26th May 2004, 5:19 PM
This particular link, of which another thread appears to have been made, has my interest. http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/2....59084.htm
Their style, which they have stated before, has always been think of the gameplay idea and work the story into it later. To be honest that's about how all the game ideas I've come up with (that lend themselves to stories) tend to go as well.
So anyway, it would seem the makers place Four Swords at the very start. Wow. Just wow, for nerds like I am. Well then, a Link that Nintendo didn't even MAKE is now the ORIGINAL Link in the storyline! Considering how fun Four Swords is, when you can drag enough people together who don't hate each other, I don't see a problem here. It would seem that Vaati was the ORIGINAL great enemy of the world in Zelda, or before Ganon at least. Anyway, this all seems before the triforce, and rightfully so if you ask me. The very first person to find the thing after all was Ganondorf according to the rest of the game's storylines. The Four Sword would be the legendary blade of evil's bane before the Master Sword was forged. The question arises, what's up with the new Four Swords Adventures taking place in LTTP's world? I'm sure the game will explain it while creating all sorts of new inconsistencies :D. Anyway, seems there's a legend long before OOT to add there. A side story that doesn't seem to affect the main story in any way, but it's part of it. So then, if this quest turns out to be in the actual Zelda universe, I suppose that means they have some idea of where they want to place the Oracle series eh? I wonder when that took place... I was thinking maybe right after Majora's Mask, that Link searching for new adventure, but the Triforce of Power is still with Ganondorf (who is now in a body horribly warped into a pig demon thing I guess), so that can't be it... Oh well, I'll just put it aside for now until there's some more information to figure it out.
It also seems that Four Swords Adventures "went wrong" according to Japan. Well, isn't that reassuring?
On a side note, I've read a lot of "the making of" interviews with someone who ISN'T a victim of bad translation that confuses the American audience, Roberta Williams, another gaming pioneer who made the whole King's Quest series (and then retired after Sierra, the company THEY MADE, took the control of game design away from them, and then died from the inside). It would seem, and from other interviews this doesn't just apply to her, that with game where there's an actual story going on, they actually end up getting attached enough to the characters that they end up coming up with everything from their weight to their favorite color. This interview suggests Miyamoto has all this sort of information in his own head that he just thought would be stupid to put in the games. I know if I spent enough time developing a character, I'd end up coming up with lots of inane and boring details at a certain point, but that's because I'm a huge nerd... Oh wait, these are video game designers...
This new guy didn't like Zelda 1?! Blasphemer! *throws holy acid in face* Oh wait, he gets it now? *wipes acid off, but face sticks to washcloth ala looney toons, then puts rag back on and returns face to owner, but upside down, gets chased through doors in a hallway by guy who is now weilding a samurai sword*
Well anyway, I love the phrase "upending the tea table" because it makes me think of that one episode of Family Guy where Stewy is disgusted at the food his mom makes him and suddenly throws it all to the floor and shouts "MAKE IT AGAIN!". It's funnier to watch that of course, in my mind.
This fellow seems to be actively trying to fix the little errrors, one game at a time, whenever it's appropriate to do so. Goody. Anyway, I shall look forward to the new GCN Zelda, not the Four Swords Adventure one mind you (thought I want that too), you know, the other one, the one that's totally awesome.
Shadow Link seems to be the "first evil" for this story. That's cool... that's cool, but I wonder if Shadow Link is created by Vaati, or is another evil that is battling with Vaati. The latter would be better I think, because Zelda hasn't really done that yet, but the first has been done a couple times. Is hypothesizing and then finding out you are right the same as revealing spoilers to others? Hmm... we'll see... Back on topic, Shadow Link is one of my favorite villians (if he's a villian here). However, OOT didn't really do him justice. He was just a miniboss in a standard dungeon. Yes, a cool miniboss, but I think he should have been in Ganon's Tower, or better yet, a hidden boss in a hidden dungeon that you find and fight just for the challenge of it. Maybe Miyamoto had originally intended that, but time grew short and they had to put that room with him somewhere, so they picked the Water Palace. Eh, he's still cool and all.
Heh, he can't even remember what unlockable secrets they put in the game! I imagine that would be the case every now and then with the hectic titles :D.
It also seems from this interview that yes, the new Zelda game will be using the same Link as Wind Waker... at least it's a VERY strong hint to that.
