I would have a Legend of Zelda game where two males are born to a Gerudo female. An old woman walks out of the Haunted wasteland and prophesizes that if they both lived, the Gerudo would be destroyed, however, if one is sacrificed then the Gerudo will become stronger than ever before. The lighter of the two, who has a more red-gold hair, is thrown from the waterfall to his death. this baby is Link. he is saved by a young boy and his friend who were swimming in the river upstream of lake Hylia. The boy takes Link home to his parents.
I guess the game starts with adult Link's foster parents and brother getting killed one evening by a raid of gerudo thieves, led by a male Gerudo who had his face veiled. An arrow takes Link in the ribs, and the male leans over Link and unveils, saying something along the lines of "The prophecy has been fulfilled, br..." (but not with such a crappy script) Link blacks out before his words complete, but notices a striking resemblance between himself and the Gerudo male. (again, no crappy script like mine...and voice acting would be well done)
Link is brought in by an older man who noticed him lying there, and he is bandaged up and healed. The man hears Link's story and teaches him to fight with a sword, shoot a bow, and fight with a staff. you must actually learn and fight the man to master the weapons, but all the weapons are pretty crappy, and you don’t even get to keep the staff, plus the bow only shoots about 20 yards. (that leaves room for the acquirement of weapons from the different races later on, such as a good fairy bow, the Master Sword, a War Horse, and the Staff of Ages, which was thrust into the highest mountain in Hyrule in Ages long past.)
here's the part that I like, however.. Link believes throughout the beginning of the game that his mother was captured by Gerudo thieves when he was little and is still a prisoner (the player would think this also.. so I guess I gave away the game's secrets in the first two paragraphs). So finally Link walks into the Gerudo valley to recover his mother. [cut scene] the first guard attacks Link and he just clocks her in the face and then picks up her staff and smacks the other one [cut scene over]
since the alarm had already been sounded, however, Gerudo pour into the area and Link has to fight them all, like in Shenmue... but you would be able to use the staff for precise attacks like stab, swipe from one direction to another, and more, so that you were in more control of the staff and could take out two or three guards in one swipe.
[ I thought of this game a long time ago, but then I started reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books and started relating the Gerudo to the Aiel, but with longer spears. I really like Mat Cauthon's bladed spear, so that is also inspiration for the Gerudo fight. Notice, the burly brawl did not inspire me, though it rocked. ]
of course, I really have only the beginning and ending in place, unless maybe the attempt to find Link's mother is just the beginning, and Link finds out everything about his past.. and then the gerudo start to leave the valley in order to take over all of Hyrule (now we are talking a GameCube game or GC2 game, so this world is huge, with more cities in Hyrule field, and Lon Lon Ranch wouldn't be there, but a whole village of horse breeders instead (sort of like Rohan). Link's quest would be to unify the rest of the races of Hyrule to confront the massive Gerudo Army. The final battle would be humongous, and you would have to fight your way through the hordes of enemies to reach the Gerudo leader, who is pretty much Dark Link. That fight would end in a traditional duel, with no magic or anything like that.
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Now as I wrote this here I thought of maybe having 3 children born, all three brothers and the same scenario, where if all three live, the Gerudo would be destroyed. One would be gannondorf and the other two are Link and Dark Link. The two Links are outcast, with the good Link being thrown into the river, and Dark Link is ridden to the haunted wasteland and left to die. Dark Link is saved by a young woman wandering the wasteland (the desert goddess) and wanders the wasteland trying to find a way out. He eventually does, but he ends up in a smaller village of Gerudo, who were never known about. They become Dark Link's army as he wishes to get back to the Gerudo Valley, where the desert goddess told him that he must go (she was the old woman with the prophecy). So when Good Link makes it through the guards and goes to save his mother (you have to do some rooftop acrobatics to get there, maybe with Prince of Persia: sands of time kind of jumps and Sidling on walls to avoid being notice) he finds a window to see the great hall and from there he sees an aging gerudo female sitting next to the male leader, Gannondorf, who looks somewhat like Link, and is not as big as the other games. The door to the great hall then bursts open and a group of gerudo crash into the great hall along with a male, who Link thinks he recognizes from the night that his family was slain. This Dark Link and Gannondorf duel in a really nice fight sequence, and finally Gannondorf is knocked down to his knees. Dark Link tilts Gannondorf’s head back and thrusts his spear into Gannondorf’s throat. [either gannondorf dies or maybe Dark link would have him chained up to a pole and left in the haunted wasteland] And declares himself to be the new king of the Gerudo. Link eventually sneaks over to the woman that was sitting next to gannondorf and find out that she is his mother, and then he finds out his past, and what his being alive means to the Gerudo. So she tries to kill Link with a dagger, but he simply throws it aside and leaves as another alarm is sounded. The bridge is heavily guarded, so Link wanders into the wasteland to start his journey by seeking the Staff of Ages.
Now, I might have Gannondorf resurrected somehow, [or freed from the pole in the haunted wasteland, and gain hold of the triforce of power] and then he would be part of the major battle at the end of the game, with his dark minions on horses and moblins as infantry. Dark Link would of course have the Gerudo, and Good Link would have the rohirrim like people that I mentioned earlier as well as support from the great princess Zelda and even Gorons and maybe some Zoras and a group of Kokiri archers. If Kokiri die after leaving the forest, then that would make their commitment mean so much more, since they are giving up their eternal youth to help fight a war that might not affect them. Of course, maybe the Kokiri wouldn’t fight, I just don’t know.
So, that is a pretty quickly thrown together synopsis of my two possible Zelda titles.. Comments anyone? Criticism (lay it on big time, because I might get rid of the Zelda characters and just write a story about this whole thing, though I doubt it).. Which variation do you prefer?
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