12th January 2005, 4:30 PM
well that's how good developers work. A video game is always based first on game mechanics. Basing a story and then making game mechanics around that story turn in to most of the trash we get from film to video game conversions.
But I really dont believe the story is all that hard to follow. You guys keep saying that the idea of games taking place in a different realm is too complicated or hard to understand but there have been quite a few Zelda games that state up-front "This adventure takes place in a different realm."
As for the Oracle games, at the very start of the game, you are traveling through Hyrule on Epona and you find a temple. This is the same temple you find in both oracle games it is only that in each scenario it is one of the Godesses that asks you to prove yourself, Nayru or Din.
When you choose yes, the world melts and you fall through the ground in to a void. When the screen comes back up you are in a place that you have never seen before and must be a different realm. The game booklet states this as well. Not to mention Link's Awakening which takes place on an island that doesn't exist in our realm, and when you awaken the Windfish he tells you that you're in his dream and when he awakens, the dream will vanish. Sure enough, when the Windfish awakens, Koholint vanishes and you wake up on the wreckage of your boat. The entire game, you were playing in a different realm.
It's really not all that complicated.
But I really dont believe the story is all that hard to follow. You guys keep saying that the idea of games taking place in a different realm is too complicated or hard to understand but there have been quite a few Zelda games that state up-front "This adventure takes place in a different realm."
As for the Oracle games, at the very start of the game, you are traveling through Hyrule on Epona and you find a temple. This is the same temple you find in both oracle games it is only that in each scenario it is one of the Godesses that asks you to prove yourself, Nayru or Din.
When you choose yes, the world melts and you fall through the ground in to a void. When the screen comes back up you are in a place that you have never seen before and must be a different realm. The game booklet states this as well. Not to mention Link's Awakening which takes place on an island that doesn't exist in our realm, and when you awaken the Windfish he tells you that you're in his dream and when he awakens, the dream will vanish. Sure enough, when the Windfish awakens, Koholint vanishes and you wake up on the wreckage of your boat. The entire game, you were playing in a different realm.
It's really not all that complicated.