I was really excited for this game, then I told my friends that a new Zelda game was coming out in which Link is a train conductor and it was called, “Spirit Tracks”. Then I realized how horrible an idea this really is.

It sounds really stupid, but long ago I decided that I would not judge a game based on how stupid the concept behind it is, or that I would at least give the game a chance before I judged it. I have found that game makers can make an amazing game out of a very stupid concept. Case in point, Katamari Damacy. Anyway, making a good game out of a stupid concept is what Nintendo does best. when my friends told me about Pikmin I was very skeptical, but now it is one of my favorite games.

That said, I doubt I buy this game. I am not interested in playing another Phantom Hourglass, and this game looks to be practically identical besides the boat swapped for a train.

Hopefully this doesn’t turn out to be a Zelda Western with Link as a cowboy with a gun…

I am truly sorry, but I would buy that game. It sounds awesome. I love games setup as a Western. The only real problem is how they would make the story fit, but lets be honest, we never played Zelda for the story anyway.

You’re adult Link in this game and you are a servant of the King of Hyrule (The one who turned into the boat in Wind Waker). You’re actually a bastard child of the King and another servant, but the King never told you. The king tells you to do some small tasks and then when he finds you competent, he tells you to bring his daughter Zelda to the top of Death Mountain because his advisers warn of a great flood. You bring Zelda there. During this, you realize that you have a sort of telepathic connection with Zelda and she will serve as your partner (like Navi). On your way back, you notice that it has started to rain hard and that people’s houses are flooding. You help some people get to higher ground and somebody sees how much you’re helping, so he gives tells you to go to the headquarters of a community help organization. You brush it off for the moment and head back to Hyrule castle, but see that everyone there has evacuated already. Nowhere to go, you find your way to the community headquarters and become a member. This next part of the game is about helping people get to higher ground and saving certain people from situations in which they might drown. After you help everyone possible, the water level of Hyrule has gotten fairly high. You find that one last person (possibly someone you know) is trapped in a dungeon, and at the end of it is Gannondorf who is currently doing a sort of spell that keeps Hyrule flooding. He makes short work of you and knocks you out. When you regain consciousness, Gannondorf is gone and Dark Link has the Master Sword at your neck. You quickly jump away and have an epic battle. After you’re finished, you take the Master Sword and you find the thing (an orb) that Gannondorf was casting a spell with. You gingerly touch it and the triforce of courage shows up on your hand. Telepathically, Zelda tells you that this is one of a few orbs of legend that have the power to either destroy or protect Hyrule. The power of the orb drains out of the orb into your hand and you get one of the powers that the Great Fairies gave in Ocarina of time. There are three other orbs and you go and find all of them. This takes about 50% of the whole game to complete. Also, you can get the three orbs in any order, but the water level rises after each dungeon, so the puzzles change depending on which order you complete them. Once you get the power from all of the orbs, Hyrule becomes frozen in time (like it is in Wind Waker) and you go to Gannon’s Castle to banish him. You have a final battle and just as you’re about to get hit by an unblockable spell, the King of Hyrule comes and takes the hit for you. He turns into a large block of wood. You continue the battle and defeat Gannondorf. Once it’s over, you take the block of wood (which is kind of an enchanted block because it still has the soul of the King in it) and you ascend to the current water level because a frozen Hyrule has nothing left to offer. You find yourself floating on the sea on top of the block and you realize that you’re screwed. After floating a while, you wash up on a shore. You decide to carve the block into a boat and that’s the King of Red Lions. The game ends as you sail towards the top of Death Mountain to pick up Zelda after your long adventure.

I Think this is suffering from “Animal Crossing Syndrome”, the sequels offer little to no added content from the last game.

You really have absolutely nothing to judge that claim on. The only item we’ve seen so far (the statue) seems to be a new thing so that doesn’t really help your point. The train could also really change things up depending on how it turns out, but we haven’t seen enough of that to know whether that’s the case or not.