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Some new details have emerged on Retro Studios’<\/strong> cancelled Zelda<\/strong> game that would have starred Sheik as the main character.<\/p>\n

Retro Studios is best known for the Metroid Prime<\/strong> series these days, but did you know that at one point in time it was working on a Zelda game that would have put Sheik in the leading role? Did You Know Gaming knows, and it has recently put out a video spoke with one of the programmers that worked on the project.<\/p>\n

Concept art for the game was released back in 2020<\/a>, with the game supposedly intending to have more of a darker tone that would tell an origin story of the Master Sword, set in a timeline where Link fails to beat Ganon in Ocarina of Time<\/strong>. As a result of that artwork being released, programmer Paul Tozour was willing to talk about it, as well as an anonymous source, though it didn’t sound like a great game.<\/p>\n

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Some new details have emerged on Retro Studios’ cancelled Zelda game that would have starred Sheik as the main character. Retro Studios is best known for the Metroid Prime series these days, but did you know that at one point in time it was working on a Zelda game that would have put Sheik in the leading role? Did You Know Gaming knows, and it has recently put out a video spoke with one of the programmers that worked on the project. Concept art for the game was released back in 2020, with the game supposedly intending to have more of a darker tone that would tell an origin story of the Master Sword, set in a timeline where Link fails to beat Ganon in…<\/p>\n

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