Comments on: Editorial: The Legend of Zelda Timeline

By: Ethos

Ethos — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:46:09 +0000

@ep I’ve read that on more than one occasion. Hence my opinion. And yeah, unless there’s Rosalina, I have no interest in a Mario cutscene. Peach’s ditzy, offensive “Mario?!?!” makes me want to punch babies in the face.

Also, EVERY TIME something does “@ep”, I think they’re talking about me for a second. Even when I did it!

By: evilpaul

evilpaul — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:33:54 +0000

@Ethos, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen something about Nintendo designing gameplay stuff first and coming up with a story afterwards? I think it was about Mario games though, but I consider story in Mario games (the RPG ones excepted) to be “Is there a skip button?” quality material.

By: evilpaul

evilpaul — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:22:21 +0000

I just started playing the non-terrible tacked on motion controls version of Twilight Princess. I got through the usual boring as hell first hour. And I got past the first kind of dumb wolf section (I thought he turned into a pink bunny? Retcon?). I had tried to go back to OoT, but holy hell does it look bad. Like I’m not even a graphics whore, but shit is it ugly. That, and I got lost and couldn’t find the Deku Tree, so I said screw it.

By: Ethos

Ethos — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:56 +0000

I’m mostly with Lusipurr here, though not entirely. I’m sure they’ve been working on this for as long as they say they have (along the way they mentioned OoT was first, TP was 100 years later or something), but I’m also quite sure that they have NO concern for the timeline when they make a new game. It’s likely they design the new game and half way through say, “Now how can we stick this in our convoluted timeline?” so they can add references here and there.

I like the references to other games, but I’m not timeline obsessed. Because who cares? It was neat that Skyward Sword was explicitly an origin story, but I’m far more interested in it because it is a good game.

By: Blitzmage

Blitzmage — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:51:01 +0000

@Rikki Those…. yeah…. no

@MD Thanks!

@EP Go read a reviews by “TheFallenSon”

By: evilpaul

evilpaul — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:31:03 +0000

Y U NO Oracle of Seasons/Ages?!?

By: Matt Dance

Matt Dance — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:16:59 +0000

Blitzmage, you’re in the top contenders for “best first two sentences of a Lusipurr.com post.”

I maintain that Link’s Awakening is the best Zelda game.

The CD-i games are hilarious, but shouldn’t be mentioned in any serious discussion about Zelda.

They DEFINITELY make it up as they go along, which is fine because they’re paying more attention to the quality and integrity of each game in itself (with the exception of Twilight Princess).

Hopefully, a Mario timeline is forthcoming.

By: Durga Syn

Durga Syn — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:03:39 +0000

No mention of the CD-i games I see.

By: evilpaul

evilpaul — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:28:13 +0000

Personally, I think they have a general idea of what happens when in the timeline, but in a sort of George Lucas-ey way lacking specifics (without, you know, being completely terrible).

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:09:48 +0000

Nintendo doesn’t have a timeline, and makes it up as they go along. That’s my firm belief. Anything they say about, ‘don’t worry, it’s locked in’, is just so much bluster from people who really haven’t a clue.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:19:06 +0000

Editorialising Zelda’s timeline is a fools game.