On harder modes enemies can gang up on you really quickly and tear through your health, especially when YOU are on a lower level without much life. What's really dangerous about them is they will gang up on you from behind and break your guard and allow a higher-ranked enemy to combo you to death.

I'd rather deal with that though. Super easy gameplay makes for a boring game for me.

Great news! Sheik, Ruto, and Darunia are all playable!

http://www.gonintendo.com/s/233545-hyrul...s-playable

Darunia, my man!

I'm even more excited now. I imagine two possible weapons for Darunia are a hammer and just his fists. I wonder what Ruto would use... I know I've seen Zora with spears before, that would be a safe bet.

Now they have to go all out and get the rest of the Sages in there. What are we missing... Saria, Nabooru, and that light sage guy who talks through an owl?

Nabooru with options for Gerudo spears, dual scimitars and an Iron Knuckle axe would be baaaaaaallin'.

I hope Darunia's victory pose would be him dancing up a storm because that scene was aways amusing to watch!

Anyway, I wonder how they're going to incorporate Sheik into all this. Is the ninja of ambiguous gender going to be Zelda's alternate form, or are they two separate characters?

I still don't understand how the gender is considered ambiguous, when everyone found out, and knows it was Zelda in disguise. Maybe it was ambiguous until that point in the game, but the wiki still says it's ambiguous.

Because it's not clear if her magic actually changes her gender. Sheik has different (and sharper) eyes, a darker skin tone and a lack of boobs (and a defined chest), so it's hard to say how much change did Zelda go through

It depends where you stand on the "Sex and Gender are Different" front.

If you think they're one in the same, then Sheik is probably a male.

If you think sex and gender are different, then Sheik is a girl, since Zelda only considers the Sheik persona a disguise and not her own identity.

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I'm hoping Ruto and Darunia take influence from Link's mask abilities. Ruto with boomerang fins and electric pulse would be neat, and Darunia rolling around with spikes growing from his body is pure Dynasty Warriors.

Darunia needs to be able to roll up and plow through enemies Majora's Mask style. Except of course being more ridiculous because it's this game.

(07-22-2014, 08:59 AM)TomGuycott Wrote: Darunia, my man!

I'm even more excited now. I imagine two possible weapons for Darunia are a hammer and just his fists.

So much this, especially with the hammer. would be soo cool to see the goron hero weapon in the hands of a goron

Quote:Nabooru with options for Gerudo spears, dual scimitars and an Iron Knuckle axe would be baaaaaaallin'.

This too. And an Iron Knuckle alt outfit. I want to play as a mini boss!

For little while I was worried that our playable Goron would have been Darbus or Gorko since they were from Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword respectively.

I say there's room for more characters from non-Hylian species.

I'm just glad we're getting characters not just from Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword.

you say that like the goron and zora characters from twilight princess and skyward sword are anywhere near as notable as the ones in ocarina of time and majora's mask

It's not Mikau and Darmani, but close enough.