basement24
There's a Bazooka in TP!
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- Feb 28, 2009
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- Ontario, Canada
I was thinking the other day how ST is 100 years after PH, and how this means the Link we knew from WW and PH is now gone. Granted, they could always go back to that specific time period to tell another story, but past games have told us this will most likely not happen.
So it got me thinking, do you enjoy the fact that there are multiple Links / Zeldas / eras?
On one hand, I am glad there are because it gives the games a chance to really change and be something different. To thrust the same Link into a wildly different adventure might be difficult to believe. When they created the world of PH, it would be hard to get the world unflooded in order to have another land-based adventure in that Link's lifetime. I suppose there could be a certain amount of willing suspension of disbelief involved such as how we believed James Bond was the same man for 40 years in the films, but really to have the Hero of Time get turned into a wolf in the Twilight Realm and sail the high seas of the Great Flood might be too much for one man.
Making different Links and different eras allows the games to start fresh each time. He has to grow as a person in his skills and such. The settings allow us to be introduced to new characters and reintroduced to old ones as if they were new.
On the other hand, it saddens me in a way that we are saying goodbye to yet another Link. We had to do it before with probably the most obvious "same Link" in OoT and MM. But now we are doing it again with the WW / PH Link. He's gone now. His adventure is over. 100 years later, it's doubtful he might show up as an old man in ST. His legacy will live on, for sure, but not knowing what happens to him as a young adult, or adult, or seasoned warrior or knight or what have you is a bit sad.
So, I suppose it can be good and it can be bad that we move on to a new generation of Links and Zeldas, but how do you feel? Would you rather have one series of Zelda games where we watch Link grow up and follow one boys adventure, or are you happy that we can jump around and be any hero at any time that he is needed?
So it got me thinking, do you enjoy the fact that there are multiple Links / Zeldas / eras?
On one hand, I am glad there are because it gives the games a chance to really change and be something different. To thrust the same Link into a wildly different adventure might be difficult to believe. When they created the world of PH, it would be hard to get the world unflooded in order to have another land-based adventure in that Link's lifetime. I suppose there could be a certain amount of willing suspension of disbelief involved such as how we believed James Bond was the same man for 40 years in the films, but really to have the Hero of Time get turned into a wolf in the Twilight Realm and sail the high seas of the Great Flood might be too much for one man.
Making different Links and different eras allows the games to start fresh each time. He has to grow as a person in his skills and such. The settings allow us to be introduced to new characters and reintroduced to old ones as if they were new.
On the other hand, it saddens me in a way that we are saying goodbye to yet another Link. We had to do it before with probably the most obvious "same Link" in OoT and MM. But now we are doing it again with the WW / PH Link. He's gone now. His adventure is over. 100 years later, it's doubtful he might show up as an old man in ST. His legacy will live on, for sure, but not knowing what happens to him as a young adult, or adult, or seasoned warrior or knight or what have you is a bit sad.
So, I suppose it can be good and it can be bad that we move on to a new generation of Links and Zeldas, but how do you feel? Would you rather have one series of Zelda games where we watch Link grow up and follow one boys adventure, or are you happy that we can jump around and be any hero at any time that he is needed?