Recent content by Clearly

Well, technically, the theoretical details of what we presume time travel would work like in reality are handled pretty lightly in the game. Temporal paradoxes abound, and ambiguity is used to blur the wrinkled details, like the magazine photos of an aged celebrity. Ergo, I'm not inclined to...

If Link actually is 'defeated' by Ganon instead of (say) a lack of involvement, your theory sits the best with me so far. Well done. I do hope that when the actual events are clarified, the true occurance is close to this, rather than something more disagreable like 'Link being defeated in the...

Now, correct me if I'm wrong; but wouldn't timelines split rather where different choices are made and followed, rather than simply plucking the MS from its pedastal? I mean, if I walked through a time portal to seven years ago, and then just stood there for an hour blnking dumbly before...

That's probably one of the most concise explanation's I've read thus far, well done. However, I still only see two timelines in this 'abandoned timeline' theory that's naturally become so popular in the face of 'Link being defeated'. I'm not saying it's wrong; but I am saying that the math...

I'm old enough to clearly remember when A Link to the Past orignally came out, and it utterly captivated me. To this day I still use ALttP as a yard stick to measure all the other games with. My second favorite used to be Ocarina of Time, but Skyward sword edged it out and even nipped...

I completely agree. With our current understanding of this new branch of the timeline, the reasoning behind it just feels rashly duct-taped together. There's too much room for conjecture as solutions to incongruencies. Did it really state that? It's still my favorite game of the series...

Well, yes and no. The Triforce grants wishes of those that wield it, and (as I understand it) the scope of those wishes can be whatever it is in the power of the Old Gods to do. That's an effing lot of potential; but in a way it's not that the 'wielder' has that power, so much as it is that...

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/plogger/plog-content/images/a-link-to-the-past/manual-scans-us/003.jpg They're not mentioned by name; but you'll have to forgive that as Nintendo hadn't named them until OoT was developed.

You're right, but I thought about it for a bit and decided to put him there anyway for several reasons: 1) He never actually got his hands on the Triforce, so he can't yet be discounted from godhood, as he didn't have the opportunity to disprove that status by 'not being able to wield it'...

My biggest issue is just how arbitrary it seems. "Link fails," but at what point in OoT was the potential of Link's failure a defining and motivating choice of path in the forking timeline? I can't think of one that stands out any more than the possible 'failures' that Link could have...

Riiiight. I completely forgot about the spiritual stones. What was the Master Sword the key to again?

In another thread there was some discussion about the 'Goddess' and whether or not she actually was a 'god'. I made a wall of text response that kind of leaked beyond the confines of the thread's purpose, so I've decided to make it a new thread. I literally just finished SS yesterday and as I...

I can't quite get my head around the 'failure' either. I mean, I've often thought about how it might be neat to have a Zelda game that follows an era where 'evil' actually conquered; but this isn't exactly the same thing, as it doesn't seem to add up under the existing circumstances. If adult...

I literally just finished SS yesterday and as I understand it, despite the wanton use of the words 'gods' and 'goddesses', it's actually a tier based system. I'll try and describe the hierarchy of divinity in the Zelda games as I understand it below. Mostly this is just vapid fan-theory, so...

I've got a few thoughts about this, and here they are in no particular order: We're all going to buy the game, and most probably really enjoy it; so for our purposes, review scores don't matter beyond outside confirmation of how awesome we want the game to be. That said, there are...