Gymnastics in MM

[zeldusfanaticus]

okay, in all zelda games link just jumps when he jumps. in MM he can do backflips and cartwheels and lots of other stuff way different from OoT. how is ths possible?

[Chrono]

okay, in all zelda games link just jumps when he jumps. in MM he can do backflips and cartwheels and lots of other stuff way different from OoT. how is ths possible?

Obviously it was from his experience. He is more skilled in swordplay and movement than he was than OoT.

[Kitsu]

Perhaps Link practiced gymnastics while in the Kokiri forest a way to pass time. Or, maybe it is something he learned during the time he was sent back to his childhood in Ocarina of Time.
Then again, maybe Link is just magical, it is Zelda, you know.

[Onilink89]

Obviously it was from his experience. He is more skilled in swordplay and movement than he was than OoT.

yes thats the most logical explanation.

But still, i 'm wondering about 1 thing? In the beta trailers of OOT, you saw link preforming a frontflip followed with a jump attack when he ran off a cliff or something.

why didn 't they used this in OOT, its quite a shame they left this out.

Also i really wanted to see back this acrobatic movement of link in TP (before TP was out).

[Ando]

I dunno. Seeing TP Link flip around like that just... seems... off to me. He's too beastly for such things.

Still, though, the acrobatics Link performs in Majora's Mask are one of my favorite control additions. You totally don't expect it the first time. You're like run... jump-- FLIP?!
Good times!

[blackice_cc]

Yeah, he must have just gotten more experienced etc. We know he's a little older in MM than he is in OoT, so he had the time to practice. Also , maybe all Hylians just have the ability of being acrobatic or something, because all of the Links (at least in the 3d games) can do things like that. In OoT, as young and old link, you could do back flips with the Z-target thing, in WW and TP you could do a flip of your enemies heads while slashing down at them, etc.

[Y2K3]

I never really thought about why. I guess I jsut firgured that how Nintendo wanted him. :p
I thought it was amazing though, simply 'cause it looked sweet.

[EponaOwns]

what i always say is the smaller u r the easier to do gymnastics. that must be the answer

[linkman8]

I always wondered why he could do the acrobatics and whatnot. It confused me, but I thought it was cool, so I ignored it. I'd place it on either he got more experience, or Nintendo figured they'd add something cool in there just for fun.

[Chris]

Obviously it was from his experience. He is more skilled in swordplay and movement than he was than OoT.

He must have practiced, it is the only thing that makes sense. He may have just been training and learned that he could do backflips, ect. So ya, he must have been training.

[zeldusfanaticus]

Obviously it was from his experience. He is more skilled in swordplay and movement than he was than OoT.

buuut... link is still a litle kid, maybe 11, it takes many, many years to master gymnastics

[Matt]

Yeah, there is no in-universe logic to find because there is none. They just put it in there because it looked really cool. In a battle between logic and really cool moves, really cool moves typically wins.

[Judai]

okay, in all zelda games link just jumps when he jumps. in MM he can do backflips and cartwheels and lots of other stuff way different from OoT. how is ths possible?

Well if you want to think outside "Zelda being real", they probably added it to make him seem more ... realistic or make the game more interesting...

I'd like to see a jump action like in Super Mario 64.

[Josh]

I'd like to see a jump action like in Super Mario 64.


mmm. I think I'd have to kill them if they did that.

I've noticed it, but I haven't really ever thought of it. I mean he does it in like all 3-D Zelda Games, and I guess it would be perfectly fine for all the younger ones like WW and MM, and early OoT to do it since they're like 5 feet tall but the big guys, ugh.

[Welbanks]

It was sweet, i dont care how he did it, i just wish they'd of left it in :(

[Kitsu]

buuut... link is still a litle kid, maybe 11, it takes many, many years to master gymnastics

Regardless of his age, he still had all the experience from Ocarina of Time. He had the experience fighting many difficult bosses and the years of fighting other enemies.

[Axle the Beast]

Regardless of his age, he still had all the experience from Ocarina of Time. He had the experience fighting many difficult bosses and the years of fighting other enemies.
Experience, yeah. But gymnastics is far more than just mental experience. Your body needs a lot of building as well.

Anyway, I think they just put it in to be a little cooler.

[Hylian Hobbit]

buuut... link is still a litle kid, maybe 11, it takes many, many years to master gymnastics

It also usually takes many, many years to master swordplay well enough to kill monsters that are like ten times your size, but Link seemed to pick up on that pretty quickly. :P

Link already has some acrobatic skill at the very beginning of Ocarina of Time. Being able to do back flips and such. So it should be no surprise that he would be able to perform a higher level of acrobatics after his adventure saving Hyrule. My guess is that he'd get a lot of experience from that.

When I started playing MM and I was jumping across the first jumpable things, I expected to see the regular jumps like in OoT. So I was pretty surprised when I saw the awesome flippy jump thing. And it might of been just to make Link that much more awesome. :P

[Kitsu]

It also usually takes many, many years to master swordplay well enough to kill monsters that are like ten times your size, but Link seemed to pick up on that pretty quickly. :P

Link already has some acrobatic skill at the very beginning of Ocarina of Time. Being able to do back flips and such. So it should be no surprise that he would be able to perform a higher level of acrobatics after his adventure saving Hyrule. My guess is that he'd get a lot of experience from that.


That was more the point I was trying to make. Link had a lot of physical experience from Ocarina of Time, from when he was a child, and from when he was an adult.
Also, like above mentioned, he Link seemed to pick up on swordplay easliy, it seemed to "come naturally", for him. So, I imagine tha with the physical practice from Ocarina, and then his natural ability he would be able to pull off side-flips.
Moreover, we don't know how much time passed between OoT, and MM. He could of practiced more in that period of time.

[Petman1325]

When you save a kingdom, awaken 5 sages, and spend some time with Kokiri practicing backflips in Kokiri Forest. In the Fire Temple, he randomly slides in a near crouched position on one plank of wood.

[Ver-go-a-go-go]

Yes, I'll jump on the bandwagon once again and say it's from his OoT experience.