Oracle of Seasons - Packaging
The Wind Waker - Packaging

Oh man. Oh man. I can’t believe you fell for it again. You’re insane! You’re preposterous! And most of all, you’re probably wondering what on earth I’ve been doing these past couple of days! Promising super ultra mind-blowing ground-shaking updates and then bait’n’switching in some packaging updates?

They are rather lovely packaging updates. I don’t think I’ve seen good-quality Japanese OoS box art anywhere, ever.

“That isn’t the point, you deceitful, mangled mess of a human being,” I hear you say! Well, I’ve been making a point amidst all the fervour and excitement (and also sneaking out two fairly bland updates). If you’ve been living under a Sony-shaped rock for the past few months, let me tell you what’s going on. In around 16 hours, Nintendo is going to blow the lid off the Wii and Twilight Princess over a two-day worldwide program of events. With launch no more than two months away (and no more than £150 away - keep those fingers crossed and psychic chants… psychic), this period of Megatonian proportions will hopefully reveal:

• The price and release date of the Wii and Twilight Princess
• How the new Wii TP controls work
• More about the Twilight Princess story and setting
• Information on a possible collector’s edition of TP
• The Zelda games available on Virtual Console at launch

With a playable version of Twilight Princess at the three events, some of this information is definitely going to be released. Also, look forward to some non-Zelda surprises from Nintendo, as I’m sure they’ll be announcing a few new games, as well as some new (as in, non-emulated) Virtual Console titles.

Until then, everything you read about the Wii launch is a lie. Stories that start “I have a friend of a friend of a sister’s mother’s step-husband’s dead aunt’s friend, and they work at Nintendo and I’ve heard…” should be ignored. The recent ‘revelations’ on the EGM podcast and Matt over at IGN that the new Zelda is “huge,” well, yeah. I have no doubt that the information came from Nintendo, but no-one outside the company (and I’d wager very few on the inside) know specific, reliable details about the game or the Wii launch. The world will find out over the next two days, and we’ll be covering all the intimate details.