Harp of Ages

[Kybyrian]

You all know this one, the harp that you find near the beginning of Oracle of Ages that allows you to travel from the past to the present and vice versa.

Personally, I absolute love the concept of time travel, which is what made me like Ocarina of Time even more.

Also, having the ability to obtain the different tunes as the game progresses was a great addition to the time traveling powers and having to use the different tunes to get to different places and the helpfulness of being able to travel back and forth as you please with the last tune.

In all, I think it was a great item.

[Hylian Hobbit]

I loved the Harp of Ages, it's one of my favorite items. I loved going to a place and seeing the changes in the villages and the terrain while jumping from past to present. I had a lot of fun with this item. :P

[linkman8]

Oh yeah, same as Hylian Hobbit. I loved how certain things changed from past to present, and how certain things that used to be in a place wouldn't be in the same place in the present and stuff like that. Also I kind of wished it could go to the future too.

[octorok74]

I liked how the only way to get to the secret shop in the present is with the Harp of Ages. I absolutely lov that item, probably in my top ten.

[Bluelink6]

Veery useful. Time travel was what Made me buy ocarina of time. And that on a handheld game makes it even better. I don't have to wait till i get home to start making link time travel.

[blackice_cc]

The Harp of Ages was the awesomesauce of the game. Being able to instantly travel back in time a few centuries (once you get the last tune) is pretty cool, and seeing how the terrain varies is interesting. One of the best area that made use of the Harp was the way to Restoration Hill, in my opinion. There was one spot where you had to change the position of a rock in the past, which would change the water flow in the present. Another spot was where you ad to get a bean sprout into the correct place in past so that in the present there was a wall of vines to climb up. I just thought that was really cool.

[Bluelink6]

But couldnt changing little tihngs like that have big impacts possibly?

[PureLocke]

I'm guessing you get immunity from causality or something. But seeing everything flip from past to present or the seasons changing would be amazing on a console.

[K4KING]

The Harp of Ages was truly one of the best Items in the Legend of Zelda. It lets you time travel to the past or present! And you can change anything in the past and that will affect the present state. It comes in handy too, if we want to change something we don't like in the present, we go back in time, do something to prevent it and return to the present and proceed.

What would make it even better is to see it again, but in a 3D console. OoT had the concept of time travelling with the Master Sword and Link, so why not use it again on another game?

[ChargewithSword]

The Harp of Ages for me was the improved version of the Ocarina. Instead of having one situation in the past that you could alter, you could alter the future with the right event triggering. You could pass through past and future to solve certain puzzles such as using it to get a new song. You could use it to get past an obstacle that wasn't there in the future or past and it just works marvels.

The next thing to do is have it that the harp play different songs aside from the three that are present and perhaps it could work them in different ways. One way could be trying to solve a puzzle, so you directly play the instrument towards the puzzle and the puzzle either quickens, slows, or passes by ages in the blink of an eye.

This harp could definitly work in the future as the better Ocarina, but I'd prefer that it'd not be the Harp of Ages. Having direct, direct connections between certain Zeldas can be a little much and just makes you scratch your head.