The team will use the open world structure to guide them

Jun 18, 2014 23:15 GMT  ·  By

An entirely new The Legend of Zelda title was announced during last week’s E3 2014 trade show and the development team working on it says that it plans to surprise the dedicated fan base of the game by creating puzzles that are not as they would expect them to be.

Eiji Aonuma, the longtime producer working on the series, says that the open world structure of the experience is one of new game elements that allow his team to experiment and try out interesting new things for the title.

He tells Kotaku that, “We’ve talked a little bit about the puzzle-solving element in Zelda, and how that’s kinda taken a different shape. But I think people have come to just assume that puzzle-solving will exist in a Zelda game, and I kinda wanna change that, maybe turn it on its ear.”

The Legend of Zelda that is coming in 2015 on the Wii U is designed to use the core features of the home consoles in order to basically reboot the entire series and make it interesting to a new generation of players.

He adds, “As a player progresses they’re making logical choices to progress them in the game. And when I hear ‘puzzle solving’ I think of moving blocks so that a door opens or something like that. But I feel like making those logical choices and taking information that you received previously and making decisions based on that can also be a sort of puzzle-solving.”

The Legend of Zelda series has usually been rather traditional and the fact that Aonuma is introducing both an open world element and new types of puzzles at the same time means that Nintendo is trying to attract a wide range of new gamers.

The trailer for the new game that was presented at E3 2014 shows that the Wii U can be used in order to make the game world better looking, and also the kinds of environments that Link will be able to move through.

The Legend of Zelda will probably get a more complex name from Nintendo before it is launched exclusively on the Wii U at some point next year.

The home console has not delivered the sales that the company has been expecting from it, but recently, Mario Kart 8 has given it a solid boost.

Nintendo also believes that the upcoming Super Smash Bros. will make the platform more interesting for gamers.