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# The tougher new Zelda has PvP, kinda
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/link-between-worlds/
- Published: 2013-11-21T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:13:53.000Z
- Description: We hear that The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, out tomorrow, is pretty difficult. So difficult in fact that Nintendo included player-versus-player. What the crap? Could a punishing, confrontational direction be the way the series is moving? Not just yet. For now, the game allows you to se
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Challenge, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

We hear that *The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds*, out tomorrow, is pretty difficult. So difficult in fact that Nintendo included player-versus-player. What the crap?

[Could a punishing, confrontational direction be the way the series is moving?](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/news/can-monolift-soft-save-zelda-itself/?ref=killscreen.com) Not just yet. For now, the game allows you to send a shadowy bounty hunter into another player’s game to vie for rupees by way of StreetPass. The perpetrating player doesn’t directly control his fate, but builds a computer-controlled automaton that does the dirty work for him. True, there are diminished stakes. You are free to decline a challenge from an invader, which from my understanding is not how invasion works.

There are even shades of *Dark Souls* in here, which goes along with critic [Tevin Thompson’s internet-famous call out](http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/?ref=killscreen.com). “\[*Skyward Sword* is\] the culmination of years of reducing the world to a series of bottlenecks. . . But a world is not one predetermined sequence after another, and a world is not a puzzle with a single solution,” he wrote, longing for the mystery of the *Souls* games. *A Link Between Worlds* takes a stab at answering his request, giving the player the freedom to discover the world in any order they see fit. If this course continues, it may only be a matter of time before we see corpse-raiding, rupee-plundering bandits raiding Hyrule. The question becomes: do we want this?