NEW ZELDA: LoZ : Spirit Tracks (Tentative title)

Originally Posted by monstertaco

People! There's no point in buying a DSi especially for this! When you get a game it says Nintendo DS. Not Nintendo DS Lite. It says Nintendo DS. Thats any! Otherwise those Nintendo DS games wouldn't work on my Lite. Don't worry k? Just wait till its release in July.

November/December you mean....

What makes you think it's in July?


And it is a fact that some games will be made specially for the DSi, ST could very well be one of them. Remember, Nintendo wants profit, and they'll do anything to get it

I hope theres Linebeck...

Originally Posted by monstertaco

I hope theres Linebeck...

Most likely they'll add a Linebeck look-alike character with the same name and behaviour (knowing Nintendo's predictible lack of inventivity )

Originally Posted by SixaxiS

Most likely they'll add a Linebeck look-alike character with the same name and behaviour (knowing Nintendo's predictible lack of inventivity )

Or it is just the case, that many love him, which let Nintendo made the decission to put him in, in favour for the players.

Originally Posted by SixaxiS

November/December you mean....

What makes you think it's in July?

HOORAY, IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

Originally Posted by SixaxiS

Most likely they'll add a Linebeck look-alike character with the same name and behaviour (knowing Nintendo's predictible lack of inventivity )

Trainbeck?

I personally think the new Zelda game sounds stupid. I'm not a big fan with the whole "train" idea.

Originally Posted by Ganon_14

I personally think the new Zelda game sounds stupid. I'm not a big fan with the whole "train" idea.

*sigh*

Another train-hating drone.....

That's all you've seen about the game, so stop cussing about a 3-minute trailer that doesn't even mean anything yet lol.

People hate the train, people buy the game out of curiosity, people say: "OMG I love this train!!! "

For the people who are against this game, at least give it a chance (I was against it at first, but then I realized that I should give it a chance). So, some people don't like the train, Majoras Mask was much more advanced trains. They had towns, mayors, more buildings and civilized people, hotels, milk bars, postman, carnivals, and other things. Some people don't like ST because they think it's too advanced with the trains, yet some of those people like MM.

It has not been announced that it will be a DSi exclusive. In fact, judging from this interview with Reggie Fils-Aime it sounds like it is going to be a DSi-enhanced game.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/...acks-and-more/

A train would fit perfectly in the series. I don't see why no one had a problem with the Hidden Village(Old Kakarico) in TP, which was clearly inspired by the 19th century western towns, but they have a problem with a locomotive, which was invented and often used during the 19th century-- especially in the West. I bet if Link had to ride a train to get to the Hidden Village, no one would have a problem.

Originally Posted by SixaxiS

Most likely they'll add a Linebeck look-alike character with the same name and behaviour (knowing Nintendo's predictible lack of inventivity )

I wouldn't care. I'd love to see the real Linebeck again, but a look-alike would make me happy, too. Linebeck is one of the best Zelda characters yet!

Didn't Nintendo say TP would be the last of its kind? PH is cell-shaded, ST is cell-shaded...Interesting

Originally Posted by Mukora

Didn't Nintendo say TP would be the last of its kind? PH is cell-shaded, ST is cell-shaded...Interesting

How is it interesting? Nintendo stated that TP was the last traditional Zelda and neither PH or ST are traditional

The train is basically the boat from PH. The boat you direct by plotting a course, and the train you direct via rail-switching. As far as i'm concerned, the train is awesome, because it opens more gameplay opportunities.

For one, you will be able to change routes in real time by tapping on which rail you want to ride on (or by moving a lever. I can't remember which it was, but either way, it's the same effect). This measn that if you are chasing something down and it gets away from you, you can double back at the next intersection (as one example off the top of my head). Also, the whole horn idea for shooing farm animals is wicked.

Also, i'll bet anyone dollars to dounts that one dungeon requires you to take the train into the dungeon, and clearing the dungeons involves traversing the rail path (of sorts) on foot to clear a path for the train.

Plus, by having dedicated paths instead of a free-flowing map, the possibilities for progression are greater, because the developers have more control. set pieces like link opening the entrace to a forest by killing a skulltulla are one example.

and PS. having a train in Zelda does not ruin Zelda. Zelda has never claimed to be a medieval universe (it's had cameras for chrissake), so get over it. And for arguments sake, lets say it is a medieval setting. What we have at the end of the day is a game with a medieval setting, that has trains. Big deal, it's original. I dare anyone to find me a game thats 100% historically accurate, let alone one that's fun.

Ok, i'm sorry if this is the wrong section for this post. Here are a few speculations i have, i want to apologize if someone has already posted these



The inclusion of the back part of the train (red arrow) makes me think. Tha you will actually transport other characters (unlik PH where you only transported Link, Linebeck, and Stone Tetra).



Everybody is scared of this picture because they think it means that they will be timed like the Temple of the Ocean King, but i think it (the safe-light zones) serves a different purpose. I think they will limit the area the phantom can move (they cant pass that area(s)) and so, you cant take the phantom to certain areas/out of the temple.



Notice how there's water (purple arrows) on the map we were show of Spirit tracks, That looks like the sea to me (not counting the river ) that makes me think this takes place after WW-PH and that MAYBE Tetra and Link found the "new hyrule". The pink-ish arrows show that the map does not show water in the other directions, so it is NOT possible that the "sea water" that i pointed out earlier are just the "screen borders" of the section of the map, but the total border of the entire over-world.

Thats it for what i think. I apologize again if i posted in the wrong area.

The train idea seems a little strange (I'm not flaming. Really). But what interests me the most is that Link seems to have a partner that actually fights.

I'm sorry but Spirit Tracks seems...so un-Zelda like. If this is what is becoming of Link, then I suppose I'll have to stop playing.

I like the game in a sense that it has the same use of strategies & other similar Zelda themes, but seriously, a train? Link on foot/a horse is the way that seems right to me. It doesn't seem believable.

Originally Posted by caroliinee

I'm sorry but Spirit Tracks seems...so un-Zelda like. If this is what is becoming of Link, then I suppose I'll have to stop playing.

I like the game in a sense that it has the same use of strategies & other similar Zelda themes, but seriously, a train? Link on foot/a horse is the way that seems right to me. It doesn't seem believable.

Spirit Tracks is a new game with a new setting. While the use of a train may be unbelievable in currently existing games that doesn't mean that they're wrong for putting it in this one.
Putting in a horse to ride would never have made sense in the first 4 Zelda games, but it worked in Ocarina of Time.
The addition of a train is a minute change compared to changes made by the classics but we all just accepted them without a second thought. Except for Wind Waker's graphical style.

Originally Posted by Mandrag

Spirit Tracks is a new game with a new setting. While the use of a train may be unbelievable in currently existing games that doesn't mean that they're wrong for putting it in this one.
Putting in a horse to ride would never have made sense in the first 4 Zelda games, but it worked in Ocarina of Time.
The addition of a train is a minute change compared to changes made by the classics but we all just accepted them without a second thought. Except for Wind Waker's graphical style.

^^^Not even Obama could have said that better, and half the states worships him. I agree with you 100%.

Originally Posted by caroliinee

......... but seriously, a train? Link on foot/a horse is the way that seems right to me. It doesn't seem believable.

Well, then you go try and sail a horse across the sea if its so unbelievable. Just kidding.

How is it unbelievable? OoT used a horse, time passed on, the land changed, the boat was developed (tWW), steam power was added to it (PH), time passed, and finally steam power was used on land (ST) . That seems normal to me.

Looking at it from the system its on, i prefer Nintendo use their time making good gameplay, than having to waste their time on a horse and explorable overworld . (Tp, anyone?)

My reference to a horse was just that it seemed more "heroic", I know he first used a horse in OoT, but I was just saying. I'm sorry but I still can't wrap my head around this train idea. It took me a while to get used to the boat! Now a train? I don't know, it just seems to me like the new LoZ games are getting more and more fabricated and ridiculous (save TP, 'cause it was similar to OoT). It's just my opinion.