Looks very unpolished. But I like the concept.

im not sure if is a good thing for nintento to associate with koei. I mean, they make mediocre games at best, and a crapy game of zelda can hurt the franchise.

i said NOOO!!!!

lol jk.

If that's what Nintendo is thinking, fuck you Nintendo!  Release a subpar game in the hopes of making people want the real deal.  But I don't think that is what they are thinking, they seem to be flying by the seat of their pants & don't know what way is up with the Wii U.  Wind Waker HD that didn't even start production until after the Wii U launched, Super Mario 3D World which was pulled from the 3DS & made into a Wii U game, & now Hyrule Warriors that looks to be about 6 months into production as a sequal to the Warriors ip.  I don't know, I guess I'm just tired of not seeing the good stuff they're supposedly working on.

Edit: & passing garbage off as your own work when you have a good reputation is a sure fire way to damge your brand.  Crossbow Training never made any assumptions of being anything but a shallow un "traditional Zelda" like experience.

please understand Nintendo is a Co. ruled by conservative old men. and has really very little manpower compared to a Western developer. for them going HD has been a pain and it just shows., hopefully they will gain traction and WiiU will get the high production Zelda we all want(?)

i personally would like to see a VERY realistic Zelda for once.like greety realistic and medieval ala that upcoming PS4 game.since Zelda is pretty much dead in Japan i dont think it would hurt them much there and people in the west would just freak out

We need to assassinate Iwata and Reggie.

Nah. If you look at the beginning of the thread, there was way more people excited about this game than there ever was for 3D world's E3 reveal. The ones complaining now are just more vocal : P

I can't wait for a Zelda smash them up game. Link has swords and multiple items so this can bring interesting game play ideas even if this game will be a repetitive smashing fighting game. But then again, I never played a Dynasty Warrior game before, so this will be a fresh experience for me.

The Investor Realtions meeting in late Jan was going to be the earliest we got new info on the new Zelda.   Nintendo doesn't show (usually) holiday titles until after the start of that year.     We really should not have had any expectations of Zelda being shown during the Nintendo Direct this week.   Especially after being told it was only going to talk about games to be released in the first half of the year.

And you say this why?  It's being developed by Koei, not Nintendo.

It's not about development resources, it's that Nintendo won't put out two "Zelda" games in the same year for the same console.  They wouldn't put this out along side the real Zelda in the same year.  Hyrule Warriors seems like a second stop gap Zelda game following Wind Waker HD before the next new Zelda releases, meaning we are going to have to wait longer then we had hoped.  Of course this is just conclusions reached through logic & not something I read.

Agreed.  Anyone who expected to see the "proper" Zelda game debuted at this direct set themselves up for disappointment.