Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma speaks of his desires to develop a sequel to Link's Crossbow Training rather than a new main iteration...

While he's now well into developing the next big Legend of Zelda game for Wii, series director Eiji Aonuma may have taken a very different path.

Aonuma-san recently revealed his intentions to create a fleshed-out sequel to Wii Zapper pack-in Link's Crossbow Training rather than work on a brand new main Zelda game. His plans for a sequel are interesting, to say the least.

"To tell you the truth, I actually wanted to create Link's Crossbow Training 2. I thought that we should do something more and better in the field of the first person shooter, based on our experience of the first game. For example, I was thinking that maybe we could intensify the multiplayer mode. The original game was really just a solo game but I thought that we could add a true multiplayer mode with multiple users playing together, from remote areas, over the Wi-Fi Connection. I thought that we could add a true multiplayer mode. The fact of the matter is that a lot of people inside Nintendo insisted that I should work on a new Legend Of Zelda title rather than working on more Crossbow Training."

The original was a fun, if short-lived experience. Could online co-op keep us coming back for more?

The idea of an online Zelda FPS game certainly does seem like a radical notion. While we'll remain highly curious of where he could have taken the idea, we'd still prefer to know that Aonuma-san is putting his all into the next big Zelda title.

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