Monday, June 8, 2009

New "Legend of Zelda" Teaser Concept Art

Although Nintendo failed to mention anything about an upcoming "Legend of Zelda" title for the Wii at their E3 press conference, "Zelda" creator and game design guru Shigeru Miyamoto held private question and answer sessions at E3 last week where he discussed the next adventure in the series.

Possibly appearing in 2010, the new "Zelda" title may focus on memories and interpretations of events from various viewpoints of different characters.

Concept art was revealed for the game, but photography was not allowed.

However, G4TV.com published the concept art released by Nintendo. However, only to yeild questions as to what the picture is suggesting to eager "Zelda" fans:

Below is also a transcript from gamespot.com of what Miyamoto had to say about the next "Zelda" adventure:

[6:59] In terms of the Zelda franchise, in general, they've been having discussions back in Kyoto about where to go next.

[7:00] "Obviously, graphics have improved, but as a team, we've been sitting down to look at the gameplay and what we can do with it to move Zelda forward."

[7:01] His idea of what a new Zelda game would be is to have players travel to different areas, which would link visits in the game.

[7:01] "And to create memories of the characters you meet--your individual memories of what you experienced in the game."

[7:01] "How you interpret that dungeon, how you interpret that dungeon, et cetera."

[7:03] "We're doing repeated experiments with different kinds of games and different kinds of gameplay."

[7:04] "To be honest, I really wanted to show off a new Zelda at this E3. However, rather than bring you something, we wanted to focus on development."

[7:04] Up comes concept art for the new Zelda game, which shows Link in his Twilight Princess incarnation.

[7:04] The team is "targeting" next year, and is building in so much Wii MotionPlus capability that the game might require it to play.

[7:06] Miyamoto said that they are trying to juggle all the game's elements. He prefers action games, so he's into swordplay, but other team members want to focus on role-playing game elements.

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