With the success of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on the Wii and Mario Kart 7 on the 3DS, it’s clear that there is still a market for the Nintendo classics, and Retro Studios has been a big help with that. If Shigeru Miyamoto is anything to go by, Retro may even work on another one of Nintendo’s biggest franchises.
Retro Studios first made a name for themselves by creating the excellent Metroid Prime series, which brought Metroid to the third dimension and demonstrated that it was possible to make the game first-person and still be successful. They later followed that up with Donkey Kong Country Returns, helping Nintendo continue the revival of 2D-platformers by bringing back one of the best there was. More recently, they had a hand in Mario Kart 7, developing most of the courses and artwork used in the game.
In an interview with Wired, Shigeru Miyamoto explained that the intent behind bringing Retro Studios in to work on Mario Kart was to provide a sort of mixture between Japanese and Western development styles, in order to appease fans of both. There were a number of courses in the game that had a distinct Western feel to them, while others were more of a Japanese design, and having the two mixed together proved to be a good idea. That, coupled with the success of Metroid Prime, led Miyamoto to wanting to have Retro work with them again on other flagship Nintendo franchises, and The Legend of Zelda series was the one he suggested.
Though it was just a suggestion made by Miyamoto, this could coincide with the story that Retro is already working on a game for the Wii U. At E3 this summer, we did also of course see snippets of footage of what a new Zelda game (tech demo) would look like on the Wii U was introduced, but whether or not it was from an actual game that’s in development is up for debate. Whatever the case, Retro making a Zelda game would be very interesting, as they could take the series in a completely different direction if given the chance.
Would you like to see a Retro-made Zelda game?
Source: Wired
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See I think It’d be much more interesting if they gave it to a dev like Bungie, or the dev for the GTA games.
If you’re going to go with someone else might as well make it really different.
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I would definitely play a new Zelda game developed by Sucker Punch; I person could dream.
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That’d be hella interesting. I loved the Prime series. I think a Zelda title by them could be great. I have yet to play DK Country Returns.
My thoughts exactly. Retro updated Metroid in a lot of really smart ways. I’d love to see what they could do with Zelda, particularly on hardware that gives them more power to work with.
retro studios is ok. I have enjoyed prime and DKCR. I would be ok with it as long as they didn’t give Link a voice. Like any of the new games, like Uncharted, infamous, god of war, gta, assassin’s creed etc the main characters talk to much and it ruins the game for me. kinda takes you out of the role and makes it feel like it should just be a movie.
I would love to see a Zelda created by Retro studios. Those guys know what they are doing. I definitely would NOT want to see Bungie or Rockstar handle it. No offense, it’s just that I think we’re going for “new spin” not “completely unlike an actual Zelda title”.
I recall someone Nintendo expressing interest in a new top-down Zelda game. I’ve enjoyed the work of Retro Studios so far and would be excited to see them work on a new Zelda, especially if it were in the style of Link to the Past and Minish Cap.
I also agree, Link can’t have a voice.
That would make me very happy. I like the 3D games, but they’ve never been as fun to me as the top-down games.
I personally think that he needs a voice, but not a childs voice. If not, at least give us more choices of what to say for him. Skyward Sword had a few, but seriously, it takes me out of the game when the NPC’s tell me what my name is, then answer for me.
I don’t know man…Team Ninja gave Samus a voice and no one approved.
which is a shame. Metroid other M by all rights was a great game. It was one of my favorite Wii titles.