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Zelda Delayed to Next Year
Twilight Princess development team requests extra time to make it a better game.

August 16, 2005 - Nintendo announced this morning that its anticipated new adventure game, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, has been delayed. The title, formerly scheduled to debut this November around the world, has since been postponed to 2006 so that the developer can continue to make the game better.


"After much discussion, the Zelda development team has requested extra time to add new levels, more depth and even higher quality to Zelda: Twilight Princess," said Nintendo of America's vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan. "Consequently, we're announcing a new global launch in 2006, after the conclusion of this fiscal year (March 31). We'll provide a specific date at a later point in time. While this may come as a disappointment to many eager fans, it will absolutely enrich the game and make it a multi-million seller."
Twilight Princess, developed by Nintendo and directed by Majora's Mask overseer Eiji Aonuma, was previously set to be the company's big holiday game. In fact, analysts expected the game to be Nintendo's single greatest deterrent to consumers potentially interested in Microsoft's next-generation console, Xbox 360, which is set for a November launch. The delay leaves Nintendo without a major holiday release on GameCube.

In the epic adventure, a 17-year-old Link travels across a gritty, realistic world and is able to move into an alternate dark land called the Twilight Realm, where he transforms into a wolf. Twilight Princess won a number of considerations by critics when it was presented in playable form at the Electronics Entertainment Expo. However, even then, members of the development team hinted in interviews that they would have to work overtime in order to meet a holiday release.

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Strafio wrote:
> Aiiiiie!
>
> I've been avoiding all Zelda related news/screenshots (already wish
> I'd missed the Wolf details) but those ones were fantastic. Lets up
> those numerous people have actual character rather than just standing
> in the same place 24/7...

Judging by the way some of the people in one of the screenshots are repeated about 3 times, I doubt half of them will have anything useful to say.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Judging by the way some of the people in one of the screenshots are
> repeated about 3 times, I doubt half of them will have anything
> useful to say.


But you always feel you have to talk to everyone anyway, just in case, don't you?

*Sob* why can't there just be a crowd of 3 people instead?

Dead Spiders wrote:
> But you always feel you have to talk to everyone anyway, just in
> case, don't you?

I do :( As soon as I enter a town in any game, I make it my mission to go and talk to absolutely everyone before I do anything else :D

Strafio wrote:
> I've been avoiding all Zelda related news/screenshots (already wish
> I'd missed the Wolf details)

Look, that stuff about the wolf is going to be on the back of the box anyway, so it's really NOT a spoiler to know about it.

I still don't know much about it, which is only good.

It could be that he's cursed to turn into a wolf, or he has a magic baton or something, or it could be his pet which you can control, I'm not really sure.

But yeah, I don't care, I'm not going to find out as this is the only thing I've read about it since WS's "TP > WW" thread first started

Can Nintendo ever make a Zelda game that doesn't start "Legend of Zelda"? What is the legend of Zelda? Who is he/she?

smedlos wrote:
> Who is he/she?

...

gerrid wrote:
> Look, that stuff about the wolf is going to be on the back of the box
> anyway, so it's really NOT a spoiler to know about it.

I guess... I mean if it was a spoiler then Nintendo wouldn't show it but you know... I want as many surprises as I can get. :)

Strafio wrote:
> I guess... I mean if it was a spoiler then Nintendo wouldn't show it
> but you know... I want as many surprises as I can get. :)

Me too. I've tried to stay out of these Zelda threads as much as possible and I haven't clicked on many links at all. My knowledge of the game is very little at the moment and I intend to keep it that way.

smedlos wrote:
> Can Nintendo ever make a Zelda game that doesn't start "Legend of
> Zelda"? What is the legend of Zelda? Who is he/she?

Try actually playing a Zelda game.

Sheesh...