In a recent interview, Shigeru Miyamoto answered a few questions regarding the upcoming Zelda adventure for Wii, absent from E3 2009 save for a single piece of artwork shown behind closed doors.
At your developer roundtable this week, you showed off a single piece of artwork from the next Wii Zelda game. This piece of art has not yet been released publicly, but we noticed that Link appears to have grown to full adulthood. He looks older than he did in Twilight Princess. Is that a correct assumption?
Shigeru Miyamoto: Well, the story setting for this Zelda is, of course, in a completely different era and Link is older than he was previously. More approaching adulthood. There is one hint. Maybe from the art work you can see that he’s not holding a sword.
Has he lost his Master Sword?
Shigeru Miyamoto: [Laughing] I just wanted to make sure that you understand we are making it. That’s all I’m going to say on that subject.
Link without a sword is like Indiana Jones without a whip. Who knows, maybe Link gave his sword to his son. *gasp*
