Some new particulars have emerged on Retro Studios’ cancelled Zelda recreation that will have starred Sheik as the primary character.
Retro Studios is finest recognized for the Metroid Prime sequence nowadays, however do you know that at one cut-off date it was engaged on a Zelda recreation that will have put Sheik within the main function? Did You Know Gaming is aware of, and it has just lately put out a video spoke with one of many programmers that labored on the challenge.
Idea artwork for the sport was launched again in 2020, with the sport supposedly aspiring to have extra of a darker tone that will inform an origin story of the Grasp Sword, set in a timeline the place Hyperlink fails to beat Ganon in Ocarina of Time. On account of that art work being launched, programmer Paul Tozour was keen to speak about it, in addition to an nameless supply, although it did not sound like an amazing recreation.
“I see folks commenting on that idea artwork on the web saying, ‘oh my God. Retro was engaged on a Zelda recreation. That will’ve been so superior,'” stated Tozour. “I perceive that feeling however what they’ve to know is it was not really a Zelda recreation. At no level was it something like Zelda. It was an experiment gone fallacious that occurred to be set within the Zelda universe.”
Gameplay appeared like it could have been surprisingly simplistic, with Tozour describing it as one thing like whack-a-mole, the place Sheik can be up in opposition to a pack of wolves which took turns to assault, and you’ll simply flick the Wii distant to hit them, and that was about it.
Tozour defined that the gameplay itself was the most important challenge, and wasn’t being reviewed by Retro’s different designers that had been engaged on the Prime Trilogy assortment. He did attempt to converse to one among his bosses about it, suggesting to make one thing extra like Shadow of the Colossus, however he wasn’t able that might really change something.
It is unclear if the sport was ever even proven to Nintendo, regardless of the corporate greenlighting the challenge, with Tozour saying the developer “could not actually make heads or tails of it. Their response principally boils all the way down to ‘that is critically what you are proposing? Actually?'”
Tozour stated it was instantly rejected, although does not know if the challenge was even really proven to Nintendo in any respect.
Finally, it is in all probability a superb factor the challenge by no means bought made, although Did You Know Gaming did converse of one other Zelda recreation Retro was engaged on that will have targeted on a Goron, Zora, and a Rito, which will likely be lined in one other video, so perhaps there will likely be one thing to be unhappy about not present.