by Edgar - 11.17.05
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Joystiq is reporting that a Japanese game site revealed that Link’s latest adventure would be 100+ hours of gameplay, including the side quest. This is up from the previously reported 60 hours.
Nintendo-Aussie provided us with the translation:
In a recent report from a Japanese game site, Twilight Princess will span over 100 hours of gameplay, which covers the main adventure and side quests. It is also considered that the game is longer than any previous Zelda’s, most notably Orcarina of Time. In other news of Twilight Princess, the newly added game mechanics (that have pushed the release date back), are supposedly the new benchmark for the Zelda series.
Could they add support for the Revolution controller, being that the game will launch close to the Revolution? It seems to be pointing that way.
Submitter: MaCrAmaN











I cannot wait for this game!
Thanks for the update!!!
ZNB - 11.17.05 3:47 pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !\
/me jumps up and down
norebonomis - 11.17.05 3:50 pm
I think my excitement for this game has sort of taken away some of the absolute anger I feel about the terrible US localization of Dragon Quest 8. Well, maybe only just a little bit of it.
Grrrr. Zelda. Yay!!!
Joseph - 11.17.05 4:00 pm
Well one things for sure. E3 will rock next year.
sammyAD - 11.17.05 4:14 pm
Good news, looks like the delay is really worth it ! , and Myamoto said that he want TP to be the best Zelda ever and he’s directly involved with the developpment unlike majora’s mask and WW, I’m confident , Eiji is a talented guy he’s the one behind the puzzles in OOT, and with Myamoto I guess we’ll have a Masterpiece, Now , how about some new screens !!?? c’mon Nintendo give us something
MaCrAmaN - 11.17.05 4:17 pm
yes new screens! something we havn’t seen yet not just a new angle from an old screen shot..
norebonomis - 11.17.05 4:36 pm
i thought it was already indirectly confirmed that it had special revo controls
Ghost - 11.17.05 4:45 pm
I think it would be weird for it to have Rev controls, being that it is a gamecube game. I hope it doesn’t….. save all that stuff for a full fledged Rev Zelda. Regardless I think this will be the most amazing Zelda by far.
Nintengods - 11.17.05 4:54 pm
even if the gamecube is considerd dead i can play Zelda Tp on my Revolution.
100+ hours? didnt shiggy say games were too long and that they got so boring that they wouldnt be completed? oh well im sure this game will keep me entertained from start to finsh! this could well be the GAME OF THE YEAR, BEST GAME EVER, BEST SELLING GAME EVER and Ninty’s finest moment in History!
TK-Linx - 11.17.05 4:55 pm
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
I just hope they don’t butcher the GC controls while trying to make it better for the Rev.
cyberscape2 - 11.17.05 4:59 pm
Ocarina of Time is easily my favorite game ever, so if TP tops that it’s going to be amazing.
strayPhoton - 11.17.05 5:02 pm
This is going to be a great spring
100 hours!!! Now, I’m starting to get excited. I can’t wait to explore the land, fish in the water and slash the grass.
Princess Zelda - 11.17.05 5:09 pm
I KNEW IT! I told EVERYONE that it would be around 100 hours, I JUST KNEW IT!
-Ahh- this game is making me horny with EXCITEMENT!
*runs off to bedroom with some lotion*
Ewwwww-
Sinnen - 11.17.05 5:33 pm
Orcarina of Time was my all-time fave … riding Shamus and jumping for sardines. That was the aquatic bomb, as it were.
polishbroadcast - 11.17.05 5:34 pm
Princess Zelda, shouldn’t you be captured By Gannon and waiting to be rescued By Link !??
MaCrAmaN - 11.17.05 5:38 pm
But the chickens! Have they said anything about the chickens?! I bet they’ve been using the extra development time to better their AI. If you hit them enough, they won’t just attack you. They’ll strategize and plot. They’ll murder you.
Seriously though, it’s way too early to say for sure, but if the confidence and expectations of this game are met then it could quite be the best Nintendo game ever.
hokku - 11.17.05 5:41 pm
I just hope you can still throw pigs into the water.
Actually, it would have been cool if the pigs bred, and you could like, take some pigs with you and migrate them to other islands and mess up the ecosystem. Like, there would be less long grass to cut down or something… it sounds like there’s going to be farming elements to the new zelda, so maybe…
Joseph - 11.17.05 5:57 pm
Joseph, that sounds like my kind of game, farming, ecosystem, fishing, maybe add somewhat of a realtime weather system, where behind the scenes, things like humidity, wind, cloud, temperature, things like that would generate a real living ecosystem
oh well that’s way too advance
CoffeeMan - 11.17.05 6:14 pm
You’re such a Canadian redneck Cman.
That does sound like a good idea. I think the humidity and temp is taking it kinda far, but I definitely like Joseph’s idea of animals and even a simple ecosystem functions. I don’t think there are islands in the game though.
hokku - 11.17.05 6:45 pm
Nice one hokku ha ha ha
MACRAMAN - 11.17.05 6:47 pm
seriously, the weather/time elements on OOT were great , and that’s what i missed in both MM & WW, we know already for sure that there’s already two opposite worlds in TP, I wonder how will weather/time will managed in the twighlight realm ??, anyway TP is shaping up nicely.
