Next Level Games wished Link in Mario Strikers Charged

According to a developer that labored on Mario Strikers Charged, there was some consideration for having Link in Mario Strikers Charged.

As a Mario recreation, Strikers Charged expectedly caught with characters related to that franchise. However, there was the potential of bringing in that well-known character from The Legend of Zelda.

That tidbit was shared at present by Did You Know Gaming. The outlet spoken with a former Next Level Games staffer who revealed that Link was very a lot into account for the GameCube title.

Did You Know Gaming supplied up the next quote:

“We didn’t expect that we’d get to work on some of the IPs that we did. So even working on Mario Strikers was a big win for us. And then Punch-Out was a big win for us. It wasn’t out of the question that we would actually work on a Zelda game, and I do recall that [Next Level] were kind of throwing around the idea of having Link as a character in [Mario Strikers Charged] early on. It was always kind of on the table, or at least for us it was.”

So why didn’t the group transfer ahead with Link? It finally comes right down to a scarcity of enthusiasm on Nintendo’s half. Despite not explicitly shutting down the concept, the corporate was noncommittal, which is extra of a well mannered manner of claiming no in Japan.