XCX does not have drop in online multiplayer in normal gameplay. It has fixed instanced missions for four players to engage in, but it's completely separate from the main campaign and does not let you freely explore the world together. You go through an online menu system, sit in a virtual lobby and are teleported into a limited playable zone to fight some monsters and then are teleported back to base. That's not a useful model for real co-op in Zelda at all.
I think the game will be Light World / Dark World themed and it's single-player co-op so whenever you're Zelda you're in the Dark World and Link is in the Light World.
Like I said in another topic...I don't think it's that much of an issue. At best, she still speaks in pertinent cutscenes, and perhaps makes offhand commentary while she and Link travel together.
Guess what the last mainline Zelda game to not push hardware was.
One cool idea would be to build on the craft system for ancient weapons, where you use fallen enemy parts and weapons to build and repair new weapons based on Zelda's research.
I think the balance is somewhere in the middle. Though what Link and Zelda's roles in the game are and how the game is structured will be a huge part in dictating how each character plays. Whether they are companions, on separate paths or just as Zelda alone. That structure will inform a lot of the gameplay and how the two will function in relation to one another.
Certainly! We briefly touched on this in the second part of the original post;
I really liked Spirit Tracks' interpretation of Zelda. I went through all my DS games this weekend to delete their save files to prepare them for sale, and Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks were two games I had fond memories of. I'm a little sad to let them go, but I know they'll end up with someone else who will perhaps get to build some of their own fond memories with them.
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: SPIRIT TRACKS
Though she is not the main playable protagonist in the game, Spirit Tracks' Zelda is at several points controlled by the player, arguably making the game the first mainline entry in the series that features a playable Zelda. A descendant of Wind Waker's Tetra, the player guides Zelda while she and Link sneak out of the castle during the opening of the game. After being separated from her body by the game's evildoer Chancellor Cole, she acts as a spirit companion to Link throughout the adventure. In the game's recurring dungeon, the Tower of Spirits, Zelda can possess heavily armored sentries called Phantoms, allowing her to assist Link in various ways. While possessing a Phantom, Zelda is invulnerable to fire, can cross traps and terrain that Link cannot, can distract or gather hints from other Phantoms, and more. She also gains access to any unique powers the particular possessed Phantom may have. In spite of this powerful ability, Spirit Tracks' Zelda has one critical weakness; a fear of rats, which she maintains even when possessing the fearsome and heavily armored sentries.
While by no means a traditional presentation of Zelda or her powers, her ability to possess Phantoms would carry over to her next appearance in the Smash Bros. series.
I think this
Is a call back to this cut concept from BotW1
And could be a narrative excuse for Link to have magic, something Zelda already has access to. So if they are both playable Link could get new abilities through his "curse", while Zelda can do them with her own magic.
