Hyrule Warriors

IMO they are playing it safe.

This is a new IP after all, so they probably want to limit the game to as few new characters as possible and work with familiar faces.

After all, weren't there a lot of less than enthusiastic reactions when Lana was introduced?

Original Characters appearing as Villains is less risky to them since there is pretty much a new villain each game (except for Ganon but that's only to be expected)
 
IMO they are playing it safe.

This is a new IP after all, so they probably want to limit the game to as few new characters as possible and work with familiar faces.

After all, weren't there a lot of less than enthusiastic reactions when Lana was introduced?

Original Characters appearing as Villains is less risky to them since there is pretty much a new villain each game (except for Ganon but that's only to be expected)

True enough, but the concept of a Link that's female has been around for a long time. I think it has enough of an audience to warrant more than just concept art. Maybe she'll appear as DLC? One can only hope.

Lana I'll grant you, but people have been warming up to her.

I'm still a little salty that we here in the States have to wait another month while this game comes out in two days over in Japan :(
 
It looks like she is much larger than the other characters. That is surprising to me.

Maybe we'll actually get a playable Ganon too.

Edit: It seems that is a Link moveset. I'm told the bottle is the weapon and Link is inside it.
 
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Kinda disapointed Lana's got pointy ears, yeah they're really small points but still. This makes Ganondorf the only playable Human with round ears that we've seen so far (it's a Dynasty Warriors game, he's GONNA be playable).

I don't even know why I'm annoyed by this to be honest Skyward Sword established Hylians are a human ethnicity in-universe like the Gerudo. I think Twilight Princess had the largest community of non Hylian/Gerudo humans out of any Zelda game.

Other than that very, very minor nitpick I'm so fucking hyped for this game, each trailer I see makes me love it more and more, loving Sheik, loving Lana, loving Impa. Nintendo love to empty my wallet it seems.
 
Kinda disapointed Lana's got pointy ears, yeah they're really small points but still. This makes Ganondorf the only playable Human with round ears that we've seen so far (it's a Dynasty Warriors game, he's GONNA be playable).
Yeah, he IS playable.
It's great.

I'm so looking forward to getting to be the guy with Power!
 
So it has been announced that in the future there will be New Story Modes, New Weapons, and New Characters in "future updates" to Hyrule Warriors.

While it seems obvious that Cia and her gang will show up as DLC at some point who else does everyone want to see in DLC? And what other items would you like to see as weapons?

Personally I want to see Ganondorf using the Trident that has been Ganon's signature weapon in the "Downfall" timeline.
 
HOLY SHIT FEMALE LINK WAS ALMOST A THING IN HYRULE WARRRIORS AS AN ALTERNATE LINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the artwork



Well that was certainly unexpected, I wonder why they got so far as concept art only to nix having "Alternate Female Link" as a character given that three separate "worlds" are being accessed by Cia.

Also I wonder who the other two are beneath "Rinkeru's" artwork. Were they alternate designs of her or existing characters, or entirely new characters that got dropped?

Dammit Nintendo, we could have had it all!
 
Link's future daughter as a DLC pack would be the best thing ever. I mean it would make the parallels between Fire Emblem and Zelda stronger than ever, but hey, that's no bad thing.
 
Link's future daughter as a DLC pack would be the best thing ever. I mean it would make the parallels between Fire Emblem and Zelda stronger than ever, but hey, that's no bad thing.

I have heard that "future daughter" bit was a miss translation. Apparently "Linka" was going to be a "Little Sister" Type Character.

Honestly we should try to find someone who can actually read Japanese to confirm what the writing in the artbook actually is.
 
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Yeah I read the article it said people misread the "imouto-type girl" bit. Basically this particular Link was supposed to feel like you're playing the little sister. :V
 
Yeah I read the article it said people misread the "imouto-type girl" bit. Basically this particular Link was supposed to feel like you're playing the little sister. :V
No matter how hard I try I can never read a sentence like that and not get little bit creeped out...
 
