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Aonuma Talks Zelda Wii U
In a recent interview with Nintendo Power quoted over at The Official Nintendo Magazine website, Eiji Aonuma had some interesting tidbits to share about plans for the next generation of Zelda games. Specifically, he's especially interested in the options presented by two unique screens playing the game at once.
"I really think [having two screens is] one of the most exciting features of the system," Aonuma told Nintendo Power. "Unlike the Nintendo DS, there's distance between the television and you and your other screen. That really allows for some different interactions, some of which you saw [at E3]. For example, imagine having the contents of Link's satchel available to you on the screen of your controller, and using elements of the pouch to interact with gameplay on the television...in a game for the Wii U, I can definitely see something like the controller itself becoming the different items that Link is using, allowing you to interact with the game world and with the game items in a very different way."
Use the controller as your different items? This has us crossing our fingers that we'll get to use the Wii U controller as a boomerang. We'll throw it really hard and see if it comes back to us. Now that's the future of video games.
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