Wii Twilight Princess to be mirrored

With the upcoming release of the Nintendo Wii, and the dual SKU launch title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo has released an interesting bit of information.

At E3 this year Nintendo showed off the new Zelda game, and players seemed to eat it up, but it's original incarnation did not use the internal gyros of the Wii for what everyone assumed it would be used for, namely, sword swinging. After watching throngs of people try to attack with a sword swing Nintendo decided to return to the drawing board and add this functionality to the game.

There was one slight hitch though. The standard player is right handed, whereas our beloved elfin hero is a southpaw. Feeling that this would be too confusing and disorienting for the player Nintendo decided to make him a righty... well, kind of. Seeing as how the whole game was based off of Link's dominant left hand, changing this would incorporate too much work so instead they chose to mirror the whole game.

That's right, you know how you were supposed to take a left out of Hyrule Castle? Well now it's a right. Unless of course you're playing the Game Cube version, which will not be flipped.

This is a pretty crazy idea, though I commend Nintendo for letting the players really feel like Link. If I have a gyro controller I want to swing and attack things, and no I can.

Gamespot take on the new controls

\\drew