Other than Miyamoto's childhood, Norse and Japanese mythologies have played a large role influencing the series. Miyamoto has referred to the creation of the Zelda games as an attempt to bring to life a "miniature garden" for players to play with in each game of the series. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, he wanted to name the game The Legend of something, but he had a hard time deciding what that "something" was going to be.
Miyamoto wasn't spot-on on the book idea, but hearing of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda , Mr. Miyamoto thought the name sounded "pleasant and significant.
The Zelda series has developed a deep story and wide universe over its many releases. According to the in-game backstories, long ago, three goddesses descended and created the land of Hyrule. Din , the goddess of power, with her powerful, flaming arms, cultivated the empty space, and created the red earth. Nayru , the goddess of wisdom, bestowed her divine wisdom upon the land, and created the world's laws to give a sense of justice and order to the world, and to guide the people in the goddesses' absence.
Farore , the goddess of courage, endowed Hyrule with her powers, creating life to follow this justice. After their work was completed, the goddesses left a magical artifact called the Triforce , which could grant the wishes of the user.
It consisted of three golden triangles, each also called a "Triforce" — one of Wisdom , one of Power , and one of Courage. However, because the Triforce was not divine, and could not judge between good and evil, the goddesses placed the Triforce in an alternate world called the Sacred Realm or the Golden Land, hoping that a worthy person would one day seek it.
According to legend, if the discoverer of the Triforce has a balance of power, wisdom, and courage, they will receive the Triforce as a whole. If they are unbalanced, they will receive the part of the Triforce that represents the characteristic they most demonstrate, with the remaining parts of the whole transferring into the people in Hyrule who most exemplify the other two traits.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past , released after The Adventure of Link , but before Ocarina of Time , featured the Triforce, but made no mention of its three qualities or distribution, beyond Ganondorf obtaining it.
Eventually, Interlopers attempted to steal the Triforce and establish dominion over the Sacred Realm. In response, the goddesses sent the light spirits Eldin , Lanayru , Ordona and Faron to seal away their dark magic within the Fused Shadows.
The interlopers themselves were banished to the shadowy world of the Twilight Realm, with only the Mirror of Twilight linking the two worlds. There, they would eventually become the Twili race. The Mirror was left in the protection of ancient sages. The fictional universe established by the Zelda games sets the stage for each adventure.
Many games take place in lands with their own back-stories. Termina , for example, is an alternate dimension that has no knowledge of Hyrule. According to the official website, Link is described as humble but brave, attributes appropriate for the bearer of the Triforce of Courage.
A long-eared Hylian , he is portrayed as being anywhere from 7 to 19 years old, depending on the game. Link usually wears a green tunic , an undershirt and a long, floppy green cap for at least part of each adventure. Most incarnations of Link are left-handed.
The first game to feature a right-handed Link is the Wii version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess , in which Link is right-handed due to the "mirroring" used to accommodate the right-handed control scheme. The mirroring effect in Twilight Princess flips the entire game layout from its Nintendo GameCube counterpart. Skyward Sword is the first canon game where Link is right-handed. Link does not usually speak, and only produces grunts, yells, and other such sounds.
One exception to this is The Wind Waker. In the English-language release, the audible phrase "Come on! In prior games, such as A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time , players can answer questions by choosing options from a list; no voice acting accompanies Link's answers.
More typically, the character uses facial expressions to indicate mood; particular emphasis is placed on this in The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. Arguably, Link "speaks" two lines in The Adventure of Link. When he locates a mirror under a table, the text, "I found a mirror under the table" appears on screen. Later, if Link examines a fireplace that he can enter, "Looks like I can get in the fireplace" is displayed. As of now they have a trailer that is teasing the official release, slated for November Check out the trailer here.
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He is the founder and lead content contributor for The Hidden Triforce. Since stealing it back, he has been hooked to the Zelda series and has never looked back. In his spare time you can find Noah frolicking with his Porygon and Kiwi Birds. If Link loses in Ocarina of Time , then A Link to the Past happens, and well after that are the two original games when Ganon is revived.
With all of that set, Breath of the Wild is considered a converging point for those three branches, set so far into the future that names from all timelines are referenced in locations across Hyrule. The original Breath of the Wild had a slightly different spin, dropping players years after the fall of Hyrule where they must help Link regain his memories of the past.
Only two trailers have released for Breath of the Wild 2 thus far, one at E3 and the other at E3 , but they suggest time will play more of a role. The E3 trailer is a short teaser that shows Link and Zelda coming across a sealed, mummified figure underneath Hyrule Castle - presumed to be Ganondorf.
The power it lets out both seems to empower Link and have malicious effects across the land, lifting Hyrule Castle from the earth. After that, the trailer better details the effects of this magic, with floating islands and different monsters cropping up everywhere.
More importantly, it shows Link making use of new abilities. At one point he has some kind of tool acting like a flamethrower, but his magical prowess and Runes have also improved with new time-themed elements. For example, his Stasis Rune is able to send a spiked ball back along the path from whence it came, and then a droplet of water reverses back into the sky as Link ascends to a floating island and passes through the floor.
If Link has access to time-based magic at a point in the Zelda timeline where all other games have converged, he could conceivably call upon the help of all his ancestors. This wouldn't be entirely farfetched given events surrounding Breath of the Wild.
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