Posts by Kaynil

  • New Artwork discovered in GameStop

    According to a Zelda Universe's Tweet, GameSpot has a new artwork of Link in display.
    Yup. That's the whole deal. A photograph of the image. No biggie.
    Just like it happened with this one not that long ago.

    The one that sparked the whole Twilight Princess Remake Rumours just before the eShop icon thing. And the reason I bring it up is because this image, in my opinion is in the same style. A Twilight Princess looking Link with lighter colours and larger ears.

    The pose, as quickly was pointed out, is based in :OoT:'s Link

    What are we supposed to do with this image if not start assuming things, Nintendo?

    The top just says "The Legend of Zelda". In Youtube, Zelda U videos are called the same way, using the year to differentiate between the NES game and the one coming out this year. But :TLoZ: is the main name of the franchise, so it really could be nothing.

    The bottom says "Two roads lead to Hyrule" while showing Twilight Princess HD and Hyrule Warrior legends. I might be discovering nothing new but since :TP: HD's amiibo was said to do something for Zelda U's game, then maybe this is a way to saying that Hyrule Warrior Legends will have something to offer as well.

    ... Or it could just be Nintendo taunting us with Nostalgia and telling us to use those two games to get our fix in the meanwhile.

    What do you guys think?

  • What's your overall opinion of Twilight Princess?

    Quote from 'zilla

    He's a wolf because Ganon is a pig?


    I wonder what does that makes Zelda...

    Quote from Kaltaka

    -One last thing. The oocca look like they have tits.


    They really do. In their front and in their backs.
    And why is the Jr one a flying head? Nightmare fuel, I tell you.

    Quote from Silent Lion

    Hyrule field on TP sucks, thank you very much. Why? Because it's empty. OoT and MM overworlds are full of holes with cows and weird enemies and wealthy vultures and actual stuff. TP's field is just a bunch of nothing that takes too much time to cross.

    I was thinking that maybe TP is not as empty as we say, and it is more that we can't keep track with the caves we have collected a reward because of TP tendency to just put back the rupee if you have no space. That was frustrating. Nice and frustrating at the same time.


    I played the intro of TP on a video I made in collaboration with @Sardonic Pickle and boy I was helpless. I half remembered things so I was trying to skip steps or forgetting obvious things like the Falcon attack.
    I catched the first fish and fell into the water so the cat-scene couldn't be triggered. I accidentally threw the basket I just rescued into the water.
    I played like half an hour and my progress was minimal, hahah. It really has been a while since I had played Twilight Princess. I still think it is a fine game. :P

  • The Hero's Shade and the 'Link is dead' theory

    Hyrule Historia has said that the Hero's Shade is the embodiment of OoT' Link regrets. So it isn't say, a full ghost. I guess it is like an essence more than the full deal. Still, most fans simply like to know that the HoT (Hero of Time) we knew is present in Twilight Princess.

    wwcdw2.jpg

    Well, in another thread it was mentioned that the Hero's Shade adds to the 'Link is dead' theory, while for some other people it could actually disprove it.

    It seems like the issue boils down to whether you think the Hero's Shade is a Stalfo, and whether you think that Link in Lost woods without Navi could become one.

    Anyway, thoughts?

  • Is Zelda music becoming too western?

    Hmmm...


    I never really stopped to think about it. It could just be our tastes change or it could be a change of music composer in some of the themes. It also could be the limited assets of the first games made the music be so unique and as limited storage for the music files became less of a concern, they could add the whistles and bells they wanted.

    I like the ballad of the Goddesses. I never really stopped to think just how much it sounds like other music with its up and downs but considering that they arranged that piece from Zelda's Lullaby's inverted notes, I found it like a brilliant way to represent old and new.

    Maybe more details and comparisons might help us out. My ear is not as trained and frankly I probably lack more knowledge on what makes western and easter music style.

    this thread however, reminds me of Aonuma's quote about Zelda getting a surprise that could be like changing from eastern to Western dish, so you might really be onto something here. maybe the past games have been some sort of transition to western elements, music included.

  • A Legend of Zelda Flash Animation!

    Hey, practice makes perfect. :D
    It is pretty cool your wife is helping you with the project.
    Also having a stable voice actor for Link sounds very good.

    It is understandable that sometimes life takes you from things like this.
    I am sure we can wait for when you all feel ready.
    Thanks for confirming that the desire to make more is there.

    I hope you do come and visit us from time to time.

  • Which Zelda Ocarina of Time is superior: Original or Remake?

    Quote from Mask

    The original. Like, the very original. With red Ganon blood and proper fire temple music.

    It has good glitches, too. That's important to me.

    It still bums me that they changed the blood and the chants.
    I like how the people still called it out with the "Rated E for Everyone" Memes with images like these.

    I am glad I played it though,Shadow Temple and other nightmares included with it.
    Part of me wants to play the remake just to see if this looks as terrifying as back then or if they toned it down (I really hope they didn't).

  • This guy played Ocarina of Time using an Ocarina!

    I found this so amusing I had to share it. There's this twitch user, MonotoneTim who used a software to take the inputs of the notes he played in a real Ocarina and turned them into button inputs for the game. A real Ocarina, not a synthetic one. He even has an unlisted video to prove it and explain a bit how did that work.

    It is interesting how things we take for granted become complicated with the Ocarina, for example to input two commands at the same time, like when you're pushing a block which is holding A and moving forward at the same time.


    If that video is just scaringly long, he left a 3 minute fragment when he's batting against Dodongo.

  • Lucha Libre

    I used to like Lucha Libre but I have been disconnected for so long now.

    I always liked the máscara contra cabellera (Pride matches were the loser will lose their hair or will reveal their real identity to the world)

    I also like the division of Rudos (Everything goes, they are unfair and cheapskates if it means getting the upperhand. Enjoy getting negative reactions from the public) and Técnicos (Those don't tend to use cheap tactics and instead follow a fair fight code, they aim to make people cheer for them). While most of them fall into the classic villain and Heroes, in México tended to be more dynamic the switch.

    Always liked Octagon, La Parka and Rey Misterio Jr.
    Both Parkas, actually. The original one became L.A. Park because AAA got someone else to keep the character alive when he left for a while. They had (have?) a big rivalry because of this, but I have come to like both because they are good with the mockery.

    Another thing I like the is tag teams and how they can be dynamic enough to have the four guys at the same time in the ring (under certain conditions) how they can enter and exit without having to to do the whole ritual.

    Here's a match from the 1995, when I was 10 years old.
    It is between two families Juventus is father and son and Rey Misterio original (the unmasked one) was the uncle. Rey Misterio Jr is the successor that made himself a name around the world.

    Display Spoiler

    LOL from 24:30 :X'D:

    First both teams choose to pin the opponent at the same time. Instead of finishing with a tie the referee asks the fight to be left 1 on 1, so the the Juniors rolled out of the stage.

    During the last part there was a double pin so the Referee counted using both hands and the match ended in a tie.

    Hahah.

  • Hyrule in real life

    Quote from alakazam

    It took me a while to realize that the person playing Zelda was not a girl...


    Commenting this in every place he posted this video is a sure way to increase the number of views. :lol:

    I for one hadn't noticed that both roles were (I assume) @hautbois123, hahahah. I had to watch it again and pause it at when Zelda looks at the camera.

    Awesome.

    I think I am liking this video more and more. It definitely took a lot of love for the franchise to prepare.

  • Movies you recommend people to skip

    Might also be known as really bad movies. I thought it'd be good to have a thread to talk about those disappointing movies. Whether the fault lies with the movie or ourselves.


    Today I rented Hotel transylvania 2, because I watched the first one and I found it better than what I was expecting.

    I thought the personalities and the humour worked alright for the original movie. There were a few bits a bit cringey for the old fart I've become but other than that the movie was enjoyable enough to get interest in the second movie. I had no one to watch it with nor funds so I skipped it. The netz were quiet about it so I just assumed it was either average or had a hard time to stand out against other movies around the time.

