Will the next Wii Zelda be a direct sequel to Twilight Princess?

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thekitchensink said:

We all know Miyamoto has confirmed many times there will be another Wii Zelda. Also, I know that most of the time, the games aren't direct sequels (usually a different Link in a different timeline).

However, there are many plot points in TP that people wanted addressed, and it didn't really seem like that games' story was over. Dark Link is seenin a flashback but never battled in-game *1(not the Ocarina Dark Link), it's not COMPLETELY clear what happens to Ganondorf in the end (to me, anyway),*2 and it really seemed like we were just scratching the surface of Midna's story. Midna was also just starting to get awesome near the end.*3 You don't know much about Ilia, either, and there are many other characters that are highly underutilized (abominable snowman, anyone??).*4 Not to mention the fact that the final scene makes it look like there may be a true relationship developing between Zelda and Link in the last game (as opposed to the friendship they usually have).*5

So, that being said, will the next Wii Zelda star the same Link from Twilight Princess, continuing the story a few years down the road?

*1 - No, that was not Dark Link any more than that was actually Ilia that tried to stab Link in that other one of Midna's Story time tales. Essentially, she shares her stories as a dream, in which Link basically self inserts himself and people he already knows into the cast that plays in the tale Midna narrates.

*2 - Ganondorf is abandoned by the Triforce of Power, which is why you see Zant sorta have his neck snap. Ganondorf had been using Zant as his vessel for recovering his power, the sword through his chest was too much strain and his vessel cracked.

*3 - Yes, Midna was indeed getting awesome, but most of that awesomeness came from the Helmet she had put back together from the Twilight Fragments.  By the end of the thing, it was pretty obvious that it was either broken or expended its power during the battle and (spoiler)her transformation back to a human. The whole point, if you actually watched to the end, was that she did not belong in Hyrule, but was intended to exist in the Twilight Realm, by staying there she would have severely upset the balance between those two worlds.

*4 - They're side characters, get over it.

*5 - No, just no. If you had said Link and Midna had seemed to have a relationship going there, then yeah, I would have agreed with you, but not Zelda, at least not in this game. They were comrades, grateful princess & heroic... hero. Riding a horse together does not a relationship make.

Sorry, I really enjoy the characters and the world, but I don't see what you can do to continue the storyline from where it ended at without ending up as a Majora's Mask ripoff.