The First Incarnation of the Legendary Hero, depicted in Akira Himekawa's 'The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Minus' one-shot manga, canon as featured in Nintendo's Zelda Hyrule Historia.
...and here's The First Incarnation of the Legendary Hero, depicted in Tears of the Kingdom.
>>729424775Was the scarf an inspiration for the Hyrule Warriors Link?
>>729424795Honestly, I'm never playing these pieces of shit.
>>729424775I don't even know what we are supposed to discuss at this point. Nintendo is now a souless megacorp that has lost all touch with what made them big in the first place and current "talent" in charge of most of their major IP's has no idea what to do with them and does not care to even understand what made people like them in the first place.BOTW's lack of story was the cannery in the coalmine, unless there is some major upset the Zelda series will continue to degrade in to being as bad as western game slop
>>729425289>cannery in the coalmine
>>729425289God I love Peach.
>>729425289*canary in the coal mine>>729425452>cannery in the coalminemy bad, autocorrect is weird sometimes.
WORTHY HEIRS OF THE HERO'S TITLE>Link OoTOK that's it.
>>729424795Masonists really stopped being discreet
>>729424775i'll do you one better
>>729424795Totk was a mistake
>>729425631TP Link is worthy literally by OoT Link's own acknowledgement.
>>729425582I was surprised how much I liked the Link x Zelda comics, she looks more natural being his girl than some variants of Zelda; if she had elf ears no one would even notice.
>>729425694Indigo gave everyone middle aged Link and people threw a fucking fit because he had a beard.
>>729425259No reason to, but you should give hyrule warriors on switch a try it is the Oot version not the retard botw version. Or pirate it.
>>729425794So OoT and his blood heirs.
>>729425835It actually looks good on him
>>729425794>we will never get a canon where Link pumps his seed over and over again midna.
>>729424775Skyward Sword was the first incarnation of the Hero
>>729425726it was just a rehash of BOTW, which was where the series lost it's way. You could asset swap most of Twilight Princess and everyone would still recognize it as a Zelda game, you can't do that with BOTW.
>>729425794Only after undertaking his training
>>729425631>Link OoTIsn't he the only Link to get canonically murdered by Ganon
>>729425889Skyward Sword literally says he isn't.
>>729426013Ganon specifically? No.
>>729425835He should have a beard and be buff, he's a lifelong warrior, he's gonna have high T. Everyone expects Link to be a twink forever but forget that in most games he's highschool age at most. Twilight is probably the closest we have gotten to seeing Link as Zelda as full on adults.
>>729426013I thought OOT dies of old age, none of his deeds acknowledged. That's part of why he comes back as the wraith to teach Twilight
eric thread
Link is the HERO of TIME!
>>729426347He does in one timeline. Aonumale needed a reason to shaft the OG timeline so that he could shove WW in there somehow. Coincidentally, it made OoT Zelda an even bigger fuck up than she was supposed to be in OoT.
>>729426590How do you fucking miss that there were three timelines that resulted from Ocarina of Time?
>>729424775Why is he so hot.
>>729424775retard design, this is literally just Oot Link with a scarf, shouldve ditched his gay little hat atleast,
>OoT introduces Link's tunic as a relic of the Kokiri>No he always had it>Minish Cap introduces Link's cap as a tribute to Ezlo, the Picori who became Link's hat for a while>No he always had it
>>729428630he was made to be a goddesses lover. Hylia set it up so he would be reborn forever just so he could could keep fucking her descendants, she wouldn't have done that for anything other than the best.
