Topic: Nintendo Wii: Pre E3 The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword Rumours

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The fine folk over at Zelda Informer have uncovered an intriguing batch of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword rumours. The rumours themselves stem from the collective masses over at 4chan so there’s no telling at all whether they are legitimate or not. Some of the rumours clearly sound a little too far fetched but the majority of them could well be on the money. Thankfully With E3 just around the corner we won’t have long to wait until Nintendo divulge just about all the information we can handle. So what’s the verdict?

1. Skyward Sword is complete, but still needs debugging/testing.
2. There will be a demo at E3 with three different aspects of the game explored: Flying combat, overworld + sky exploration, desert dungeon.
3. Skyward Sword girl’s name is “Dorella.”
4. Magician from GDC trailer’s name is “Nephiburoo,” he’ll be a part of a group of evil sorcerers who wish to obtain the Triforce.
5. Ganondorf is in the game briefly as a child. Isn’t too important to the story.
6. Zelda has a new design, similar to an Egyptian princess with brown hair. She’s still recognizable however.
7. Full orchestrated soundtrack by the person responsible for Super Mario Galaxy’s soundtrack. (This one is actually true, but I do wonder if the poster only put this one in to make the rumors more believable.)
8. Two overworlds: Skyloft and Hyrule. Contrast is similar to Heaven and Hell.
9. Ten minute live-action prologue that’ll be posted on the net a couple of months before release. (Zelda Williams Secret Shoot? Zelda is rumored to have brown hair and take on an Egyptian princess aesthetic. It COULD fit.)
10. After you complete the game, the game goes into a storyless, neverending epilogue. Every dungeon in the game gets another dungeon inside of it utilizing everything you’ve obtained in the game with new bosses. New areas on the overworld are unlocked in places you wouldn’t expect. Similar to the original Zelda.
11. Game will feature horse riding and boat riding. Not as expansive as seen in Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, however, but a boat will be required to complete some dungeons.
12. Coming November 1st, 2011.

There was one of these lists at last year's E3 as well. 99.9% of it was crap. I'll believe it when I see it.

4Chan is as reliable as The Onion News Network usually, but there still have been a good number of rumors by
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them that were confirmed later.
I already knew that the mastermind behind Galaxy's music was also making the soundtrack for Skyward Sword, but I didn't know that it would be fully orchestrated. If that turns out to be true, I'll be happier than the IRA after taxes!
Thanks for the post, BlackFira.

no problem good sir

A lot of the rumors sound feasible, not too far-fetched. A few of them may very well turn out to be true. However, the live action prologue would cause an uprising if done poorly. I really doubt that one in particular, as well as the boat+horse thing (though I'd love to see that).

Live action prologue - no way. I could see something like that being made as an ad, but it won't be in game. It would be very out of character for Zelda. Who also can know anything about the names and how they may be translated? For the most part, the rest seems fairly probable. Time will tell if they're true or just educated guesses.

live action video games died like 15 years ago, why would Nintendo bring that back?

November 1st!!! YAY

And I'd like to hear the orchestrated soundtrack...

"4. Magician from GDC trailer’s name is “Nephiburoo,” he’ll be a part of a group of evil sorcerers who wish to obtain the Triforce"

Sounds like Dark interlopers to me!

"5. Ganondorf is in the game briefly as a child. Isn’t too important to the story"

But would be extremely cool!

"Flying combat"

Does this mean that there are sections where Link is riding a flying beast, beating enemies?

"9. Ten minute live-action prologue that’ll be posted on the net a couple of months before release"

Nah, I don't believe it!

"10. After you complete the game, the game goes into a storyless, neverending epilogue. Every dungeon in the game gets another dungeon inside of it utilizing everything you’ve obtained in the game with new bosses. New areas on the overworld are unlocked in places you wouldn’t expect. Similar to the original Zelda"

Could be cool. I don't believe the neverending-part though!

i think a lot of this is going to be true except numbers 9, 10 and 12. as for the "flying combat" who's ready to ride a dragon with a firkin laser beam on his head!?

^ Sounds lame. I want to ride a dragon with TWO frikin' layza beams on its head!

I wonder if they're going to give Link angel wings during flight, or something like that.
It would either be really cool, or really really lame if done wrong.

as long as they give him a toga a bow and he can only fly for five minutes.

I like the flying combat idea, but I hope the remove a lot of the clutter that is visible on-screen. It's just all too much.