The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks announced

Another Zelda game for the DS might appear to be a rush job on the surface, considering Phantom Hourglass was release over a year ago, but development on Spirit Trains makes a lot of sense to me. Not only did Phantom Hourglass generate a significant amount of sales against a trend of franchise decline, in part due to the DS's popularity, but the Touch Screen controls implimented into Phantom Hourglass were seemless and intuitive. Here's hoping they can iron out a few flaws from Phantom Hourglass in this installment, although trains instead of sailing invokes a large amount on confidence at this point. :p

Wouldn't it just be grand if Nintendo was just lying to keep the fans quiet, and that Spirit Trains is really their new Zelda Game they were mentioning? After all, the DS Zelda team was apparently working on this "new" title... so you can count on many taking this possibility the wrong way. I look forward to enjoying the imminent wave of fanboy anger across the World Wide Web; good days indeed. :D

Where's my Wii Zelda trailer?

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Why is Link driving a train?
I wasn't expecting that at all! haha

link driving a train is pretty funny. atleast i have a new zelda game to play to fill the void before the new wii zelda gets released.

I hope it has the option of being able to use the d-pad and buttons as opposed to just touch screen controls.

I'm expecting this to be released in Q4 2009.

This is... a joke right? ha ha funny... WAIT... It's NOT?! :eek:

So they took all the JOY of sailing, and put it ON RAILS. GOOD WORK NINTENDO.
I guess we all wanted a little more MM-style steam punk.. but this isn't quite it.

So pretty much, Nintendo has paid Thomas the tank engine a licence so it can use him as the talking mentor in game?


This game is gonna rule!

No the joke surely has to do with the 3rd party accessories for WiiQube...right?



lol.

You all know that a train is better than a crapload of water, and i take it this is the new land that they were searching for after Wind Waker, if not that a completely new Link

I'm hoping if we get a WIi Zelda game, they'll show Hyrule

I couldn't agree more. Zelda needs d-pad controls

I'm satisfied. Bugger sailing, too much water.
But does he have to wear such a queer little outfit while driving the train?

Come on!!!!!(Leyton Hewitt style) I really don't care about poxy titles for the DS. I've got an idea. Why not release more quality games for the Wii?

New Zelda is always good but a Wii one would have been way better.

Well I for one will be looking forward to this.

Ohhhhh coool :D
Day 1 for me :)

Can't wait! I loved Phantom Hourglass and this will be just as awesome. Hope it has a cool wireless multiplayer feature as well.

I was hoping for a wii one, oh well I loved hourglass (despite its shortness) so this one should be quite good.
Just for curiosities sake, what else was anounced at this press conference?

I went to IGN for what was a live-updated thing on the conference, Navi.

I can drivez trainz nao? ALRIGHT!

Holy crap, first Zelda game I've been interested in since Wind Waker! =o TRAINS. TOOT TOOT.

ah, I see. It is interesting.

I still haven't finished Phantom Hourglass, I've just met Linebeck, so I've nearly finished it.

I don't expect this to be all that great, and it'll probably be insanely easy, but yeah, i'll probably end up getting it.

It's Zelda, with trains. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? xP

But seriously, I did enjoy Phantom Hourglass alot, so I imagine this one will be just as good. =D

Don't you mean CHOO CHOO?

hah, nice, looks awesome, i want it :P

The game should be excellent if it isn't ruined by anything similar to the Temple of the Ocean King. Phantom Hourglass was great, but going through that temple was one of the most boring chores I have ever had to go through.

But yeah, woo, new Zelda game, etc.

OH MY ****ING GOD NEW ZELDA ON DS!

OH MY

THERE IS TOON LINK IN THE DAM GAME OH MY GOD I HAVE AN ORGASM **** YEAH TOON LINK RIDING A TRAIN **** YEAH I HOPE HE RIDES ME ONE DAY OH MY I AM SO EXCITED I AM SO ****ING EXCITED AND I SEE THIS COMING WITH A LIMITED EDITION BUNDLE WITH THE DSI LATER ON ****ING YES TOON LINK TOON LINK TOON LINK TOON LINK OH YEAH I LOVE YOU NINTENDO <3

I WAS HOPING A TOON LINK ON WII BUT WHO GIVES A **** THERES A NEW TOON LINK GAME YEAH! <3

Was that a phantom helping Link?

This is awesome. I loved Phantom Hourglass, and this is better than a new game for Wii, as I like taking games like Zelda with me. And DS has been neglected of First-Party core titles for a while. Sure we have Rythm Heaven but that doesn't really compare to something like Zelda.
And no one should complain that this was announced rather than a Zelda for Wii. At least, not because they promised that one was coming for Nintendo's Little White Box, because they never promised such a thing at all- Miyamoto assured us that a new Zelda game was being worked on. He didn't say for which platform.
So I'm happy.

