Would you like a Metroid game where you are the bad guy?

2005-02-07 06:05:02 pm

Link 1: TMC
Link 2: OoT & MM
Link 3: TWW
Link 4: ALttP & LA
Link 5: LoZ and AoL

I think the Oracle games' Link is probably Link 4, and I have no idea about the FS/A Link(s?). The ones above are all officially stated in manuels or at their web page or something.

Yoshi348

2005-02-07 06:38:47 pm

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Ready and willing.

Quote from Random Zelda Person:

The ones above are all officially stated in manuels or at their web page or something.

NoA's website once managed to wind Link through every single Zelda game. (This was before Wind Waker came out and bitch-slapped that theory to the graveyard.) They used Link tinkering around with time en masse in a different dimension as an excuse to misalign the times and have Link come back in time for LttP. (Which incidentally alleives (I can't get that word into a form a spell checker will recognize (nested parenthesis rock!)) somewhat the "Now wait a minute..." quality of OoT's ending.)

They also had LA taking place IN THE MIDDLE of L2.

So anyway, teh webpage != canon, at least NoA's. I'm thinking the Zelda series' canon is intentionally vauge and unrestrictive, just like the Mario series. The Zelda series just connects to other games plot-wise a lot more often, although always in sort of a passing, distorted way. Which is just like a legend, really.

[quote="Random Zelda Person"]The ones above are all officially stated in manuels or at their web page or something.[/quote]

NoA's website once managed to wind Link through every single Zelda game. (This was before Wind Waker came out and bitch-slapped that theory to the graveyard.) They used Link tinkering around with time [i]en masse[/i] in a different dimension as an excuse to misalign the times and have Link come back in time for LttP. (Which incidentally alleives (I can't get that word into a form a spell checker will recognize (nested parenthesis rock!)) somewhat the "Now wait a minute..." quality of OoT's ending.)

They also had LA taking place IN THE MIDDLE of L2.

So anyway, teh webpage != canon, at least NoA's. I'm thinking the Zelda series' canon is intentionally vauge and unrestrictive, just like the Mario series. The Zelda series just connects to other games plot-wise a lot more often, although always in sort of a passing, distorted way. Which is just like a legend, really.

Random Zelda Person

2005-02-07 06:44:53 pm

Hmm. Well, I know that the manuels for LA and AoL both stated that they were sequels with the same Link as the game before them. And seriously, if you can't infer that MM's Link is the same as OoT's Link, you need help.

Yoshi348

2005-02-07 06:48:23 pm

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Ready and willing.

Well, yeah, I wasn't doubting that. I just wanted to tell the story, pretty much.

Nida

2005-02-07 06:49:50 pm

As far as I'm concerned, you have two systems:

The Holy Scripture of Zelda Version
1. A Link to the Past
2. Link's Awakening
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Adventure of Link

Someone Give Miyamoto His Vitamin R! Version
1. Ocarina of Time
2. The Minish Cap
3. Link's Awakening
4. Majora's Mask
5. Spy Hunter
6. The Legend of Zelda
7. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness
9. Fruit

SABERinBLUE

2005-02-07 07:50:29 pm

Cook of the Sea

Quote from Nida:

As far as I'm concerned, you have two systems:

The Holy Scripture of Zelda Version
1. A Link to the Past
2. Link's Awakening
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Adventure of Link

Someone Give Miyamoto His Vitamin R! Version
1. Ocarina of Time
2. The Minish Cap
3. Link's Awakening
4. Majora's Mask
5. Spy Hunter
6. The Legend of Zelda
7. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness
9. Fruit
10.Star Fox Adventures

There we go.

tomatobob

2005-02-07 09:06:32 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Take that vile excuse for a Zelda or Starfox game (Whatever it's supposed to be) out of my sight!
*Eats Saber*

arkarian

2005-02-07 09:11:34 pm

red chamber dream

Heh, I personally LOVED that game. But maybe that's just me. Probably.

SABERinBLUE

2005-02-07 09:19:23 pm

Cook of the Sea

Quote from tomatobob:

Take that vile excuse for a Zelda or Starfox game (Whatever it's supposed to be) out of my sight!
*Eats Saber*

Bleah. Stuck it in randomly. Words cannot express how much I despise that game. Gorgeous graphics and not a quark's worth of gameplay.

RT-55J

2005-02-07 09:21:43 pm

Armor Guardian

Quote from SABERinBLUE:

Bleah. Stuck it in randomly. Words cannot express how much I despise that game. Gorgeous graphics and not a quark worth of gameplay.

Fixed

GreenMamba

2005-02-07 09:26:20 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

Dude, a quark... that's harsh. And I don't even like the game.

Zeke

2005-02-07 09:31:08 pm

Time bomb set get out fast!

Is gameplay even quantized? If so, are we sure it's made up of quarks? I'll grant that emulator gameplay comes in quarks....

Toozin

2005-02-08 01:23:55 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Well, points for the ATTEMPT to stay on topic.

The new director of the Zelda games (don't recall his name atm) said in an interview that they're going to make an effort to link (hahahahahahhahahhahahahhaa, oh mercy) the plots of all the games together and establish a firm timeline. Of course it can't all happen right away, as they need to make a boatload of in-between games, but I'd like to see it happen eventually.

By the by, he also stated that they're probably going to make Four Swords GBA the first in the series. That was before Minish Cap, so Minish Cap is the FIRST EVER ZELDA! AGAIN!

I'd link that interview, but I have no idea where the heck it was.

SABERinBLUE

2005-02-08 02:31:47 am

Cook of the Sea

Quote from RT-55J:

Quote from SABERinBLUE:

Bleah. Stuck it in randomly. Words cannot express how much I despise that game. Gorgeous graphics and not a quark worth of gameplay.

Fixed

Oh right, how silly of me... Laughing