The Enyclopedia(yes, even the Japanese one) says they are the same, as does the Japanese official site. There's also this interview:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-story-behind-triforce-heroes-an-interview-with/1100-6431697/
Ah, I see, "It's a little unusual for a Zelda game, but it's the same hero.".
This is one of those things I can easily see being retconned later like ALttP/OoX/LA was, haha.
That should further prove that artstyle shouldn't be used as an indicator of everything. Ingame text>Artstyle. And the ingame text of OoX indicates a ALttP/LA-OoX placement.
I didn't take the artstyle as an indicator of everything, just followed the pre-WW pattern that artstyle consistencies had the same heroes. The alternate styles for those games don't match up with the alternate styles of the other games, so they were all still unique to their own heroes. The consistency in the artstyle (to even changing ALttP Link to match OoX Link in the rerelease) was looking more into how the devs saw things at the time. The artstyle didn't trump any in-game evidence in my other post. I wouldn't say OoX text indicates ALttP/LA-OoX, I just used the ingame evidence to disprove the ALttP/OoX/LA connection. OoX only needs to happen after a game where Ganon died (thus needing to be revived).
For the Links to be the same to me, OoX remakes would have to:
- retcon the birthmark to be a new emergence like in AoL
- rephrase the Triforce's test intro as simply a new quest to stop evil elsewhere
- more clearly phrase Zelda's intro as being familiar with Link
Even in the other post I had, the boat sharing the same
design lost relevance to me.
BUT! I'd say the fact that OoX Link has a horse at all cancels the boat connection to LA, as there is no relevance of a horse in ALttP.
My post didn't imply that artstyle had anything over the ingame text anyways. I didn't mean to imply that, at least. But looking at the changes made, it's apparent Nintendo liked the idea themselves of OoX/LA.
Nintendo themselves may have initially wanted a ALttP/OoX/LA placement, but the fact that they went back on it proves that they realized it made less sense.
I wonder why they went with a ALttP/OoX/LA placement in the first place?
We can still discuss this while acknowledging ALttP/LA - OoX as canon. I suspect it had stuff to do with the regular OoX/LA arguments, like the boat ending.
Oh you linked my frontpage article, lol. I've kind of 180°-ed on my thoughts to a point where idk which is better. I still think the boat ending for the Oracles just fits so well to go into Link's Awakening, but the evidence for the Encyclopedia placement has a lot going for it. I also brought up the fact that the Triforce called to Link, and I still do think it's odd that the Triforce would speak ti a random hero, it makes more sense for it to call to someone it is familar with.
Ah! Mr. Charles Xavier. The Triforce speaking to some shmuck on a horse could be like how Zelda calls Link in the beginning of ALttP where he should be kinda rando to her at that point. I keep them separate now in headcanon since I don't like the idea of ALttP Link needing to prove himself to the Triforce after everything that happened in ALttP. His own quests shouldn't be Triforce trials, he already earned that IMO.
The GBA remake of ALttP for some reason changed the Wise Men to being sages presumably to connect better to OoT (even though they don't work as the OoT sages), so in the future, Nintendo could tweak some of the OoX text to easily make the connection better for some remakes. The only thing to support this prediction is LAHD's Link's undergarments being added (not just using ALttP GBA Link's design) and the divisive sail of the ship being updated to match OoX's more.
It ain't much, but it's something.
