![a link between worlds hilda and ravio a link between worlds hilda and ravio](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VI5gsY1M75A/UrAZm4XyCfI/AAAAAAAAB98/Q9MU6sYtmWs/s1600/ku-xlarge.png)
There's still some things, which I would like to learn beforehand, mainly if there's any multiplayer, but overall they shouldn't reveal too much this time. I think the current mix of curiosity and mystery is making the game interesting enough. I really hope that Nintendo doesn't give us too much more info. I have mixed feelings about some of the oddities like the female Ganondorf or Princess Hilda, but overall this games looks really promising. But the small boy also reminds me of the Flute Boy from A Link to the Past. Even though this contradicts my theory that Link is actually an old painting coming to life in this game. Maybe this is his little brother and his parents? Would be a new thing. At least its locations gets treated with similar importance in the screenshots: And as I thought, he's actually living in Link's old house.īut it still seems like the bomb shop in the Dark/Other World will have a similar role. This is definitely a way better easter egg than yet another picture of Tingle and it also adds to the mystery of Ravio's character, who seems to be a normal human wearing a mask. That would be cool.īy the way, in the Nintendo Direct video you can actually spot Majora's Mask on the right wall of the shop. I could imagine that later dungeons will have more than one item shown at the entrace and that the final dungeon has statues of all items in front of it. They shown statues of the "Wind Rod" propeller item in front of a new windmill dungeon on the island on Lake Hylia indicating that you need the propeller item there. I guess, that later dungeons will require multiple items at once. So, the more dungeons you complete, the more items you are allowed to carry at the same time. And you can purchase the Hammer only after completing the Tower of Hera. So, for example the Tower of Hera requires the Hammer, as we already know. It might be that you have to finish the according dungeon first. But they said that you can fully purchase the item at one point, which lets you keep it forever. Of course such a system would limit you to one item at first.
![a link between worlds hilda and ravio a link between worlds hilda and ravio](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/34/67/083467c182e7e40296dfa6082a708d37.jpg)
Or is it more like that you can only rent one item at a time? So, if you want to rent the Hammer, but you're already renting the Fire Rod, you have to give back the Fire Rod first. But this doesn't work here, the items can't just go away after 10 minutes. With Ancient Stone Tablets the game had a clock and the renting was time based. I wonder how the renting will work in this case. But since rarely anyone knows the first game, this will hardly get noticed. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? There are many parallels between Ancient Stone Tablets and A Link Between Worlds. And there's a rental shop at Link's house, which lets you rent the Shovel, the Power Glove and a sword upgrade. There are some changes and additions to the overworld including dungeons in new places. In this game they reused the overworld of A Link to the Past to make a new game that takes place some time after A Link to the Past. If you don't know, what I'm talking about, Ancient Stone Tablets was a Japanese exclusive Zelda title that got released for the Broadcast Satellaview expansion for the Super Nintendo. This is another thing that reminds me of Ancient Stone Tablets. Interestingly you can't purchase the items right away, but only rent them. Finally some non-linearity! I was hoping for this for a while now. It finally got confirmed that the whole thing lets you chose the order of dungeons in the game. Where to start? Well, let's start with Ravio's item shop, who only got "unintentionally inspired" by Nabbit. A fat Zora queen, a black haired version of Zelda named Hilda, a new Maple, a female Ganondorf and something that appears to be Link's entire family. I was expecting some clarification on the whole item shop thing, but we got so much more than just that. This always happens, when Nintendo does a new Nintendo Direct.