E3: Twilight Princess trailer
The latest trailer to the next Zelda game, and the first to appear since the subtitle was revealed.
http://www.zelda.com/universe/game/legendzelda/
My comments (with spoilers) under the fold.
- I'm impressed by the dark-looking mood of the game overall. Fights in the rainstorm, running through a dark forest lit only by Link's lamp, imprisonment in some castle spire, and of course Link turning into a wolf at night. Wind Waker, even in its darker moments, never seemed to lose its bright spirit. Here's hoping that Twilight Princess, a name we've got to get used to, like it or not, can keep its depressing feel.
- I've also got to give credit to the Zelda team for returning to the more realistic graphical style while keeping some of the neat flourishes of Wind Waker. The spaceship (?) that dropped out the monsters at the beginning of the trailer has the same glowing-outlines style as the statues in the Tower of the Gods in Wind Waker, in my mind one of that game's highlights. Plus when Link kills enemies, uh, defeats enemies, they seem to disappear in a Wind Waker-ish puff of smoke. That stuff's awesome, and since this is still all cartoons anyway, it works like a charm.
- The damn owl seems to be back. Let's hope he plays a useful role in the plot, like in Link's Awakening, and not an unnecessary interruption like in Ocarina of Time. (Update: Galvin says it's a hawk. More below.)
- I LOVE the black-and-white color scheme. It's like Sin City, but more apocalyptic.
- Who the shit is that riding wolf Link? I HATE unnecessary characters in Zelda games. If it's not Zelda (or Sheik, or Tetra...) or the King of Hyrule, I'm going to be pissed. Actually, I'm pretty confident it's not, but something's up. Noted website non-updater Galvin Chow remarked that this new character looks almost Wind Waker-ish in graphical style, and if you look at the logo at the end, the vertical part looks just like this character's headgear.
- Thanks to Galvin again for this gem: apparently there's a movie or something called Ladyhawk, where these two people are in love, except the guy turns into a wolf every sunset, and the girl turns into a hawk by day, so they've only got one minute at twilight where they're both human. And what's that alighting on Link in the trailer? A hawk! (I still think it looks like an owl.)
- Another genius move: There's a scene in the previous trailer where Link performs some action (probably putting on the Lens of Truth, like from Ocarina) and can see all these zombie spirits staring at him. They try that again in this trailer with wolf Link and this other character, and it turns out there are these two rat-like ghosts attacking wolf Link. How awesome.
- The boomerang is GLOWING. That's hot.
- The Goriyas are back. That's hot too. If you recall from the first two Zeldas, Goriyas were those big guys who threw boomerangs at you. Now they're more like monkeys, and they can jump around faster than you, and throw boomerangs at you. That's scary.