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I didn’t realize until now nintendo put out some book trying to connect all the zelda games in a timeline or whatever, that’s disappointing
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Fans of Yokoyama’s Garden will be interested in this. I know because I am!
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i keep it on the shelf right next to the final dossier
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I recall folks making theories about a timeline back in the olden days of SB1, and they were heartily dismissed for such malarkey.
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Personally, I’d love to see a timeline of zelda timelines — to wit, I’m more interested in seeing how the vague connections between the games sprawled out over time, before they finally got codified in Hyrule Historia (which BotW basically chose to ignore (lmao)).
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Everyone shut up about the Zelda timeline and talk about something that really matters (the Touhou timeline)
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ZUN’s making a sucessor to my favourite video game after decades saying he wouldn’t, I’m going to cry.
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It felt like they resisted doing this for forever and declined talking about it with interviewers for years and years. But somewhere around Skyward Sword, they pivoted. The hype about Skyward Sword leaned so hard into “This is the earliest game in the Zelda timeline!” They published a book with an official timeline. I don’t know if Aonuma and company just felt bullied by the fans into giving them this thing they seemed to want, or if the Zelda leadership eventually came to be composed of a majority of lore-brained otaku.
I’ve been glad that for the most part, the timeline doesn’t impact the games too much. There are little allusions in Breath of the Wild to all the previous games, but they aren’t beholden to any particular shape of history.
Though it looks like the next one has some time travel, which may bring more lore shit to the fore. And it’ll be the first one, I think, to literally reuse a map (not counting Link Between Worlds, which does do this, right?), making it unusually beholden to a preexisting geography of Hyrule.
EDIT: All this said, it’d be kind of hilarious if they followed up the most broadly appealing Zelda game in a very long time, one that requires no knowledge of previous games, with a super-high-context supersequel to every game in the series with extensive references, completely alienating anyone who doesn’t know the story specifics of everything from Skyward Sword to Adventure of Link. Not good but it’d be pretty funny.
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God, this is my shit so hard
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17 posts were merged into an existing topic: WE HAVE TO GO BACK!
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HOLY SHIT
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apparently this colorization was done by toruzz, who has previously colorized SML and SML2:6GC
extremely jealous that sunsoft hired this guy of the skill at work here
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I’ve half-planned on going here on 2 separate japan trips, it’s just so out of the way, I really don’t know that I’ll ever again in my life want to commit to taking like, 4 local trains to some marginal destination where I half expect to get stranded overnight
Those are the best travel experiences though!
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yeah but I had plenty of those between the ages of 19 and 27 and that mindset feels pretty well beyond my reach these days, which is ok
i’ve seen other people on here post about this game, and i played the demo on a stream… and it was a lot of fun. definitely recommended
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