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| SonicAdvDX:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on May 25, 2011, 03:18:54 PM ---See what I mean, there is no distinguishable timeline. Sure, LOZ-AOL, OoT-MM, WW-PHG, Minish-FS-FSA go with each other, but it seems there is little or no connection between the whole series, which is why I am thinking each game/set is in their own little universe. --- End quote --- That's exactly how I rectify the timeline in my mind. While some sets of games can be connected all the way through, like Minish-FSA, there are more obscure connections that Zelda timeline researchers have made. Such as this theory: At the end of Ocarina of Time, Zelda sends Link back in time so he can live out his child years that he missed. This re-childed Link is the star of Majora's Mask. Okay, that's fine. Well, what happened to the story from Zelda's point of view? Imagine now the world revolving around Zelda. She just sent Link, Hyrule's only hero, back in time. Uh-oh, she's screwed. Ganondorf is revived and without a green-suited hero to vanquish him, Hyrule falls victim to his power. The Three Goddesses of Hyrule say "No way we can let this happen" and they flood Hyrule in an attempt to stop Ganon. Fast forward a few years and an alternate graphics style, and Windwaker picks up from there, with a new green-garbed hero going underwater to save flooded Hyrule. It's a crazy connection, but it holds up. Honestly, I try not to think about it, so saying that the games take place in universes is fine by me. Some games show no possible way for them to be connected to other games, and so be it. Maybe one game set takes place 1,000,000 years in the future, after civilization and legend has crumbled and been destroyed completely, then re-built all over again. Or maybe they're all alternate realities. Or maybe these are all just folk tales, and each game is every storyteller's different rendition of the story. Actually, I like that. Each game is a legend being re-told by different people. As legends spread, they change. Things are forgotten, things are added in, things are changed, but the core elements are kept. A triforce, an evil wizard, and a green hero. It's just a legend being re-told over and over again. The Legends of Zelda. ;) |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: SonicAdvDX on May 25, 2011, 03:31:53 PM --- --- Quote from: scarmullet on May 25, 2011, 03:18:54 PM ---See what I mean, there is no distinguishable timeline. Sure, LOZ-AOL, OoT-MM, WW-PHG, Minish-FS-FSA go with each other, but it seems there is little or no connection between the whole series, which is why I am thinking each game/set is in their own little universe. --- End quote --- That's exactly how I rectify the timeline in my mind. While some sets of games can be connected all the way through, like Minish-FSA, there are more obscure connections that Zelda timeline researchers have made. Such as this theory: At the end of Ocarina of Time, Zelda sends Link back in time so he can live out his child years that he missed. This re-childed Link is the star of Majora's Mask. Okay, that's fine. Well, what happened to the story from Zelda's point of view? Imagine now the world revolving around Zelda. She just sent Link, Hyrule's only hero, back in time. Uh-oh, she's screwed. Ganondorf is revived and without a green-suited hero to vanquish him, Hyrule falls victim to his power. The Three Goddesses of Hyrule say "No way we can let this happen" and they flood Hyrule in an attempt to stop Ganon. Fast forward a few years and an alternate graphics style, and Windwaker picks up from there, with a new green-garbed hero going underwater to save flooded Hyrule. It's a crazy connection, but it holds up. Honestly, I try not to think about it, so saying that the games take place in universes is fine by me. Some games show no possible way for them to be connected to other games, and so be it. Maybe one game set takes place 1,000,000 years in the future, after civilization and legend has crumbled and been destroyed completely, then re-built all over again. Or maybe they're all alternate realities. Or maybe these are all just folk tales, and each game is every storyteller's different rendition of the story. Actually, I like that. Each game is a legend being re-told by different people. As legends spread, they change. Things are forgotten, things are added in, things are changed, but the core elements are kept. A triforce, an evil wizard, and a green hero. It's just a legend being re-told over and over again. The Legends of Zelda. ;) --- End quote --- UMM ... Yes ... OK ... Confused. 8) |
| scarmullet:
--- Quote from: SonicAdvDX on May 25, 2011, 03:31:53 PM --- --- Quote from: scarmullet on May 25, 2011, 03:18:54 PM ---See what I mean, there is no distinguishable timeline. Sure, LOZ-AOL, OoT-MM, WW-PHG, Minish-FS-FSA go with each other, but it seems there is little or no connection between the whole series, which is why I am thinking each game/set is in their own little universe. --- End quote --- That's exactly how I rectify the timeline in my mind. While some sets of games can be connected all the way through, like Minish-FSA, there are more obscure connections that Zelda timeline researchers have made. Such as this theory: At the end of Ocarina of Time, Zelda sends Link back in time so he can live out his child years that he missed. This re-childed Link is the star of Majora's Mask. Okay, that's fine. Well, what happened to the story from Zelda's point of view? Imagine now the world revolving around Zelda. She just sent Link, Hyrule's only hero, back in time. Uh-oh, she's screwed. Ganondorf is revived and without a green-suited hero to vanquish him, Hyrule falls victim to his power. The Three Goddesses of Hyrule say "No way we can let this happen" and they flood Hyrule in an attempt to stop Ganon. Fast forward a few years and an alternate graphics style, and Windwaker picks up from there, with a new green-garbed hero going underwater to save flooded Hyrule. It's a crazy connection, but it holds up. Honestly, I try not to think about it, so saying that the games take place in universes is fine by me. Some games show no possible way for them to be connected to other games, and so be it. Maybe one game set takes place 1,000,000 years in the future, after civilization and legend has crumbled and been destroyed completely, then re-built all over again. Or maybe they're all alternate realities. Or maybe these are all just folk tales, and each game is every storyteller's different rendition of the story. Actually, I like that. Each game is a legend being re-told by different people. As legends spread, they change. Things are forgotten, things are added in, things are changed, but the core elements are kept. A triforce, an evil wizard, and a green hero. It's just a legend being re-told over and over again. The Legends of Zelda. ;) --- End quote --- |
| juan0tron:
I had to force myself to stop reading your comment, as I'm just playing Ocarina for the first time. I've actually never played Zelda before, but I just got the Zelda Collection on Gamecube. :P |
| SonicAdvDX:
--- Quote from: z0mbiew0lf on May 25, 2011, 04:10:36 PM ---I had to force myself to stop reading your comment, as I'm just playing Ocarina for the first time. I've actually never played Zelda before, but I just got the Zelda Collection on Gamecube. :P --- End quote --- *JAW DROP* What I wouldn't give to re-discover Ocarina for the first time all over again... |
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