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  1. hwrdjacob

    Spoiler Timeline continuity in BotW

    Zelda mentions that the master sword was "steeped in the embers of twilight", the Embers of Twilight obstensibly being the Sol Orbs. Again, refer to my signature. I could go into the specifics but I don't want to evade the spoiler police over it when Zelda point blank alludes to AoL's events...
  2. hwrdjacob

    Spoiler Timeline continuity in BotW

    "BotW isn't canon, it was just a prank bro" "convergence even though there's next to nothing from WW and the Rito are specifically distanced from the Zora" "It's pre SS even though the events of every CT and DT game has happened" The pessimist in me is saying Aonuma would try to toy with us...
  3. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild [SPOILERS] - BOTW Spoiler Round Up

    Yes, but he throws the Blights at you if you don't kill them in the temples first, making it a boss rush
  4. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild [SPOILERS] - BOTW Spoiler Round Up

    Actually, Zelda is specifically said to . We also have so the True Child Timeline theory (see signature) is basically gridlocked into being the sole sensical placement for BotW, and failing that at the bare minimum post AoL
  5. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild [SPOILERS] - BOTW Spoiler Round Up

    She'd have to wrench the ToP from Ganon to The only theories that are even viable at this rate unless you wanna suggest Ganon lost the ToP are Post AoL or the True Child Timeline theory
  6. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild [SPOILERS] - BOTW Spoiler Round Up

    I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING THIS GAME IS POST ADVENTURE OF LINK Ok so, basically This is a spoiler thread so I assume it's ok to post this here but I'm just happy to have this validated at long last. I was literally correct on just about every observation I've made on the game...
  7. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Fire Emblem gameplay strategies

    (If anyone can help with ASCII art please let me know so I can illustrate maps better)
  8. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Fire Emblem gameplay strategies

    formations that work in FE are situational. Extremely situational. Some of the more effective defensive formations utilize walls, offensive formations are usually reserved for immobile bosses. With the sole exception of two games, your lord should be on the front lines, and even in the two...
  9. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem A Fire Emblem movie/anime series?

    There was already a failed attempt at an OVA based on Mystery of the Emblem: Book 1, the game which was later remade as Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. It resulted in only 2 of the planned 30 episodes (For Book 1). However, elements from the anime had influence on Shadow Dragon. It's likely because...
  10. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

    Not anymore. They counted it shortly before Awakening but now they don't count it anymore. HOWEVER, they do count Fates twice; they count Birthright and Conquest as FE14, and consider Revelation to be FE15, from what I understand. Also, TMS has the official designation of #FE, so they do count...
  11. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

    On that note, it's starting to look more and more like Nintendo is officially calling FE7 "The Blazing Blade"- not only does it distinguish "Fire Emblem" from the series, but it also forms a theme naming with The Binding Blade, its chronological sequel. The name "The Blazing Blade" was used in...
  12. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

    The actual subtitles are basically full sentences so it's habit. I know I've written essays talking about Hyrule Historia being wrong but writing out "Genealogy of the Holy War: Generation 2" every couple sentences gets a bit grating lol Let me just list all the subtitles by number: FE1...
  13. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

    Support convos were in the second remake, New Mystery of the Emblem, just not support LEVELS. So we're likely getting convos but not support levels, since support conversations have been in essentially every game since FE4 except for FE5 and 11.
  14. hwrdjacob

    Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

    It's not just the west here Supply for the (2 localized anyway) GBA games seems to have been reasonable enough for a GBA game at the time. Not once have I heard any stories of the game being hard to find until after Awakening came out and everyone started snatching them up based on spotpass...
  15. hwrdjacob

    Discipline or novelty: Do you prefer item upgrades or honing your skills with the current ones?

    I feel like the best compromise and what BotW should try is an upgrade system where Link has to accrue skill or exp with the current weapon before he can upgrade or build a better version of it
  16. hwrdjacob

    What is the Copy Rod?

