In this game was he really asleep or was he dead? I can't tell if they're using "sleep" as a euphemism or not. But...I mean, Shrine of Resurrection makes it sound like he was straight up dead.
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In this game was he really asleep or was he dead? I can't tell if they're using "sleep" as a euphemism or not. But...I mean, Shrine of Resurrection makes it sound like he was straight up dead.
ShockingAlberto
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I mean
Oot Link was left handed
Oot Link was left handed
Lord_Byron28
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Assuming this is in the Fallen Link timeline, after OOT. I'm curious if OoT Zelda is the Zelda that was asleep for centuries in Zelda 2. Hylia and SS Zelda had to sleep for a 1000 years to contain Demise. Ganon who has had the whole Triforce at this point would likely take tremendous power to contain as well. I'm thinking OoT Zelda is the voice and is asleep in the castle keeping Calamity Ganon within Hyrule Castle. I could see them have another Zelda in BotW in addition to the OoT that plays a more Tetra/Sheik like role and is OoT Zelda's closest descendant.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Master Quest OOT Link wasn't
yeah not sure how Skyward Sword Link can be seen as a bad design.
OverturePT
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There's a creature that moves around on the mountain, you can see it in that screenshot (left side of the mountain - Death Mountain, that is).
Jim_Cacher
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Cow Mengde
Banned
Wow, I never even noticed it!
Dagobert Duck
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I thought it was a Guardian...
Gyorg about to make his debut in a console game.
Also the stupid sharks in WW are called Gyorgs.
TheGreatLugia
Banned
If this actually is a Link we're familiar with that isn't from Skyward Sword, I could see the developers try to handwave it by saying Link was ambidextrous.
...or maybe OoT Link died in the Fallen Hero timeline because he tried using his sword with his right hand.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
holy shit. this fucking game
To those who didn't notice, you can also clearly hear
's theme after seeing Hyrule Castle overtaken: https://youtu.be/UZj8q9PqzzY?t=9m53s
Zelda
Jim_Cacher
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I don't hear it. I hear notes, I just don't hear the theme.
I can faintly hear the first five notes of her theme
I like this theory.
It's there but there's a long pause after the second note that makes it a little tricky to follow.
Funny, I read yesterday a theory about how Hylia could be the Goddess of Time, then this game put Her statue inside the Temple of Time.
TheMoon
Member
So I found this nice map of OoT and decided to overlay it with the Great Plateau map using the Temple of Time as a scale and orientation base:
So it looks like the Eastern Abby is where Hyrule Castle was.
The Master Sword looks like it's been damaged in battle and left in the elements. The Temple of Time looks much less damaged than the Twilight Princess version and TP was only about 100 years, too.
Makes sense ...because:
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EDIT
since people are still seeing this and insta-react without seeing me debunk this supposed find a few posts later, here it is:
You're actually right.
Let me debunk my own find right here lol.
https://youtu.be/NIrY56yg7dY?t=952
Sorry to blow and then unblow everyone's minds but I think it was worth it. Still a really really cool shoutout as I still believe it is a fully intentional design.
I think before that confusion I had identified the abbey as the part where the stationary Guardian is fought, no?
edit:
yes, totally.
https://youtu.be/NMs2tLKK088?t=667
= it's not that spot form OoT Hyrule Castle courtyard, sadly.
This is what I came up with, my thinking is that not all of them are specific people names, some could be nicknames:
Kalm Yu'goh -> ???
Kam Yatakh -> ???
Ke Numut -> Tsumu-ken? (nickname) "N" here has to be the ん sound in Japanese, at the very least
Owa Daim -> Wada Mio (full name)
Ja Baij -> Java Ji (Grandpa who gets coffee)
Basically it helps converting into Japanese cause these are likely romanized from something. (IE Ja Baij is a B but its likely a V, so on)
OrbitalBeard
Member
That would be EPIC.
Jim_Cacher
Member
Makes sense ...because:
This game continues to blow my mind.
TheMoon
Member
Hmm I would've thought some of them were gonna be partial names.
