Cliff Notes – When will the next Zelda be released
- The next mainline Zelda game is unlikely to be announced soon, with estimates suggesting a release could be five years or more away, potentially not arriving until the next decade.
- Speculation surrounds possible remakes or spin-offs, such as a remake of Ocarina of Time, while a live-action movie may debut before any new game.
- Fans express a desire for more substantial content in upcoming Nintendo Directs, hoping for exciting announcements beyond spin-offs like Hyrule Warriors.
When will the next Zelda be released?
What’s next for The Legend Of Zelda? (Nintendo)
The Thursday letters page has plenty of dreams and wishes for this week’s Nintendo Direct, as another reader falls in love with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The big guns
Excited to hear about the extra length Nintendo Direct on Friday but I already know that the chances of seeing a mainline Zelda are next to nothing. They’ll probably waste some time on Hyrule Warriors and, if we’re really lucky, some kind of new spin-off or remake, but it is going to be years and years before we get a proper new Zelda.
Assuming they need a minimum of five years, and probably more since this won’t be based on Breath Of The Wild, we’ll be lucky to see anything this decade. That is a long time for Nintendo to keep the name alive, but the really weird thing is that the live action movie will probably come out long before the next game.
I know we were talking about video game movies never coinciding with new releases just recently but that is going to be a very extreme example. The only thing I can think is that Nintendo will bring out the big guns: a remake of Ocarina Of Time and Capcom, or someone similar, making a new game.
I’ll be totally fine with that though. Anything will be better than another Hyrule Warriors.
Clifford
One year to go
I know it’s not likely but I really hope that Persona 6 is announced at the Nintendo Direct. It’ll probably be its own event, but it’ll be 10 years since Persona next year and that is a crazy time to wait for a sequel to an active franchise.
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We all know they’re working on it, and it was just like this waiting for Persona 5 news, but personally I could do with a lot less spin-off and a lot shorter time between sequels.
I’m sure it’ll be forgiven once the game is out, because they’re always good, but the wait is going to kill me.
Gave
PS: Even worse, I’ve just realised they probably are waiting till the anniversary next year to make the annoucement. And that wasn’t till September!
The good stuff
The longest ever Nintendo Direct, at this time of year? I think there’s a serious danger of this week’s Direct actually being interesting. I’m sure Nintendo can still make it a disappointment if they want but this really could be the big one everyone was talking about.
I’m not going to make a list of wishes/demands though. I just want to see some cool stuff that I didn’t expect. So no more Kirby games and Dynasty Warriors spin-offs, show us the good stuff and kick the Switch 2 into top gear.
Like a lot of people have been saying, it’s been stuck in a fairly low gear so far and they’re kind of coasting it. I’m hoping this is the moment things start to get serious.
Loomy
Direct wishes
I am looking forward to the Nintendo Direct on Friday, especially as it is a long one at one hour and I’m hoping, as a big Mario platformer fan, that they announce a remaster or remake of Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Switch 1 and 2, and also a new 3D Mario game for Switch 2. Some new Mario amiibo would be cool too.
I don’t have a Switch 2 but I still enjoy seeing what games Nintendo announce. I do have a Switch 1. I will have to wait until the evening to watch the Direct, so I won’t be looking at any gaming sites after 2pm that day, so I can see the Direct fresh without any spoilers!
In a year or two I want to upgrade to a Switch 2 but have just bought a gaming PC. I have been waiting since the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. for Super Mario Galaxy 2, so really hope it is announced on Friday. Fingers crossed.
Andrew J.
PS: I have just got the latest Edge magazine, which has a cover story for Battlefield 6 but it also comes with a free 78-page Nintendo magazine!
Strange favourites
I’m still trying to work out whether it’s weirder that Frogger or Namco Museum Vol. 3 is one of the best selling PS1 games ever in the US. Were they selling them for $1 or something? I don’t get. Who was that desperate to play Galaxian or Frogger in 1995?
