Gaming Zelda Fans Come Hither...

It's difficult for me to picture a live action LoZ show. I'd definitely want it to look close to LOTR or even GOT production wise. Xena/Conan has too low-budget feel for me as well. Maybe something closer to "Eragon" or "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" feel without looking silly or childish.

Live action aside, I don't love the TMNT style in this video, but this is the only thing in recent years that I found myself wanting more.

 

Certainly nowadays a Xena style show wouldn't fly. But for the time, I think that model, definitely in line with Conan and Dark Crystal, would have been ideal for a live action Zelda series. And I say that specifically because of the practical effects that would have to have been used. Especially given that the Zelda series itself was still relegated to early forms of game play. I also think a video game has certain inherent qualities that would necessitate a level of campyness to it, that a series in the style of LOTR would make seem entirely too over dramatic. A good balance of both seriousness and campyness is what would have made for a good video game series. And I'm only referring to the time that Xena, Conan, and Dark Crystal would have been relevant influences and would have been the perfect window for a Zelda series. Nowadays, CGI and all that stuff would make things seem entirely too over the top, especially with how it would have to be adapted to modern audiences.

 

In Link’s Awakening, Link dreams about Marin and Tarin, and then OOT introduced Malon and Talon. However, OOT and LA take place generations apart, raising the question of how ALTTP/LA Link could dream about people who lived so long before him. Then Oracle of Seasons, a prequel to Link’s Awakening, revealed that ALTTP/LA Link met incarnations of Malon and Talon, answering that question.

 

Are we really supposed to believe that the Wind Fish met Ganon and Moldorm?

 

I think he just knows Link's memories. But has his own as well, and just dream things, which is how you get a Yoshi doll in there.

 

I think it's because the people who worked on Link's Awakening were typically Mario staff and wanted to throw in a few shout-outs. Since Metal Gear Solid conclusively proves that all video game characters are aware, on some level, that they're in a video game, we can conclude that the Wind Fish simply adhered to the developers' wishes.

 

It didn't really raise any questions at the time. Marin was explicitly described as being Zelda's doppelgänger and Tarin was Mario.

And then OoT was just referencing popular elements of Link's Awakening.

 

Why is it called “Ganon’s Castle” in OOT when he’s still “Ganondorf”?

 

My thinking was that perhaps at some point during development he was intended to already be in pig form when you arrive at the castle.

Anyway, here’s the (underrated, in my opinion) Inside Ganon’s Castle theme.

 

We knew there was a Breath of the Wild sequel in development, but did anyone expect a Hyrule Warriors prequel to BotW too?! And its coming November 20, which is pretty soon actually.



I liked the first Hyrule Warriors well enough, and more BotW is even better. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the Champions.

 

I was not expecting that and so soon!

Does that mean this is considered as part of the main canon?

 

Here's the announcement trailer minus Aonuma and Hayashi.



EDIT: I love the artwork and you get a good picture of it on https://www.zelda.com/hyrule-warriors/

 

Plus, the Nintendo or Zelda Facebook page said they're re-releasing the Champion amiibo so that'll be cool if you haven't gotten them already, but I have a feeling you already own them, Quest.

 

Be kinda nice to get outside Hyrule sometime. I spent about 4 days trying to glide across the chasm/gorge in the northern boundary of BotW. I made it once ... well... I 'physically' got over the gap, but Link just phased through the other side of the cliff until finally falling to his death (inside the ground/polygons) which probably wasn't coded as 'real' in the game since it was technically outside of bounds

But yeah, it would be kind neat to visit other lands never seen before.

 

Dammit, had to preorder this. Haven't ever played a Warriors game, but I definitely want to see the story of the calamity.

 

You can always get out of Hyrule and visit Lorule in "The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds".