Capcom to handle GBA Zelda title

[Great Rumbler]

Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma of Nintendo Co Ltd. divulged in an interview with Dutch game jouralists that an entirely new Zelda is being worked on for the Game Boy Advance. While the topic of conversation was mostly The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for GameCube, Miyamoto gave small preliminary details on the next Zelda adventure for handheld. Capcom will handle the development on the title. The company also developed the Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages and the new A Link To The Past under the supervision of Nintendo. This would be the first truly new Zelda game for GBA, and work started on the title in 2001. Miyamoto ended saying "We have many new games for you at E3!"

Nintendo's been handing out a lot of their franchises lately, but Capcom did a good job with Oracle/Ages so we can expect that the next Zelda title will be pretty good.

"We have many new games for you at E3"

I like that quote...

Nintendophiles

[OB1]

Woohoo! This doesn't surprise me at all, but at least Nintendo finally announced it. I knew that Capcom was going to make a new handheld Zelda game.

Handing out their franchises to third parties was a pretty good idea on Nintendo's part, wasn't it? Gives them more time to work on more original titles.

[Dark Jaguar]

Capcom made the last three Zelda games (Ages, Seasons, and Four Swords) so this isn't surprising. I am surprised the article claims that Four Swords isn't a truly new game when in fact it is. I guess that it's just not a large enough game to warrent it being called it's own game aside something like LTTP. I can see that.

Anyway, I wonder what Capcom has up their sleeves for this... I bet they use the graphical style they made for Four Swords, which by the way looks beautiful so I have no beef with that. Some people say the Oracle games aren't quite as good as LTTP or Link's Awakening though. Maybe it's just that they didn't put many fresh ideas into the oracle games (apparently some people here didn't even like the neato seasons idea, well they didn't think it added that much to it anyway compaired to Age's time travel). Anyway, here's hoping whatever pops out is great.

[Great Rumbler]

Handing out their franchises to third parties was a pretty good idea on Nintendo's part, wasn't it? Gives them more time to work on more original titles.

It's really a win-win situation for Nintendo. The fans get the latest game in the series, Nintendo gets more sales for it's console [or handheld], and they don't have to use any resources.

[The Former DMiller]

If Nintendo was just handing out their franchises to any old developer I might not approve, but the companies they've chosen so far, Capcom, Namco, and Sega, are all the perfect choices for the games they are developing. Capcom's done a great job with the Zelda series on Game Boy so I don't doubt we'll see another great game from them.

[A Black Falcon]

Well... good news. While Capcom's Zelda games aren't equal to Nintendo's (I do prefer LA to OoA or OoS), they are great games, so news of another one is great... it would be nice if it did more new stuff than Oracles... those games were VERY derivitive.

Oh, and Seasons wasn't anywhere near as good as Ages.

[OB1]

True dat.

[Dark Jaguar]

I actually hold Seasons pretty near Ages myself. I certainly hear a lot of people who take sides (there are a number who view Seasons as superior). I myself view them pretty equally, though I know that sounds like I can't form an opinion that's how I see it.

[A Black Falcon]

But Ages was so much better! How do you see Seasons as as good as Ages? I don't remember all the details of why, as it was a few years ago, I do know that Ages was just more fun... Seasons? It was a very good game too... it just didn't match Ages in any way. It got annoying near the end... I finished it as fast as I did only because I knew Ganon was waiting in the 'real final boss' part (since I played Ages first -- something I shouldn't have done, because the second half of the game (Seasons) was not nearly as good as the first half...) and I wanted to get there...

[Dark Jaguar]

Just playing to get to the end really kills the fun.

[The Former DMiller]

I think people may like the game that they played first. I played Seasons first and I liked it better than Ages. I had the same problem you had with Seasons, Ages seemed to drag towards the end for me.

[Laser Link]

Sweet. I'm hoping they up the ante a bit more this time. Not that Ages and Seasons were bad, but I want more! :D I'm especially happy because I've wanted a new 2D Zelda game for a while. I hope it leans more towards LttP than LA. I just liked the style and mood of LttP more.

[A Black Falcon]

I liked LA... I still think that the Link model (and his weird sword animation) in LTTP looks strange... :)

It'll probably end up being more like Four Swords, though... I haven't played that one so I don't know how it looks really.

Oh, and in reviews they said Seasons should be played first, but Ages was better, so its not that...

[OB1]

Link in Four Swords looks like Link from Wind Waker.

I agree, Link in ALttP looked weird. What's with the pink hair?

[A Black Falcon]

Well, I've heard he looks like the WW Link and seen some screenshots, but not played it, and making the game 2d changes how that Link looks quite a bit. But it seems like a fine version of Link... not as odd looking as the LttP one, IMO...

I never got used to how strange Link in LttP looked, or how odd his curving sword swing was...