The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – First story details and more
This information comes from Nintendo’s roundtable event at E3…
- Links finds out there is a land below the clouds, but it’s controlled by evil forces
- When he finds out about this, a few things happens and he descends from the clouds
- Link is a boy who lives in Skyloft
- Skyloft is above the clouds
- Scene at the end of the trailer intended to be “impactful” since it’s important to the game’s story
- Miyamoto couldn’t make sure the game would be released this year, so he’s taking him time to make sure everything is right instead
- Team needs to add a few more dungeons, but it’s mostly complete
- Skyward Sword has intelligence, will take on the form shown in the art last year
- The Skyward Sword will become the Master Sword
- Sky very important
- Clouds banks “very impactful”
- Highlighted the cloud banks with the game’s art style
- Miyamoto was very big on the game’s art style
- Cezanne art influenced the game
- Players need to pay attention to enemies now
- Aonuma: “If we had kept the Twilight Princess art style, we’d be done already!”
- The traditional structure of Zelda games will be different in Skyward Sword
- Will have different clothes
- Easier to go select items/clothes, though it’s a bit different than past titles
- New pointing system that uses MotionPlus, can be compared to a 3D mouse
Source Nintendoeverything.com
