The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild (Wii U / Switch)

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[MechDeus]

The order of importance?

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I need to know where this new Zelda goes on the chart.

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Forgot one. Terribly sorry about that.

[Frogacuda]

I remain skeptical of vast open-world Zelda. Zelda's always struggled to make the stuff in between dungeons interesting, and adding miles of the stuff isn't going to help. Games like GTA or Skyrim are fun because there's a lot to do and interact with outside of the main quests, but in Zelda's it's just going to be a horsey sim.

[Glass Joe]

Or, you know, maybe it will just have a really interesting world to explore.

[JSRT]

The part where he is running from the laser machine thing on horseback, kinda reminds me of the beginning of Princess Mononoke with the giant boar. Loving the art style.

[Frogacuda]

Or, you know, maybe it will just have a really interesting world to explore.

Wind Waker's ocean was as entertaining as staring at a load screen for 20 hours. I don't have a ton of faith here.

Even in Ocarina of Time I felt like there was a needless abundance of space. Now I've warmed up to larger worlds in recent years and that probably wouldn't bother me as much, but still, I'm taking a wait and see attitude toward this one.

[Hero]

That was before though...when Aonuma was still all "Zelda 1 was hard and I don't want that and puzzles are the real reason for Zelda"

This time, he was saying all the right stuff. I'm hopeful.

ALSO THAT WASN'T LINK? OR WAS IT?!?!

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/10/ze...wii-u-trailer/

LOS ANGELES — That trailer for the new The Legend of Zelda for the Wii U sure looked great, didn’t it? But what was up with Link? He wasn’t wearing his iconic green tunic or hat. Why did Link look so weird?

“No one explicitly said that that was Link.”

That’s what Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma told me when I asked him about Link’s, — or whomever it is — new appearance during an interview at Nintendo’s E3 booth. He said this with a smile and a laugh. Could the bow-wielding hero we just saw not be Link, the star of every game in the series history?

Earlier in the interview, Aonuma told me that he was always looking for ways to shake up Zelda’s conventions. We saw this in the recent A Link Between Worlds for the 3DS, which let you explore dungeons in any order you wanted while renting items from a store. But a Zelda game without Link as the main hero? That would be a huge strike at the series’ long-standing tradition.

So, who is that in the trailer? The outfit actually looks like the same one Link wore in the beginning of The Wind Waker. Aonuma himself smiled when I brought up this connection. Could this new entry be tied to that universe? Of course, that doesn’t explain why this wouldn’t be Link. Maybe it’s a child of a Link we already played as, like the one from Wind Waker or Skyward Sword.

Let the speculation begin.

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OH DAMMIT