<3 for Quicksilver


F*** yeah steam train!
Though, "Spirit Tracks" really doesn't sound like a Zelda title :/

Sorry Nintendo, you can replace the boat with a train, you can actually have Zelda appear as a princess in this one, but this is still coming off as a redo of Phourglass (showing off being able to draw boomerang paths has totally been done now!)

Yeah, agreed.
As for the people complaining it's a "rehash" of Phantom Hourglass, don't be stupid. It uses the same engine, but so it should- Phantom Hourglass wasd nearly flawless in its engine and if this game ends up being as good as it, then I'll be content.

Lexicon it has toon link in it what else would you want. :P


Him + the train would make a awsome final smash in the next smash bros.

LOL CRAZY TRAIN SHOOTING BOMBS.

You choo choo choose me?

Still, I'm gonna get this one since I loved Phantom Hourglass.

Lies.

So yeah, the announcement of Spirit Tracks doesn't rule out the chances of a new Zelda game being made for the Wii. It's great to see a new Zelda game though, regardless of what platform it's on.

I'm actually really kinda looking forward to this. Wasn't a fan of PH but this looks to be slightly if not largely better.

Phantom Hourglass 2: Steam-powered Choo Choo Choo? :P

It was a reference to Scream Train and the fact that in that scene Papa Ceasar said "Choo Choo..." which made me lol.

Sure was. Love the music in that level.

Mine was a variation on Electric Boogaloo.

huh trains?

its Zelda so yeah, looking forward to it, but trains?

looks like being able to control stuff is going to be a major part of the combat, mainly as distractions, which seems pretty cool, and could add a good bit of strategy to the game, and trains?

Trains are awsome since toon link rides them.

Toon link this, toon link that <3. GET A ROOM U 2!

The Legend of Zelda: Tracks of Spirit sound better?

He's already in my room sitting in a cabinet book case thingie lol.

Spirit tracks is fine how it is.

:eek: You've got him trapped in your house in a cabinet? What sick ritals are you up to?!!! :p


I guess the name could be better but i don't care.

choo-choo!

this looks pretty lol, but i'll probably get it. phantom hourglass wasn't bad, i enjoyed it, but it was pretty easy (i think, i haven't played it in ages).

Yes phantom hourglass was easy.

Just going back and fourth to the dungeon was annoying a little bit but fun since you had to run away from the phantoms.

I wonder what new items will appear. We've already seen the wind blowing thing i think you spin the stylus round and round then once you stop the wind stops. Or i think it's just automatic.

Hard to say, not really knowing what it's about yet :P

But I think mainly it's the use of "tracks". Just doesn't sound right. Maybe "rails" would be better.

Maybe you blow into the mic?

No.

Since like it looks more touch that item. And when toon link was vsing that giant bug he had to throw it far and i don't think nintendo would be making us blow for ages.

Blowing could be a second option in the game but i think you just aim then throw.

Lexicon just got owned.

Wow, I am looking forward to getting this. New Zelda game announced, always great to hear!

I don't consider the CD-i Zelda games to be part of the series, nor do I think they deserve to even have Zelda in its title. But I guess you do?

It doesn't matter what you think. Fact of the matter is, they are part of the series.

I know that. But its called an OPINION.

We all have one.

But whether the CDi games exist and are part of the series is a matter of cold, hard fact, not a question of opinion. Opinion has nothing to do with it.

Opinions do not come into play when discussing if the CDi Zelda games are part of the Zelda series or not.

They're part of a Zelda series... :P

It's also a fact that my opinion is I don't consider them to be a part of the Zelda series. Can't you guys just accept that and get over it? Surely you guys have better things to do than argue against me over a minor issue such as this. Each to their own. Just agree to disagree.

Let's get back on topic pl0x.

The problem here is you're acting as if your opinion is fact. Things would be different if you said "I'd rather pretend they don't exist" instead of just flat out saying they don't exist because you don't want them to. It's like the people saying "I don't like what happened when Hitler killed all of those Jews, so the holocaust never happened". If attitudes like yours are accepted and adapted by everyone important historical events would be forgotten.

If it helps you sleep at night Smoko, I'd rather pretend the Zelda CDi games aren't part of the Zelda series.

Thanks, I was starting to worry since I'd been up for so long. Now I'm off to take a nap.

The engine isn't so much the problem, its that this game pretty much is Phantom Hourglass with the boat replaced with a train. Of course this view is rather silly as well Zelda games haven't really radically changed the formula since ALLTP. Then again people said OoT was a rehash of ALLTP so this a fight best left unentered.

Well supposedly that game was supposed to be TP but they ended up cutting that out of the game along with a lot of other stuff.

I look forward to this a lot still.... Worth buying I DSi to play this game on a cooler DS?

I like the looks of the new Zelda game, especially with the new part of the game with the train and shooting stuff in your path and getting gems. That's cool :D