Nintendo Super Squad

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 42

http://www.drunkduck.com/Nintendo_Super_Squad/index.php?p=101555

The only good sprite comic.

Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 782 Location: USA

Bwahahahaha.

"I c wat u did thar."

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:11 pm

I really get a kick out of this! Although I don't understand why there are so many Links.

Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 782 Location: USA

Why AREN'T there so many Links? You just don't know a good thing when you see it, A Bear.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

A Bear wrote:

Although I don't understand why there are so many Links.

So the Link from The Legend of Zelda is the same Link as the one from The Adventure of Link. But that's a different Link than the one from A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening. Which, in turn, is not the same Link from The Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Yet another Link stars in Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. None of those Links are the Link from The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass. Also there is the Link in Twilight Princess. And then there are four Links each in Four Swords, Four Swords Adventures, and The Minish Cap.

Plus there are a few evil Links.

Don't even get me started on how many Zeldas there are.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:36 pm

Isn't the link in Twilight Princess maybe the same as one of the others?

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

No.

If you subscribe to the bullshit timeline fork theory then he might be an alternate reality version of Wind Waker Link, but in my book alternate reality = different Link.

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:07 pm

Hold on Dezro! Isn't the Link of the Oracles the same as that of Link's Awakening? And wouldn't the number of Zeldas basically correspond to the number of Links, excluding the Evil Links and the Four Swords copies (which I don't even recognize as canon anyway)?

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

In the Oracles games, Link meets Zelda for the first time, but Awakening is a sequel to LttP, where Link has already met Zelda for the first time.

The Zelda in The Adventure of Link isn't the Zelda from The Legend of Zelda but might be any of the other Zeldas, but I guess probably the one from The Minish Cap (since Nintendo claims it to be the first in the chronology) or the one from LttP (which was supposed to be The Only Goddamn Prequel anyway) if she isn't some other Zelda entirely.

And btw: Since Nintendo includes The Minish Cap in the chronology and it's basically a direct prequel to both Four Swords games, it's canon. But as far as I'm concerned there's only one dude at Nintendo who cares about weaving all that crap into a cohesive story and everyone else wants to keep putting in contradictory stuff just to piss the guy off until he just goes and gives up and Nintendo officially claims they're all retellings of the same Legend of Zelda.

Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 230

Yeah apparently there is a master document somewhere deep inside Nintendo HQ that details the true Zelda chronology and new games are supposed to fit themselves into it accordingly, but only if they kinda feel like it

true falcons will attack children · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:58 pm

The idea of all of the Links being descendants of earlier Links and all of the Zeldas being descendants of earlier Zeldas means that every game except for whichever counts as the first in the chronology is centered around incest. Though maybe this is why he has a dozen girlfriends in some of the newer games that try to connect things. I don't buy the whole Ganon is a less important spin off of Ganondorf thing either.

Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 443

with enough generations it's all diluted anyways, Dan

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

Actually with the exception of Wind Waker there really isn't that much romance implied between Link and Zelda. Like in Twilight Princess it's totally Link + Ilia 4eva.

Also, all the Ganons and Ganondorfs are the same dude. It's just at some point after Ocarina he decided to cut out the 'dorf'.

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:41 am

Ganon is his dude form and Ganondorf is his monster form.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

you got it backwards

also I thought one of the recent games muddled that up too but I was thinking of something else

true falcons will attack children · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:39 am

That is the thing Dezro. Ganondorf isn't supposed to be Link's main villain in the original through Link to the Past. That was a pig dude named Ganon and he wasn't just some alternate mode of a dude that was introduced many years later. Nintendo has abandoned Ganon and now pretty much just puts in little references to him every once in a while. It is sad really. Like if they permanently got rid of Bowser and then told you that Mario never really fought him.

Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1019 Location: Finland

Wasn't the original LoZ bad guy Ganon, not Ganondorf?

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I think the only game with Ganondorf that he didn't transform into a pig was Wind Waker, though? Maybe Four Sword Adventures.

But in Link to the Past they did tell how Ganondorf became Ganon, and what it was supposed to be was that Ganondorf got trapped in the dark world and became a monster but then in Ocarina they turned him into the monster before he got into the dark world and in other games it gets more retarded.

Anyway in Link to the Past it was mostly about this Agahnim guy (who was really Ganon or possessed by Ganon or something but still) and in Adventure of Link the villain was Dark Link.