The title will be "the Legend of Link" just to be funny

@darcidious99 This would be the best thing ever

@@darcidious99 unironically would be awesome if it was.

Skibidi Zelda 💀😭

What's next, a Metroid game where we play as Metroid?

I could use more playable Zelda myself, and we could all use a little change.

​@ApapaneNui an all star 🌟 comment

Yeah we can only play as her in six games, it's outrageous!

Wand of gamlon 2?

@@dorian6021 no?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I still need Danny and Arin to finish the game

@@mr.cheesytoad5845 He would've if only he didn't have to leave the room that one time.

The world would genuinely be a little bit worse if that game didn't exist lol ​@@Socioromanticism

Zelda The Wand of Skibidi 😂

if you set your expectations low now, you can't be disappointed later

​@@pizzagroom6221YES YOU CAN 😭

as is almost always the case lmao

Nah, I'm expecting the direct to be pretty bad and they'll still find some way to be disappointing as always

I'm expecting a BotW re-release with 60 fps, and a bonus Zelda side-game. Like the Mario 3D world Switch re-release.

Yeah, and in both BotW and TotK she's been working hard herself, though the Former she was basically imprisoned on her own to keep Ganon temporarily sealed. But imagine if we explored early Hyrule as Zelda in TotK where she was active and doing things. Play as Zelda and let Link do his adventures on his own while we do something else as Zelda.

The Blender of Fate

Banana Ganon threatens to erase all other flavors from the sacred smoothie

Thats very skibidi 😂

Then he laughed...

Plot twist: Arlo also has insider info and is leaking that smoothies will be the central gimmick of the new Zelda game

Playing as Zelda with a magic based attack style, and as Sheik as more physical based

Unfortunately, DidYouKnowGaming did some digging and talked to the people who were making it, and made a video showing that it turns out the Sheik game that leaked forever ago was this bizarre request from higher up to make what was essentially a game of wackamole using Zelda characters utilizing the Wiimote. Super disappointing. If I remember correctly, the developers begged to be able to make a real game with it but they weren't allowed, and then of course it failed when they pitched it to Nintendo.

@@artisanstudios180 Wow, how did I miss this? That's extremely disappointing but the thought is absolutely hilarious. Can't believe it was really a sequel to Link's Crossbow Training all along...

PapaGenos actually said in a stream a few years ago that that’s basically half of the reason why that’s his username (along with being a fan of Geno, of course)!

As someone who grew up in Boston that was my exact thought :)

100%. If the pace, style and difficulty differ too much from the other Zelda games, I don't think any fan of the series would care as much

Hinox sized agree! It's always felt like a crime to me how unexplored Zelda's affinity for magic is. Smash's interpretation with the great fairy magics was genius, and that deserved to have been carried over.

Wowie Zowie!

Are you all talking about Animal Well?

Possibly while sitting on his new office chair

Guys does he like smoothies?

Nah

Would that be Demise

😂😂😂

Can we keep the character model and voice actress though? 😭 Seriously though, we've connected so much with this Zelda, I would be a little devastated if we never got to play *as* her

Yess

You did it's called age of calamity. It's really about time for a new Zelda ​@@lizzyblitz07

true, we’ve had 3 whole games about the story of this iteration of link and zelda. i really love them both but it would be awesome to have a new one, or maybe one of the previous zeldas

I'd be interested to see them draw from the older (nes, snes) designs for Zelda, or even maybe the Twilight Princess sort of design, and make something new. I've never been a huge fan of BotW Zelda

Well, he got the design and details for The Joker’s reveal trailer and appearance for MultiVersus correct in the last couple weeks, and the design was correct over a year in advance. He also was correct about the Mario RPG remake (although Zippo had posted about it shortly around that time), and he was also right about saying that he was confident that Banjo & Kazooie were getting into Smash MONTHS before they were revealed, around the time of the infamous “Grinch Leak.” Plus, with a couple of the things he got wrong, he wholeheartedly admitted to being wrong (although I think at least one thing other than The Joker in MultiVersus was still true, but it was revealed at a later date than thought). He’s also repeatedly explicitly said when theorizing about something happening or how it could happen is, in his own words, “100% pure speculation” and that nothing is confirmed, and that we should just “wait and see how things turn out” to see what happens and if it turns out to be true or not.

To be fair most of the stuff he got wrong were just SPECULATIONS, as he’s a speculation channel, not leaks and he never claimed them to be. Anything that he specifically said an insider told him (Metroid Prime’s shadow drop, Mario Wonder details, the Mario RPG remake, Joker in Multiversus) have all been true thus far.

Is that really on him though? He's a leak reporter/speculator, not an actual leaker himself

Pretty normal for games to start planning, but never make it to full development, so I wouldn't blame a leaker of info for hinting about something in progress only for the devs to drop the project later.

Has he though? Every time someone has claimed this and someone else has asked for a source, it can never be backed up.

Damn I had to google this cause it just didn't feel right. I knew there was Cadence of Hyrule with Cadence being on the cover even but nah, she was unlockable in that game with Link and Zelda being the protags. Then there's Hyrule Warriors which has everyone so it's a cop out to call anyone a "Starring Character" in that game imo. So yeah then you're left with Tingle who has THREE DIFFERENT SPINOFF TITLES?!

Tingle isn't a person he's a fairy

@@connormcclennen5696 depending on the lore, in the second Tingle game he is in fact a regular 35 year old man that gets transported into basically Wizard of Oz but he's Tingle/Dorothy

Tingle is pretty damn iconic. Should get a third game.

@@SchmergDergenHe’s the Nickelback of Zelda

Now I kind of want a Muppet Babies-style Zelda game. I want to see the grumpy baby version of Ganon with an oversized diaper.

I worry that a Zelda-led game would be a Princess Peach showtime kinda deal. Not that there’s anything wrong with Showtime, I just think that when people say “we want a game starring Zelda” they want a real deal Zelda game starring Zelda, but Nintendo feels that real Zelda experiences are reserved for games starring Link. Honestly, I’d settle for a new 2D Zelda starring the Princess. I think that’d be pretty cool

The only ones I can think of are alter egos like Tetra and Sheik

@@SignificantNobody I personally hope that if we got a Zelda game starring Zelda, it would have super difficult puzzle-box dungeons like the og 3d zelda games. Afterall, she represents the Wisdom of the Triforce, so why not have her put her intellect to the test? Sorta like how Oracle of Ages was the harder puzzle game between it and Seasons, while the latter had more difficult fights. Even if we don't get to explore a super open world like BotW or TotK, going back to more og-styled dungeon design for a spin-off would satisfy me.

​@@SignificantNobodythe mario franchise itself is much more targeted towards kids than the zelda franchise. ofc kids can play zelda but you can't put it in front of a 5 year old like you can with mario. so i think the zelda game would be less baby even if it did go in that direction.

Nintendo doesn't even want to acknowledge that those games exist. Lol.

And what kind of stuff would you pretend to share

WaddleDeeKnows II: Electric Boogaloo

This I agree with. From interviews with the team it’s clear that Nintendo just can’t make heads or tails of anything their fanbase wants or why they want it in the first place. I mean- they literally wrote off anybody looking for a return to more linear story progression as just “nostalgic” because the unhindered freedom of Breath and Tears is so clearly a direct upgrade from previous titles that had absolutely zero drawbacks at all whatsoever. Or that, perhaps, people actually come to these games for the overarching lore and story because this fanbase and the creators making content for it have a lot more in common with a franchise like Fallout than Mario, and upending shit for the hell of it because it’s too hard to write a story within the very loose confines of their pre-established setup, wasn’t a great idea💀

@@Piiiiiiiiit Considering they took "people want a Peach game" and turned out something that could have been a Barbie project from the 2000s if you scratched the labels off, I can't say I trust them to understand the appeal of most of their IP to non-kids

Hard agree with both of you. I was actually holding out for playable Zelda sections in TOTK before we got a decent look at the game then inevitability but unsurprisingly disappointed when that didn't turn out. I believe this was their best chance to make her playable as they'd spent the two previous games (counting AOC) developing her character as one that could stand on her own and have the skillset to set out on her own adventure, especially with the scientist angle they went for. But instead she's whisked away to the past to help out Rauru and Sonia, which in essence is cool I just hate how *passive* it is from a player perspective. I love how much she actively contributed to saving the world in both titles its just that we never get to live her doing it and have to see it though cutscenes. Again I do think that Nintendo is somewhat trying to give this iteration of the character more agency and motivations but I would 100% prefer it is she was a present/interactable character in game NOW, and actively helping Link save the kingdom. Which is almost what she does but would work better if we saw it through gameplay though I'll admit I'm not so sure how it could've fit pacing wise. In the end I'm sort of glad we don't have a title focused solely on her just yet as given Nintendo's track record with the past two Peach games... I'd be kinda scared of how they'd handle my girl lmao

@@dj.thanatos As soon as I saw her falling down a hole in the trailer I knew 😜

@@dj.thanatos I've said several times, aside from the non-linearity ruining any sense of plot progression, the biggest flaw of the Memory system of storytelling is it just showed me glimpses of a game I'd rather be playing.

It wasn't a missed opportunity at all. It's a just to appease a vocal minority and it won't improve game sales.

@@SchmergDergen What a weird thing to say

@@tombcruisin that's what I'd say if I tried to make demands of others art and had no real argument either.

