15th July 2006, 2:57 PM
ABF/ the Oracle games are reinvented nonexistent worlds inside the Triforce, watch the opening cinemas of the Oracle games, the Triforce pulls a dimensional shift. This was probably just for the fact of making sure that it doesn't interfere with the actual reality of Zelda's legend. However, the story has a major bond to the entire scope of the legend because in these stories you are directly confronted with the goddesses (in mortal form) who need your help in some way. The in-game story of oracles actually calls both the games a test of Link's courage. The Oracle games happen right after MM (a young Link on a young Epona), which happened right after OoT where Link removed Gannondorf from reality, the subsequent stories after that (MM, oracles) are showing what happened to that Link specifically, when gannondorf found a way to influence reality from within the sacred realm where he was sealed away, the Hero of Time no longer existed in reality. It could be assumed that the oracle games are where the hero of time Link was absorbed by the Triforce and removed from reality. Theorhetically, if we mesh several ideas together, we could assume that the oracle games take place because the Goddesses are being destroyed by gannondorf's influence in the sacred realm, hence the window for Gannondorf to destroy Hyrule and the lack of Link in the 1000 years prior story of WW where Hyrule is stopped and Gannondorf needs to kill off Link's bloodline as well as the sages in order to break free of the sacred realm and control both realities.
The WW Link is a completely different person from the Hero of Time obviously, but with TP being called a sequel to WW story-wise, with PH coming to DS that is a direct sequel to WW, you have to wonder if the TP Link is completely new, or is this the original OoT timeline, after MM, after oracles, where an adult Link finds himself living and working on a farm since he found out that he's not kokiri. It's going to be interesting.
But Nintendo firmly believes in the importance of story. But they are more interested in bringing something different, not a Kojima-film-inspired type of story and scope, but a different method of story telling where the story isn't actually on the forefront of the medium.
The WW Link is a completely different person from the Hero of Time obviously, but with TP being called a sequel to WW story-wise, with PH coming to DS that is a direct sequel to WW, you have to wonder if the TP Link is completely new, or is this the original OoT timeline, after MM, after oracles, where an adult Link finds himself living and working on a farm since he found out that he's not kokiri. It's going to be interesting.
But Nintendo firmly believes in the importance of story. But they are more interested in bringing something different, not a Kojima-film-inspired type of story and scope, but a different method of story telling where the story isn't actually on the forefront of the medium.