When it comes to talking about Phantom Hourglass, you might get a lot of mixed opinions. Some of us loved the game, while others didn’t take too kindly to it. For those of the latter view – like myself – you might have initially been somewhat skeptical about Nintendo’s next venture into DS Zelda territory. The way that Spirit Tracks was presented looked, to some of us, to be rushed. Behind the table, we scoffed at its presentation, and expected a repeat of Phantom Hourglass.

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Nintendo today released seven brand new Spirit Tracks screenshots and five new pieces of official art, depicting everything from train-riding to phantom-controlling, and we’ve downloaded them all and put them up on our image gallery. Check out the new screenshots here, or look at the new official artwork here.

We now know the complete main storyline for Spirit Tracks, thanks to a review by IGN. I won’t reveal it here, but if you are interested you can visit our new Spirit Tracks Storyline page.

We will be updating the rest of our Spirit Tracks pages with the new information over the course of the next 24 hours.

A new trailer has been released for Spirit Tracks which shows a great many new details about the game – including, first and foremost, the fact that our new sidekick is the spirit of Zelda herself. Have a look for yourselves.

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It looks like Nintendo’s official website for Spirit Tracks in Japan is live. Although it’s fairly empty, it does offer a better view of the artwork on European box that we saw earlier, and with the already rampant speculation fluttering around about the tower in the background, I expect this website to make that explode. More visible now are the ominous tower (complete with treacherous terrain below), a mountain made of ice, and a volcano with a winding pathway.

In addition, a graphic at the bottom of the page indicates that Nintendo might be giving away feather styluses once again, so if you didn’t manage to get one the first time around – when Phantom Hourglass came out – you’ll probably be able to get one yet.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Zelda series has for the past couple of weeks made some interesting Zelda Wii related comments such as “It’s fun to move your body around”, which have caused a lot of discussion among fans. Well, Miyamoto has now made some more comments regarding Zelda Wii.

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It is has been a while since I posted a mailbag, but here it is, finally.  Hopefully, it won’t take three months to produce a new one.

I have some extra free time on my hands at the moment, so I will hopefully be here to post more.  Not making promises, but I have hopeful.

Here is the wonderful new mailbag. And please send in your questions to be answered, and it won’t take three months.  Hopefully.

That’s all I have for now.

Wow, it’s not often we get to update this section, but it looks like we have! A fine gentleman pointed out that we never had a Big Poes guide up, so esteemed staffer and ZUBC-er Margar took care of it. The guide is now up and ready for use, so if you feel like replaying Ocarina of Time, the Big Poes are waiting for you.

Of course, the guide is also on our Ocarina of Time main page with the rest of our Ocarina of Time information.

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What is it that makes the Zelda community special? I’m tempted to say “me” but that would only be part of the answer.

It has a lot to do with the Zelda games, of course. Without them, we wouldn’t be here – but what exactly is it about Zelda that makes people create websites devoted to the series, or gather to discuss theories and the latest in Zelda news?

Nathan of ZeldaInformer takes a deeper look into the question in his article, where he explains why he thinks the Zelda community is better and bigger than – for instance – the Mario community.

The generous folks at STLOcarina have decided to sponsor a Bank of Hyrule contest, and that means we get to have the fun of telling you that we’re holding another Bank of Hyrule contest! So, what are we giving away this time? You probably could have guessed it – a bunch of Zelda ocarinas.

If you haven’t already, check out our review of STLOcarina’s Zelda lineup (posted below), then hit up the read more link on this post to see how you can get your hands on a few of these ocarinas all free-like.

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For a while now, STLOcarina has been touting one of the only Ocarina of Time replicas on the market – that is, until Songbird Ocarinas came out with their OoT Ocarina.  But recently, STLOcarina has moved toward a new path in Zelda ocarina innovation, creating two of what I believe to be the most interesting and worthwhile ocarinas around. And they look just like rupees.

Fortunately, STLOcarina was nice enough to send me their full Zelda ocarina lineup. Let’s see if I’m nice enough to give them the thumbs up.

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Looks like the European flavor of box art for Spirit Tracks has surfaced on the internet. And I’ll be the first one brave enough to say it: This box art is much nicer than the US version. By a longshot.

Nathan, our good buddy over at arch-rival site ZeldaInformer, has posted a detailed article reiterating everything we’ve learned so far about Nintendo’s upcoming Zelda game for Wii. If you need a good refresher about what’s coming to the Zelda world in the future, check out his article. Think of it like a TV show episode that does nothing but recap the whole season.

GoNintendo recently partnered with Gamedaily to create a list of the top ten games for the Gamecube, and Wind Waker was placed in the #1 spot, beating out Resident Evil 4.

Zelda was not as lucky in the other lists, however. In the list for the top 10 NES games, AoL placed fifth, with no mention of the original LoZ, and Zelda didn’t place at all in the SNES top 10. For the N64 List, OoT and MM hit first and fifth place respectively, so overall, the 3D games received much better rankings than the earlier 2D games.

What do you think? Are the 3D Zelda games simply more appreciated than the 2D ones, or it is a case of the older consoles having vastly tougher competition?