Looks like we know what Zelda Williams meant when she said she’d be doing something special at E3!
Nintendo debuted a first video for The Legend of Zelda on Wii U earlier today. One character was shown, though some have debated if it was Link, female Link, or someone else entirely.
Now Eiji Aonuma has added a little more mystery to the mix. According to the Zelda producer, “No one explicitly said that that was Link.”
– New Vice President needs to save the world
– Can’t do it alone
– Game is about character recruitment
– 41 characters can be recruited
– These include your mom, the local barista
– Everyone in the game is either a potential party member or an enemy
– Progression is propelled forward by these recruiting quests or quests to investigate the circumstances of an enemy
– Tasks: “check this out” actions to longer hunts for enemies
– Gameplay length determined by the players
– Character collecting is one of the most extensive things in this game, but it’s not required
– Can go through the game without recruiting many characters at all
– Can lengthen the gameplay by aiming to fill the roster, exploring all the bizarre character possibilities
– Rotate the camera as Toad goes through maze-like levels to reach the top
– Star is at the top
– Toad has no real powers
– He braves dangers, avoiding baddies to collect treasures
– Treasure includes coins, diamonds, and the star at the goal
– Toad can’t jump
– He can run and sustain a hit
– Toad can regain his health by collecting a Super Mushroom
– Depending on the level, he has other tricks to help him succeed
– One of the E3 levels features a mine cart filled a supply of turnips
– Basically an on-rails shooter
– Look around in first-person view on the touch screen using the right stick and/or gyroscope and throw turnips to collect coins and diamonds and kill baddies
– Pluck turnips to grab additional coins and sometimes a diamond
– If POW blocks are hit, they destroy multiple enemies and/or collect the surrounding treasure
– Boss level features Toad grabbing treasure and moving upward in a cylindrical-shaped stage with a lava dinosaur in the middle
– Boss spits fireballs at you from the background
– Captain Toad must use metal plates and other objects as he climbs ladders and nabs treasure on his way to the top
– There are also turnips in the ground on this level
– Some turnips hold multiple coins that can be collected by tapping the A button multiple times
– Final level is set in a ghost house
– In this level, the player is asked to go through a series of connected doors to traverse around and up the central structure
– Captain Toad can kill a goomba here by entering a door on the ground connected to one in the air
– When exiting the upper door, Captain Toad falls straight down onto the goomba, squishing him
– Tap outlined segments of the central structure in order to move them
– Many of the doors are attached to such moving blocks, which must be placed correctly to proceed or to collect treasure
