Nieuwe details The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword bekendgemaakt

Ook de Zelda-fans onder ons kunnen binnenkort aan de slag met een avontuur in het Zelda-universum; The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword voor de Nintendo Wii. Voorlopig moeten we het doen met een aantal onthulde details, die het volgende melden:

In terms of the HUD: you can remove just the controller overlay, or all the buttons whatsoever, leaving just the heart and rupee counts. We’ve suspected this already, but it’s nice to see it directly confirmed.

Here’s the kicker: there IS a left-handed option for those of you who want to hold your Wii Remote in your left hands. The way IGN describes this feature was a bit confusing since they start off by saying “Link can be left-handed,” but I’m not really sure whether their next comments indicate that Link still actually holds the sword in his right hand while your control can be toggled, or that he will hold the sword in his “correct” hand (left hand) but you’ll need to reverse the Nunchuk and Wii Remote. My sneaking suspicion is the former option because cutscenes would be dramatically impacted if Link uses his opposite hand. Suffice to say that if you select this option, the game will calibrate the Wii Motion Plus with the fact that you’re playing with the opposite arm in mind.

I’ve wondered a bit whether we’ll be starting the actual game with six hearts, and IGN seems to confirm it here. The counterbalance to this? Typical enemies take off a full heart when they damage you. Say goodbye, three-heart runs! You shall be missed

I knew this already from my E3 experience, but the Fatal Blow is back. It works basically the same as the move did in Twilight Princess, except this time it’s triggered via motion instead of a button press.

Even the enemies in this early part of the game pose the unique Motion Plus challenges of the enemies from later on. As the IGN guys said – those six hearts really come in handy!

Zo meldt Zelda Informer op haar website. De game staat gepland voor 18 november, maar kun je echt niet wachten kan je altijd nog onze preview lezen!