Nintendo showed new footage of the long-awaited sequel Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 during its E3 live stream on Tuesday afternoon, along with a tentative launch date of 2022.
The company revealed a new teaser for the game, which is set in the same world as its critically acclaimed predecessor. This time, the action will take in the skies above Hyrule as well as on land, with Link able to fly to islands floating far above the Earth.
During the presentation, Nintendo also revealed a new horror-tinged Metroid title, Metroid Dread, the first 2D instalment in the series for 19 years, in which spacefarer Samus Aran is pursued by distressing transforming robot drones. It’s out on 8 October. Nintendo’s other upcoming Metroid game, first-person shooter Metroid Prime 4, was mentioned, but not shown.
There will also be a fresh WarioWare game, Get It Together!, in which players barrel through bizarre microgames about everything from squeezing toothpaste to balancing a towering ice-cream cone to plucking chest hairs from statues. It will be released for the Nintendo Switch on 10 September.
There was also fresh footage of cult supernatural adventure title Fatal Frame: Maiden of Blackwater, showing how the new game in this ghost photography series will take advantage of the Switch’s motion controls. Fans of the classic Game Boy Advance turn-based strategy game Advance Wars were also pleased to see the first two titles in the series are to be remastered and released together as Advance Wars: Reboot Camp this winter.
There was no news, however, on the rumoured Switch Pro console, an expected technical upgrade to the current machine, which the company had been tipped to reveal this year after months of speculation. It could be that Nintendo is waiting until current chip shortages make actually manufacturing and shipping a new console more feasible.
