11th March 2004, 1:19 PM
Ah SD Gundam is cute :D.
You know, I also liked LA's story a lot. There was a lot of depth that was hinted at rather than explicitly stated. Also, that ending really left you wondering what happened to Link...
LA is the hardest fit, so I'm not really certain on that, but everything else fits perfectly only one way and not at all in any other way. They don't NEED to tell me that's correct, it's THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD that proves it. OOT is obviously the imprisoning war because that's just what it has to be, for example. OOT and MM are OBVIOUSLY linked together. It's obvious that OOT was specifically designed around the past that LTTP talked about, only heavily expanded. LTTP was announced from the start that it was going to reveal Ganon's origins and be in an era long before Zelda 1. Those two things are evidene enough to me that they cared about how the story linked up with each game.
Wind Waker is the only one to kinda muck that up. On the one hand, it DOES help explain story continuity (and in fact to some degree I'm fairly certain this was part of the aim in setting the story in that time), but on the OTHER hand, what's the deal with Ganon having escaped here? THAT says that while they care about continuity, they ALSO care about giving us what we want, which apparently is Ganon and the Triforce, even if they can't come up with an explanation for HOW he escaped. I mean, originally it was thought that Ganon couldn't break the seal at all from his side and had to create an alter-ego body to escape and find a way to open it up. Perhaps the seal wasn't so perfect after all, and it was only by using the actual power of the triforce itself that the seal was made nearly impossible to break through...
You know, it's just that a lot of what they do with the stories makes it clear they DO care about making it all fit together, but that one Wind Waker thing says they aren't above confusing us when they really want to do something with the game.
You know, I also liked LA's story a lot. There was a lot of depth that was hinted at rather than explicitly stated. Also, that ending really left you wondering what happened to Link...
LA is the hardest fit, so I'm not really certain on that, but everything else fits perfectly only one way and not at all in any other way. They don't NEED to tell me that's correct, it's THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD that proves it. OOT is obviously the imprisoning war because that's just what it has to be, for example. OOT and MM are OBVIOUSLY linked together. It's obvious that OOT was specifically designed around the past that LTTP talked about, only heavily expanded. LTTP was announced from the start that it was going to reveal Ganon's origins and be in an era long before Zelda 1. Those two things are evidene enough to me that they cared about how the story linked up with each game.
Wind Waker is the only one to kinda muck that up. On the one hand, it DOES help explain story continuity (and in fact to some degree I'm fairly certain this was part of the aim in setting the story in that time), but on the OTHER hand, what's the deal with Ganon having escaped here? THAT says that while they care about continuity, they ALSO care about giving us what we want, which apparently is Ganon and the Triforce, even if they can't come up with an explanation for HOW he escaped. I mean, originally it was thought that Ganon couldn't break the seal at all from his side and had to create an alter-ego body to escape and find a way to open it up. Perhaps the seal wasn't so perfect after all, and it was only by using the actual power of the triforce itself that the seal was made nearly impossible to break through...
You know, it's just that a lot of what they do with the stories makes it clear they DO care about making it all fit together, but that one Wind Waker thing says they aren't above confusing us when they really want to do something with the game.
"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)