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My first thought for favorite quote was Linebeck's wish in Phantom Hourglass. After all the talk of treasure, he really just wants his boat back. It shows that he's learned some humility, and suggests that he'll go on to become the adventurer he always pretended to be. Thing is, that's less a...

I always figured the heart containers were actual items Link obtained, which increased his capacity to take damage. I would say that they were containers for potion or something, but Link refills them by doing normal video-game healing activities (like eating and drinking restorative foods...

I suppose it could be spackled or handwaved as a result of the Triforce rebooting everything at the end of the game. But then why did Link still have it? It's probably just a sprite issue, like Eggman in Knuckles' story in Sonic & Knuckles where they didn't have a front-facing Egg Robo to put...

Various Zeldas have made some less-than-wise decisions. I can name at least two whom I've had to escort to the bottom of a crumbling tower and around various obstacles, yet elsewhere in their respective games they clearly possess the ability to levitate. I can name one who tried to kick...

Nor does he bleed, or lose limbs, or get crushed, or suffer burns or melted skin/hair when lit on fire. I think an awful lot of the things we usually write off as digressions to gameplay could be accounted for via heart containers. However, that doesn't explain why Link starts each game with...

Or for that matter, in MM (where Link looks identical, so if he's aged, it clearly hasn't been by too much). Using the weapons that only Adult Link could use on OoT. You'd think they would have done more items that needed the transformation masks to use, like the powder keg. Oh well. Oh, and...

Actually, here's something I thought of the other day: Someone mentioned earlier that bomb arrows fly the same as normal arrows. But if you think about it, regular arrows don't behave like real arrows anyway. They always fly perfectly straight, unaffected by gravity. So much so that you can use...

I'm not sure that the reference to the bloodline requires being a direct descendant. After all, Link's uncle in LTTP talks about "our bloodline" (when he says that the sword spin was handed down). Also, in WW, the King of Red Lions tells Jabun that WW Link isn't related to the Hero of Time, but...

He didn't kill Zelda. He just kicked her out of her own body. And then he got... (Is that a spoiler? It's only been a couple years...) Kinda lame, actually. Besides, he wasn't the first one to use Zelda as a puppet in battle.

Well, I always thought that because they were (a) basically human, (b) not really villainous, and (c) not all that well armed (save the ones in the jail cells), he surrendered because he didn't want to hurt them. But that doesn't explain why he doesn't just run away. :S

Well, if the pottery in my house grew back and had more stuff inside id, I don't think I'd be that bothered either. The fact that some random kid just let himself into my house to begin with, though, that might bother me. For that matter: Gerudos, who wear no armor and little clothing, can...

I don't know who this Ghirahim guy is, and I'm trying to avoid Skyward Sword spoilers. So I'll ignore him for now. My vote goes to Ganon, hands down. This absolutely and totally sums up how I feel about Zant. It's quite sad, really. I wanted to love him as a villain. His change in mannerism...

Okay, let me see... The pink reflections, I think I've seen before. It's just a lighting effect. No big mystery. The moon is, um, the moon? Possibly also the inspiration for Space Colony Ark, but I doubt it. I don't see anything out of the ordinary; that's just how it looked in MM. Why? Your...

I can be a punk sometimes and I do get steamed fairly regularly, but I honestly don't see Zelda as being steampunk. Steampunk is more Victorian era, which compared to the Middle Ages is fairly recent. I don't mind a little steampunk, in the loose sense of technology made with pre-electronic...

You know what? I'm not even sure I'd mind a modern Zelda. (Though I definitely wouldn't want to see it more than once. Maybe a time-travel gimmick between medievaland modern-day Hyrule?) What I'd mind is the ambiguously medieval setting having too much technology in it. The PH boat was pushing...

Majora's Mask is the only one of these I haven't yet beaten. TP was the easiest for me, and WW not too much harder. I was stuck in OoT's Gerudo Fortress for the longest time, but eventually figured it out. In Majora's Mask, I'm presently stuck in the well. Trying to make sure I have all the...