    I didn't say anything about your theory so much as your assertion that English canon always trumps Japanese canon when ST's English version ruins at least 10% of the connections in SS through what appears to be entirely unwarranted and nonsensical censorship, which is par for the course with...
  17. hwrdjacob

    Where BoTW Fits

    ------------/->WW>PH>ST>TFH SS>OoT>MM>TP>TMC>FS>FSA>ALttP>OoX>LA>ALBW>LoZ>AoL>BotW Boom. The shiekah **** was deep underground in basically time capsules from what we know so far so they and the machines get a pass for that, all the TP and retro references are almost instantly accounted for...
  18. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild The Six Sages

    What if they're shiekah agents and not sages? The "temple of time" has the original Seven Sages from the pre SS era (six hylian saves and Hylia, the seventh, herself, complete with their symbols) so the sages might be just a faded memory in this game while the shiekah take center stage But...
  19. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Help Me Compile Timeline Evidence

    The scabbard has the same design in TP and SS. I also doubt Christianity would exist separately from Hylian religion for the simple fact Hylian religion strongly alludes to Christianity in the first place (Hylia/Zelda= Jesus, Golden Goddesses= the holy trinity, Hyrule is literally called "The...
  20. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Help Me Compile Timeline Evidence

    That's basically what ST and HW are likely going with, except making them a very roundabout connection to Hylia and the other Gods of Light. The Lokomo sword is there to further the connection with the Magical Sword's design. Going strictly by the Japanese manual and glancing over the crosses...
  21. hwrdjacob

    Hyrule Encyclopedia

    Well, hopefully this book is incomplete/inaccurate enough that it won't put me out of my forum job
  22. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Help Me Compile Timeline Evidence

    We admittedly have very little concrete evidence on how much raw power a Triforce bearer has after they make their seemingly one wish, but here's the thing- All of the Links' wishes are accounted for, EXCEPT AoL Link. SS Link we know for a fact used his wish to destroy Demise in the present era...
  23. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    Hyrule seems to be some kind of Empire by that point (Hyrule is not one, but several kingdoms in the NES games for reasons not entirely elaborated; the kingdom where the rest of the series took place is seemingly the area south of Death Mountain in AoL and likewise presumably the setting of NES...
  24. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    Hyrule seems to be some kind of Empire by that point (Hyrule is not one, but several kingdoms in the NES games for reasons not entirely elaborated; the kingdom where the rest of the series took place is seemingly the area south of Death Mountain in AoL and likewise presumably the setting of NES...
  25. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild: Pics Until Release Thread

    Another shot very similar to NES artwork, and being their first photo... It's almost like they're insinuating something here
  26. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    The way it's set up if BotW takes place after AoL, Zoras are going to try to kill you. If it takes place after ST (honestly fat chance at this point tbh), Zoras will try to kill you, and will be tormented feral monsters to boot. Regardless if Rito show up. (At least with BotW being Zelda 3 Zoras...
  27. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Help Me Compile Timeline Evidence

    Just also wanna point out this is hogwash. ALttP fits very comfortably after FSA. The Imprisoning War doesn't have to be an event we see in a game as it stands and in fact OoT contradicts major details about the IW and more damningly Ganondorf. Continuity was not preserved by placing ALttP...
  28. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Help Me Compile Timeline Evidence

    - AoL's north of Hyrule is by all accounts covered by seawater earlier in the timeline comparing AoL and FSA's maps and seeing the lack of land north of Death Mountain -Hyrule's scale in AoL more closely matches BotW, adjusted for scale AoL seems to have a Hyrule five times the normal size at...
  29. hwrdjacob

    Navi, agent of evil or loyal companion?

    Next Week: Fi was a double agent all along, Ezlo wanted Vaati to destroy the world.
  30. hwrdjacob

    Thoughts on Bird-men

    On the first note- doesnt BotW bring back exp in some form or is that a baseless claim that's been floating around? Not to mention AoL has a connection to an ancient sea that seems to have at one point covered North of Hyrule based on FSA's map
  31. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    Well I mean the King and the Royal Family did have the full unbridled might of the Triforce, which made Ganon a literal deity for a time in ALttP before Link claimed the Triforce from Ganon. The Royal Family also had the Triforce shortly after SS. If the Fokka are the race we see in BotW, they...
  32. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    They aren't called Monsters. They're specifically called guardians, the bosses are called Guardian Deities (same as MM). All are said to be made by the king. Overworld enemies are referred to as minions or "soldiers from hell", the word in question being rendered as "Dark Realm" in OoX...
  33. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    Friendly reminder that variants of the Fokka (Fokkeru) do in fact have wings in Zelda 2. That's specifically why I brought it up. Fokka s also were NEVER bad guys, that being one of the primary reasons I connected these dots. They guard the Triforce of Courage under what seems to be direct...
  34. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    The difference between the Wind Tribe and the Skyloftians/Oocca/Sky Tribe that everyone convienently forgets is the Skyloftians seem strongly implied by TP to have never left the sky (the ones that did leave and founded Hyrule were no longer considered Skyloftians, but rather Hylians) and made...
  35. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Convergence or amalgamation?

