Tuesday, June 24, 2008

6/24/2008 - Link Favors the Kirby Series

Nintendo really should re-evaluate their position and make Link talk in the next Zelda game. It was always understood that the technology wasn't there for speech even in the Nintendo 64 days, but there's no such excuse now. If Metal Gear Solid 4 can have hours of fully animated and voiced cutscenes, a new Legend of Zelda game should be able to raise its level of presentation to near cinematic level. It may be some kind of philosophical thing for Nintendo for Link never to speak, but I think it was the same kind of position they had with Mario for a long time, and he speaks almost too much now. If Nintendo doesn't have a speaking Link soon, they'll continue to be the butt of jokes like this one:

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