Ariel
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Upon trawling through the latest Skyward Sword trailer, the one showcased at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference, I’ve noticed a slew of interesting background details that reveals a few things about the game. Nothing “new” or “revolutionary” is learnt here, but for those who enjoy squeezing details out of upcoming Zelda games, I hope that the following could be used as a resource for speculation.
The Forest Temple
Oh so pretty, so very pretty. Who needs HD? Right? Wrong! This would be very nice in HD. That’s not the point though.
THIS is that tree in the E3 demo. It’s reminiscent of the Great Deku Tree from Ocarina Of Time. Why? Firstly because it’s a large prominent mega-tree. Secondly, it’s branches are shaped into the Kokiri symbol. The swirly, wind shaped symbol. This symbol denotes all things related to the forest, the wind, the Kokiri, Deku and generally wooded areas. It’s present on the houses in Link’s hometowns, on the sail of the King of Red Lions (though slightly altered), the Deku shield, etc. Recall that the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time was originally intended to be the Wind Temple, hence the wind symbol on the medallion. The Korok’s from the Wind Waker were associated with the Wind Temple in that game too. The connections between forest and wind are well established in Zelda lore, and this is crucial in understanding my claims further on.
What else can we establish as Forest constants? Spiders, intuitively. Mushrooms, given. Gohma, as well. Look on at the following screenshots from the GDC trailer.
Notice the spider (red), mushrooms, and weird crystal things (green) and the floating speckly things (blue). This place appears to be somewhere near the entrance of a Forest/Wind Dungeon.
The floating specks are back (blue). Check out the branch (green) and compare it to the Kokiri Symbol. I have no idea what on Earth or otherwise that (yellow) thing is. I haven’t included it in here, but the door behind the unlucky Bokoblin is one of those WMP twisty 3D key doors.
Behold, the specks! (blue). We have another spider, gohma thing (red), no, it’s not the Skull Kid. The weird crystals return (green) and just to point out, that thing next to the spider (teal) is a heart flower.
The mushrooms return, the crystals too (green). But possibly most damning of all evidence, the symbol adorning the wall, that’s an incarnation of the wind symbol. For a comparison: http://bit.ly/iBRRA4
My claim: Welcome to the Forest/Wind dungeon (probably wind)! It’s spacious and had a spider problem. It looks like a temple and it is in decline (the heads of those statues have been knocked off, I suspect they’re Oocca’ish, in my opinion. Even Skyward Sword has backstories to attend to, apparently.
The Fire Temple
Let me set the scene here. It’s hot, it’s dark, and occasionally very bright yellow. There’s an Aztec/South-East Asian feel to the place and Link is coping with several layers of clothing. Notice the flame symbol adorning the cave walls (orange). That’s the fire symbol (similar to, but not to be confused with the Goron symbol). This is the same temple in which you will fight the giant gold statue manipulated by the antagonist. Look on:
This is the very same dungeon if not for sheer obviousness but also because of the returning fire symbol (orange). Lizalfos have returned, which is good, they’re challenging foes. The East-Asian/Aztec statues are also present in this screenshot. Note the face on the left (black).
Yes, I’m aware they’re not identical . But it’s (black) very similar. Also, it still looks East-Asian/Aztec. The antagonist is brooding atop the statue, that’s about it.
I also have a feeling that the Beetle item may be found in this dungeon, simply only because it seems to fit the theme. Though, it can be seen in the “Forest Temple” which shows less heart containers than the Fire Dungeon.
In addition to these two dungeons, there appears to be a mechanical dungeon with what looks suspiciously like electricity. For a game taking part so far in the past, this place looks very advanced. Maybe it’s in the sky.
What I will assume is an electric Peahat (green) and on the left, a Peahat that won’t close (pink), it’s probably not related to the others. There’s some weird mechanical, electric handcar type thing (blue) next to Link, which really confounds me. Also, the most intriguing item in this trailer in the equipped item slot is in the equipped item slot. It looks like it may be a hookshot, but it could be anything.
Final Notes:
This a fully equipped Link: Hylian shield, Master Sword and air of confidence.
Check out his sword here. It looks very different to the Master Sword, it doesn’t actually look all that impressive. Also, Link has a Hylian shield, with Hylian Crest on it. Can someone from the sky get a Hylian Shield made by the people from Hyrule? Maybe there’s something I’m not taking into account.
This door looks very impressive. It also has an avian figure on it. A figure similar to the avian figure on the Hylian Crest. This is an origin story. Could this detail the origins of the Hylians and their connection to this avian figure? This place may be frequented throughout the game, it could possibly be a holy place or the means of transport to and from Hyrule and Skyloft.