    My friend put forward the theory that Yoshiaki Koizumi and Aonuma are actually writing a completely different story than put forward in Hyrule Historia and the Historia's sole purpose is to throw Miyamoto off the scent and hamper his ability to screw with their story (like he did with FSA, ALBW...
  36. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    The Japanese text of TP just outright states the Sky Tribe is the ancestors of the Hylians and that they made the City in the Sky (so strongly implied to be Skyloft it isn't funny) the Capitol of Hyrule before Hyrule Castle was established. Oocca and Skyloftians have literally the exact same...
  37. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild NPCs join the battle?

    I think this might be used to hammer in "Ganon brought Hylians to their knees and destroyed Hyrule" if it's correct they're stragglers banding together. The fact the village we've seen is hidden village style tucked away in the mountains supports that.
  38. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild BotW's timeline ambiguity is on purpose/for the fans?

    Several things- Nintendo made a tweet around Halloween where the tweet can literally say "the same locations" as LoZ depending on how you translate it, coupled with a bunch of images comparing screenshots of LoZ to BotW showing images like Spectacle Rock, Ganon's chamber remains, what seems to...
  39. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild BotW's timeline ambiguity is on purpose/for the fans?

    I really think whoever is writing the game (Aonuma or otherwise) just flipped the middle finger to HH. I will say Nintendo has been surprisingly reluctant to show pretty much any connection to the AT that can't be hand waved though, and they've been belligerently insistent on both the game...
  40. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild 30th anniversary amiibo functions

    I just want an update to OoT3D that gives it C Stick support like MM3D. Capcom did it with their games...
  41. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    If that's the case I think it's rather questionable the Koroks didn't evolve and indeed have the exact same names as their WW counterparts apparently if this takes place after ST. I've never really subscribed to the figure being a Rito in TP due to the fact the Koroks can be easily integrated...
  42. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    Which also lends credence to this being a Fokka since despite being enemies they were devout servants of the royal family on par with the Shiekah. This being a Rito doesn't particularly add up due to the differences between him and the Rito and the absence of Rito symbolism (Zora's sapphire...
  43. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild The Plot/Storyline

    Based on everything I feel like the Master Sword is a lost ancient artifact, and the game will revolve around trying to locate and pull the Master Sword for at least the first half, hence why the logo places so much emphasis on the sacred grove. The damaged condition of the master sword could...
  44. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild BotW's mysterious women

    Note: I only said ALttP and LA. **** to be truthfully honest, they didn't even call the character Link in those games in Japan just "The Hero". In LoZ and AoL, as well as OoT onward, they referred to the character as Link and I know specifically that Link is referred to as definitively male in...
  45. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild BotW's mysterious women

    I've heard the Japanese version doesn't explicitly denote Link being male or female, which was the case with ALttP and LA in Japan, which is why it was said early on "maybe" link is a girl- they might be leaving Link's gender ambiguous in Japan
  46. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild What is the giant bird ship?

    The design of it suggests a Loftwing, which supports this creature being related to a Fokka at least from a conceptual level (Hyper evolved Loftwing guardians)
  47. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild: Game Awards Trailer

    Which in and of itself is the same design it has in TP and ALBW artwork. It seems to just be the design of the Master Sword scabbard in general I think the condition of the master sword itself is ultimately irrelevant (but it helps). What's more damning for it being Zelda 3 is the condition of...
  48. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Mysterious Rito(?) Friend of foe?

    Friendly reminder that Fokkas given the context are likely Hyper Evolved Loftwings. Also reminder the airship he's on is in the shape of a Loftwing, as is his face (at least, closer to a Loftwing than a Rito) Yes I'm insinuating the possibility this may be a Fokka, given Nintendo's belligerent...
  49. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild: Game Awards Trailer

    It looks like a robotic Loftwing lending credence to this being a hyper evolved Loftwing or Fokka (if there's even a difference between the two)
  50. hwrdjacob

    Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild: Game Awards Trailer

    Looking at the bird thing, it's pretty clear by the design of the beak seen from an angle it's meant to be a super evolved Loftwing or a Fokka (assuming they aren't the same thing, which Fokkas might be) and considering Fokkas have only ever appeared in Zelda 2...
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