OMG, Is this real?!

[HylianHero92]

I just found this over at Zelda Universe while looking for a new avatar, take a look:
>Aonuma: You'll have to wait a while, because this is still very integral to the core plot, which I can't spoil right now. I can tell you that his primary motive is destroying Ganon, but you can imagine how difficult this is without the Master Sword or Light Arrows. So battling Ganon and saving Hyrule are both key components of his journey, and in order to immerse the characters as fully as possible, I want to draw the sense of urgency present in Majora's Mask. The flood doesn't occur until later in the story, but when Hyrule floods, it does so in real-time. What I mean is, Link will not have the opportunity to wander the world aimlessly at that point, as Hyrule Field and the Gerudo and Kokiri territories—all the towns aside from the Goron tribes in Death Mountain, essentially—will become huge bodies of water. And of course there will be an immense variety of new enemies and such to add depth to this.

Is this real? Did Aonuma really say this? Does anyone know? If so, am I the last person hearing about it? Would he really reveal so much about a future game? Please let me know what you think!

[Keaton]

Doesn't sound like too huge of a spoiler, honestly.

But is it real?  You'd have to ask MagmarFire, the new news man[/I].

[HylianHero92]

Doesn't sound like too huge of a spoiler, honestly.

I think it is. It already tells us where it goes in the timeline, that Link will not be using the Master Sword or Light arrows, That there will be some sort of time limit, new enemies will appear, and that Death Mountian will not be flooded, which greatly supports the theory it becomes Dragon Roost Island after the flood. Thats quite a lot for a game that hasn't even been announced yet!

[Keaton]

It says that there's the possibility that he will not be able to use the Master Sword or the Light Arrows.  The fact that Aonuma says it'll be much harder without them implies that it would be easier with them.  the only way to know that is if it's possible to use them in the fight.

Miyamoto said that TP would be the last Zelda game of its kind.  Maybe he meant that in the NEW Zelda games, the choices that you make can affect how the rest of the game goes?

[Master Dragmire]

Colbert here.
Although I haven't heard much about this new Zelda game, I'm looking in to it now. You can expect a full report, in the first news post on the main page.

[Keaton]

You can find the full report here:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uZr3JWYdy8&feature=related

[HylianHero92]

Miyamoto said that TP would be the last Zelda game of its kind.  Maybe he meant that in the NEW Zelda games, the choices that you make can affect how the rest of the game goes?

Maybe... I just found the whole interview on the IGN forums. It can be found at:
http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_lobby/b8270/165626165/p1
It hasn't been confirmed as real but I guess we'll find out next week at E3.
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O M G!!!! Did you guys read it!!!! I can't wait 'till E3 now!!!
Read the interview! OMG!!! Link's a wannabe and he can talk and the music will be orchestrated and there will be voice acting and OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! ...and he's got "a more defined musculature and such" LOL

[Master Dragmire]

Its gonna be Collin
Me and my friends called it a while back.

Sorry for spoilers

EDIT: Nevermind, I kept reading

[Keaton]

--whoa.

Just whoa.

Kyle: So what you are saying is that the next Zelda will have Master Chief , Solid Snake, and Voltron in it?

Aonuma: yes

That about sums it up.

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I'm stickying this.

[Commodore Axilon]

Oh man, Voltron?

First in line right here.

[HylianHero92]

We figured that if Hyrule has enough time to develop its kingdom, it would eventually discover the steam engine and gunpowder and such. Well gunpowder was there to begin with. We've had cannons in Zelda, so I suppose you could say that Zelda was always really in a kind of medieval-steampunk limbo.

>Kyle: What exactly do you have planned for this kind of transition? I mean, do you actually want guns in the Zelda universe, or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

>Aonuma: Muskets, certainly. They wouldn't be the kind that you're familiar with though, and all items we create in the universe will retain their respective fantasy styles. So for instance, you can expect a deku musket that fires gunpowder-filled deku nuts. It sounds a bit obscene, but when you see the concept art and visuals in July, you'll realize how well it all merges with the world. I don't want to spoil too much, but we intend to have a railroad system in Hyrule. It's actually something I've wanted to implement since Majora's Mask, but we've never had a large enough world, you know?
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LOL!!! DEKU NUT GUNS!!!!

[Keaton]

[HylianHero92]

Nice image! Obviously fake, but nice all the same! Anyways, I just thought of something. Something that could prove this whole thing wrong. Which I really don't want to do. But I must. I think everyone forgot the Castle in the protective bubble in TWW. It still looked Medieval. Not steam punk or whatever. Also, in TWW it's like hundreds of years after Hyrule is flooded.  If they're so advanced in Valley of the Flood, which I will call VotF, how come they aren't in TWW? They don't have any guns or Trains or anything in TWW! I wish this game actually existed, that Link could talk, that all music would be orchestrated, that there was voice acting, that Link was a psycho wannabe totally awesome black-haired guy, but I'm afraid it couldn't possibly be so.

[Master Dragmire]

because the people living in the mountains weren't exactly modern

Hyrule is getting flooded.

[HylianHero92]

Still, they probably would've brought a gun or two!