14 DAY TRIAL // Despite the solid success of the recently launched The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword the developer working on the series at Nintendo are ready to abandon the current continuity in order to once again reboot the world for the next game to feature Link and Zelda.
One of the leading developers on the franchise seems to be suggesting that some of the twists in the Skyward Sword story actually make the game less suited to a direct sequel.
In an interview with GameInformer Eiji Aonuma, who is the current series producer working on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, stated, “With Wind Waker, the graphics were suited to handheld gaming. Also the game ended with Link embarking on a journey, so it left open the possibility of what comes after the game.”
He added, “With Skyward Sword, positioning it as the first Zelda game means everything else connects to it and comes after it. It becomes a little bit difficult to do something else within that world and certainly much more difficult to do something that comes before it.”
Nintendo has for a long time maintained that The Legend of Zelda is not a continuity driven franchise and that there are more than one version of all the major characters and the storylines.
Shigeru Miyamoto himself has stated that this kind of setup allows the development teams to make the games their own and gives them a chance to make changes that would not be possible for a series which kept a strict history.
At the moment the fan base suspects that Miyamoto and a core team at Nintendo are working on a new Legend of Zelda game that will accompany the official launch of the new Wii U home console, with smaller teams also working on creating remakes of older games for the same platform.