The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	TBA 2009 December 7, 2009 December 11 2009
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS
Media	DS card
Preceded by	The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is a Nintendo DS video game by Nintendo. In the game, Link will travel Hyrule via a Spirit Train and will team up with Princess Zelda throughout most of the game. Spirit Tracks was revealed at GDC 2009 and is a successor to The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Characters 2 Gameplay 3 Development

[edit] Plot

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks takes place 100 years after Phantom Hourglass. The characters that appear in this game are unique, not having appeared in Phantom Hourglass before it. In between the two games, a long-lasting war cast the citizens of Hyrule into turmoil as they waged battle against an evil entity known as the Demon King. A group of spirits managed to overcome this evil and chained him underground. Overtime the citizens of Hyrule used these chains as train tracks as a form of transportation (thus explaining their presence in the game).

Link, a young boy, is a train conductor who goes to Hyrule Castle in order to be deemed the Royal Engineer by Princess Zelda. While this is being done, she warns Link of Chancellor Cole, whom she has grown suspicious of. She subsequently requests that Link assists her in escaping the castle without being caught by one of the guards, which Link does (in order to do this easier, Link dons a tunic that resemble the guards' clothes). Once outside Alfonzo, the master engineer, meets up with the two. Once on their way via a train, the tracks suddenly disappear and the train topples over. Chancellor Cole appears and attacks the three, which results in the unfortunate separation of Princess Zelda's spirit and body. The game skips ahead and Link, who was knocked out, wakes up to find Zelda's spirit. It appears that LInk is the only one who can see Zelda in this form. Together, they plot to take down Cole, who plans to use Zelda's body to revive the Demon King.

[edit] Characters

Link

Link is the protagonist of the game. He is an engineer who goes off on his adventure to stop Chancellor Cole from reviving the Demon King.

Princess Zelda

Early on in the game, Princess Zelda's spirit is removed from her body. Cole plans on using her body to revive the Demon King, which she, in her spirit form, hopes to stop from happening.

[edit] Gameplay

The gameplay will be similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. While not confirmed, it seems as if the game is played via the touch screen as it was in PH. A map is seen on the top screen, along with where the train tracks are. While on the train, Link can shoot cannons from his locomotive. The game includes typical dungeons as well, along with the addition of bosses that span two screens. A Phantom seems to accompany Link along his journey. His role is unknown, though it seems to be the same kind as in Phantom Hourglass, as well as being invincible.. The Phantom can do things that Link can't such as walk through lava. He can also attack enemies and distract them as well as Link goes behind them and attacks their back.

[edit] Development

During E3 2008, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed that the Mario and Zelda teams were hard at work, but didn't reveal anything else. Fans would have to wait until over half a year until the next entry in the series would be revealed during Iwata's keynote address at GDC. Before the keynote started, many speculated as to whether the game would be revealed or not, and many thought it would be for Wii. Though at the end of the conference, after announcing Virtual Console Arcade, a trailer showed off the game, which was welcomed to a great amount of applause. He then confirmed that the game would be released later in 2009.