If you thought an Ocarina of Time port was good...

[EdenMaster]

...then you'd better well be preordering the new Zelda. Can't find an article online, so I'm going to just copy directly out of my new EGM. Mind you this isn't in the rumor section, this is for real. It only seems to good to be true...

Beginning the first day of April, those who plop down at least $10 on this fall's highly anticipated and mature-looking <i>The Legend of Zelda</i> will recieve a bonus disc that features a visually remade version of Links 2003 adventure, <i>The Wind Waker</i>. So instead of a cartoony look, the ever-popular elf will be travelling the ocean blue in search of his little sis with the same superslick and grown-up graphics as the next console installment.

But that's not all: the game will also include two full-length dungeons that were cut from the original <i>Wind Waker</i> because Shigeru Miyamoto felt "it had gotten too big for all ages to play."

There's also a screenshot of Link facing off against one of those bird creatures (forget what, haven't played WW in a while) and looks just as amazing as the next Zelda screenshots have. Even little stuff like the health and magic meters look stunning.

Wow, I had intended to preoder Zelda already, but I'm definitely preordering it now!

[OB1]

Oh man... I hate to be the one to break this to you, but... you're going to hate EGM in about two seconds. Look at the date. It's EGM's April issue. The pre-order bonus begins April 1st.

[EdenMaster]

Fuck.

I should have known that :D

[OB1]

Yeah.

[EdenMaster]

I even called their bluff a couple years back when they touted Sonic and Tails in Melee.

Ah, EGM does love their April Fools jokes, don't they? There's going to be a lot of angry letters in next months issue :)

[Dark Jaguar]

I had no idea what the date was, but just reading that was enough to confirm to me it had to be a prank. Just made me think "um, not a chance, it's pretty close to April, are they doing this early or just being retards?" There's no way Nintendo is going to give away one of their best selling games, much less spend countless hours redoing the entire visual system and game models for it. Oh and, I like the art style of the game as-is myself.

Now that said, releasing it again with a few extra dungeons would be MUCH appreciated. I'd buy it. The lacking thing in that game is the shortness of the primary quest. Plenty of mini-games and all, and that's nice (though way too many are redundant), but it was just cheap to get the 3rd pearl without having to enter a dungeon, and everyone here knows that! It's like they were running low on time and ideas for new items so they destroyed an island so they wouldn't have to make a dungeon. Oh and, that secret armor is cool and all, but really giving you invincibility like that with nothing to really push it to it's limits is a bit of a let down. If you are going to have hidden uber-items that make you a demi-god, then they should add a hidden super dungeon with an actual god at the end you have to fight. You know, something more powerful than the game's final boss, a WEAPON so to speak. I loved the cool of Culex in Super Mario RPG, and the addition of the Four Sword dungeon to Link to the Past. They should keep that going. In the next game, if they add some super cheap item that makes the game too easy, two things. One, make it REALLY hard to get. None of this trading like 4 items to easy to find people stuff, and also make it somewhere near the END of the game before you can even get it. Two, put it to good use in some dungeon where you actually need it just to survive. What reason do you have to go through that dungeon? Um... some sort of medal that says "you are a super player"? Do you really need a reward for challenge like that? :D Speaking of challenge, give us hard puzzles again. I want to be stumped constantly! :D Bear in mind that while playing Minish Cap I realized while solving the puzzles that they would actually be pretty hard if I had never played Zelda before. I SAW how I was solving very complex puzzles in seconds only because I had memorized the puzzle arcetypes of the series. So, to give us hard puzzles again, they need to stop using the tried and true puzzle formulas in Zelda. Not completley mind you, just use your heads to noodle up some really different and ingenious puzzles. Something like, NOT involving pushing blocks or hitting switches. It's Nintendo, they can do it! I know I've said I don't like gimics for their own sake, but if they want to innovate, THAT is the way they should do it. If they come up with some truly unique puzzle types that we haven't seen before, they won't have to make it insanly hard for the Zelda novice. It'll be equally hard for both veteran and novice alike, just because neither have seen these puzzles before.

Oh yeah, and two dungeons would round off WW pretty well. Majora's Mask was fine with 4 mainly because of how long they were and all, but WW didn't really fare so well if you ask me. And Minish Cap... woah... I was relieved to find it had 6 instead of the 5 I had assumed, but the ones it had were pretty short. Like, Oracle game short. All in all I beat it a little too quickly. Fun game and all, but I want either more dungeons or like really long dungeons.

[Geno]

I knew it was a hoax, especially since it said that it begins on the first day of April.

But I'll preorder the new Zelda anyway. Not because of the off-chance that this rumor might be true, but because... it's Zelda, man! Of course I'm going to get the new Zelda game!

And like DJ said, I like Wind Waker's graphics as they are. It may not be as cool as the graphics of the upcoming Zelda, but they're fitting to the theme of Wind Waker.

[Great Rumbler]

I started to get excited at first but then I read "EGM" and "April first". Yeah. :)

[A Black Falcon]

Didn't Nintendo release real news on April 1 a few times? Kind of strange...

[Great Rumbler]

It seems like they have before.

[Dark Jaguar]

I think releasing big news on April Fools that's actually true is quite possibly the best joke you can play.

[Geno]

I concur, DJ.

[lazyfatbum]

5 things we should consider:

1.) If it's true, Nintendo will make many people happy.

2.) If it's true, Nintendo should release the game seperately to make more money.

3.) If it's true, Nintendo should really hold their ground and tell people to accept that WW has an art style all it's own which is creating two distinct flavors of the Zelda series, a more traditional Zelda experience and a darker more mature Zelda experience. We have two flavors of Metroid, why not two flavors of Zelda?

4.) It's not true.

5.) Fuck EGM.