20th May 2003, 8:00 PM
That almost looks like Link with a shield spell cast on him. But is the fighting style the same as Zelda 2? I loved Zelda 2 fighting because you had to thrust and parry and all that stuff. Very different feel from other game's combat, as you had to run right up, and rather than backing up and running forward so much, it was all timed jumping, raising and lowering the shield, waiting for an opening, and WAM, striking. In any case, should this use a similar system (hard to see, but I THINK that's a shield and sword he has on his back), and have a huge overworld with one of the nicest encounter systems I've seen (slightly random, but you could avoid the dark shadows of encounterness if you tried), and basically all one world to explore with many dungeons full of items and spells and new fighting techniques, then I WILL get this game.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)