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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Hands on with The Legend of Zelda spirit tracks at E3 2009

If you wanted to play the hottest games at E3, there was plenty of queuing to be done.

On the Nintendo stand, the only line was for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and despite there being eight DSi running the demo, there was a line until the final hours of Thursday. I hate queuing so that was when I jumped on.

The demo featured three separate elements of the game.

The first was the standard dungeon experience, which as with Phantom Hourglass had you controlling Link with your stylus - his movement and attacks following where you tapped on the screen. This time though he had a phantom buddy to help out.

These big, chunky, walking suits of armour armed with a mighty sword previously featured in Phantom Hourglass's multiplayer modes, but in Spirit Tracks you get to control your own phantom - useful both in terms of his battling skills, as well as dealing with traps and puzzles.

Source: Pocket Gamer here...