>>729426013>>729426347SO theres three timelines. Main one follows the Hero of Time as a child and ends with him dying an unsung hero, possibly in a distant land and leads into TPSecond timeline follows the events where Ganon somehow breaks his binds and the land has to be flooded because Zelda was a retard and got rid of the only guy who can wield the MasterswordThird is the most dubious one, where appearently Links dies sometime after being awakened but before he can unlock most of the sages. So Ganondorf just slowly takes over hyrule unopposed and this somehow leads into the orginal Zelda games where society is basically hiding away in caves and Link magically reincarnates centuries later to save the day.Its all pretty lame desu, since in every scenario the Sages are functionally useless>even TP they cant even merc a bound and gagged Ganondorf and need to use the twilight mirror...which is a thing now>Dont ask why they didnt have this mcguffin in the windwaker timeline and had to field nuke everyone
>>729425894BotW is secretly just a rehash of Skyward Sword, which is where the series actually lost its way. The only real difference is that there is an open world level select, instead of the level select being the Sky hubworld into level select screen>Right-handed Link>Link travels through time, Zelda stays in the past>Background B-plot is some generic anime highschool thing>Stamina mechanics>Crafting>Durability>Everything is a small self-contained puzzle>Obsession with rotating a block so that its 3D outline fits through a 2D hole>Completely incoherent artstyle, like the gremlins in an impressionist pointilist landscape of SS, or the WW Koroks just being transferred 1:1 into BotW>Casual disregard for established canon, like Link having the cap in SS or Zora/Rito coexisting in BotW>Mediocre UI that does not use the tools at its disposal correctly, like SS using the gyro for the pointer controls>Most interesting content is in the desert
>>729429719I remember reading a theory somewhere that Skyward Sword resulted in a split timeline too.It went something like this:>In Skyward Sword Zelda travels to the past, just after Hylia sealed away Demise, and enters hibernation to maintain the seal until the present day, 1000 years later>She entrusts Link to kill Demise for good by obtaining the Triforce and wishing Demise was dead>Link does this, and Demise (as the Imprisoned) is killed in the modern era>Ghirahim, the sword spirit embodying Demise's greatsword, kidnaps Zelda and travels into the past>He sacrifices Zelda's divine soul and unseals Demise, turning the Imprisoned back into the Demon King>Link then fights and kills Demise, Demise binds his hatred to Link's spirit and Zelda's bloodline before dying>Link and Zelda then return to the futureBut because they killed Demise in the past, the future was changed. Their new future became Ocarina, which resulted in Wind Waker, LttP, and Twilight Princess, the games in which Demise reincarnated as Ganondorf.But the original timeline, where Demise was sealed to the present day and then killed by a wish to the Triforce, still existed. Link and Zelda never returned here, but the safety of the surface now lets the people of Skyloft descend once more. The Triforce is taken by the people and passed down through the new royal family as the "Light Force". This timeline results in Minish Cap, Four Swords, and Four Swords Adventures.
>>729429135>Wow there making a new zelda game I hope the kokiri are in it.>there ugly little trees now>ha okay that game was a little different, but its an alternate timeline so whatever>Next game is supposed to be a direct sequal to OOT so maybe we'll get to see Saria and Mido this time!>Decades go by>there still ugly little trees...and they shit in your hand now>you have to endure their scatfetish in order to expand your inventoryOoTboomers stay suffering
>>729429187so hylia likes blonde twink cock?
>>729429719I have no issues with BotW because the game was set so far into the future that it could have references to older games without causing any issues, like how Ruto was mentioned by name as the reason why the Zora Armor as an engagement ring exists, or how Urbosa acknowledges the fact that OoT/TP Ganondorf were Gerudo. But then TotK came and shat all over the lore and story and now we apparently have a whole new alternate universe separated from the other games. It's a fucking mess.
>>729426024No, it literally says he is. All of the dragons refer to Link as THE Hero Chosen by the Goddess. He's the one. The ancient hero referred to by Zelda in the opening is that Link after traveling back through the Gate of Time to seal Demise.
>>729430653The funny thing about BotW alternate timelines is that the Age of Calamity timeline didn't even need to be noncanon, its retcon in BotW is so minor that it doesn't affect anything in BotW at all.
>>729424795When will you retards finally understand that this was a new Hyrule and not the same one that was created after SS? It's not even the first time a new Hyrule was created
>>729430890He's the first REincarnation of the hero, he's a chosen one just as much as every other reincarnation
>>729429552>even TP they cant even merc a bound and gagged Ganondorf and need to use the twilight mirrorHe had the Triforce of Power so he was unkillable.>Dont ask why they didnt have this mcguffin in the windwaker timeline Ganon just suddenly erupted from underground, it's not like they could just bring him to the mirror.
>>729431029>He's the first REincarnation of the heroNo, he's not. That's not what Skyward Sword says. He's THE Hero. The entire reason Hylia had to incarnate as a human was to arrange a hero to wield the Triforce for her. If she already had a Link in the past then there's no point in that plan. SS Link is the first hero, The Hero Chosen by the Goddess is what he's called. The manga isn't canon.
>>729430653The references to last games were never anything other than fun easter eggs, it makes absolutely no sense for them to exist in a time so fucking far into the future that no one even knows what the fuck a triforce is, but hey look it's the ruins of the Lon Lon Ranch that somehow still survived after how many fucking thousands of years
>>729425289new kirby was good tho
>>729430172The kokiri can't even leave their magical forest, they're the most boring race to bring back
>>729431198They're at Lon Lon Ranch in the ending.
>>729424775No wonder Hylia was so wet.
>>729424775In my headcanon the hero of time is the only Link that’s genetically identical to this, the first, one
>>729429187fat zelda breasts!
when will Nintendo stop being cowards and give us the Bara Conan-Link we all deserve?
>>729424775I don’t know why some fag anons are vehemently against this being canon. It explains the reincarnation cycle and Hylia’s disappearance but also it’s blatantly kino.
