Sheikah - The Cancelled Zelda: Ocarina of Time Sequel

This Shiekah game looks awesome. There could be so many cool spin off Zelda games like one of the Fierce Deity, Majora and the Goddess of Time

I wish there wasn’t a 3rd timeline or a bad ending to OoT. The series would work better just having different canons unrelated completely. Like a 2D canon, 3D linear story canon (OoT, MM, WW, TP) and an open world canon (BotW and TotK). Skyward Sword had some great concepts but poor execution. SS should’ve been the story of Hylia and her chosen hero, not the Zelda and Link that ultimately were in that game

I would have bought this game day one

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Interesting ideas, but it definitely doesn't look like Zelda, to me. It does look like Metroid. 'Course, it's just concept art, so it likely would've had the Zelda style. But it's still kinda... Geiger-y?? Lovecraft-y? I dunno, it's more... fluid, and Zelda is more solid.

I think I can see why this was scrapped. It doesn't seem to have held enough of Zelda's spirit. A shame, many people would like another dark Zelda game, one in someone else's perspective, and one filled with satisfying lore. At least some of the ideas seemed to survive, with a clear inheritance of the series' style.

Great video! Awesome collection of project artworks and overall I think that this was a lot of work!!
How unlucky! Why does Nintendo have not the courage to create cool new worlds and franchises!? Success would come without a doubt! This game in particular would be so legendary big for every Zelda fan! But sometimes I think, if it's not cuddly, there's no direct way to Nintendo!
This Idea the Shieka tribe and their Stories could be everything what the Zelda games are just talking about, stranger countries and cultures, but not without keeping a part of it inside the Zelda universe...

I really hope they re-open this project

I see a lot of different influences here—for the time period of the late 2000’s the thickly dark and deep concept art seems fitting. I can see a lot of princess Mononoke in these between the animal spirits and the malice-esque corruption of them and the Deku warriors. Very neat artwork but I don’t think it would have been a strong zelda release for the time, especially as a spin-off that ties into the main lore. Zelda is an IP that HAS to stay kind of samey to appeal to both old and new players and I’m sure it’s tough for Nintendo to have to stay in that lane sometimes. Even BOTW, while revolutionary, had all of the worldly conventions of many other Zelda games and didn’t stray too far into unexplored territory

Kakariko village music is great honestly also great video

I feel like a lot of these awesome ideas were used in a different way within Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword and BOTW

So many cool ideas here... I guess my only hangup is that the color palette makes everything feel so bleak... Of course, I liked the darker visuals of Twilight Princess and the darker tone of Majora's Mask, so maybe I'd just need to see it in action.

I love this concept art! And I can’t help but make comparisons to other games. Like the red tendrils on that one wolf looking eerily similar to the malice we see in TotK’s first trailer, and the cloaked figure with tentacles reminding me of Astor from AoC. Not to mention Fi BEING the master sword and seeing the origins of the master sword itself. I hope an idea like this gets revisited at some point. Having a game dedicated to the Sheikah would be so cool, especially with BotW giving them more of the spotlight. I’d love one set with the Sheikah in like the height of their technology or maybe exploring the Yiga clan or just the Sheikah in general cuz they’re super cool

The art is awful, looks like a lame xbox game. Glad it was canned.

I LOVE more mature styled Zelda games

God this art was so beautiful I would’ve loved to see this game it’s got almost a soulsborne aesthetic it’s great

While the concept is cool, the actual idea for the game sounded terrible. The studio wanted Shadow of The Colossus but ended up making a wack a mole game type game for the Wii where you stand still and smack wolves one by one with Wii motion controls. This is why there's lots of wolves in the concept art. Didyouknowgaming did a good investigation of it.

A lot of the concept art looks so much like the stuff we've been seeing in the Tears of the Kingdom (BotW2) Trailers so I hope they used it well

I'm personally not comfortable with the idea of outsiders playing with the Zelda mythology. in world of forcing long standing lore to fit todays 'real world' or narrative all that would happen is that it'd get Disnified and ruined. I would much prefer Nintendo to hold tight to it and bring fresh blood and creativity in to it to develop and expand it naturally and faithfully.

Looks very Sandman-esque

This game being placed in the Adult Timeline fits very well with the theory that the Master Sword vanished when Zelda sent Link back to the Child Timeline

What makes the Zelda series so great, is partly due to the fact that the games are far in between... it helps prevent franchise fatigue and ensures good quality.

