Gaming Enigmatic Link

[Plant_Angel]

Who is this Link person anyway?

His image has changed constantly since the beginning of his creation.
In OoT he is an abandoned child in the forest, in the latest Wind Waker he has a sister.
Even in the earlier SNES and NES games and gameboy games, i cant decide wether he is adult or child. In Link to the Past his hair was purple!

Just which of these incarnations is the real Link?

(I personally prefer his Ocarina of Time image myself)

[GinnyLyn]

[color=royal blue]Well, it's been recently "proven" that not all the Links are the SAME Link. I would go into this, but I believe Desbreko would be much better for the job. ;)[/color]

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Okay, first off, as Ginny said, there is more than one Link. Aonuma (I think I spelled that right), the director of Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker, has said in an interview that there are multiple Links. He also said that he and Miyamoto have decided that The Wind Waker takes place about 100 years after Ocarina of Time, which obviously tells you that there's more than one Link.

I won't go into my theories right now, but I will say how many Links I think there are, and what games each one is in. First off, there's Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, which obviously have the same Link. After that, there's the Link in The Wind Waker. Then there's the Link in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening. Next is the Link in the original The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages. (Like I said, I'm not going to go into why I think the games are in that order or anything, because that would take far too long). So, that makes four different Links, plus maybe a fifth for Four Swords. Since there isn't much of a story to that game, it's pretty much impossible to determine where in the timeline it fits in.

So, to answer your question, all of them are real. If you want to know which was the first Link, it would be the one from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, but that doesn't make him the "real" Link. It just means he was the first Legendary Hero, or Hero of Time, or whatever you want to call it.

*steps down from the podium* How'd I do? :p[/color]

[Plant_Angel]

Hey that was great! *cheers from the crowd*

Thanks, it makes a whole lot more sense putting it that way.

Having played these games, I can also understand your logic for the categories you have put them in.
Also, I can no longer judge the new incarnation as good or bad. He is one, of many, Link, thats all there is to it ^_^

[Semjaza]

I guess Aonuma saying that didn't screw up Desbreko's theories too badly heh.

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Well, actually, it did... I'm just now starting to really get some good theories that fit the multiple Links thing. Now that I think about it, with The Wind Waker in the timeline where it is, they do make more sense than before, though.

Before I can really get back up to the level where I was before, I'll need to actually play TWW and pick apart the storyline bit by bit and see how it fits with my current theories. That's why I decided not to really go into my current theories right now, since they may change quite a bit once I know the story of TWW.[/color]