May 12th, 2011
By The Mighty Midget

Genre: Action / RPG
System: Game Boy Advance
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: 2011

Last year brought forth The Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords, a remake of Link to the Past for the SNES with a new multiplayer Zelda, The Four Swords. But there lies the problem; it was a remake. The Four Swords was a great game, but now with the announcement for a remake of the original Zelda for GBA the chance for a new solo-player Zelda game seemed slim. But E3 revealed a band new GBA Zelda game that looks awesome.

The company Capcom has developed The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap and is displaying it at E3. The story involves Link (as always) who is now accompanied by a hat with a talking bird's head attached. The hat will give warnings and advice, and has the power to shrink Link down to minuscule size. In this smaller world, all of the landscape will be larger and you will meet the Minish people, who will probably need Link to help them in some way. Capcom has also introduced some new items to the Zelda world, like a mushroom used to cross ravines and a bottle to blow air to clear pathways. The game will also focus less on dungeons and more on collecting kinstones. When the pieces of a kinstone are put together, something will happen. Either a treasure chest appearing, or an event happening, but it will usually have some importance to moving along the story.

Capcom and Nintendo have been vague on the details of Link's overall mission, but we can assume that it will probably involve Zelda getting kidnapped…again. There will also be some more Four Sword game play. You can see a trailer from E3 for the Minish Cap at www.nintendo.com.