffs and aggressive arrows.

What’s interesting to me is that it’s been rated 6 months before release. Could be 2 scenarios

1.) Trailer at the Game Awards revealing the date has been brought forward (March maybe)

2.) It’s being held back because it is releasing alongside something else (New console )

Nintendo don't give a gooseberry fool about TGA or indeed Geoff Keighley. They are more likely to announce a special Direct solely focused on this game as and when they're ready, IMO.