I tell you what the Big "N" just keeps getting more and more of my money. Lord help me if they don't stop soon!

Last time I checked, I'd rank the Oracle games and the The Minish Cap amongst the console incarnations too. Link's Awakening was fantastic, but I don't even know if I liked it better than the Capcom games.

*joygasm* Shigeru, will you marry me?

I seriously need to get some funds together, SO many games, no money, and not enough time to play them all! How is one man supposed to play Kingdom Hearts II, FFXII, read the news on E3 without having a heart attack of joy, DDR, and practice Guitar Hero all at once!? *ponders a way to grow more arms and an additional brain*

anchors aweigh is how the nautical phrase is correctly spelled.

Holy crap! Aweigh is an actual word!
I'm never doubting Nintendo again.

animetayl - It's the music that's from LttP. When I heard that dark world theme I immediately fell in love with this game. I can't get over how pretty it looks on the DS! I also just came to the realization that because this game is on a handheld and not a console, all of the idiots who made lame "Cel-da" jokes about Wind Waker's "Grafix being teh gays" will be silent and pay no attention to the Cel-Shading.

I must say Now I think Miyamoto's decision of setting Aunoma on the Series was a brilliant one. His game designing abilities now are beginning to show fantastic skill. Many prob. had probs of implementing "innovative" usage along with keeping a unified interface which Aunoma has def. surpassed here. (* Dreams of TS fighting and map traversing GoldenAxe DS*)

Anyways, the Touch screen fighting and the Ship thing is undeniably genious and actually does something I even doubted of the DS, how it's so called innovation can really just blow us on such a scale with seemingly inituitive stuff.

I adore it so far and this actually is doing something MKS, AC: WW and Hunters kind of never went to take strides to implement so where they took a reserved path more-or-less and just to advance gameplay a tad bit.

I am def. looking forward to this.

omg...
i need to clean my pants. thats freakin awesome.

OMFG... this looks awesome. Just awesome.

Josh, what the T stand for in TPH? Twilight?

Oh my God. What a magnificent trailer. Zelda is awesomer than a swimming pool full of cherry Jello and cheerleaders.

Did you notice how they opened? Drawing on the screen they made a big "Z" and hesitated before connecting the final line to make the hourglass. And how ingenius of them to base this game's gimmick around the common X-in-a-square that ends up on just about every DS game where drawing is incorporated. YOU CAN WRITE NOTES ON THE MAP!! And I adore how it blends the best of 3D Zeldas with the best of 2D Zeldas.

To say I'm merely pleased or enthusiastic is to scoff at the swimming pool full of cherry Jello and cheerleaders.

AAAAAAnd i pooped myself

blkstarr, if I'm right and this game has been in development since BEFORE it was announced at GDC 2004 (i.e. since development on Wind Waker was completed) then a 2006 release seems quite possible.

"No way this game makes 2006, but I'm anticipating it either way."

Well, at least they said that this will be released by the end of 2006. Looks like this will be the "Mario Kart DS" of DS this christmas.

I gather that a lot of people will be disappointed that this was Nintendo's big gun at GDC.

I also gather that a lot of people are idiots.

I was beginning to get a bit worried about the existence of the Zelda DS title since we hadn't truly heard anything on it for quite some time, but I suppose that absence meant nothing. (Maybe this gives me a bit more hope for the supposed 2D Metroid DS title as well) I can't wait for impressions of this one at E3, though a switch the bottom screen for gameplay should bear more fruit than simply tossing the boomerang. And for all intents and purposes, I believe that it will.

Also, I'm astounded at how beautifully the Wind Waker style (beautiful in its own right on the GC) translates to the DS screen. It looks great in that video, and on the DS screen, it should look notably better.

No way this game makes 2006, but I'm anticipating it either way. Until then, I'll continue dreaming that this game could approach the quality of our N64 pasts.

I like how Nintendo has given up the top-bottom screenshot format for DS games. Even they can't figure out a decent use for the second screen.

Game looks somewhat interesting, but we need non-blurry/non-shakycam shots.

With Eiji Aonuma directing.

Damn. This is more like pseudo 2D and not like the truly 3D Zeldas of the past.. I wonder if Capcom is behind this one as well.

It'd be pretty cool if this is a direct sequel to Wind Waker. I'd like that.

If they limit it to easy to control sailing battles, I'm down. I THINK that shot before the sailing footage showed you drawing your sailing route on the map. If that is how it works, I'm fine with that.

I luv the DS and I don't even frickin' own one! I need to get my hands on one!

Awesome...DS is golden...and you know why?
It's a GAME system. Doesn't try to be an Ipod or a Dvd Player. GAMES.

I'm impressed with the high level of polish the graphics have. The DS is capable of some pretty good looking games if in the hands of the right developer. No surprise Nintendo has to show others how it's done.

Good news folks. Get the trailer above.

This looks great! Beautiful 3D graphics with a semi-topdown view. Excellent!

What can I say to this? Another sweet 2D game to put on my DS radar. Damn Nintendo, you trickster. Keep pulling those cards from your sleeves. Excellent stuff.

MOMMY

oh happy day!
I always figured if they put a Zelda on the DS it would basically be a port of Four Swords. This is good news!!

Good move. I sorta saw this thing coming when the Minish Cap kept the cell-shaded look (well, as much as the GBA could anyways).