Yeah, the big thing is not so much the difficulty as the steep learning curve. There's a lot of exploration involved, which can be a big turnoff for those used to having cutscenes to guide us and fortune tellers or annoying sidekicks to tell us what our next step should be. You're just sorta...

Occam's Razor, huh? Don't make up extra stuff to explain a situation when the stuff you already know about will work, right? Nice to hear it being used for something other than "You're appealing to ignorance!" "No, you are!" (Got to stop reading comment threads for religion articles. Urgh.) Bit...

Hey! Hey, guy? Guy, can I count the Anouki as one character for purposes of this thread? Actually, heh, can you count them for me, 'cause I'm too lazy. Oh, but first if you could do a long and tedious puzzle with no real fun or challenge involved, I'd be real grateful, guy. AAARGH! ...

Honestly, the more I think about this the less it makes sense. My guess--and it's basically just a guess--is that it's just not that hard to slip between the Great Sea that used to be Hyrule and the one in the Realm of the Ocean King. (That, or he actually brought his entire realm to Hyrule at...

Personally, I'm taking the games at face value when they say that the Four Sword splits a single Link into four heroes. For one thing, it's a kind of time travel we haven't seen. According to this theory, unless you don't regard game sprites or official art as canonical, they all end up in a...

Nobody makes soup like Grandma. (Except for Yetis. But Grandma knows how to keep all the right ingredients handy.) Okay, seriously? I'm gonna agree with the person who said to explore, because you never know what you'll find. I'm playing through the original game now for the first time and I'm...

I just like to fish for stuff. Just make sure you get your wallet upgraded first (which you've probably already done). Most of the minor glowing spots are rupees, and you don't get to put them back because your wallet's full. (Ironic that when such a feature was introduced in TP, it was just...

Well, the Sheikah have a history of hanging around dark, scary, forsaken places--Shadow Temple, anyone? So it's not implausible that they might use someplace like the Forsaken Fortress as an HQ. But why would the Sheikah be making sure Ganon got out? Shouldn't they be making sure he stayed in...

I'm with Meego on the "cramming" issue: I don't want a "Hey look we worked in every race now aren't you happy" situation. But I disagree about a new race. If every so often they would pull an under-utilized race out of the pile and incorporate them into the story, rather then inventing a bunch...

Actually, I just contributed to a technical (read: boring) conversation on that very subject in the "horrible ideas" thread in this forum. Thus far there's no way it makes sense in-universe unless rupees are magically able to transform into exact change. Okay, you know what I don't get? The...

Here's my vote for the number one Zelda blunder: Making certain games' timeline placements obvious. For one thing, many of us enjoy the challenge of formulating and refining our timeline theories and now Nintendo has decided to spoon-feed us. At the same time, the lack of ambiguity can bulldoze...

I'm with you on that one, J Oh. I really don't mind the minutiae-of-your-boring-life posts, but probably because most of my "friends" don't often post them. I do however hate the automatic notifications. Come on, I don't CARE how you're doing on those stupid games that for some reason give the...

There are three reasons I wouldn't like the idea. To elaborate at all on the first two, we'd have to move this topic to the "Mature Discussion" forums, so I'll keep it brief: 1. I agree with those who say women in games are too objectified. 2. Thinking about it NOW, after over two decades of...

Wait, was Zelda a brunette in Twilight Princess? I remember her just being a darker shade of blonde. The brown hair came in with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. But I might be mis-remembering. I'm sure her design will at least be tweaked, like the TP designs were tweaked from OoT and like Link's...

Clearly the argument that the games are mostly retellings of the same basic legend has merit. But that's like saying that all the variations of the Hero's journey are the same story. Same basic plot perhaps, but not the same story. (Or maybe it is. I guess it depends on the precise definition of...

I never even finished the trading sequence. Darn time limits. :(

Ugh. I'm not big on stealth in Zelda. In WW, it at least made sense, because you were an unarmed kid up against moblins. In OoT, on the other hand, you were a fully armed adult sneaking around the Gerudo fortress, and when caught, you just throw your hands up and hold still? Don't even try to...

