The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: Nintendo Announces TLOZ: Echoes of Wisdom

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RolStoppable said:

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I now I just love complain about it, but honestly, feel very dissapointed with the franchise this gen. 3 remakes, a game that started as a remake and a spin-off. On top of that, the only new core Zelda game is delayed. Maybe those remakes are good financially, but as a fan I can't be happy as I expect new content.

I had great expectations of Nintendo this gen and looking at the first HD Zelda for Wii U was like a dream. The E3 2014 trailer looked so great, but I was blind when they showed us at the TGA an empty world. I tried to find excuses, but others were right: it was empty and not ready to be released.

For the first time in years I have to say that I have fear of what could be of the franchise. Aonuma is not capable in my eyes to keep in charge with the franchise. Development cycles are getting bigger and games still have big flaws.

As much as I love Skyward Sword, there's nothing there that I can say it needed 5 years of development. We know that it was because they decided to implement the Wii Motion Plus. But, thinking deeper, that doesn't makes sense. They should have released the original game and speed up for a new one, a la Majora's Mask, that implements the Motion Plus.

I'm not pretty confident of what could happen in the future. My most beloved franchise is getting surpassed by other franchises and rather than putting their best Nintendo is releasing remakes and delaying games.

I think I'm done with the franchise this gen and wait until someone else step in and try to evolve it rather than doing sidesteps.

What's happening is that Aonuma always likes to talk about how the next Zelda is going to break conventions, but after a good amount of time the team figures that they don't know what to do and subsequently put together a game that is very much like the previous ones. That's why it's taking them so long to finish games, they simply have no clear vision and focus.

Although I don't see how rushing out a game instead of delaying it would help Nintendo to deliver an actual masterpiece.

Delaying the game is a consequence of what you wrote. Aonuma doesn't know what to do anymore. Those remakes are only the proof that he has to revisit old games to take ideas.

I remember reading around the web (don't know if it's real or not) that the E32004 Twilight Princess trailer was just a demo of their goals. They didn't have any idea of what to do with the game. As development progress they were implementing new features like the twilight or the wolf transformation.

This is not about rushing the game, this is about delaying a game because the dev team doesn't know what to do anymore. We don't know what to expect next gen. 10 years development cycles? 3 more remakes before a new one?

Their only new "original" game is A Link Between Worlds, a game that started as a remake of A Link to the Past.

What surprises me more, is that Iwata let this happen. Zelda is becoming a very financial focused franchise. From delaying a game one complete year to release succesfully on the Wii, to move every release date to the holiday season. There's nothing good in delaying games as you invest even more money. But maybe that was the reason why they decided to focus more on remakes rather than new content: cheaper and easier to make.