Kinda disapointed Lana's got pointy ears, yeah they're really small points but still. This makes Ganondorf the only playable Human with round ears that we've seen so far (it's a Dynasty Warriors game, he's GONNA be playable).

I don't even know why I'm annoyed by this to be honest Skyward Sword established Hylians are a human ethnicity in-universe like the Gerudo. I think Twilight Princess had the largest community of non Hylian/Gerudo humans out of any Zelda game.

Other than that very, very minor nitpick I'm so fucking hyped for this game, each trailer I see makes me love it more and more, loving Sheik, loving Lana, loving Impa. Nintendo love to empty my wallet it seems.
Ganondorf got pointed ears when he got the triforce of power. It's a literal change in his character model that you can see.
 
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The pointed ears are supposed to mark the Hylians as being 'closer to the goddesses' or somesuch, and possessing a piece of the Triforce probably gets you pretty close lol
 
This was said to be a poetic form of esp or telepathy but the power has fallen out of use by LttP time... with select few (Sasa....the sage in the game) having it. The implication is that its not just hte Triforce. Hyrule itself is or the Hylians are filled with magic though they ARE losing it, kinda.
 
Which would kinda fit with how the games set later on in their respective timelines have progressively higher numbers of normal humans. In TP, Link is the only Ordonian to have pointed ears, In Wind Waker, pointed ears have become an uncommon trait. It's my theory that the longer the ear, the more divine power that person has within them, hence why Zelda always has really long ears, being Hylia's human reincarnation. Tetra's ears of are the same length as her era's Link's it seems, but the art style of the WW games doesn't really allow us to say for sure.

If I remember correctly Lana is from the future right? Seems that in each of the timelines humanity gradually loses whatever divine energy they may have originaly been created with, as Lana's ears barely have any point to them at all.

Or I could be talking complete nonsense and be totally wrong.
 
This was said to be a poetic form of esp or telepathy but the power has fallen out of use by LttP time... with select few (Sasa....the sage in the game) having it. The implication is that its not just hte Triforce. Hyrule itself is or the Hylians are filled with magic though they ARE losing it, kinda.

Not so much losing it as "we are not at war, we don't need to practice all this stuff".

Every Hylian has the innate ability for Telepathy, but given that it seems to be restricted to "Magically Strong" it's not something most people use without special training. Sages and the like who are the top tier of Magic Users get a pass on this.

Hyrule has been through Literal Hell in the past. After these wars the people eventually changed over to a more "peaceful" lifestyle and shelved most of their Wondrous Magical Knowledge, leading that knowledge to be lost.

In every game but the Wind Waker and it's sequels Hylians are implied to still possess just as much potential for magic, it's just that no one ever really uses it.

For us in the real world this is "gameplay balancing" as most enemies would not do well against an entire population of Mages.

In Universe it seems to be "Lost Knowledge" not just due to warfare (and Demise blasting a great deal of Human Civilization to ruin back in the day) but because people simply don't have the desire to learn it, mostly due to the fact that their ancestors simply wanted to live in peace and "gave it up" leading subsequent generations to have no one to instruct them.

At least that is how I and several friends I have discussed the situation with see it.

Anyone else have some ideas?
 
One day a popular setting will reverse the Ancient-Magic-Stronger-Than-Modern-Magic trope.

One day...

To be fair, Legend of Zelda doesn't seem to ever say 'Old better than new', they just don't bring up much from the modern side of things. I do agree that I'd like to see a fantasy setting actually treat magical progress properly instead of the usual old>new bullcrap.

Also, one thing I want to see more of, more human civilizations/cultures, we get a hint of it in Twilight Princess with Kakariko and Ordon, maybe the Sheikah too (although way less so than the other two). Oh and in Majora's Mask with Termina (although that was basically an alternate Hyrule).

I'm just getting rather tired of the only human cultures we see in the series being the Hylians and Gerudo.
 
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