Retro’s canceled Zelda game starring Sheik Surfaces in Nintendo Gigaleak

In 2020 we shared a story about an ax The Legend of Zelda project by the Metroid Prime team, Retro Studios.

It was supposedly an action / JRPG game that would feature Sheik and would have been a story set in the “bad ending” of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – explore the journey of the last Sheikah as the Dark Gerudo “gave birth” to Ganon.

At the time, former Retro Studios artist Sammy Hall shared the pre-production artwork for this supposedly canceled Wii-era project. Now, in a small update, last year’s gigaleak ended with a new Nintendo document that seemingly reinforces the existence of this project. Here’s the translation, courtesy of the Editor-in-Chief of Source Gaming:

Speaking to IGN last May, Hall explained that he didn’t think Nintendo had seen much of the concept art for the game Sheik Zelda and said the project was canceled the minute the former executives by Retro Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Kynan Pearson are gone. the studio.

You can see more of this concept art of Sheik (as well as a canceled Boo Project) and learn more about Nintendo’s gigaleak in our previous stories:

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