According to an Insider Gaming report signed by Tom Henderson, Ubisoft Milan Nintendo It would have given birth to an extremely ambitious project, but unfortunately it never came to fruition: Derivative works of “The Legend of Zelda” Players will play Ganondorfthe series’ historical rival. The game is internally codenamed “Goliath” and is being developed by a team led by Davide Soliani, who is already the author of the “Mario + Rabbids” series.
Henderson claimed the information came from internal sources and was partially confirmed in key passages from a 2024 interview with Multiplayer.it, now managing director, Gian Marco Zanna Night of day 4is an independent studio founded by some key members of Ubisoft Milan (including Soliani himself) and is currently working on the action-adventure game Badger Bradley.
Fang describes the Sarda without explicitly mentioning Project ‘too big’ It unites the entire Milan team and, if approved, “will create a new explosion in the field of video games”. In Soliani’s words, the idea does not want to be limiting: “David doesn’t want to aim at the sun, he wants to aim at the entire universe.” Zanna also clarified The rejection doesn’t come from Ubisoftbut from external partners: According to Insider Gaming, Nintendo itself.
The birth and ending of the spin-off series starring Ganondorf
According to reports, Ubisoft Milan has begun discussing new cooperation with Nintendo following the launch of “Mario + Rabbids: Fire of Hope” in 2022. The team originally proposed a game set in the Zelda universe with an original protagonist, who was then replaced by Ganondorf at Nintendo’s request. The goal is A convincing prototype by the end of 2023 Obtain production license.
The prototype is due to be delivered in November 2023 and was originally scheduled to be Rejected by Nintendowithout providing a clear reason. Sources revealed that from that moment on, Relations between the two companies began to sourAlthough possible alternatives such as Star Fox or a new project set in the Mario world were discussed.
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The cancellation of Goliath will have a significant impact on the Milan team: some developers will be reassigned to other Ubisoft projects, while others will be in some limbo without designated roles. As mentioned at the beginning, Soliani, Cristina Nava and Zanna, the key figures in the project, subsequently left Ubisoft in July 2024 and founded the Day 4 Night studio. Today’s studio is dedicated to bradley badgerpresented at last year’s The Game Awards.