Newly Discovered Design Documents Reveal Details About Canceled Zelda Game Heroes Of Hyrule

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Newly discovered design documents have revealed some interesting details about a canceled Zelda game for the Nintendo DS, Heroes of Hyrule. This rather unusual entry in the franchise would have been one part adventure roleplaying game and one part tactics game. Heroes of Hyrule was pitched to Nintendo by the developer Retro Studios back in 2004, but the publisher passed on the project, confining the game to the dustbin of video game history.

The news comes from a recent video by the popular YouTube channel called Did You Know Gaming. “Today, we take a look at Retro Studios' canceled Zelda game for the Nintendo DS, Heroes of Hyrule, with some exclusive facts straight from the developers who worked on it,” the description reads. “The game was planned to be a strategy game in a similar vein to Final Fantasy Tactics set in The Legend of Zelda universe.”

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Several fascinating bits of information about the game were discovered by Did You Know Gaming such as the fact that Heroes of Hyrule would not have featured Link as the primary protagonist. The game was apparently going to be cut up into two playable components, two thirds of the game taking place in the past and one third of the game taking place in the present. While the latter would have had a boy named Kori as the player character, the former was going to feature three player characters, namely Dunar the Goron, Seriph the Rito, and Krel the Zora.

“One hundred years ago, three heroes defeated an ancient evil and sealed it away in a magical book,” a design document explains. “For many ages, the people lived in peace and freedom, free of the scourge that had tormented them for so long. Until one day, when the book