Spirit Tracks pre-release discussion

[Greenalink]

http://www.blogcdn.com/nintendo.joystiq.com/media/2007/08/zelda-ph-eu-box-1.jpg
Link and Linebeck are on a ship at the huge sea

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Yep a double post because I'm a cool.

Anyway today you can see some small new footage of Zelda Spirit Tracks

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1KRBGUPF

It was shown today on Channel 4 at 6pm, so I went to Channel 4+1 to record it.


Check out tomorrow for more updates as I am going to try out the game at Southampton.

[Blizzerk]

Greenalink: so I went to channel 4+1


you mean you went to channel 5, right?


/mebeingcanadian

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It's Channel 4 but 1 hour later.
So lets say you missed The Simpsons on Channel 4 at 6pm, you can get a 2nd chance by watching it on Channel 4+1 at 7pm.

[MrSparkle]

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/bkij/index.html

Yeah, the ST Japan website. Not much going on there now, but worht checkout every so often, especially as the date draws near...

[Tompa]

If they'll ever make another DS game that has that style, I'm going to sue Nintendo.

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Unfortunately Spirit Tracks wasn't at the Nintendo House tour today, but I did get to play New Super Mario Bros Wii.

I also got to see some DS games actually connected to a seperate screen, it had a thick cable and by the end it had 2 seperate cables, 1 red and 1 white. They were connected by the middle of the DSi unit (near by the DS card Slot).

Edit:

Official Nintendo Magazine UK is going to answer some questions by posting comments to the blog update.

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=13029

My questions were:

Does Link get dizzy at all for performing too many spin attacks or rolling?

Is there an temple you have to return to once in a while like The Temple of the Ocean King on Phantom Hourglass.

Does the game contains any Guays (Raven birds)?

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[Blizzerk]

Interesting. where did this black cable come from on the DS? also, was this a DS lite or a DSi?

Maybe someday we could construct one

[Greenalink]

It was on some kind of kiosk thingy. The seperate screen is probably one of these "pointless to steal tvs" as I doubt it would beable to connect to a DVD recorder etc. So I didn't really get to see the cables on the back of the seperate screen.

It was connected to a DSi but the setup looks so minimal it can be done on any DS model.

[Blizzerk]

Even more interesting...

The only reason I asked about the DS model was because of the DSi's new security features...

Wether or not this is possible on a in-home basis is yet to come, as I've only (now) heard of/seen 3 types of DS recording styles (other than camera + DS)

[ZFG]

17 leaked ST pics from Gametrailers



Gametrailers TV will show more of ST later tonight at 12:30 EST.

New info from GameTrailers

Zelda *dies* and becomes a spirit and she controls the phantom.  The big tower we've seen in the background it the tower of spirits where you control the phantom (zelda) to collect tablets.  The new trailer should be up on youtube within a few minutes.

Trailer

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Looks like you get a sword from the train conductor according to the 4th screen shot.
On the screen shot that has the new villain uses the same sky background when facing Bellum. The Trailer seems to improve the "grapple" mechanics as you can grab the hooktounge from anywhere now.

Edit:
More screenshots revealed! From ONM:

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=13053

* The new enemy seems to have a cunning behaviour like Vatti (Minish Cap) if you look at one the screenshots that has him wearing 2 hats to cover his pointy ears.
* Zelda is playable too according to one of screenshots.
* There will be other Phantoms other than your ally known for months now.
* Remember the old trailers that the Phantom just goes through the flames, on the latest trailer it can now block the flames for Link to go through but it is scared of rats. Ally Phantom seems to be immume to spikes too.


Edit 2:

www.spirittracks.co.uk (the UK version of the official site should work for .com too).

It reveals the story abit and some of the new characters. The villian is likely Chancellor Cole (get the hint Cole and Coal)_ Most of the gameplay requires teamwork lets hope it's not as bad as the last 2 temples on Wind Waker.

[Blizzerk]

Lays down the story a whole lot more. that Iron phantom you control is actually princess Zelda

This somewhat reminds me of FullMetal Alchemist