Spirit Tracks: Multiplayer Footage

I've must have missed this yesterday, there's an update for the official US Spirit Tracks site, which shows the new characters and some footage of the multiplayer mode.

There will be a Tag Mode similar to the one in Phantom Hourglass. The video shows spots for 16 different treasures this time, which is twice the amount of the treasures in Phantom Hourglass, and some old ones like the Zora Crown and the Regal Ring return. I believe, the Dragon Scale and the Wooden Heart mentioned somewhere earlier are just part of those treasures as well. There's no button to switch over to train parts or something, which either means that there won't be something similar to the Ship Parts from Phantom Hourglass or the train parts aren't found in random fashion. And I hope, that you will be able to get all the treasures by yourself without using the Tag Mode, just like in Phantom Hourglass.

The Battle Mode looks really fun, I've made a hasty judgment yesterday, when I heard it's just collecting Force Gems and avoiding Phantoms again. But you don't have to carry the Force Gems to a base or something, you just collect them like rupees and the player with the most Force Gems at the end wins. It's something similar to the Coin Battle in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. And you try to screw the other players over, the Phantoms are more or less just one of many obstacles, which include bomb flowers and trap doors and various items. There will be six stages, Ancient Earth, Frozen Plains, Fire Arena, Icy Plains, Scorched Battlefield, and Shadow Stage, where each of the levels will have special features.

Overall it seems to be really fun and I'm sad about the news, that this will be local only. I probably would have played this much more than the multiplayer mode of Phantom Hourglass. But my hopes are, that just the current test versions only support local multiplayer and that the final game will be playable online.


PS: I haven't read TSA's report yet, just skipped over it a little bit, because I was afraid of spoilers. But the last five paragraphs contain some more info about the multiplayer, if you're interested.