Many of you, and myself, waited for weeks for E3 2008 to finally come. We waited in sweet anticipation, and begged for a new Zelda title for the Wii. What we got was a list of 'casual' titles, videos of old people and toddlers playing on the Wii and an anouncement. An anouncement of a new Zelda game. That was much less than most of us had hoped for, but we still knew that a game would be made.
But then, in early june, the unthinkable happened.

" We want this next Zelda title to appeal to... to a much broader audience than any game before." Shigeru Miyamoto, from an IGN video interview.

When I heard those words, my hopes shattered. I knew that the next game would be a minigame collection with a hub known as 'Hyrule', and that, if I bought it, I'd be controlling a very young link as he whacked the cartoon-like and lovable enemies with large hammers. I had a (mental) siezure. The game would be terrible, horrible.
But then, concept art surfaced. It was certainly not what I expected. It showed an older Link, looking very similar to the Link in Twilight Princess, behind a girl that seemed to be the bastard child of the Master Sword and the Fairy Queen from the Wind Waker. I didn't know what the poster meant in the slightest. Soon afterword I went to a dave-and-busters-esque arcade run by Steven Spielberg and SEGA. They had one arcade game there, made by SEGA, about a young, newly married couple that battle hordes of giant insects and other small, but now large, creatures with automatic shotguns that have limitless ammunition. I noticed, however, that one of the protagonists was female. Suddenly I knew what Miyamoto's then-cryptic words meant.
By a broader audience, he didn't mean Grandma and Little Johnny. He meant girls. Know I understand why a girl was featured so prominently on the piece of artwork for the game. I predict that the next Zelda game for the Wii will have two playable protagonists, Link, and the girl on the poster. This, actually, seems like a pretty good idea. I imagine Link and that girl doing a co-op battle, battling hordes of bokoblins that are surrounding the hero and heroine.
Or maybe, maybe, instead, the girl would just be an important, but tragically unplayable, character and would not battle with you, preferring instead to be another Navi or Midna.
I hope it's the former.



Your thoughts?

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One Ring to find them.
One Ring to bring them in
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