Topic: Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Thread

I just noticed this courtesy of Zelda Dunegon.

that last trailer messed up my head... now I don't know if I should get Zelda or Pokémon for christmas... and yes I can get only one of the two... O.o

I'd probably go with Pokemon, just for how long it will be.

note: Hilda hired the main villain. If you watch carefully, u see the villain kidnap picture zelda. At the end, Hildas talking to the painting, saying she wants the Link to save Lorule, and letting Hyrule corrupt like her kingdom did. Zelda being kidnapped is only to convince to follow

Hello new phone wallpaper!

And also, that new trailer made me really interested in this again! Hate link's model, but everything else looks great!

What if she's the evil queen of an ancient race of barely dressed male-only warriors where a single female is born every X years and she must become their queen.
They may or may not live in a desert or a similar setting and she may or may not have been raised by two evil mages.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Majora's Mask 3D!!!!!!!!

Now that I think about it...

Do you think this game may explain why Hyrule went from being a happy green lively place in A Link to the Past to being the barren wasteland full of death that it is in the NES games? (besides the fact that the place is like that because of the limitations of the console blah blah blah)

I mean, the timeline is called "the decline/downfall" and it goes from healthy hyrule to deserted hyrule without explanation.

I remember asking a similar question a while ago. Apparently NES Zelda takes place in just a section of Hyrule abandoned because of Ganon's minions attacking. Or something like that.

Regardless, even as someone that will defend the timeline's existence and relevance, they will never accurately explain overworld differences between games.

Thats...very interesting... I thought certain parts of Hyrule went through a dark time because Twilight Princess Link was too busy being a farmboy in his village. LOL. I can see TP Link now... "Man, I just wanna ride Epona and push some goats into a barn. I don't wanna deal with this evil stuff." XD Seriously though... The intro to TP is amazing. drools

This game looks amazing!!!
The new trailer, especially. Wow those puzzles look fun. Wow, the story is intriguing. For a game that began as a sequel to ALTTP (It still is, but now it has more), it sure has stepped it up.

I guess that's true... Though if you check both maps they kinda match in many places. Mountains, deserts, rivers, there's a temple in 1 where the castle is in alttp, link's house in alttp is at the same location where you start in 1, etc.

If you use your imagination and bend the map from 1 you could say that Kakariko village is under the lost woods and the cementery simply can't be visited in alttp... Or you could leave the map as is and the cementery replaces the village.

The south-most part of the map in alttp seems to be completely new, only the first 2 thirds of the map matches with the one of the first game

Just harmless guessing. Sorry lol. It would be cool if they did use this game to link these games more directly.

Maybe you're right and the map from 1 is actually somewhere else.... Like in Holodrum, which is basically a reimagining of the map from 1.

I gave up once the "100 years after OOT" game Twilight Princess had the OOT Temple of Time mostly destroyed and in a forest that contains a skull kid.

Hyrule is the kind of place where a temple with important relics and a door to another universe can be perfectly relocated, destroyed and reclaimed by nature in less than 100 years.

Eiji Aonuma said this game does have a Majora's Mask-related connection near the ending.
Why would the 3DS not have MM3D?

I would love MM3D. Next to Wind Waker that's my favorite.

BTW, Anyone else think its a bit weird that Japan is holding off on ALBW until the day after Christmas. I mean, we don't have a huge "holiday" shopping season like in some western countries, but still, seems kinda odd.

Might have something to do with Zelda selling a bit better in the west but yeah still seems odd! Is there another major release in the next two months from 3rd parties? Sometimes they don't want to cut done the 3rd party games sales with the big releases from Nintendo.

I always think its interesting when people talk about Zelda selling better in the west. I think it has more to do with population than anything else. Plus, Wind Waker sold fairly well for a remake here. Skyward Sword actually did well though.

I don't actually see a lot of big first party games coming out in the remaining weeks of 2013. There's ALBW on Dec. 26, and then there's Daigasso Band Brothers (a music game that is a sequel to a DS game) on Nov 14, aaaand, thats it for the 3DS, the Wii U had Wii U Party, Mario 3D World, and Mario and Sonic at the Sochi Olympics.

There's a bunch of third party games though, like Sonic Lost World, Danball Senki Wars, the new Metal Max, Cooking Mama 5, a new Taiko Tatsujin for the Wii U, Project Mirai 2, Disney Infinity, and a lot more.

some strange going on regarding the tada chest pre order bonus
game tweets: We have no pre-order bonus to announce but BUT you can be sure we're working with Din, Nayru & Farore to bring you something special…

So what does everybody think of the special edition bundle?