Author Topic: Possible Rumors Regarding the Next Zelda (Read 13417 times)

Gibdo Master · « **on:** June 27, 2004, 07:33:18 PM »

Over at the www.zeldaheadquarters.com forums someone posted an interesting list from NGC magazine of what is apparently rumors for the next game. You can read them in this thread.

I'm not entirely sure if this is just a wish list on the magazines part or if this stuff is legit rumors, but if it is legit then there's some pretty exciting stuff in there.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2004, 05:59:51 AM »

"Link’s all grown up in the new Zelda-something that Shigsy gave special stress in his E3 micro-speech- which surely means he’ll risk bumping into the adult Link form from Ocarina of Time, who’s scampering around in the same time period."

Say WHAT? *ultra-confusion* Just...no way...This completely goes against the belief that Link appears every 1000-odd years...

Berny · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2004, 07:38:54 AM »

Not if it's the same Link from OOT and MM. It could take place years after MM as Adult Link. This Link could then run into the Adult Link which first smote Ganon's ruin upon the....castleside? Yeah... Anyways, I think it makes sense. Either that or my brain is just so uber confused that it's making logic up.

Burning Excalibur · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2004, 08:25:01 AM »

Well, I could see MAYBE them bumping into one another... What a TWIST THAT WOULD BE! And you never know what musical thing they'll do this time. The Ocarina... the Conducting Baton... what's next? Drums maybe? Or will he listen for music like they predict?

Jale · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2004, 08:33:16 AM »

They did drums in MM, remember?

Maybe he will sing and whistle this time.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #5 on:** June 28, 2004, 08:54:36 AM »

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Originally posted by: Berny
Not if it's the same Link from OOT and MM. It could take place years after MM as Adult Link. This Link could then run into the Adult Link which first smote Ganon's ruin upon the....castleside? Yeah... Anyways, I think it makes sense. Either that or my brain is just so uber confused that it's making logic up.

So you're saying Link would meet up with himself? That's just not possible unless you had Link using time travel again...Which I doubt...

I would rather Ninty stepped away from music in Zelda XII and go to a rod like that in Oracle of Seasons...

ib2kool4u912 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 28, 2004, 09:59:26 AM »

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Originally posted by: Burning Excalibur
Well, I could see MAYBE them bumping into one another... What a TWIST THAT WOULD BE! And you never know what musical thing they'll do this time. The Ocarina... the Conducting Baton... what's next? Drums maybe? Or will he listen for music like they predict?

Do i hear another use for the Donkey Konga drums?

VideoGamerX · « **Reply #7 on:** June 28, 2004, 11:54:30 AM »

That sounds kind of dumb to have Link bump into an incarnate of himself. I don't really subscribe to their ideas. I think they just made them up. Same time period? Do they know anything about the old Legend of Zeldas? Every game has taken place in seemingly the same time period.

However, if Link were to peer across time and see another Link, it might make sense. And by some chance, if the gap between times were bridged, it might get awfully enteresting.

Maybe we'll have a Temple of Time to go through this time... I think that would be cool. Imagine fighting old bosses.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #8 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:02:51 PM »

"Every game has taken place in seemingly the same time period."

Hmmm? No they don't...

Jale · « **Reply #9 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:05:19 PM »

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Originally posted by: VideoGamerX
I think they just made them up.

Hence the fact that they were using fortune cookies to decipher Nintendo.

Gibdo Master · « **Reply #10 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:22:36 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill
This completely goes against the belief that Link appears every 1000-odd years...

Eh, where does it say that?

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #11 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:41:10 PM »

That's why I put "belief," not fact...Wind Waker takes place 1000 years after OoT(yes, the proof is in there), so I'm taking a shortcut and believing that the other games are spaced out that much...At least until I get some proof otherwise...

Jale · « **Reply #12 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:44:24 PM »

I thought it was 100 years...

Gibdo Master · « **Reply #13 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:51:55 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill
That's why I put "belief," not fact...Wind Waker takes place 1000 years after OoT(yes, the proof is in there), so I'm taking a shortcut and believing that the other games are spaced out that much...At least until I get some proof otherwise...