They seriously seems like the worst, least interesting, games you could possibly get. And the reviews for Frogger were bad even at the time, from what I’ve read? Imagine how bad it must seem now.
I find the whole situation very odd. If you’d told me those two were in the top 20 of the worst selling PS1 games I would’ve believed it in an instant.
Bosley
Lucky escape
Interesting thought from Blanko, regarding the worst game they’ve ever played, after reading that worst games ever list that you published in your article.
It also made me wonder what is the worst game I’ve ever played? I’m not sure myself to be honest. I can at least look at a game I don’t like after I’ve had a go and think yeah that’s not for me, but I do understand why it’s well received by others, maybe it’s just not my individual cup of tea.
I think the price you’ve paid for a game could also be a major factor in how badly you feel about it. Anyone that paid top dollar for that Superman title back in the day would surely have been upset. I remember reading about that one in magazines of the day.
It reminds me of a lucky escape I had back in my teens. I remember being in Wakefield city and trying to buy Mace: The Dark Ages on the Nintendo 64. It was a 3D fighter and looked the business and I was desperate to get a decent fighting game for the console.
So I went into Dixon’s and attempted to buy Mace. It had an age rating on the box of maybe 15 and the guy who I chose to serve me refused to sell me a copy, as company policy required me to provide ID or so he said. I was the age, would have been 17 and wasn’t trying to pull a fast one but he still refused to serve me.
If that man’s out there and reading this then I would like to thank him for the lucky break he gave me. It would have cost me £59.99 and that would have been me done for games for a while because of the price back in the 90s. It was a mediocre affair at best according to reviews and I never played it.
I’ve just had a look at in on YouTube and I doubt it remains on anyone’s lists of top tier fighters from back then.
Nick The Greek
Introducing… Octahedral Head
I’m really looking forward to Silent Hill f. I really liked your interview with the team and I’m glad that the game has some heavy themes rather than just ‘Pyramid Head is back again!’ In fact, I think my measure for whether the game is good or not will be if Pyramid Head is in it or not.
He absolutely shouldn’t be, because he was a very specific manifestation for Silent Hill 2, but Konami keep trying to find reasons to force him into other games. If he’s not in Silent Hill f then I think this could be an all-timer, if he’s crowbarred in then my respect of it will be less.
Chloralise
Class act
*** Warning – sort of spoilers for Silksong ***
My playthrough of Silksong gets better and better and it’s becoming one of the most satisfying first playthroughs of recent memory.
It’s no spoiler to say I reached the Citadel gate, it’s the main objective at the start of the game. As the boss looked hard I went to explore earlier areas.
I came across a tucked away area with a very cool boss. But I kept getting wrecked in the final phase, where it repeatedly warps in and does a bit of an area of effect attack. This is where the usefulness of Hornet’s run speed in boss fights was revealed to me.
I kept dashing and getting caught by the area of effect. All I had to do was keep the dash/run button down to run and it continues the momentum and it’s easily avoided.
After that light bulb moment the boss was beaten pretty quickly, which gave that hugely satisfying Soulsborne feeling of conquering a boss that at first seemed ridiculously hard.
On top of that, it provided a secret back door in to the Citadel. The heavenly music, meeting up with a fallen boss to trash talk me and the lovely cut scene telling me I’m at Act 2 confirmed it. I’ll go back and fight the Citadel gate boss though.
Anyway. The exploration and expanded combat options are a real progression from the first game. It’s a fantastic game so far.
My tip for new players is put a lot of your rosaries into strings that can’t be lost on death. It costs 20 rosaries to do so but as most benches and stations need them to be opened up it will make things much easier if you can do that when you first get to them.
Simundo
Inbox also-rans
Nintendo should commission Team Cherry to make a remake/sequel to Zelda 2: Adventures Of Link.
Captain Walrus
GC: That’s… not a bad idea at all.
Go up against Nintendo lawyers when you’re representing yourself? This guy must be amazing at Dark Souls, because clearly he likes playing life on hard mode.
Ping
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