Shes not a princess this time, which is something Ill pretty much have to put forth right now in order to talk about this title. Shes a childhood friend, but she goes away in the midst of the game and its Links job to search for her.
This games plot is something like a school drama, you could say. The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of a like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda.
The game starts in Skyloft, this city thats floating in the air, and youll come back to this town multiple times. Things are always proceeding along in town, and in that respect its very much like Majoras Mask. Like with Majora, there are a lot of game events involving the townspeople that get intertwined with the main story. Link, Zelda and their other friends all go to the same boarding school, and youve got teachers and a principal as well. Its a bit of a different setting from previous Zeldas.
With previous Zeldas, the common pattern was that the really neat items wouldnt show up until later on in the game. You need to have the basic item set or it wouldnt be Zelda, so the new items tended to get shunted to the latter part of the game. [Shigeru] Miyamoto said that had to change, like This is neat, lets bring it out from the start. So a lot of neat new items will show up pretty early on.
Yes, its only the people in Skyloft. Nobody on there thinks anything of it, though, because living in Skyloft and flying around on birds is normal to them. They dont have any awareness of there being a mainland beneath the clouds and so forth that gets expanded upon once Zelda goes missing, and you get access to the areas under the clouds.
Its the custom for each person to have one bird. Link has a red one, and its actually a special and very rare breed of bird which is something that makes him get picked on, like Why do you get this fancy bird and we dont?! But it turns out that you need that red bird in order to access the mainland. So the hand of fate gets involved here, like it always does in Zelda games sooner or later.
The demo shows when you first meet him, and plainly hes looking down at Link, stopping his sword with his fingers and so forth. In terms of story image hes kind of like Dark Link [from Ocarina of Time]; he sees right through Links moves in battle. You can sort of swing your sword wildly and still hold your own against a lot of foes, but theres no way you can beat Ghiraham like that. You need to keep your distance and watch his moves, and its something youll need to change your strategy for. I think hes a pretty good change of pace as bosses go, and hell change gradually throughout the game.
This game talks about the birth of the Master Sword, and it touches on why Ganondorf showed up. If you play it, I think youll get some understanding on that. It connects to Ocarina, so if you play Ocarina of Time 3D and move on to this game, I think youll catch on to a lot of things.
The whole game is complete, and were fine-tuning the balance right now. We were going to have it wholly done by around E3, but theres so much volume to it, neither I nor Miyamoto have gotten to fully play out every aspect. The non-English localizations are proceeding along now, and were trying to make this a simultaneous worldwide release. You have to put Zelda all out at once or else the storys going to get spoiled although, really, theres a ton to enjoy here even if you know a little about the story beforehand.
Shadow_Ryoko posted... I know I'll probably love this game too, since I really enjoy most Zelda games.
Yes, I really really liked Twilight Princess.
You and me both, sister. I've yet to play a Zelda game I flat-out dislike. Granted, I haven't played the second game or either of the DS installments yet.
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From: Jeff Zero | Posted: 6/29/2011 2:53:35 PM | #013 Shadow_Ryoko posted... I know I'll probably love this game too, since I really enjoy most Zelda games.
Yes, I really really liked Twilight Princess.
You and me both, sister. I've yet to play a Zelda game I flat-out dislike. Granted, I haven't played the second game or either of the DS installments yet.
all 3 of those are mediocre, this is coming from a guy who has zelda alongside metal gear for game series he can't be without
Jeff Zero posted... Would you say there are any other installments you dislike, Swifty?
I'm not Swifty but there's not a Zelda game I dislike. I would actually rank the two NES games at the bottom. I found TP and ALttP a bit disappointing but I had high hopes for those. I had no hopes for PH or ST and found them pretty good.
Theon_Greyjoy posted... Jeff Zero posted... Would you say there are any other installments you dislike, Swifty?
I'm not Swifty but there's not a Zelda game I dislike. I would actually rank the two NES games at the bottom. I found TP and ALttP a bit disappointing but I had high hopes for those. I had no hopes for PH or ST and found them pretty good.
Cool, I'll take that into account. It's funny how expectations do a number on people, eh? I didn't play Wind Waker for several years and going into it in Summer 2009 my friend and I had very low expectations.
Turns out most of the glowing professional reviews were onto something because I rather enjoyed it.
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Jeff Zero, Zelda II is definitely...different. If you think you'd enjoy a cross between the exploration of most Zelda games and side-scrolling action, you'd like it.
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JaKyL25 posted... Jeff Zero, Zelda II is definitely...different. If you think you'd enjoy a cross between the exploration of most Zelda games and side-scrolling action, you'd like it.
Yeah, I definitely mean to give it a shot sometime. I have it for NES so I might as well.
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That's precisely the second thing I always hear about it, the first being "it's different." I'm looking forward to the challenge, really; the more recent entries have been a bit easier than I'd prefer.
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It's definitely a lot more forgiving than a lot of NES games with regard to death at least. When you lose all your lives, you still get to keep everything you've accomplished. You just have to restart from the opening screen again which might be very far from where you died depending on how far you get. <_<
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Zelda not being a princess, I like that, but they just had to have her get kidnapped instead of being an ally, but oh well, something is something. The being like Clock Town dynamic with characters having individual stories that weave into the main, very very much welcomed back. That's one of the reasons I love Majora's so much. Well...chalk up another one to the hype.
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Shoenin_Kakashi posted... This games plot is something like a school drama, you could say.
*groan*
To be fair, that part hit me kind of the wrong way too. Sometimes I'm wondering if I'm the only person on Board 8 who never really found the school setting particularly engrossing. And the older I get (and what with going to a community college at that) the less so.
Thing is, Zelda games don't really try terribly hard with anything plot-wise that doesn't simply enhance the overall atmosphere of the situation. I know some folks who claim OoT's got the best video game story ever told, and I think they're stark raving mad, but apart from people like that it's commonly accepted that the series usually stays on the simpler side of narrative approach.
So I doubt it will be too bad.
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