skyjedi2005 said:
Come on guys it is just another spin off DS game like Phantom Hourglass set in the Windwaker Zelda universe, not the next flagship Zelda title that is still in development.

Right, but from what little I have played of The Phantom Hourglass, it was quite good. The Minish Cap was really good too. This new thing looks absurd!

The DS has proven itself to be a pretty impressive little machine, when game makers feel like tapping into that power. I don't know details on all the technical stuff, but the DS version of Mario 64 was very faithful to the original. In my limited knowledge of programming and game making, but in my estimation, that means something along the lines of Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask would be possible on a system like the NDS.

If that is the case, why not shoot for something impressive like that, rather than making crappy "spin offs" like this? This thing isn't the GameBoy anymore, it can pack a lot of power, but we are still getting cheezy GameBoy level games, only with better graphics. My guess would be that it has a lot to do with man power and resources. Some POS like this probably doesn't take too large of a team or time to build.

I wish there were more good games for the DS. I love my DS, but I mostly use it for homebrew and GBA games, very few actual DS games appeal to me. Though GTA: Chinatown Wars that was released a few days ago is quite impressive. Love to see more stuff like that.

As for Spirit Tracks, nothing lost, nothing gained I suppse. I just hope the first Zelda for the Wii doesn't feature Link piloting a spaceship to the moon. That would be really unfortunate.