While I do believe that WW takes place hundreds of years after OoT, I don't recall it specifically saying 1000 years.

Anyway, what the magazine is saying is that the new game is supposed to star a grown up young Link from OoT. The idea is that he runs into his time traveling self in the future, kind of like how Marty McFly saw himself in the 50s in Back to the Future 2. Not that it really matters, because this is probably just a glorified wish list and not actual rumor.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #14 on:** June 28, 2004, 12:52:32 PM »

Nope, it's most definitely 1000...It's been a while since I played through last, but the proof is in a story sequence...I'll try and play through again sometime this week and look for it

"The idea is that he runs into his time traveling self in the future, kind of like how Marty McFly saw himself in the 50s in Back to the Future 2."

Yeah, that's what I was figuring...But the "analysis" says that Link will freeze time, not go through time...Just something that confused me...

Gibdo Master · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2004, 01:06:50 PM »

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Nope, it's most definitely 1000...It's been a while since I played through last, but the proof is in a story sequence...I'll try and play through again sometime this week and look for it

Yes, please do.

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Originally posted by: Bill
Yeah, that's what I was figuring...But the "analysis" says that Link will freeze time, not go through time...Just something that confused me...

Well, the one Link wouldn't actually be time traveling. At the end of OoT Zelda sends Link back in time as a child. What the magazine is saying is that he grows up naturally and in 7 years bumps into his time traveling self.

nickmitch · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2004, 08:55:59 PM »

I think that Link'll find out that he is a reincarnation of the the ledgendary hero of time and have to try and live up to his destiny. And that one about "great costs" might mean that Link'll will have a dramatic death at the end...

Yes it'll make you cry.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #17 on:** June 29, 2004, 12:44:39 AM »

Does this mean Link will average more than 3 words of dialogue text in this game? And those words will be other than [insert filename here]?

Berny · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2004, 08:54:39 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bill

So you're saying Link would meet up with himself? That's just not possible unless you had Link using time travel again...Which I doubt...

No no no. I've been thinking about it and it is possible. Okay, Link sealed Ganon away as an adult, but then he went back to live his life as a child. So little Link then takes 7 years to grow up and he very well could run into his adult (although less mature) self which sealed Ganon away. Okay say you go ahead in time (and simultaneously age) exactly one year and stay in the future for a few minutes at the zoo and then go back to the present. If you wait one year and then go to the zoo you will see yourself one year ago at the zoo. Same you, same age, probably less mature, but it's the same Bill we've come to know and love.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #19 on:** June 29, 2004, 10:12:37 AM »

I once had the idea of a Zelda game that took place in a futuristic world where Link and Zelda had to chase Ganon through time and team up with their ancestors to prevent him from changing the outcome of the games in the past. Now I'm not so keen on the idea, but I thought it was pretty cool back in the day.

evil intentions · « **Reply #20 on:** June 29, 2004, 06:36:08 PM »

That sounds like a pretty good idea.

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And that one about "great costs" might mean that Link'll will have a dramatic death at the end...

There goes the Zelda series unless they somehow have something bring Link back to life...

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #21 on:** June 29, 2004, 07:04:25 PM »

Not really...Link isn't one person, but something more like one spirit(meaning that Link's spirit will arise in a new body when it is needed)...But that doesn't mean I believe that Link will be shown to die in Zelda XII...

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #22 on:** June 29, 2004, 07:26:44 PM »

Link's a Buddhist!

evil intentions · « **Reply #23 on:** July 01, 2004, 07:35:00 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill
Not really...Link isn't one person, but something more like one spirit(meaning that Link's spirit will arise in a new body when it is needed)...But that doesn't mean I believe that Link will be shown to die in Zelda XII...

True. I thought though that Link in WW was some sort of decendent of the Link in OoT. Because how it said that the old people (old people ahhahaha) dressed up the kids to be the legendary Link so it must have been in the future of OoT. I dont really know Im just brainstorming.

Gibdo Master · « **Reply #24 on:** July 01, 2004, 08:42:43 PM »

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I thought though that Link in WW was some sort of descendant to the Link in OoT.

Fixed.

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