Warning! New Stage Arriving!!! Courtesy of the 3DS, it's Rainbow Road!

Nice, but I hope there will be a a rainbow road one for Wii U as well after seeing Rosalina's reveal trailer.

Zelda's back! Just like a lot of us suspected, she's just been confirmed, coinciding with the Japanese release of Link Between Worlds.

Something very interesting about her confirmation is that almost none of the pictures actually show her attacking, and the only picture that seems to show an attack is something new:

She could have an entirely new moveset. She could be another 'puppet' character like Rosalina. Or this could just be an assist trophy and she has the same moves as in Brawl, who knows!

At the very least, we're either seeing a brand-new attack or a brand-new assist trophy here. Either one is welcome!

I hope to God the Spirit Tracks Phantom is an Assist Trophy. Zelda is my best/favorite character in Smash. and I NEED her magical arsenal and Sheik transformation to be left the way they've always been in both Melee AND Brawl. Super glad to see her finally confirmed for the games though! Was hoping it wouldn't be the stoic, somewhat lifeless Twilight Princess version, but hey...maybe like the option to switch between male and female Wii Fit Trainers, other characters will have full-on alternate skins (at least in the Wii U version) instead of just palette swaps as well. I can dream!

Dang, was not expecting another character so soon after we just got a brand new one! The updates have really been ramping up lately!


At first I didn't understand why Zelda would be controlling one of Ganondorf's minions, but then I remembered there was an instance of this in Spirit Tracks! The Knight's armor is even Pink like it is when Zelda takes it over in Spirit Tracks, so that should means it's not an assist Trophy and infact one of Zelda's moves! I don't think her entire battle stategy will revolve around this though, as it just doesn't seem right to base her character solely off of one game in the series, one rather niche game at that.

Yeah word is that this is a brand new move for Zelda, not sure as to how her other moves will be affected but this looks awesome.

Here's hoping we get more and more character confirmations soon.

Zelda's expressions look really intense.... I like it.

It would be cool if one of Zelda's palette swaps gives her Hilda's colors. It wouldn't require any changes to the actual model, so it should be pretty easy to do.

Zelda being back is excellent news. One of my favourite characters.