Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma gave a new interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu, in which he revealed a number of new details about the company's upcoming title, Skyward Sword. The details were printed in this week's issue of the magazine, based on an interview taken at E3.

In Skyward Sword, Zelda is a childhood friend of Link—not royalty. "She's not a princess this time," says Aonuma. "[It] is something I'll pretty much have to put forth right now in order to talk about this title. She's a childhood friend, but she goes away in the midst of the game and it's Link's job to search for her."

The game's starting plot unfolds rather differently than the previous Zelda titles. "This game's plot is something like a school drama, you could say," said Aonuma. "The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda."

The game progresses much in the same was as the previous titles, however. "The game starts in Skyloft, this city that's floating in the air, and you'll come back to this town multiple times. Things are always proceeding along in town, and in that respect it's very much like Majora's Mask.

"Like with Majora, there are a lot of new game events involving the townspeople that get intertwined with the main story."

Skyloft is described as being the entire 'world' in Skyward Sword, and the game's main storyline is said to tie in with Ocarina of Time. "This game talks about the birth of the Master Sword, and it touches on why Ganondorf showed up. If you play it, I think you'll get some understanding on that. It connects to Ocarina, so if you play Ocarina of Time 3D and move on to this game, I think you'll catch onto a lot of things."

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