@@SchmergDergen Get help man, idk what you want

@@tombcruisin personal attacks are also the direction I'd take with no argument to make. :$

No, because zelda shouldnt play anything like link and just pasting her over link is stupid.

Or we just get a game that will please most people and stick with Link.

​@@Jasonwolf1495 Okay but TotK actually had a whole new gameplay mechanic which could have potentially been Zelda's whole thing. It did also have regular Link stuff but there was definitely more than just regular Link stuff and they could have potentially changed more stuff to differentiate it.

​​@@Jasonwolf1495 I agree, I would love a dynamic where you use magic as Zelda, and more physical attacks as Sheik It would be cool to have a switch playing combat style mechanic

In Tortillas / Wraps it works too. But i agree, lasagna with spinach is great.

*his

@@JoeyPaone Still correct with the use of their for the lack of ambiguity in spite of even knowing they are a normal man, always has been for the English language, even back when Shakespeare plays were written. If you’re infuriated to the point of commenting beyond this for some reason or another, political or no, I’m even more confused considering how pointless that’d be… but hey, more channel promotion in the algorithm for Arlo so by all means if ya do.

@@rezahydra I don’t get into arguments online. I’m only saying “his” since you knew of his channel then you knew that papagenos is a man. Like I said though, I’m not here to argue. But yeah, I hope this interaction does help arlo grow the channel. I always love his input on things in the gaming world. Have a good one:) Edit. I wasn’t furious at all. There are way bigger issues going on to get furious about something someone online said.

@@JoeyPaone Sorry I did get a bit too defensive, and yep ^~^ On a related note, I actually wouldn’t be opposed to them talking about stuff in some random video. Sounds like something they’d both do haha

I really think this would be a great idea for an indie title or something, on the shorter side perhaps. A lack of enemy variety might become an issue wrt player "progression" over a lengthy campaign

Holy cow

Not even gonna lie... I love this idea

@@Vansbaseball Perhaps Nintendo has held off from making a Zelda game with playable Zelda because they don’t want it to be just a regular Zelda game in every way but with Link replaced with Zelda. It would be a bit odd, and perhaps wasted potential, to see Zelda doing all the things Link is doing without any substantial differences from a typical Zelda game. It would be neat, sure, but it might just end up coming off as cheap. “Oh, you just made a regular Zelda game but with Link replaced by Zelda,” some might accuse. However, the type of gameplay I described is something that we couldn’t easily see Link doing, since Link is the solo adventuring type and is never really shown to be much of a leader. Zelda, meanwhile, is actual royalty and the de facto leader of Hyrule post-Calamity, so it would be more opportune for a game to feature gameplay that leans into that fact rather than typical adventure gameplay. It would give us a new angle into the Zelda world that a Link-centric game couldn’t. Not that playing as Zelda in an adventure-focused game couldn’t be great. Perhaps the two genres discussed could be blended.

ooh fun idea!!

Don’t tempt me with a good time 🤣

Are you saying it would be the same style as most Zelda games? Or a tactics style akin to Fire Emblem? I've yet to see an idea for Zelda being playable that actually sounds fun. The whole point of Zelda is Link goes through all trials of the Triforce: Power - Enemy combat Wisdom - Dungeon Puzzles Courage - Actually doing the tasks (Links characteristic) As far as I can tell the only reason people want Zelda to be playable is to play as a girl. Nothing Zelda does Link can't do especially if its a different iteration Link can literally do whatever the developers want him to making Zelda unnecessary for gameplay.

That kind of already exists. It’s called Age of Calamity. You can play as Zelda for many of the missions. It’s an alternative universe though where they do manage to defeat Ganondorf. The gameplay is very linear and has basically no puzzles though so it’s most appealing if you like hack and slash style gameplay

I almost exclusively played as Zelda in that because her moveset is interesting, unique, and very accessible and easy to read for someone who isn't familiar with Warriors games.

Fr her arc in that game was fantastic, i liked seeing her personal growth a lot. I’d even argue it’s the first title in the entire franchise that even warrants her name being on the box, AND IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE IT ON THE BOX IN THE FIRST PLACE💀

​@@PiiiiiiiiitFR 💀

Agree!!

it would sell terribly. the kids are too busy playing call of duty, fifa and fortnite, and most of them have never heard of zelda.

@@33LBIt’s a joke.

​@@33LBNot necessarily. Parents would decide what game the kids play. Besides how else are the kids gonna hear about Zelda?

@@spiralhalo Many parents are not gamers and simply provide their children with the games they ask for. Children are influenced primarily by other children, not parents, so they play the games that are popular at school. Every child I know owns a PS or XBox and their favourite games are invariably Call of Duty, FIFA, and Fortnite.

@@spiralhalo and sorry, add Minecraft to that list too.