MACRAMAN - 11.17.05 6:53 pm
There’s no weather in the twilight Realm, only black holes and twilights
CoffeeMan - 11.17.05 6:55 pm
I never trust when they announce length in hours for any game before it’s out. In my experience, it’s never reliable.
megarust - 11.17.05 7:07 pm
CoffeeMan , Are you Sure ?
MACRAMAN - 11.17.05 7:24 pm
YEAH!!! HAPPY DAYS!!!!
Nintendofreak - 11.17.05 7:47 pm
@Macraman
Midna told me
CoffeeMan - 11.17.05 8:15 pm
100 hours :O crazy!
Rumas - 11.17.05 9:14 pm
At least I’ll be getting my money’s worth… 100 hours. I can live with that.
Henry - 11.17.05 9:18 pm
100 hours? YES.
I was so disappointed with the original delay, but this has me feeling much better. I really think this is going to be the best Zelda yet. And I also really think it will not use the Rev controller.
Pikachelsea - 11.17.05 9:35 pm
CoffeeMan , now I beleive you,
MAcRAmaN - 11.17.05 10:06 pm
I hope you can raise magical monsters and raise them to battle for you, and you can store them in small crystal balls, and when you need them, Link can just toss them on the floor and say, Epona, i choose youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….
hip hop anonymous - 11.17.05 10:17 pm
“But the chickens! Have they said anything about the chickens?! I bet they’ve been using the extra development time to better their AI. If you hit them enough, they won’t just attack you. They’ll strategize and plot. They’ll murder you.” -Hokku
yes! The Cucco Mafia!
awesomeness
Harukio - 11.17.05 10:33 pm
does anybody feel like yes finally i’m go to be suplied the spiritual extacy of a zelda continuation, yet…. i will have to wait how long between games? three years? it makes me want to cry…
norebonomis - 11.17.05 11:34 pm
Oh noes! 100 hours? I’ll never beat it. I have a full time job. DS is great because I play it during commute but 100 hours on a consol system? I’ll just have to make the time.. somehow.
But seriously this is good news for Nintendo gamers. But.. I WANT IT NOW!
Vinnk - 11.17.05 11:58 pm
Kind of off the topic, but this has been bugging me for ever. Why the hell can I not select text on the 4 color rebellion page? Is this a bug in the site or an intentional *feature*? Are you worried people will steal your news? All it does is piss off people who like to highlight text as they read.
someone - 11.18.05 12:14 am
“new game mechanics” doesnt necessarily equate to them trying to convert the controls to the revolution…
puppet ganon - 11.18.05 12:16 am
@ Someone
I can highlight it. What browser are you using?
It works fine in Safari.
duncan - 11.18.05 4:00 am
Someone…you are the first person to bring this to my attention. Im one of those people that highlights as I read, so I wouldnt take that away for this site. Let me know what browser and OS you are using.
Nick - 11.18.05 5:16 am
“Oh noes! 100 hours? I’ll never beat it.”
Did someone implement a time limit to beating videogames and not inform me?!
;)
Pikachelsea - 11.18.05 5:33 am
So… a Japanese website reported it, eh? It was Japanese so it must be true!
No, seriously, where’s the original source? “A Japanese website” just doesn’t cut it.
fushi - 11.18.05 8:09 am
They were saying it’s a hundred hours long, so maybe places like Lake Hylia will need a boat to go across it. That’s be cool. I liked the boating aspect of Wind Waker, except not for that extreme amount of time.
Noel - 11.18.05 8:11 am
delays in Zelda games have always been a good thing in the long run.
Courtney - 11.18.05 1:24 pm
regarding my problems with selecting text. I am running Firebird 1.5 rc2. I investigated a little more and it seems that I can select text but the highlight does not show up. On some parts of the page (such as comments) the highlight works, but on the main news blocks the highlight does not change the colors of the selected text at all making it appear that nothing is selected.
someone - 11.19.05 6:14 am
Zelda:Tp would be the best game ever in History. But the realese date should be in Thanksgiving. I just know that fans like me won’t wait till 2006. the PRICE is $50, and its a lot, so couldn’t they,just, do us a favor and put it for this Nov.
Mariana - 11.19.05 1:59 pm
hm… thats a lot of hours…well, i am trying to imagen how many disks are going to be for this game and if Final Fantasy is going to try to compete with time and what not…we shall see… im also trying to imagen how big the players guide is going to be for this. Ofcourse i dont imagen i will be needing this, but this is going to probably going to be as thick as a dictionary or something lol
David - 11.20.05 8:23 pm
:D
funny - 12.07.05 9:10 am
Ive been checkin the zelda site for so long now, I just want my zelda game damnit lol. I know the longer they take the better it is but im to greedy. I have paid in full already for this game, and i did so i swear about 5 months ago. But if its gonna be 100 hours of game play im all over it, thats an amazing amount of time or a zelda game. That is like final fantasy but hopefully doesnt get monotonous like our last few FF games. O, and about the chickens, there are going to be none, I already killed them all muahaha.
animaoblivion - 12.27.05 3:36 pm
When does the game release?.. please tell me!!:D.. i love zelda and i have completing the first like 10000 and windwaker like 100000000000000000000000000000000 i love zelda and its the best game ever made.
Tobe. - 01.02.06 8:56 am