A scorpion furiously defends a heart flower (teal).
That's it
. What do you all think?
The Forest Temple
Oh so pretty, so very pretty. Who needs HD? Right? Wrong! This would be very nice in HD. That’s not the point though.
THIS is that tree in the E3 demo. It’s reminiscent of the Great Deku Tree from Ocarina Of Time. Why? Firstly because it’s a large prominent mega-tree. Secondly, it’s branches are shaped into the Kokiri symbol. The swirly, wind shaped symbol. This symbol denotes all things related to the forest, the wind, the Kokiri, Deku and generally wooded areas. It’s present on the houses in Link’s hometowns, on the sail of the King of Red Lions (though slightly altered), the Deku shield, etc. Recall that the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time was originally intended to be the Wind Temple, hence the wind symbol on the medallion. The Korok’s from the Wind Waker were associated with the Wind Temple in that game too. The connections between forest and wind are well established in Zelda lore, and this is crucial in understanding my claims further on.
What else can we establish as Forest constants? Spiders, intuitively. Mushrooms, given. Gohma, as well. Look on at the following screenshots from the GDC trailer.
Notice the spider (red), mushrooms, and weird crystal things (green) and the floating speckly things (blue). This place appears to be somewhere near the entrance of a Forest/Wind Dungeon.
The floating specks are back (blue). Check out the branch (green) and compare it to the Kokiri Symbol. I have no idea what on Earth or otherwise that (yellow) thing is. I haven’t included it in here, but the door behind the unlucky Bokoblin is one of those WMP twisty 3D key doors.
Behold, the specks! (blue). We have another spider, gohma thing (red), no, it’s not the Skull Kid. The weird crystals return (green) and just to point out, that thing next to the spider (teal) is a heart flower.
The mushrooms return, the crystals too (green). But possibly most damning of all evidence, the symbol adorning the wall, that’s an incarnation of the wind symbol. For a comparison: http://bit.ly/iBRRA4
My claim: Welcome to the Forest/Wind dungeon (probably wind)! It’s spacious and had a spider problem. It looks like a temple and it is in decline (the heads of those statues have been knocked off, I suspect they’re Oocca’ish, in my opinion. Even Skyward Sword has backstories to attend to, apparently.
The Fire Temple
Let me set the scene here. It’s hot, it’s dark, and occasionally very bright yellow. There’s an Aztec/South-East Asian feel to the place and Link is coping with several layers of clothing. Notice the flame symbol adorning the cave walls (orange). That’s the fire symbol (similar to, but not to be confused with the Goron symbol). This is the same temple in which you will fight the giant gold statue manipulated by the antagonist. Look on:
This is the very same dungeon if not for sheer obviousness but also because of the returning fire symbol (orange). Lizalfos have returned, which is good, they’re challenging foes. The East-Asian/Aztec statues are also present in this screenshot. Note the face on the left (black).
Yes, I’m aware they’re not identical . But it’s (black) very similar. Also, it still looks East-Asian/Aztec. The antagonist is brooding atop the statue, that’s about it.
I also have a feeling that the Beetle item may be found in this dungeon, simply only because it seems to fit the theme. Though, it can be seen in the “Forest Temple” which shows less heart containers than the Fire Dungeon.
In addition to these two dungeons, there appears to be a mechanical dungeon with what looks suspiciously like electricity. For a game taking part so far in the past, this place looks very advanced. Maybe it’s in the sky.
What I will assume is an electric Peahat (green) and on the left, a Peahat that won’t close (pink), it’s probably not related to the others. There’s some weird mechanical, electric handcar type thing (blue) next to Link, which really confounds me. Also, the most intriguing item in this trailer in the equipped item slot is in the equipped item slot. It looks like it may be a hookshot, but it could be anything.
Final Notes:
This a fully equipped Link: Hylian shield, Master Sword and air of confidence.
Check out his sword here. It looks very different to the Master Sword, it doesn’t actually look all that impressive. Also, Link has a Hylian shield, with Hylian Crest on it. Can someone from the sky get a Hylian Shield made by the people from Hyrule? Maybe there’s something I’m not taking into account.
This door looks very impressive. It also has an avian figure on it. A figure similar to the avian figure on the Hylian Crest. This is an origin story. Could this detail the origins of the Hylians and their connection to this avian figure? This place may be frequented throughout the game, it could possibly be a holy place or the means of transport to and from Hyrule and Skyloft.
A scorpion furiously defends a heart flower (teal).
That's it
. What do you all think?
(i don't know how to quote on iPhones lol) but I did speculate that he would be involved in that battle. But taking a look at its head a second time it seems that it has a type of chimney type of thing pumping maybe a tainted smoke?
