Gaming Zelda @ E3

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[SIZE=1]Acutally, if you look on the the Nintendo media website ([url]www.nintendo.com/media[/url]) and click on the E3 coverage, then look on The Legend of Zelda. It says that they're living on a tiny island. Maybe they went fishing or something...[/SIZE]

[Turkey]

Actually Desbreko, the video I took those pics from shows that they are in the docks of their village. And yeah, the scene is from the beginning, right before she gives Link the telescope.

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Heyyyyy! I just got an idea! Maybe this game is set just before A Link to the Past? If Link actually does travel some 100 years or so into the future while in Termina (during Majora's Mask), then maybe he comes back to Hyrule and lives with his uncle and sister. Of course, they couldn't actually be his uncle and sister, because he's in the future and any family from during Ocarina of Time would be dead... Maybe his "uncle" in A Link to the Past is actually descended from Link's uncle back 100 years ago, and he just never found out about any family until then, in the future. His "uncle" has a daughter (Link's "sister" in this game). He could've just been kind of adopted into the family, since he'd still only be about 10 years old. He grew up around them, so he would've been calling them his uncle and sister because he was adopted.

Okay, that explains the part about Link having a sister, [i]and[/i] about him being able to have an uncle if he was gone for 100 years while in Termina... But, it doesn't explain why Link and his sister are off on some tiny island... I'm guessing myabe a few years have passed, and Link is about 15, 16, and they went off to celebrate his birthday (didn't it say it was set when Link got his tunic for his birthday?).

Okay, that makes another problem, though... Link already has a green tunic in Ocarina of Time, which would be earlier than this game... Hmm...... Okay, I've got an idea... You know how in Ocarina of Time, when Link is young, he just has the tunic on? Well, in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, he has a brown shirt on under the green tunic, and the tunic itself looks different (see attachment). Maybe this is a different tunic than the one he wore in Ocarina of Time? If a few years had passed since he got back from Termina, then his old Kokiri Tunic would be too small and worn out, so he wouldn't have one anymore. His sister gives him a new one, the one you see him wearing in the art for A Link to the Past and other games' art...

Well, it's a long shot, but I've managed to fill in all the known gaps... So it [i]is[/i] possible, at least if there's not any other information about the story that would make this impossible... But as it is, this would explain everything. Like I said, though, it's a long shot, because those are some pretty big gaps and a lot of guessing.[/color]

[Turkey]

I also have a theory about the storylines. I believe that there have been 3 Links:

1- Appeared in the first 2 Zeldas. I belive he is a separate Link than theothers since his hair is brown (even in the concept art).

2-Link from LttP, Oracles, LA, and Zelda GC. If I were to connect the games, I'd say that ZGC was the first. After that, he travelled towards Hyrule and ended up having the Oracles. After that, he decided to stay living in Hyrule with his uncle. Later on he decided to return to his homeland, but he had a little problem in the sea.

3-Link from OOT and MM. I can't say much about him, except that he is in a quest for Navi. The reason I put him separated as a separate Link was because his world looks very different from the other Links'.

Anyway, Miyamoto said in an interview (I think it's in the Pikmin guide) that everyone should have his/her own vision of the storylines.

[Hyper]

actually gannon did appaer in link's awakening.
he was one form of the nightmares.

[Desbreko]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Smoky Joe [/i]
[B]I also have a theory about the storylines. I believe that there have been 3 Links:

1- Appeared in the first 2 Zeldas. I belive he is a separate Link than theothers since his hair is brown (even in the concept art).

2-Link from LttP, Oracles, LA, and Zelda GC. If I were to connect the games, I'd say that ZGC was the first. After that, he travelled towards Hyrule and ended up having the Oracles. After that, he decided to stay living in Hyrule with his uncle. Later on he decided to return to his homeland, but he had a little problem in the sea.

3-Link from OOT and MM. I can't say much about him, except that he is in a quest for Navi. The reason I put him separated as a separate Link was because his world looks very different from the other Links'.

Anyway, Miyamoto said in an interview (I think it's in the Pikmin guide) that everyone should have his/her own vision of the storylines. [/B][/QUOTE]
[color=indigo]I don't get the third part... Hyrule looks different in each Zelda game... The Hyrule in OOT is actually quite similar to the on in A Link to the Past, except things are moved around and a couple things have been added/removed. In the original, though, there's whole big parts missing, such as Kakariko Village. The reason they change Hyrule around in each game is to keep them fresh. If it was the same every time, you'd know where everything was in each new game before you'd even played it.

For the second part, that's really stretching, I think... I've seen a lot of art for all of the games, and his hair color doesn't change [i]that[/i] much. I even have a lot of the art for the games. True, Link's hair in the art for the first two games is a little darker, but not too much.

I agree, though, that everyone having their own idea of the storyline is good. It means they're actually getting into the game, wanting to know more about the series. I highly enjoy coming up with theories to fill in the gaps in the storyline. Anyone that's really into the Zelda games probably does this.

I'm not trying to shoot down your or anyone else's theories, though. I may not agree with them, but like you said, it's good for people to come up with their own theories. I'm trying to explain why I have the theories I do (why they're reasonable, for the most part), and help people learn more about the series itself at the same time. I don't know of anyone that knows as much about the Zelda games' storyline as I do, so I'd like to spread around the knowledge that I have. :)[/color]

[quote][i]Originally posted by HyperShadow[/i]
[b]actually gannon did appaer in link's awakening.
he was one form of the nightmares.[/b][/quote]
[color=indigo]Yes, Ganon did [i]kind of[/i] appear in Link's Awakening... But it wasn't actually Ganon... It was just the nightmare taking on the shape and characteristics of something from Link's memory; this [i]is[/i] a nightmare, after all. If you'll notice, most of the forms are of something that Link had already fought. There's the Giant Gel, the boss of Level 3: Key Cavern; Agahnim, from Zelda: A Link to the Past; Moldorm, the boss of Level 1: Tail Cave; Lanmola, also from A Link to the Past... It was all the same nightmare, just in different forms. It was taking some especially nasty things from Link's memory, and imitating them.

On a side note, you've actually brought to mind another reason why I think Link's Awakening is set after A Link to the Past... What is it? The Ganon form of the nightmare! If the nightmare is taking things from Link's memory, then that means Link has already fought Ganon. And the Ganon that the nightmare imitates is the Ganon from A Link to the Past! If you've fought both Ganon in A Link to the Past and the Ganon form of the nightmare in Link's Awakening, it's very obvious it's imitating the Ganon from A Link to the Past and not one of the other times Link fights Ganon.

thank you for bringing that to mind! I always enjoy building upon my theories, and that just helped me add a little bit. :)[/color]

[Turkey]

I guess I should've been clearer on some parts of my theory, since I seem to have left a few details:

1- Another reason I believe he is a separate Link is because of the way Hyrule looked in the first (a mostly barren land). In the second, the land was recovering from Gannon's attack.

3- Many of the creatures looked very different to their versions in other games. Moblins, anyone?

I'll develop more on my theory later, once I organize it better.

[eleanor]

O.o I can't play the trailer on my Windows media player!! oh well, maybe i'll see it on tv. :3 Anyways, the graphics are awesome, makes me wonder why i ever said they were bad. And it runs very smoothly, needless to say.

But I think the new zelda game is placed right after Link comes out of Termina. Since all of that time jumble in Termina, many years must have passed in Hyrule, and Link meets up with Zelda's descendant or whatever.

So the new game would settle between Majora's Mask and a Link to the past. Is that right? I always get the games mixed up somehow. But Link's sister? How did that come up? Let's say that father died, and likewise to his mother. That brings up the uncle Link was living with. If hundreds of years have passed, wouldn't his uncle be dead? Same with his sister, also! But Link's uncle could be like a foster parent, and the uncle had a daughter.

But the only other thoery i thought of was the seperate link thing. But then that would leave a huge gap between Majora's mask and a link to the past. Maybe new games on gamecube will fill it up if the seperate link theory is true.