Like
Owa Daim -> Daiki Iwamoto (programmer/planner/boss battle director in various Zeldas [OoT, PH, ST, ALTTP+FS, FSA, SS, TWWHD])
But that one's probably both too easy and a bit of a stretch. Just made a quick fit with someone who did design work on a previous entry
This is the clearest picture I can get for the mysterious moving 'thing' climbing Death Mt.
*from the 4k screenshots in this thread (warning: very gif / image intensive thread)
Is this a guardian? Or means of transport, for Gorons (IF they still remain in this era...) to travel up and down Death Mt. to do mining? (is it possible that there're inhabitants ON the Death Mt.?)
*from the 4k screenshots in this thread (warning: very gif / image intensive thread)
Is this a guardian? Or means of transport, for Gorons (IF they still remain in this era...) to travel up and down Death Mt. to do mining? (is it possible that there're inhabitants ON the Death Mt.?)
TheMoon
Member
This is the clearest picture I can get for the mysterious moving 'thing' climbing Death Mt.
*from the 4k screenshots in this thread (warning: very gif / image intensive thread)
Is this a guardian? Or means of transport, for Gorons (IF they still remain in this era...) to travel up and down Death Mt. to do mining? (is it possible that there're inhabitants ON the Death Mt.?)
It's Howl's Moving Castle.
Makes sense ...because:
Incredible! The flowers overgrown, the courtyard stairs....
The attention to detail in this game is just..insane.
This is the clearest picture I can get for the mysterious moving 'thing' climbing Death Mt.
*from the 4k screenshots in this thread (warning: very gif / image intensive thread)
Is this a guardian? Or means of transport, for Gorons (IF they still remain in this era...) to travel up and down Death Mt. to do mining? (is it possible that there're inhabitants ON the Death Mt.?)
That's a big ass Guardian.
Yeah I was leaning towards that just from the low quality gifs but yeah it's clear now it is a fuckIng HUGE guardian
Yeah, it's kinda crazy.
Why is this game so far away >.<
SinCityAssassin
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robertsan21
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Unrelated but after going down this Zelda motif rabbit hole I found out that Forest Haven and Kokiri Forest is the same song. Play at 1.5x or 2x, blew my mind.
Jim_Cacher
Member
Super-giant-Gohma? Yeah, possible. It can also be that big-ass guardian at the end of the trailer.
Makes sense ...because:
Whoaaaaa! This reminds me of World of Warcraft where you can go to Lordaeron and still see the blood on the ground from when Arthas kills his father.
Makes sense ...because:
faaaaaaark
Fourth Storm
Member
Makes sense ...because:
Looks like a different location to me. This Hyrule seems like a reimagining of OoT's Hyrule with many artistic liberties.
Temple of Time's location matches Skyward Sword and TP. There's even a forest area to the north (I guess we might posit Calamity Ganon wiped out the rest of the forest). Only OoT shows the ToT in Castle Town. They probably redacted that detail as it's pretty close to Ganon's Tower.
Skittzo0413
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Makes sense ...because:
Wow, that's really well done. Just curious though, was that area actually in the demo? I don't remember seeing any videos of anyone in that area besides in the trailer.
Awesome work! I imagine there are some translation issues with these anagrams, yeah. But glad you could figure some of them out!
This is the clearest picture I can get for the mysterious moving 'thing' climbing Death Mt.
*from the 4k screenshots in this thread (warning: very gif / image intensive thread)
Is this a guardian? Or means of transport, for Gorons (IF they still remain in this era...) to travel up and down Death Mt. to do mining? (is it possible that there're inhabitants ON the Death Mt.?)
The really insane thing about that creature (to me anyway) is how it's likely somewhere over 10km away from the camera, yet we can still see it moving in game (not just in the 4k screenshot). Maybe I'm not that well versed in modern open world games but I can't remember seeing actual animated skeletal meshes that far away in a game. Most open world games mask draw distances with large mountain barriers (Skyrim) or just plain enemy pop in (Xenoblade X) but for this particular instance we see an animated skeletal mesh on the other side of the game world, and we can see some incredible detail for that distance.
/End draw distance rant.