Zelda Approaches the Twilight -- Page 2

Link Ages Up
Whatever platform it might eventually show up for, that Twilight Princess will be a hit is as sure a thing as the green on Link's outfit. Zelda games have a rabid following and every GameCube adventure so far has been better than the one previous. This is a sort of farewell tour.

The first buzz generator is the darker tone of the game. Naturally, the hero is a brand new Link incarnation. He's going to be an older young adult and just as Wind Waker used a brighter cartoon atmosphere to tell the tale of that particular "kid," Twilight Princess is going semi-real and grown up.

The Twilight Zone
The dark nature of the adventure is also going to see Hyrule threatened by an eerie twilight that is consuming the land. Strange and evil creatures emerge from these supernatural shadows, and much like A Link to the Past for the SNES, the hero will have to venture into the dark world to confront the terrors within.

Twilight Princess is based on the Wind Waker game engine so the basic control scheme should be intimately familiar to Zelda players. But once he enters the twilight land Link transforms into a wolf! He can only function in that dimension in lycanthropic form, which radically changes the gameplay. But at least he also has a playable partner (with opposable thumbs) this time around, too, the mysterious Twilight Princess alluded to in the game's title.

Princess and the Revolution
Anyone who's seen that Nintendo Revolution TV spot where gamers are swinging next generation around like...well, like Link battling orcs, knows where The Legend of Zelda is eventually headed. But until that time in a future generation not so far away, bet the farm that Twilight and the GameCube is where the legend will continue.

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