Wind Waker was such style over substance. The end portion was awful - I only finished it cos I was stuck at home with flu or something and had literally nothing else to do. It bored me to tears.

While I have fond memories of the art style and the sailing (particularly the way the ocean felt so big and daunting) I was really disappointed there wasn't much to discover out there - there was only one tiny little town, right? I thought there might be some new continent to discover but no, it was just tiny little islands (rocks, really) and the odd ship. Nintendo re-releasing this with absolutely no new content seems like such a wasted opportunity. The cube version still looks great anyway. I don't really understand why an HD version would take Nintendo more than a week or two to knock out. But then, I'm not really sure what Nintendo have been doing for the past three or four years besides counting their Wii money.

DLC something other than one town and about thirty hours of monotonous blue soup

Don't remember them being tough. I did play them on release though, when I was young and intelligent and not old and crap like now.

Looks promising. Just wish they would zoom out the camera a notch.

I hate to get Zelda-am-reel-graffix, but Turtle Rock was a desolate place. It'll look like a chocolate-box vista on approach with these graphics.

And Link's overlong sword-charge is easy-mode.

Also agree the cam view, just a smidge out & it would be perfect.  Though that said after watching the trailer on my 3DS with the effect on & the love I have for ALTTP this maybe the first Zelda I'm getting a bit of hype for since Twilight.

WWHD: Day one purchase. Deffo.

I notice that they're pushing the 'continuity' more, mentioning that WW happens just before Phantom Hourglass.

It's only recently IIRC that Nintendo have even acknowledged that the games are linked. (No pun intended.) Some games may have felt like sequels to others (Majora's Mask follows on quite nicely from Ocarina, for example) but they've never explicitly stated that one follows another, let alone plug the previous chapter in a video for an up coming title like this.

I may be wrong, but that's my understanding of the picture.

I think the Zelda timeline is a bit like that series of 24 they apparently started filming before they'd worked out how everything was going to tie together, or the fact that the doctor was supposed to die early on in Lost, but he was popular with test audiences so they kept him in.  I don't care when/where a new one set in comparison to the old games, and one day they're going to tie themselves in knots trying to insist that it all makes sense.  I've completed four of the 3D Zelda games, and apart from Skyward Sword I didn't have much of a clue what was going on in any of them, aside from the basics of good vs evil, but still had a jolly good time.  I don't play Zelda for the plot, I play it for the ingenious puzzles and The Nintendo Factor.

There's a youtube video with all this shizz on earlier in this thread, isn't there?

We'll never know if Nintendo have always had a timeline or have just pieced one together because of fan demand.

If its the latter then they've done a pretty good job as it all come together nicely. Like @mistercrayon has pointed out they did state the history as far back as ALttP and Links Awakening came straight after that.

One thing people seem to forget is your actually supposed to put YOUR NAME in, not Link. You are the player, you are the hero of time.

They forgot the remakes. 'The exact same thing happens again but with nicer textures.'

acemuzzy wrote:

There's a youtube video with all this shizz on earlier in this thread, isn't there?

There's a link to it in the OP.

Zelda timeline is the worst of Geekfiction