There is a hub temple, but unlike PH you can just use stairs to past the stages you beat.

Is Zelda dead?

I posted a comment on this trailer on GT, saying that, although i liked it, i found the series was "choochooing" in the wrong direction.

...And i get criticized for using "choo-chooing"
I thought it was funny, but i guess ppl dont want me using onomatopoeias...
There are enemies called chuchus for *navi*s sake, makes me wonder if miyamoto gets hate mail for that

Why the crap do some sites allow opinions to be rated by thumbs up/down?
(Just wanted to vent... sry)

Well you kinda can play Zelda. Her spirit is in the phantom and you can move the phantom

So Zelda's spirit appears to be the spirit possesing the Phantom Suit. And that evil train-looking thing looks disturbingly like Ganon.

Can we hit Zelda over and over now that she's a ghost??

I'm curious if you can possess other things like the knight suit. That would be interesting. It seems to be kind of like the temples in Twilight Princess and Wind Waker where you could command Armor statues.

I wonder if the steampunk kinda style doesn't feel too un-Zelda which is traditionally more medieval in style.

DaVeMan, you are the (DaVe)man. Thanks for the info. I guess I'll give this one a shot if NSMB isn't occupying every single minute of my spare time by then.

Also, Kokiri Boy, that is awesome. I appreciate your onomatopoeia.

I still can't get over Zelda's true identity...
_{I'm hoping everyone knew by now.}

It looks pretty good as long as everything controls smoothly. I'm hoping this one will have more replay value than Phantom Hourglass--I gave up on my second playthrough when I finally just got REALLY annoyed about being in the Temple of the Ocean King for the 7,534th time, playing through the exact same sections over and over until having the items needed to unlock the shortcuts.

Yeah, the Temple of the Ocean King sucked. Unless you can skip all the floors previously beaten and it's not like in Phantom Hourglass where there was only one save point, I'm not against a similar dungeon. Although using the newly acquired items to get through the floors quicker were clever, it still was very, very annoying to go through it over and over and over.

I noticed that the items you get in Spirit Tracks are completely different than what you get in Phantom Hourglass. Hopefully they are different enough that they create completely different types of puzzles to solve. And I do hope that if there is a central hub dungeon that you don't have to redo the floors you have already beaten every time you go back, unless you want to improve your time (assuming it uses the same timed element).

And when I use the snake whip, I'm gonna have to call Link, Indiana Link.

um does this game take place during the 1800's also will link become a UNION soldure in the civil war

@Geekmaster Zelda is set in an alternate world so
A) It's impossible to say "Ah yes this game is most definitely set in the 1800's" unless there's some sort of spacial rip that transports him to our world which I doubt because Nintendo creates original plots and doesn't use obvious cliches
B) There could be a war but it won't be the Cambodian Civil War
C)There were no Union "soldures" in the Cambodian Civil War. That was a war where an alliance of The Communist Party of Kampuchea, The Democratic Republic of Vietnam and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam fought against the Cambodian Government who were aided by The Republic of Vietnam and The United States of America.

Even if they did do an alternate dimension travel which I doubt they still would not have the Cambodian Civil War as to appeal to children with this title they would have to exclude Khmer Rouge's rule of cambodia. Also known as the Cambodian Genocide in which over 2 million Cambodians were killed through political executions, starvations and forced labour.

To cut a long story short: The Cambodian Civil War will not be in Zelda:Spirit Tracks. You'll just have to live with it.

Dude, I hate to say this after you explained this at such length, but I'm pretty sure it was a joke -- and about the American civil war. Why on earth did you assume Cambodian...?

I know it was a joke. My response (Apart from the 1800's point because I wasn't sure whether he was joking about that) was a capitalization on his original joke. I just chose Cambodian because it wasn't the American civil war and opened up more possibilities with my response. If I had said "There is no way the American Civil War will be in Spirit Tracks" then people would think my response was a serious one and that I thought geek-master was being sincere.

O.o

1. I finally understand why it's called "Spirit Tracks" now.

2. The Ocean King temple was actually one of my favorite things about the previous game. I greatly enjoyed having the timer and trying, with each successive visit, to use my notes on the map along with my new items to cut down the required time even further. In fact, I wish that temple had even more floors; I was sad to finally reach its lowest point.

Nice avatar. Don't let Wario throw your prize.

***SPOILER ALERT***

This is how to beat the game. There's a mini-game that you tie Ganon to the track, then you must run him over with the train.