Plus another game was in the works.
Now, YouTube channelDid You Know Gaminghas uncovered more information about the project.
Did You Know Gaming since followed up with Retro Studios employees to glean more information on the game.
This led to Paul Tozour, a programmer at the developer willing to speak on the project.
“At no point was it really anything like Zelda,” said Tozour.
“It was an experiment gone wrong that happened to be set in the Zelda universe.”
Essentially, the gameplay was atypical of the Zelda series and did not live up to expectations.
Simply flicking the Wii Remote was enough to kill them.
Overworld traversal was totally separate, with Sheikh transported into separate battles like in a JRPG.
Tozour described this part of gameplay as “a hot mess”.
Instead, Tozour suggested the team work on something likeShadow of the Colossus.
Unfortunately his pleas fell on deaf ears and Tozour blames Retro’s leadership for the game’s poor quality.
So what did Nintendo think of this game when it was pitched?
“[Nintendo] couldn’t really make heads or tails of it,” says Tozour.
“Their reaction basically boils down to ‘this is seriously what you’re proposing?
…[it was] immediately rejected.
That seems suspiciously likeBreath of the Wild.
The YouTube channel will have further details in a new video soon.
you might watch the video in full below.