Anyway, it's all cool.
Their style, which they have stated before, has always been think of the gameplay idea and work the story into it later. To be honest that's about how all the game ideas I've come up with (that lend themselves to stories) tend to go as well.
So anyway, it would seem the makers place Four Swords at the very start. Wow. Just wow, for nerds like I am. Well then, a Link that Nintendo didn't even MAKE is now the ORIGINAL Link in the storyline! Considering how fun Four Swords is, when you can drag enough people together who don't hate each other, I don't see a problem here. It would seem that Vaati was the ORIGINAL great enemy of the world in Zelda, or before Ganon at least. Anyway, this all seems before the triforce, and rightfully so if you ask me. The very first person to find the thing after all was Ganondorf according to the rest of the game's storylines. The Four Sword would be the legendary blade of evil's bane before the Master Sword was forged. The question arises, what's up with the new Four Swords Adventures taking place in LTTP's world? I'm sure the game will explain it while creating all sorts of new inconsistencies :D. Anyway, seems there's a legend long before OOT to add there. A side story that doesn't seem to affect the main story in any way, but it's part of it. So then, if this quest turns out to be in the actual Zelda universe, I suppose that means they have some idea of where they want to place the Oracle series eh? I wonder when that took place... I was thinking maybe right after Majora's Mask, that Link searching for new adventure, but the Triforce of Power is still with Ganondorf (who is now in a body horribly warped into a pig demon thing I guess), so that can't be it... Oh well, I'll just put it aside for now until there's some more information to figure it out.
It also seems that Four Swords Adventures "went wrong" according to Japan. Well, isn't that reassuring?
On a side note, I've read a lot of "the making of" interviews with someone who ISN'T a victim of bad translation that confuses the American audience, Roberta Williams, another gaming pioneer who made the whole King's Quest series (and then retired after Sierra, the company THEY MADE, took the control of game design away from them, and then died from the inside). It would seem, and from other interviews this doesn't just apply to her, that with game where there's an actual story going on, they actually end up getting attached enough to the characters that they end up coming up with everything from their weight to their favorite color. This interview suggests Miyamoto has all this sort of information in his own head that he just thought would be stupid to put in the games. I know if I spent enough time developing a character, I'd end up coming up with lots of inane and boring details at a certain point, but that's because I'm a huge nerd... Oh wait, these are video game designers...
This new guy didn't like Zelda 1?! Blasphemer! *throws holy acid in face* Oh wait, he gets it now? *wipes acid off, but face sticks to washcloth ala looney toons, then puts rag back on and returns face to owner, but upside down, gets chased through doors in a hallway by guy who is now weilding a samurai sword*
Well anyway, I love the phrase "upending the tea table" because it makes me think of that one episode of Family Guy where Stewy is disgusted at the food his mom makes him and suddenly throws it all to the floor and shouts "MAKE IT AGAIN!". It's funnier to watch that of course, in my mind.
This fellow seems to be actively trying to fix the little errrors, one game at a time, whenever it's appropriate to do so. Goody. Anyway, I shall look forward to the new GCN Zelda, not the Four Swords Adventure one mind you (thought I want that too), you know, the other one, the one that's totally awesome.
Shadow Link seems to be the "first evil" for this story. That's cool... that's cool, but I wonder if Shadow Link is created by Vaati, or is another evil that is battling with Vaati. The latter would be better I think, because Zelda hasn't really done that yet, but the first has been done a couple times. Is hypothesizing and then finding out you are right the same as revealing spoilers to others? Hmm... we'll see... Back on topic, Shadow Link is one of my favorite villians (if he's a villian here). However, OOT didn't really do him justice. He was just a miniboss in a standard dungeon. Yes, a cool miniboss, but I think he should have been in Ganon's Tower, or better yet, a hidden boss in a hidden dungeon that you find and fight just for the challenge of it. Maybe Miyamoto had originally intended that, but time grew short and they had to put that room with him somewhere, so they picked the Water Palace. Eh, he's still cool and all.
Heh, he can't even remember what unlockable secrets they put in the game! I imagine that would be the case every now and then with the hectic titles :D.
It also seems from this interview that yes, the new Zelda game will be using the same Link as Wind Waker... at least it's a VERY strong hint to that.
Anyway, it's all cool.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)