Eiji Aonuma reckons Twilight Princess didn't quite live up to its potential but believes that the next Zelda Wii game will be a marked improvement on the Wii launch game.
"With Twilight, we challenged ourselves to create the most vast and realistic world the series had ever seen," Aonuma told IGN. "But we don't feel we were able to fully complete this objective. With that as a starting point for our improvements to the series in the future, we are of course working on a new game for Wii.
Aonuma wants the game to be as well received as Ocarina Of Time, saying: "For any game to be remembered for a long time, just like Ocarina of Time was, the game must give the strong impression that it has set a new starting point for future sequels to build upon. We are working to further improve upon the experiences found in Twilight Princess so that our future games can realise these innovations."
So the next game will be better than Twilight princess. He'll be in trouble if it isn't, surely.
The problem with that annoyingly large hyrule field was that apart from the occasional boring minion it was practically empty, I much prefered Termina, small but with so many secrets it was practicaliy bursting.
Another major flaw with tp was the rather large lack of sidequests, I'm still exploring the N64 Zelda instalments to this very day, yet tp took me little more than a month to finish, and with no real sidequests to speak of it was traded in, the first zelda I've ever volantarilly gotten rid of.
A month to finish and you're complaining? Unless you played 10-20 minutes a day, I don't really see why that's an issue. I know previous games might have taken longer to complete fully, but bear in mind that games are taking longer to develop now too. The more content people want and the prettier the graphics, the longer the development cycle and the more costly. It's all got to be weighed up in the end.
I personally loved TP. And I've been playing Zelda games since the original on the NES (Zelda 2 is still my fav).
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I know previous games might have taken longer to complete fully, but bear in mind that games are taking longer to develop now too. The more content people want and the prettier the graphics, the longer the development cycle and the more costly. It's all got to be weighed up in the end.
