Nintendo: Next Zelda will give players more choice on where story goes
The first Legend of Zelda for Wii U (rather first original title) will have some very big changes to the core gameplay. Eiji Aonuma is promising a lot of things, now he’s hinting that the next Zelda game will allow players to choose how to shape the game’s plot.
Aonuma says:
The impact of the player character on the environment that has been, and really, having the player experience the impact, is something that is consistent through all versions of the Zelda games, but I want to continue to have players experience that and even build upon that experience. In traditional Zelda games there is kind of an order in which you do things. You can’t do 3 until you do 1 and 2 for example. But with the new Zelda game, I really want to open the opportunities up for the players to really make an impact on their environment and to give them a little more freedom to choose their path the story takes.
I wouldn’t read too much into this. Maybe Nintendo will have it to where players can choose slightly different outcomes based on their decisions but I wouldn’t expect Mass Effect/InFAMOUS levels of multiple narrative paths.
