Topic: Simple (literal) controls vs. Motion activated commands (the first true Wiigend of Zelda)

[Zach]

Well, it would be better if the name wasnt a feminized form of Ganondorf.  I would imagine that in that type of situation, link would not know that the kid was Ganon's untill the very end, it would be very hard to get link to trust any prodgeny of Ganon.

[Kairon]

The problem with a female Ganon is that it introduces issues of Gender into the conflict between Link and Ganon.

That'd be like making Sauron of LOTR fame a hawt skin-exposing Demon Queen. It would destroy the straightforward, simple, innocent and feel-good good vs. evil vibe.

Like, if Darth Vader was hawt and female. Doesn't work, ya know?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[jasonditz]

No one's saying make Ganon female, just that maybe he could have a hawt daughter.  

[nemo_83]

It makes sense that if a new Link is born and a new Zelda is born, then a new Ganon is born.  The villain could be the old Ganon who is resurected.

[Ian Sane]

"It makes sense that if a new Link is born and a new Zelda is born, then a new Ganon is born."

I always assumed that while there are different Links and Zeldas, Ganon is the same being throughout the entire series.  Though that theory is somewhat goofed up by Ganon appearing in Ganondorf form in Wind Waker.  Originally it was more like he was a man named Ganondorf and then in Ocarina of Time transformed into Ganon and thus has remained as such ever since.  But Wind Waker goofs that up (along with a billion other things).  I guess Ganondorf is his "human form" and he can change between those forms at will.  Still it's pretty obvious that he's the same Ganon throughout.  I don't really see a reason for him to be reborn.  He certainly never needed to resort to that previously.

A variation of the idea could be that one of those one Gerudo males born every 100 years has been born but is not actually Ganon.

[Kairon]

Ganon can't really be tied into the Gerudo race, because Gerudo don't exist in the other Zelda games.

I prefer to think of Ganon as an incarnation of evil that is reborn, along with the incarnation of the hero and the incarnation of the Sages and head sage, the Princess. This way Ganon actually dies in each Zelda game, giving a very complete sense of black-and-white good-defeats-evil happy-ending that makes for a very wholesome experience.

Either way, no female Ganon! And Nemo, make your own intellectual property and characters instead of stealing Miyamoto's! Grah!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[nemo_83]

Kairon, I'll never get to work on Zelda so what is the point of keeping secret what I wish to see experimented in future Zeldas.  Honestly I never would have thought transforming into a wolf needed to be a Zelda game, it could have really been something different, but they seem to have adopted this theme, for at least one game, and it seems to work.

Ian, Wind Waker did screw up a lot of small things (Zoras), but I think it showed Ganondorf is reborn; and eventually one will be reborn following the stories furthest in the future of the chronicles (which would be part 2 I guess?).

Still, there could be a story where the Ganon of WW is resurected when a future Link pulls the sword out.