Indeed, you read correctly. A sequel to Link's Crossbow Training was considered by Eiji Aonuma. Let's Just thank sweet heavenly jesus we'll never see it, because it's been put on hold due to the new Zelda for Wii.

Speaking with GAMES magazine, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma recently revealed plans for a sequel to "Link's Crossbow Training". Unfortunately for fans of that title, the project has been put on hold for the sake of the next main series entry.

"To tell you the truth, I actually wanted to create Link’s Crossbow Training 2," Anouma said in an interview with games™ magazine. "I thought that we should do something more and better in the field of the first person shooter, based on our experience of the first game. For example, I was thinking that maybe we could intensify the multiplayer mode. The original game was really just a solo game but I thought that we could add a true multiplayer mode with multiple users playing together, from remote areas, over the Wi-Fi Connection. The fact of the matter is that a lot of people inside Nintendo insisted that I should work on a new Legend Of Zelda title rather than working on more Crossbow Training." ~ Aonuma

His ideas sound cool, and its nice to see someone want to do online play in a rail shooter. However, I think most of the world would rather see the next game at this point, even if it ends up taking as long as "Diablo 3" to come out.

Relient K via zentendo.com »