Shigeru Miyamoto up-ended the tea table with Hyrule Warriors’ development
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It’s largely thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto that Hyrule Warriors turned out the way it did.
Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, speaking with Nintendo Life, said that the project was originally going to be “closer to a Zelda game than a Dynasty Warriors game”. But Miyamoto “up-ended the tea table” and advised the team to go in the opposite direction.
According to Aonuma:
At first, when Hayashi-san approached me, he wanted to make this title closer to a Zelda game than a Dynasty Warriors game — that extended to having boss battles in the dungeons and [having] certain characters in the game. However, Mr. Miyamoto came along and up-ended the tea table, saying, “No, that should not be the case. What we’re doing here is grafting Zelda onto the Dynasty Warriors experience.” It was a reversal of the original proposal from Hayashi-san, which was adding elements of Dynasty Warriors onto the Zelda franchise. It ended up being the other way around based on Miyamoto’s direction.
Yosuke Hayashi also said the following when asked further regarding the challenge of blending the two franchises together:
This relates a bit to when Mr. Miyamoto stepped in to overturn the tea table. It was really trying to strike that balance of making a game that Zelda fans will enjoy that is different from a typical Zelda game, that has enough elements that people will enjoy but also not losing Zelda fans. We ourselves are Zelda fans as well, so we had to ask ourselves the question of what is it that makes a Zelda game, and how many of those elements do we need to include. Up until the very end, we kept adding different elements to the game until we struck a balance that we were happy with.
Hyrule Warriors demo playable at retailers
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Retailers in the states have set up playable demos of Hyrule Warriors. You can head over to stores like Best Buy and GameStop to give the game a spin.
The demo allows players to try out Link, Zelda, or Midna. You’ll also fight against armies culminating in a boss battle against King Dodongo.
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Hyrule Warriors costume set trailers
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Samurai Warriors Chronicle 3 getting a Premium Box in Japan
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Koei Tecmo is preparing a Premium Box for the release of Samurai Warriors Chronicle 3 in Japan. The package includes a copy of the game, postcards, art book, and a character soundtrack CD. Pricing is set at 8,800 yen.
Hyrule Warriors – update 1.2.0 out now in Japan, footage
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North American Hyrule Warriors site open
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The North American Hyrule Warriors website is now open for business. You’ll find it here. Hit up the link for information, screenshots, and details about the game.
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Koei Tecmo wonders if female Link should have been included in Hyrule Warriors
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As previously mentioned, Koei Tecmo considered including a female Link character in Hyrule Warriors known as “Linkle”. This scrapped character was shown for the first time in the game’s Japanese art book.
It now sounds like Koei Tecmo is having – at least partially – second thoughts about not including Linkle in Hyrule Warriors. The company posted the following on the title’s Twitter account earlier today:
“Linkle (tentative name) was a rejected story character featured in the art book, but it looks like she got a quite lot of attention… maybe we should have included her in the main story…”
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Japanese Hyrule Warriors Twitter account further hints at DLC characters
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The Japanese Hyrule Warriors Twitter account is further hinting at DLC characters for the future. A message posted earlier today asked fans, “who would you like to see?”
So how about it, guys? Which additional characters would you be interested in seeing in the game?
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Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden details
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Lots of details about Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden have emerged from this week’s issue of Famitsu. You can find all of today’s information rounded up below.
Yuuri Kozukata
– Goes to the mountain to search for the owner of the shop, Hisoka Kurosawa
– Voiced by Risa Tawata
Miu Hinasaki
– Girl searching for her missing mother
– Her mother vanished when she was a child
– She’s never known the love of parents and feels empty
– Heads to the mountain believing her mother is there
– Voiced by Maaya Uchida
Ren Hojo
– Failure of an author
– Has known Yuuri for ages
– Whimsical and is scolded by his assistant for it
– He hears of a custom involving burial photos, and goes to the mountain to research for his new book. Voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Hisoka Kurosawa
– Owner of the shop
– Uses kagemi skills to search for lost things
– Goes to the mountain to look for a missing girl and vanishes
– Voiced by Atsuko Tanaka
Rui Kagamiya
– Ren’s assistant
– She respects him, calling him sensei, and as well as helping him out she thinks of him as family
– Voiced by Maaya Sakamoto
Locations
– Explore 3 main locations at the start
– These include forest and buildings around the mountain
Mikomori Onsen
– An abandoned old, big house known as a famous ghost spot where lots of ghosts are
Kurosawa Antiques
– Also a cafe
– Yuuri lives and works here
– People come here to request lost things be found, or have their fortunes told by Hisoka
Shirazu no Mori
– A forest in the mountain
– Ever since it became famous as a suicide spot, there’s been a big fence around it, which people sneak in through
– There are also rumors of a murderer hiding inside
Gameplay
– Plays out a bit like mission mode
– Choose your mission and then you unlock new missions
– You can replay missions as much as you’d like
– Once you complete the chapter goals, you get the next chapter
– Your goal is to find people
– Each person has different reasons for going to the mountain and getting there, so you’ll have to gather as much info about them as you can
– You can use something that’s like a “scent” of a person from things like a hair, their documents etc.
– That aids your “kagemi”
– Then you use your clues to search for them
– If you chase the memories of them you’ll find them, so you have to follow their past footsteps
– When you find them and “bring them back” from their spiriting away, it’s mission complete, but you’ll have to watch out for the ghosts lurking
– You can also use your “ghost sight” to find hints from ghosts
– Looks kind of like hidden ghosts in other games
– Gameplay on the TV
– Map on the GamePad
– The touch system for picking up items is back
– Ghost hands are also back
Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden scans
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