    I honestly don't know if it was me not being in the same mood or if really the first movie was as bad. It felt like it was trying to throw any joke it could at you. Once I realised the butt imagery was filling the screen I couldn't unsee it. While some things make sense as reference to the first movie there were a lot of random = funny kind of jokes I just couldn't pick up. A few landed and were pretty good but most of them fell flat to me.

    Wayne werewolf made me laugh the most.

    Checking around it is not badly received and apparently considered better than the original, so I don't know. It could be just me.

  • Remember the Tetraforce? This is my take on it.

    Alright guys, I just realised that I haven't shared here, in my own frigging Zelda Community, the most embarrassing to admit theory I've had for a long time. It is not embarrassing because I think it doesn't hold any water, it is just that as soon as I mention it is my way to explain the inverted Triangle in OoT's Hylian Shield, people just assume I will go off the rails to fan-fic land to make sense of it. I will not. Just stick with me.

    But first get a coffee and some biscuits, this might be a long ride. I want to be as thorough as I can. I will try to spice things up with some images and humour but the coffee will surely help. :lengua:
    Alternatively just check my Hyrule/Zelda Amino version.


    Origin of the Tetraforce theories

    Just skip this chapter (go to my next post) if you lived through the sprout or are familiar with the whole ordeal.

    This is OoT's Hylian Shield:

    OoT came out on November of 1998, back then the Internet was something that was still being 'adopted' in some homes, there wasn't a real unifying network around and contacting Japanese people fluent in English to translate the gossips was not easy to do. The internet was a weird place segregated from the 'real world'. Websites and communities were expensive to maintain so forums were either really crappy looking (and thus you knew they were from novices) or vBulletin. vBulletin was king on established communities. It was on those forums where people could look way too deep into things and the Zelda Franchise was still young, only five games out (try to count all of zelda games with one hand now).

    We were more gullible, because it would take longer to discard theories. Some people made very compelling arguments (that made sense at the time) and others claimed crazy things that the only way to disprove were basically to try them out. Rumours like that you could obtain the Triforce, or taht there was a way to access the hill on the left side of Hyrule Castle, things like that. There were also an immense amount of theories and the websites loved getting fan-mail about them.


    Tetraforce.

    Sounds dumb.It is TRIforce for a reason, right? Well, yeah. Although some people think the name has a slightly different meaning. The biggest thing people used to defend this was the original NES game.

    The Legend of Zelda introduced the Triforce as two pieces: Power and Wisdom. Ganon had the Power and Zelda had Wisdom, which she separated in 8 fragments and hid them in different dungeons. Link fights in each dungeon to retrieve the fragments one by one. This means that Triforce could be a short way to define those "Tri-sided Force Gems", at the very least until the second game, Adventure of Link introduced Courage.

    If Nintendo introduced a new piece once before, why was it so unthinkable they could add a new one, even if it wasn't outright spelled in the game. That fourth piece would complete the Triforce in its glorious bigger Triangle shape.

    From here theories just became more bizarre as new games were introduced. However the usual rationalization was the following "There is a deity for each piece, therefore there must be a 4th Goddess. We must find her!"

    Many remembered the lady on the Gerudo temple, thinking she might be some forsaken Goddess for the Hylians and the key for the riddle.

    Majora's Mask arrived and with it the concept of a Goddess of Time and the idea that "Time" most likely is this elusive fourth piece. However the Oracle games gave detractors some ammunition when the Oracle Nayru was given the ability to control time, strongly hinting that the Goddess of Time was in fact another name to call the Goddess that left the Wisdom piece. Another thing to mention is that Phantom Hourglass seems to attribute Farore as the Goddess of Time and Courage. So feel free to place your bets on which of them is the Goddess of time, or make a new thread right here.

