13th January 2005, 1:59 PM
Quote:That sword is the Four Sword. It's what you get at the begining of Four Swords Adventure.
But that's the magical sword the legendary hero uses whenever Hyrule needs saving. And it looks just like the Master Sword. Why would later Links not use the same sword, but rather a different, similar-looking magical sword?
Quote:But I just posted all the booklets and everything matches up. Impa was even talked about in the very first Zelda on NES. We have to go by the booklets and the in-game stories, otherwise we're just making things up.
Well a lot of this is basically making stuff up. There's an interesting article at zhq that looks at all of the poor translations and misinterpretations NOA has made with Zelda manuals and such over the years. It's under the story section, check it out.
Quote:"Far, far in the past, a beast appeared in the country of Hyrule. When the world was on the brink of being swallowed in darkness, the small Pikkoru appeared from the heavens. To a human hero they gave the Golden Light and one sword.
(The Golden light? could the beast be GANON or is he not a part of the time line yet?)
It sure looked like Ganon.
Quote:The hero, with Wisdom and Courage, Light and Sword, fought the beasts, and returned peace to the world.
(With Wisdom and Courage? The Golden Light... Light Arrows? The only time Link had the Triforce of Wisdom and Courage was in Zelda 1 and AoL so this must be a story we haven't seen yet)
Well of course not, MC takes place before all of the other Zelda games, remember?
Quote:In thanks to the Pikkoru, the "Pikkoru Festival" was made to be held once a year. Since then, a long time has passed, and even the Pikkoru became a legend....
(yeah, except we're only hearing about them now Oh... unless the Pikkoru are faries...)
They're more like Pikmin, actually. :)
Quote:The Princess of Hyrule, Zelda, has come to invite Link, her childhood friend, so they can go to the festival together. In the Country of Hyrule there is a Legend. It says 'Once every hundred years, a secret doorway is opened, and the Pikkoru will come.
(Every one hundred years a Gerudo male is born... but that doesn't seem to mean anything here. "A secret doorway..." and "from the heavens" has got to be the Sacred Realm)
From what I can tell so far, that's pretty much just a "doorway" to the Picori who are tiny people. So that doorway is turning small and visiting them or something. Maybe I'll find out more later. Nothing about the Sacred Realm so far. Nothing obvious, at least.
Quote:The other contestants weren't even able to get close to him, and Vaati easily won. However, there was not a single person who knew who this black-clad man was."
("An evil man from the desert wearing black armor." = Gannondorf)
In Four Swords Adventure after you defeat Vaati, GANON laughs and says "so this is the great Vaati... pathetic." and then you fight GANON. So it could either be that Vaati is the black soul of Gannondorf (GANON having no soul) or Vaati is a totally seperate entity.
I'm pretty certain that they're two different entities.
Quote:In the Oracle games, Vaati and Onix didn't want the Triforce, they wanted the Goddesses themselves so they could use their souls to control time. Gannondorf was the first great evil to go after the Triforce itself.
Vaati wasn't in the Oracle games, Ganon was. Twinrova were trying to resurrect Ganon but could only revive a "mindless, raging Ganon".
Quote:His point is that NOA wasn't completely faithful to the original Japanese booklets... which, I'm sure, is a good point, but given that we don't know Japanese and I don't know of sites which say what they said, all we can go with is what we know.
Right, and we don't know just how accurate our information is.