I found it tedious. I would have traded it for a few more dungeons in a heartbeat. Eight dungeons (one for each piece) would have been pushing it. But I think the game didn't have enough dungeons. Like SavageWizzrobe said, it was this big, overwhelming glob of gameplay. It needed to be broken...

I'm not sure about the Rito being evolved Zora. I know Medli talked about a time before the Rito evolved wings, which is when the Grappling Hook was used, but I figure it's possible she was not referring to evolution as we know it but to Rito like Komali who don't have wings yet, or to a time...

I'm Linebyline. I guess it means I like the equals sign (=) or maybe the logical OR (||). Nah. It actually came from my old HTML tutorials site...from back before I knew that much HTML. Even though I went by HTMLKING (man, I was a pretentious little snot!) on the site itself, I was so...

I had a Pokémon fansite on MSN Home or whatever it was called back in like 1999, and that had a message board in it. There were also fits and starts with some homeschooling forums, where I posted once or twice on my mom's account. My first real forum, certainly my first Zelda forum, was probably...

First of all, I will never understand how Super Mario Galaxy can be held up as an example of good motion control in a game. Shaking the remote to spin-jump? You might just as well say that New Super Mario Bros. Wii has Motion controls. But "unobtrusive"? No. Sure, it's not exactly like lifting...

Aren't there some that you can only get if you don't get others? Like, the one where the mouse throws you back against the curtain because you don't go stand where he tells you? So then you can't get the normal first picture, can you?

Granted...Because the oranges have been changed to resemble apples. I wish YOU were an Oscar Mayer wiener.

I liked the A Link to the Past model. In that game, some of the dungeons were themed, e.g. you had a desert dungeon, an ice dungeon, a water dungeon, and if I remember right a semi-lava-y dungeon (though I remember it as more of a fall-down-holes-a-lot dungeon, and the Link's Awakening version...

I realize this is a two-month-old thread but I think I have something to add here that doesn't quite warrant a new thread: They didn't improve on The Wind Waker's sailing. They improved on Sonic Rush Adventure's sailing.Think about the similarities: You have a map that gradually expands...

I agree with that. I wasn't bothered by the MM picto box because it seemed like Termina was supposed to be more advanced. There was sort of a clockwork, quasi-steampunk vibe. The Zora of course had plumbing, and there was the bomb shop, and so on. I'm pretty sure the Zora didn't have 1960s or...

I figured they were containers for the red potion. Or, since Link's clearly shown drinking red potion, then maybe they're magical items that allow his body to absorb more of it, and indicate how much he's got left...in there... um...:S For me, that sort of explains why Link can take so much...

I'd love a GameCube or Classic option. (I'd take GCN over Classic because I have some GameCube controllers lying around, but haven't bought a classic controller yet.) I would also take MotionPlus over the simplistic "Shake the remote to swing the sword" technique. I haven't played the Wii...

Hey, Tingle flew by balloon all the way back in Majora's Mask. (Though I did feel like Termina was more technologically advanced than Hyrule, but...) As for the plane, I agree with what TVTMaster said. But for me the biggest issue is the too-much-technology issue. Take Spirit Tracks: I liked...

I don't know if I'd go that far. Yes, the game was so similar to LttP in structure that if it had been a SNES follow-up it probably would have been too similar to be "revered." I still think it would have been a good game, though. But I wouldn't say that the 3D thing is the only reason. Look...

I'd like to see a game that had some dragon-riding sequences. I do agree that having a dragon you could summon anytime like Epona would be a little much. Sure, they could solve the problem by putting the dragon toward the end of the game, but I hate when they do that. (Second set of gauntlets in...

Also, Smash Bros. apparently takes place in its own universe, and the characters aren't really the Nintendo characters, but anthropomorphic statues of Nintendo characters. (And Sonic and Snake.) Honestly, I assumed that the Mario sports and party spinoffs were out-of-continuity, but I...

I don't know. I like the idea of each character having their own unique, final-smash-like powerup attack. It reminds me somewhat of the character-specific items in Double Dash. However, I'm firmly in the camp that says that a Zelda-themed racing game is not a good fit for the series. Instead...