It might not be a hoax, but I doubt, that Nintendo ever really considered a non-Link leading game in the Zelda series.
It's most likely that some independent folks tried to peddle the (admittedly interesting idea) to Nintendo. Who decided not to pick it up.
As for the "disappearance" of the site, that's easily explained by a seize and desist letter. Or that it might have violated an NDA.

kinda looks like they reused a lot of the ideas, the concept reminds me of Ghirahim a lot.

retro's artist(s) are out of this world! i loved every bit of th concept art u unlock in metroid prime. some of th best artwork ive ever seen for sure!

Damn, I would have played this if Retro had made it.

soul eater weapon sheik? this guys concept art was clearly reused for skyward sword in fi and especially demise's swords art.

Oh so that's why I had dreams of running around as sheik in OoT fields as a kid, then got mind fucked by majoras mask.

I would have rather played this game than BotW. BotW is good, it’s just not the LoZ games I love to play. It’s basically a child’s version of Skyrim with LoZ skins, and you have less open world.

I wish this canceled game will now be an actual game

I would have loved to see this game one day come out into the light of market shelves although the it seems that it would be borderline rated-M. It would be really cool if a game like this came to be, it could be between the BoTW2 game and possibly put the timeline back together with the mysterious place of BoTW1.

One thing i wanna do, if Nintendo doesn't... Is make this into a game

Yk the more I think of this game the more ideas come to my head. What if this “Sheik” is the actual male Sheikah that possessed Zelda during her time of hiding (in the manga that retells the game I remember that Zelda and Sheik were two different consciences and Sheik even says goodbye to Zelda) so maybe they were going for something based off of that. Imagine this separate soul of a sheikah man taking another body for a journey in the shadows? Something that isn’t suppose to be known in history. This Sheikah could be tasked to protect/hide the master sword while also deciding to carry on the traditions of his clan to others all over the land. Just barely sprinkling his existence as he goes through this journey alone.

All of the ideas in my head really drive me to become a character artist/concept artist so I can help in a sheikah game that will finally see the light of day.

Man it would have been so badass. It's a neat idea anyways. And would have replaced Skyward Sword, which can only be good

I wouldn't be surprised if the artist got into big trouble after posting this by Retro or even Nintendo hence why their Artstation has been deleted. If Nintendo was indeed apart of that project and was overseeing everything at that time, then it would be very likely that they would not give the okay to showcase discontinued projects (as this is Nintendo). It's still very cool to see don't get me wrong, but I do hope the artist doesn't get their whole career ruined because of this.

Could someone name the music titles in this video?

I wonder... What if someone made this into a fan game?

They did make this game. They just named it dark souls instead 🤣

It's such a shame that most of the artwork was needlessly taken away

I like the idea of a prehistoric sheikh being culturally pivotal for the sheikah (reasonably; their people), rooting zeldas taking of the name in meaning and history. I wouldn't even need the goddesses and triforce involvement.
Imagine an artifact so powerful it can seal enough darkness (during your play through) to even let the goddesses in, in the first place. While precultural peopledom barely pass the bokoblin org. check.

Quality over quantity

Hear me out..
A Bloodborne style Zelda or Hyrule/Hylian game.
Imagine Elden Ring but based around TLOZ lore and environment.
10/10 would recommend.

This, if made, would have been the darkest Zelda game ever. I mean, Majoras mask and twilight princess were dark but not ETHNIC CLENSING dark. That being said, i want to live in the timeline where that game wasn't shelved

This would be such an interesting exploration of the hidden shadows in Zelda. They could literally pick this up at any time.

Fuck a Zelda game, just gimme a stand alone game about this.

Alot of these Gothic Pictures would re-semble Dark World. Almost as if a major portal open and engulfed the entire world. The Shiekahs I believe would not like this.

My idea for a Zelda spin off way way back was playing as a Sheikah warrior and explore and spy on the neighbouring kingdoms of Hyrule. There's an entire world we've never seen before. All the games have taken place in one country. So your role as this Sheikah is to spy on these new lands and assassinate targets that could potentially threaten Hyrule. And since it's a spinoff it can get as dark and grim as much as possible. I'd want it to be very mature.