Seems more to me that they've started looking in another barrel entirely: Yeah, it's straight outta left field, but we haven't seen wether thats good or bad... yet.balimuzz said:
Link's "Crazy Train"?
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Well, I'll admit that when I first heard of it, I hated the idea of Link inhabiting the same space as a train. I had always loved the complete medieval style of The Legend Of Zelda, and this seemed an unintelligent shift from it.
However, I supposed I noticed this with the steam-powered boat from Phantom Hourglass, so it's not necessarily new. It still appears to have the Zelda feel in that it has the puzzles and boss fights we've come to expect. While I enjoy the Zelda style, I've started to become tired with it, though I'm not about to say it should change either. Zelda has always worked well, it just seems like the major advancements stopped after reaching 3D.
This game doesn't look bad, but it doesn't look like anything terribly impressive either, so I suppose I feel the same way I did about Phantom Hourglass, interested enough to buy and play, but it hardly gives my the raging boner I feel for some games.
However, I supposed I noticed this with the steam-powered boat from Phantom Hourglass, so it's not necessarily new. It still appears to have the Zelda feel in that it has the puzzles and boss fights we've come to expect. While I enjoy the Zelda style, I've started to become tired with it, though I'm not about to say it should change either. Zelda has always worked well, it just seems like the major advancements stopped after reaching 3D.
This game doesn't look bad, but it doesn't look like anything terribly impressive either, so I suppose I feel the same way I did about Phantom Hourglass, interested enough to buy and play, but it hardly gives my the raging boner I feel for some games.
@OP: It's a possibility, but I doubt it and hope they do not do so.
I love Toon Link. I have no problem with cel-shading, or the games, but to me, at this point, they should belong on the handhelds.
Spirit Tracks itself, I have mixed emotions about. I think it's getting a bit too far from its setting, and I hope it's the farthest it goes. Will it make it a bad Zelda game though? Most likely not. Nintendo just wants to do something a bit different. Damn if you do, damned if you don't, it seems.
I love Toon Link. I have no problem with cel-shading, or the games, but to me, at this point, they should belong on the handhelds.
Spirit Tracks itself, I have mixed emotions about. I think it's getting a bit too far from its setting, and I hope it's the farthest it goes. Will it make it a bad Zelda game though? Most likely not. Nintendo just wants to do something a bit different. Damn if you do, damned if you don't, it seems.
You can say that about almost any developer. They're called franchises and mascots for a reason.DarkSaber said:
Actually, a more "modern" setting would be more appropriate for "realistic" LinkNostalgia said:
Remember when everybody was worried Toon Link was a mistake?
It wasn't a mistake, I liked it, and I like the looks of Spirit Tracks. Besides, as long as Ozzy Osbourne doesn't sue to get his Crazy Train back, Nintendo have a decent and fresh idea for Toon Link. If they stuck with more Wind Waker like stuff on boats that would have been a mistake. Nintendo as I see them try new things even if it doesn't please people who expected something else out of them.
It wasn't a mistake, I liked it, and I like the looks of Spirit Tracks. Besides, as long as Ozzy Osbourne doesn't sue to get his Crazy Train back, Nintendo have a decent and fresh idea for Toon Link. If they stuck with more Wind Waker like stuff on boats that would have been a mistake. Nintendo as I see them try new things even if it doesn't please people who expected something else out of them.
Certainly sounds like an interesting concept, definitely worth a looking into by Nintendo.
Although I think they're alot more likely to stick to the formula that works, than take a risk. Even though it'd pay off IMO.
Although I think they're alot more likely to stick to the formula that works, than take a risk. Even though it'd pay off IMO.
I think the Zelda games need new antagonists. The whole Triforce story is interesting, but it's gotten old. A truly relatable villain with understandable motives (think Yggdrasil in Tales of Symphonia) could liven up the series a lot. There's no reason that somebody without the triforce couldn't try to take over the world, really.
