| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| LordHuffnPuff wrote: |
| Syd Lexia wrote: |
I want an alternate timeline game where Link fails in
Zelda II. |
Ganon returns and with nobody to defeat him, the gods flood hyrule. |
Would this necessarily be the case? Isn't flooding Hyrule contingent on what Ganon's particular evil plan is? In OOT, Ganon is allowed to rule Hyrule for 7 years unchecked. In the NES game, he has command of a vast army of monsters that completely overruns Hyrule for some amount of time until Link shows up. In Zelda 2, Ganon's defeat is shown to have been nearly useless. His armies still have control of Hyrule and have the means to resurrect him.
In fact, why should the goddesses have to flood Hyrule at all? Link dies or leaves the timeline, Ganon wins. Okay, so make another Link. |
Wind Waker just says that Hyrule was flooded because no hero was there to stop Ganondorf. I think what's important is that in all of the cases you've cited, Link already existed, and simply had to take up the mantle of hero, and if there IS no Link, the godesses aren't going to sit around and wait for one to be born, they'll just flood the entire place.
In OoT, Link was simply sleeping in the Temple of Time. In Zelda 1, Ganon invades, Zelda breaks up the Triforce of Wisdom, and sends Impa out to find a hero. She finds Link. Zelda II clearly Link already exists, because the aforementioned means to resurrect Ganon are "Link's blood". I wouldn't say that his armies still have control of Hyrule either at that point -- Moblins aren't very common in that game, (far less prevalent than in Zelda 1) and a lot of the enemies are just forest critters like spiders, or sandworms in the desert.
