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The Legend of Zelda features no time travel and no major historical elements of its plot, outside of a mention of the sages and their descendants. Link does not travel in time nor does he in any meaningful way "link" the past to the present events. A Link Between Worlds makes much more sense but they didn't use that until the sequel, and it's still a far better subtitle because it has multiple meanings to thematically tie the story together. What should the Link To the Past have been called?
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BottledBodhisvata posted:The Legend of Zelda features no time travel  http://bfy.tw/2wBj
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Nov 23, 2015 22:25
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It's called that because the main character is named Link
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Nov 23, 2015 22:25
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Zelda III: You'll Be A Bunny For A Time
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Nov 23, 2015 22:25
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It doesn't in a Link to the Past you n'wah
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Nov 23, 2015 22:26
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because it is a prequel to the first two so therefore it is in the past it probably works better in Japanese
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Nov 23, 2015 22:27
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BottledBodhisvata posted:It doesn't in a Link to the Past you n'wah
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Nov 23, 2015 22:28
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symbolic posted:then specify you, uh...you other n'wah the word you were looking for is s'wit, outlander
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Nov 23, 2015 22:28
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Moridin920 posted:the word you were looking for is s'wit, outlander
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Nov 23, 2015 22:31
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It was called that because they started making it in 1990. That was before they actually made the other zelda games so it was a link to the past with regards to zelda game level design.
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Nov 23, 2015 22:32
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symbolic posted:i don't fuckin' know what any of this slang means It's not slang, it's ebonics, way to oppress Dunmer. #AllDarkElfLivesMatter
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Nov 23, 2015 22:33
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BottledBodhisvata posted:It's not slang, it's ebonics, way to oppress Dunmer. i could be wrong
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Nov 23, 2015 22:34
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the marketing guys rejected their first choice "a stink to the gas"
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Nov 23, 2015 22:38
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the dark world is actually the past world and it's dark because the lightbulb had not been invented yet
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Nov 23, 2015 22:41
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symbolic posted:okay so i thiiink this is some Elder Scrolls lexicon Wealth beyond measure, outlander.
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Nov 23, 2015 22:42
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FuriousGeorge posted:Zelda III: You'll Be A Bunny For A Time I like this one
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Nov 23, 2015 22:44
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A Twink With No rear end
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Nov 23, 2015 22:45
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:A Twink With No rear end a shameful twink
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Nov 23, 2015 22:48
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Moridin920 posted:because it is a prequel to the first two so therefore it is in the past The Japanese title was "Triforce of the Gods", so NoA had to pull a new title out of their rear end in accordance with their religious policies.
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Nov 23, 2015 22:49
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It's called A Link To The Past because: A) Its a prequel to the first two. B) The plot involves learning Ganon's backstory and finding the living descendants of the people who beat him the first time. C) The original concept involved time travel between medieval Hyrule and sci-fi Hyrule. D) It is a pun.
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Nov 23, 2015 22:50
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FuriousGeorge posted:Zelda III: You'll Be A Bunny For A Time a frustrating seven minutes of gameplay
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Nov 23, 2015 22:52
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ZeusJupitar posted:
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Nov 23, 2015 22:54
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I don't think they actively tried to give out the whole timeline of Legend of Zelda until Skyward Sword, did they?
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Nov 23, 2015 23:00
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Who cares. It's the best Zelda game.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:17
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zeldar is much cooler than zelda
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Nov 24, 2015 00:18
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I thought the light and dark worlds also had some sort of temporal separation element to it
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Nov 24, 2015 00:20
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seriously like the entire loving plot of the game is finding the decendants of the seven sages they talk about in the intro and the character you play as (link) is the last in a line of special knights or whatever. You see friend, these things are links to the past. Hence the title. It's also a pun.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0KIrKIEYM Explained in the intro you illitierate fuckwad
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Nov 24, 2015 00:42
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Now for some reason I'm remembering how Mario, Zelda and Castlevania all had sequels that were very different from their first game, and how it didn't seem so weird at the time. Why shouldn't they be something new? Then they all kinda reverted to their previous formula for the third one.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:43
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Also since Ganon has been sealed away for so long, isn't the Dark World (which is the result of his wish to the Triforce) kind of a throwback to old times? He's basically made the world exactly as he imagined it should have been a long time ago.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:45
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BottledBodhisvata posted:The Legend of Zelda features no time travel and no major historical elements of its plot, outside of a mention of the sages and their descendants. Link does not travel in time nor does he in any meaningful way "link" the past to the present events. A Link Between Worlds makes much more sense but they didn't use that until the sequel, and it's still a far better subtitle because it has multiple meanings to thematically tie the story together. the master sword is the "link to the past" that link needs to defeat the forces of evil. also, apparently, it is a prequel to LoZ/LoZ2, and finally, ganon was locked away hundreds of years ago. all of this = link to the past.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:51
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How the hell is it a prequel? Ganon is dead at the end, and you got the golden triangles that basically make you become god. Did he wish for Ganon to live again or something? Also what was the deal with the Ah-ganomn or whatever, the wizard in green? I remember seeing ganon's bat face around his neck like a pendant.
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Nov 24, 2015 00:55
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aghanim is one of those classic dickheads in esoteric literature who is inevitably playing around with forces he doesn't understand. see the guy who resurrected dracula in symphony of the night, all those cthulhu cultists, etc etc...
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Nov 24, 2015 00:59
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nomadologique posted:aghanim is one of those classic dickheads in esoteric literature who is inevitably playing around with forces he doesn't understand. Ahhh. I was never clear on that, I thought it WAS ganon if he were still a man.
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Nov 24, 2015 01:01
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Wicker Man posted:How the hell is it a prequel? Ganon is dead at the end, and you got the golden triangles that basically make you become god. Did he wish for Ganon to live again or something? It's a prequel because "THE MASTER SWORD SLEEPS... FOREVER" and there's no Master Sword in the first game and Zelda II. At least, that was the reasoning about a decade ago; I'm sure there have been contradictions that came after I stopped caring enough to look at a timeline.
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Nov 24, 2015 01:04
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Leroy Dennui posted:It's a prequel because "THE MASTER SWORD SLEEPS... FOREVER" and there's no Master Sword in the first game and Zelda II. At least, that was the reasoning about a decade ago; I'm sure there have been contradictions that came after I stopped caring enough to look at a timeline. i figured they just hadn't decided to call it master sword yet in the 80s so they said magic sword instead
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Nov 24, 2015 01:07
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Microwaves Mom posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0KIrKIEYM respect.
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Microwaves Mom posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0KIrKIEYM gently caress dat music is inducing memory spasms aaaaagh
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