‘A Link to the Past 2’: Nintendo Reveals North American Release Date For Zelda Sequel ‘A Link Between Worlds’

Nintendo announced at a presentation Wednesday that The Legend of Zelda:A Link Between Worlds, the sequel to the Super Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, will be released in November for the Nintendo 3DS, according to IGN.

The company previously revealed the following trailer for the game at E3 2013 earlier in the week:

Mstars previously reported on the features of the game:

The trailer shows a top-down view of the hero, Link, as he runs around Hyrule solving puzzles and slashing away at bad guys with his trademark sword. But perhaps the most interesting part of the trailer shows a new ability for the green-hatted hero.

In several parts of the trailer, Link can touch a surface (such as a brick wall, the face of a mountain or a moving platform) and transform into what looks like a cave painting of himself, which allows him to move along the surface and reach areas that would otherwise be inaccessible.

Other highlights of the trailer include:

- Link's smashing enemies with a hammer and shooting fire at them from a staff

- The ability to break holes in weak floors and drop through to the floor below

- The classic "break weak walls with bombs" that has been featured in nearly every Zelda game

- Fairies that restore health

- Link hits a switch with an arrow, which cause a treasure chest to appear out of thin air

- Heart pieces

- The ability to leap to another floor of a dungeon through the use of a spring; in the video, Link jumps to the 13^th floor (a nearly unprecedented height in Zelda levels) and lands next to a very large enemy