Players will unlock a new difficulty level after completing A Link Between Worlds. That comes directly from Eiji Aonuma, producer of the series.
Gameswelt has obtained information from Aonuma about A Link Between Worlds’ development as well. Over 90 staffers worked on the game, and first ideas for the game were collected after Spirit Tracks was completed.
GAME issues statement breaking street dates, says it “undermines the work” of game creators
“We are seeing street date breaches occur on a frequent basis and this undermines the work which goes in to creating exceptional launches. We’ve worked very closely with Nintendo in the run-up to launch in order to make them as successful as possible. We have worked with them on every decision taken.”
– GAME category director Charlotte Knight
This comes in response to multiple retailers allowing folks to purchase Pokémon X/Y early, which greatly upset Nintendo and may have caused fines to be issued in certain cases. GAME has been guilty of breaking street dates before, however– just not with such colossal franchises.
Dragon Quest producer Yosuke Saito, Final Fantasy producer Shinji Hashimoto, and Tales series producer Hideo Baba got together for a V Jump feature this month. At one point in the conversation, the three seemed to discuss some collaboration ideas.
Here’s the conversation in full, as translated by Siliconera:
