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The legend of zelda: skyward sword
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Its a total afterthought. Do you honestly believe the dev's had a grand story in mind from the beginning? Somebody found a way to tie a few games in together, & those that didn't fit, were thrown into the 'alt' timelines.
No mention of the CD-i based games either.
I don't know why people feel a need to have these games tied together, there is no connection outside of peoples heads
I think you need to give up on the CD-i games
There's is a connection between several games though isnt there? The towns in Zelda 2 connected to the Sages in Ocarina. Hero of Time referenced in Wind Waker. I dont personally need to have the games related but I dont see the harm in people trying to link them.
In Wind Waker doesnt it mention that the Hero of Time disappeared while looking for a friend. I always thought that referenced Majora and young Link looking for Navi.0 -
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I think you need to give up on the CD-i games
There's is a connection between several games though isnt there? The towns in Zelda 2 connected to the Sages in Ocarina. Hero of Time referenced in Wind Waker. I dont personally need to have the games related but I dont see the harm in people trying to link them.
Oh I gave up on them a long time ago, but don't you think it's convenient though that they were just not mentioned while trying to establish a canon.
Sure, there's a common theme running through the games, with a Karkariko village in one game, & another one in another. There's references to a Hero of Time, long gone Warriors etc etc...& it's true that some of them may very well be connected. But there's no grand story arc that connects them all, what is linked to above is just joining the dots. Any dots that didn't fit are just put conveniently into another category & tryed connecting with other misfits.0 -
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I don't know where they're getting that third timeline.
Maybe it's because Adult Link is forced to travel back in time at least once before he's capable of defeating Ganondorf? You have to collect the Lens of Truth and Silver Gauntlets before you can continue with the last two dungeons, and you can only collect them as a child. It's possible to collect both in one trip, so optimally, you need only time-travel once in the entire game (bearing in mind that Link doesn't time-travel whenever he picks up the Master Sword as a child - he's instead put into stasis for seven years in the Chamber of Sages).
So, Link disappears from his original timeline (the one where the items were still in their respective treasure chests as an adult) after Water Temple, and essentially fails, giving Ganondorf free rein over Hyrule until the Sages seal him away in the Dark World before A Link to the Past. Link reappears in a separate timeline (where the items had been collected in his childhood), vanquishes Ganondorf, and then vanishes from this timeline when Zelda returns him to his childhood - this is the Wind Waker branch. Link returns to his childhood in another distinct timeline - and that's the Majora's Mask branch.
There's a nice, consistent reason for the timeline branches - they're each based around Link leaving his current adult timeline to alter the course of his childhood. I'd imagine they had actually planned a lot of this stuff out in advance, there are some old interviews where Eiji Aonuma or somebody confirmed that OoT causes the timeline to bifurcate, it's just that they didn't explicitly state how it does.
Er, anyway... *takes Zelda nerd hat off* 0 -
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Banjo Fella wrote: »*takes Zelda nerd hat off*
I actually have a Zelda Nerd Hat!
Got it off a Gamestop employee who got it from a Nintendo rep, a seldom seen race of people who rarely give out freebies at all, but now I own a green cap resembling Links with the Skyward Sword logo on the front!
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The first hour of this game is magnificent anyway, 'vaseline' graphics and all
Up there with Child of Eden for art design of the year.
Plus the soundtrack - swoon!
Only thing I'm not one hundred percent sold on is the controls. Seem grand for the most part, but my bird kept seeming to stall and dive during the race sequence
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »Only thing I'm not one hundred percent sold on is the controls. Seem grand for the most part, but my bird kept seeming to stall and dive during the race sequence
If the birds starts to stall or flap in place, tilt forward a little and flap the Wiimote. I didn't cop it for a while first time. As for the diving, the bird only dives when you're tilted forward so either tilt less or re-calibrate/re-centre the Wiimote.0 -
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With the wiimote you'll have to 'lob' the remote the throw it - like if you were gonna throw a basketball.
to roll the remote, hold the bomb (B i think) and bring your hand down straight so the wiimote is upside down, and swing like a bowling ball, release B. You can tilt the wiimote as it's upside down to curl it
pretty nifty, eh! definitely requires much more precision than TP's "just shake it" 0 -
Glad to see I'm not the only one who savoured this for Christmas.
. Absolutely loving it to pieces. The bird controls also took me a while to get used to, felt like I was perpetually falling for ages. Now though I just love flying. Still got nothing on sailing tho. . Motion controls took a little getting used, couldn't even kill those damn dekubaba's. Anybody else, wish they cut shut Fi up. I try to avoid dowsing and everything whenever I can, but it really felt like she was being awfully pushy forcing you to search a confined area. I know it's early game yet, but I hope it doesn't remain that way. 0 -
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Finally started playing this after buying it from Gamesnash a few weeks ago.
I'm about 5 hours into it now and it's been great. Absolutely loving it.
Still haven't finished Skyrim or Metroid Prime 3 though as I said I would earlier in the thread (on top of a load of other games) 0 -
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Finally started playing this after buying it from Gamesnash a few weeks ago.
I'm about 5 hours into it now and it's been great. Absolutely loving it.
Still haven't finished Skyrim or Metroid Prime 3 though as I said I would earlier in the thread (on top of a load of other games)
wait until u reach the harp lesson0
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