KEY INFORMATION The epic story of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker™ continues as Link finds himself lost and alone in unknown seas in a new adventure. Featuring intuitive touch-screen controls and innovative puzzles, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass offers new challenges for fans of the series and an easy-to-grasp introduction for gamers new to The Legend of Zelda. But time grows short, and only the Phantom Hourglass can buy Link the minutes he’ll need to survive.
The stylus makes controlling Link easier than ever. Tap on the screen to make Link move, or sweep the stylus around him to swing the sword. Players can even draw a path for his boomerang and send it flying into hard-to-reach targets.
Players can stash the map on the top screen for quick reference or drop it to the touch screen to make notes, study enemies, or chart a path for their boat to follow while they man the cannons.
Compete with a friend over a local wireless connection: Guide Link through special dungeons to capture the Triforce, or command the forces that oppose him.
Game storyline: Many months have passed since the events of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Link, Tetra and Tetra’s band of pirates have set sail in search of new lands. They come across a patch of ocean covered in a dense fog, in which they discover an abandoned ship. Tetra falls into danger when she explores the ship alone, and Link falls into the ocean when he attempts to rescue her. When he washes up unconscious on the shores of a mysterious island, he is awakened by the sound of a fairy’s voice. With the aid of this fairy, he sets off to find Tetra – and his way back to the seas he once knew.
Characters: Link, Tetra and a host of new characters native to the mysterious lands where Link finds himself trapped.
How to progress through the game:The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is controlled almost entirely by the stylus. Using the touch screen, players direct Link’s movements and attacks: A sweeping motion triggers Link’s spin attack and tapping characters makes Link speak with them. The stylus controls offer a more intuitive means of playing the game and open up new possibilities for puzzle solving.
The game action takes place primarily on the touch screen, with a map on the top screen. However, the player can inspect the map on the touch screen and make notes using the stylus. The notes on these maps are saved for review on the top screen during game play. Players use the map to chart courses for their ships, too. Using the stylus to draw a path through the islands, players set their ships’ courses. Then, as the ships automatically follow the paths drawn, players can control their ships’ cannons to target oncoming enemies.
In dungeons, players can use the touch screen to draw paths for boomerangs, sending them flying around corners or into otherwise unreachable areas.
Special powers/weapons/moves/features: The stylus-driven game play is the most compelling new feature of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Players use the stylus to control Link, chart courses for their ships, mark notes on maps and solve puzzles in both the overworld and dungeons.
A two-player wireless battle mode pits one player, as Link, against another player who controls the enemies pursuing him. Link must collect enough Force Gems before the enemies close in.
With news of the upcoming Nintendo Revolution and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess one might think that would be all Nintendo would be up too for awhile as they polish off those two products. Well, to think that way would pretty much to be wrong. Nintendo has since begun releasing information regarding information about another soon to be upcoming game, a game that is now getting almost, if not as much, hype from fans as Twilight Princess.
That game would be The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. [More after the jump...]
One of the members of Zeldalegends.net was lucky enough to get his hands on a copy of PH, a little prior to the release date. Below is the users review from the site. It will give you little hints of what happens in the first few hours of gameplay as well as some nice info on what we can expect in the game.
As the release date of Phantom Hourglass approaches, we'd like to ask you this: "What would YOU do for Phantom Hourglass?" It's better than a Klondike Bar so let us know what you would do. Be creative and fun! You might just WIN PHANTOM HOURGLASS FROM HYRULE.NET!
Nintendo's Press website has posted new artwork including box art for the GDC 2007 press kit. You can now view the new artwork and box art in the Hyrule gallery by clicking here. Additionally, Nintendo has released a brand new Phantom Hourglass Trailer which is available here in the downloads section.
Phantom Hourglass will release on October 1, 2007 in English (Europe: Oct 19, Australia: Oct 24). We've played the Japanese version and can't wait for the English one!
It was announced today that the latest installment in the legend of Zelda series, Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the DS, will be released in America on the 1st of October.
Also announced today was that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has slipped a week from the 20th August to the 27th August
Hyrule.net brings you exclusive gameplay footage from Phantom Hourglass. So far we have the Title Screen, running around, killing chickens and watching their revenge, the first minidungeon, getting your sword, getting your shield, a shop, and more. We are continuously adding more today. Click the Youtube link below to watch. We stopped embedding them here due to there being so many to embed in one page.
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With Phantom Hourglass being released in Japan on Saturday (kinda crept up on us didn't it?), Famitsu have reviewed the final game and given in 39/40, that means from their four reviewers, only one of them dropped a mark on it.
Also, the latest stock figures have been released and Nintendo's market value, increasing rapidly due to the success of the wii, has almost overtaken that of Sony's. This is a particularly large acheivment because Nintendo's sole business is video games, wheras Sony makes TVs, Video Cameras and so on.
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