    By the Time the Wind waker was about to be released, people were growing tired of the theories and many stopped taking them seriously, but some thought "Tetra" must be some sort of hint. Why else would you name Zelda's Alter ego tetra?

    I mean, other than "tetra" being a type of fish? For a lady that spent her days commanding a Pirateship on the sea, I think it kind of makes sense. Even if they called said fish differently in japan (I don't know. No speak Japanese) it still could be the same reasoning. It is not unheard of Nintendo taking inspiration outside of japan. Zelda's name in itself is an example of this.

    In general, the Tetraforce theory is pretty much beaten down over and over and mostly just called upon to mock it and discredit it. It has become a circle of the same arguments and at this point has become a tiresome thing for many.

    Nintendo, aware of the whole thing, has taken out the extra piece from the designs of the newer zelda games featuring a Hylian Shield taht came up afterwards to avoid confusion. I have no links to provide but people also seem to parrot often that Nintendo has denied in several occasions the existence of a Tetraforce.

    Maybe is time to just forget the damn mystery of inverted Triangle and let it die already.

    Sure. Just not before I share with you a personal "fannon" I've had since Ocarina of Time.


    The possible meaning of the inverted triangle

    Perhaps it makes little sense to swim against the tide about something like this. The inverted triangle appeared in one game and for all we know it could have been a last minute addition.

    It wasn't. During the years there has been beta screenshots taht let us seen the progress as the game was being developed. Ocarina of Time was a huge project in its time and it took years to be completed. However even from early designs it seemed like that inverted Triangle must have been a requirement.


    Even then it seemed the inverted triangle could fit inside the Triforce. I don't think this is coincidence.
    On the other hand, I admit I have no explanation for the silver ornaments at the top and I am not going to obsess over them for this theory. I just want to focus on the Golden Triangle "puzzle".

    The answer for this puzzle lies in the last words Sheik entrust to Link before revealing that spoiler that by now should not be a spoiler.

    Quote from Sheik


    "The Triforce... the sacred triangles... it is a paradise that weighs the three forces: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. If the heart of the one who holds the sacred triangles has all three forces in balance, that one will gain the True Force to govern all.

    But, if that one's heart is not in balance, the Triforce will separate into three parts: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. Only one part will remain for the one who touched the Triforce... the part representing the force that one most believes in. If that one seeks the True Force, that one must acquire the two lost parts. Those two parts will be held within others chosen by destiny, who will bear the Triforce mark on the backs of their hands."

    This didn't come out of the blue, the importance of a kind heart is something openly expressed in different Zelda games. This is because the only requirement to possess the complete Triforce is to have the forces they represent balanced in your heart. It doesn't matter if you have evil or good intentions.

    For me the design on the shield was meant to be a visual representation of this idea.

    Each side of the triangle means to show the balance of the forces in the heart of the bearer. A balanced heart would be the equilateral triangle. A heart that relies more in only one of the forces would have an asymmetrical shape; it'd be an scalene triangle. If you tried to force that misshapen triangle inside the Triforce's hole you would just end up "breaking" it.

    Ganondorf's "unbalanced" heart broke the Triforce, so he remained only with Power. If he wanted to gain Courage and Wisdom, he would have to manually locate and extract them from the other bearers.

    That elusive 'force' is nothing else than the balanced heart. As Sheik puts it, this makes the "True Force".


    As you see, no Goddesses or anything to suggest a tetraforce was used to explain this triangle. I gave you in-game material and, at least to my knowledge, it holds well even against other games that came after it.

    If Nintendo denies a Tetraforce is because they never intended it as such. I really believe that although that inverted triangle was important to Nintendo to keep using it almost all the way till the finalised product they never intended to mean there was a fourth force (or deity) to seek.

    Even in beta, they always showed the Triforce as the Triangle we know.


    Thank you for reading all the way (or skimming, is not like I can tell) and let me know what did you think. Am I nutz or does this explanation makes sense to you?

Zelda Community is not affiliated with Nintendo®.
Copyright © 2000-2025, Zelda Cavern.
All Rights Reserved.