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This is a wildly disingenuous take using an actual argument as its basis

A Link to the past and Ocarina of time are completely different games and can't be compared to TotK being shown on two different consoles. Not only that, but calling the difference between SNES and N64 a "graphical leap" is a massive understatement. Nuff said.

Now here's the actual legitimate argument the post is bastardizing. Diminishing returns on graphical improvements from generation to generation. We don't have "Generational leaps" anymore, and haven't for a long time. We've essentially reached the peak

This is the reason new game consoles are trying to sell you on things like frame rate and ray tracing. These are literally just bells and whistles to distract you from the fact that the new games coming out this year don't look all that much better than the games that came out 3 or 4 years ago. They've just got pretty makeup now. They're improving the resolution being displayed, making like do cool things and making movement smoother, but the actual game itself? Its polygon count, its textures? Those haven't changed much, if at all in a few years now.

The era of generational leaps has long since ended. Everything they try to sell you on now is just an attempt to distract you from that

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Who WAS the ancient hero?

In my previous post I went over how the appearance of the ancient hero was broken down over centuries of legends and turned into Hylian iconography representing a hero. His race was forgotten and/or changed to Hylian, his green skin became green clothes, etc.

And I think if we look at how he inspired the legends of the various heroes in the franchise's metanarrative, then we can figure out just who he is... So lets start by looking at the other Links.

Link. The Legend of Zelda, Zelda 2 Appears out of nowhere to help an old woman in danger. She, under orders from the princess to find a courageous hero, tasks the boy with saving Hyrule.

Link. A Link to the Past, Links Awakening, Oracle of ages, oracle of seasons The nephew of a retired knight who lives with his uncle in a small home on the countryside.

Link. Ocarina of time, Majora's Mask An orphaned boy raised in seclusion among a race of forever children in the forest.

Link. Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass A young boy born and raised on some backwater island.

Link. The Minish cap The apprentice of a renown blacksmith

Link. Twilight Princess A farm hand from a small village just outside Hyrule's border

Link. Spirit tracks An apprentice engineer from a small village at the edge of the kingdom

Link. Skyward Sword A freshly graduated knight of Skyloft

With the exception of Skyward Sword, each and every Link is a complete and total nobody in their world who just sort of gets dragged into things and sees it through to the end. Given this constant theme, I have to assume that the legendary ancient hero, who inspired the legends of these other Links, was in fact a complete and total nobody who just sort of got dragged into things and saw it through to the end.

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I liked how Breath of the wild and Tears of the kingdom re-contextualize old Hyrule myths

In real life, real events get warped a little with every retelling. Its sort of like evolution. Its the big fish effect. Someone catches a big fish, and every time the story is retold, the fish is a liiiittle bigger. Now imagine in ancient times, some animal is menacing the local village. Finally someone gets fed up and heads out with a sword and kills the animal. He's a hero. The story is told over and over again, the animal gradually evolving into a mighty supernatural beast, and the hero, who in reality was just some guy who was brave or dumb enough to get in a fight with a wild animal, has become this mythical figure. Surely one who could defeat such a beast wasn't even a normal human! He must have been the son of a god! (Many such stories.) A completely normal event or place can be mythologized into magical nonsense.

We see a lot of this in Zelda, and their "real world" inspirations in Tears of the Kingdom. The dark world, a different dimension, an evil, dangerous, warped reflection of Hyrule

Many ancient legends in Hyrule (Minish cap, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword) make mention of islands in the sky, and an ancient people who live there. In one story, that ancient people even founded the kingdom of Hyrule.

And those examples are all fine and dandy. But lets look at something a little more controversial. Lets look at how ancient beliefs, and a certain someone's appearance, were warped into traditional Hylian iconography.

Power, Wisdom, and courage. the 3 virtues that are held above all in Hyrule. The ancient legends say that when one has these three virtues in perfect balance, the triforce will respond to them. But in ancient times, these virtues weren't just abstract concepts. They had entities attached to them. The Boar, The Owl, and The Dragon

We've learned that these three creatures held symbolism to the Zonai and ancient Hylians. The Boar represented power. The Owl represented wisdom, and the Dragon represented courage. We also know that at least one ancient warrior wore these symbols on his body, and doing so likely represented that he had mastered all three of these virtues. A wise, courageous, and powerful warrior

3 objects representing Power, Wisdom, and Courage, worn together as a whole

Over time, the animals that these virtues were associated with would have likely fallen to the wayside, but the virtues themselves would remain. And so, over the centuries, the 3 piece symbol was gradually simplified until...

But thats not all!

The hero himself. A male who wielded the master sword, who had greenish skin and blue eyes. Legends told and retold would likely change his appearance over time, as tends to happen. Eventually, that green skin became green clothes, and the his very race, likely forgotten altogether, changed to Hylian. Over time, green became the color of heroes in Hyrule, and simple aspects of the ancient hero's appearance, altered beyond recognition through countless legends, became important hylian iconography that represented a hero. A blue eyed boy, garbed in green, wielding a magic sword

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I don't think the people who make Zelda have a very good grasp on time.

100 years is not a long time, but Zelda creators seem to think it is. >Hyrule is flooded >100 years later Hyrule is just an ancient myth Except 100 years isn't long enough for that to happen, ESPECIALLY when you consider that, at their youngest, Sturgeon and Orca are in their 70s, with Sturgeon even having a fully grown grandaughter.

meaning that their parents would have been born in Hyrule and lived through the flood.

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Something I am 99.99% sure Age of Imprisonment WON'T answer

Is: Who the hell is this guy?

Rough timeline >The imprisoning war The era Zelda finds herself stuck in in TotK >THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER Calamity Ganon, who has plagued Hyrule since some time after the imprisoning war, is defeated by the ancient hero (seen above), the ancient princess, and the divine beasts. (This event is captured in the tapestry hung in Impa's home, and was believed to be just another legen until they stumbled upon physical evidence in the form of Vah Naboris) >10,000 years later Calamity Ganon returns. Wins. >100 years later Present day

Basically, the imprisoning war is already ancient history by the time the ANCIENT hero was even born.

To give a little real world comparison Cleopatra is a figure in our ancient history. When she was alive, the great pyramids were ALREADY ancient.

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Its obvious that the sages in this time period are THE sages, Nabooru, Ruto, and Darunia. I'm hoping we actually get namedrops though just to shut up anyone who still wants to say "Nuh-uh!"

Also so we finally have a name for the Rito sage

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All's I have to say is

This one better be canon

Update: THIS ONE IS CONFIRMED TO BE CANON!

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Starters for Pokemon legends ZA

With mega evolution returning for this game (Expect it gone again in the next mainline dual version games) I expect instead of regional variants for their final evolutions, we will instead be getting Mega Emboar, Mega Feraligatr, and Mega Meganium (thats fun to say)

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GameFreak needs to be less obsessed with circles in their open world games...

"But Lumiose city is already a circle" Yeah, why do you think they chose it?

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GameFreak Giga-Leaks: We were robbed edition (Gen 6 concepts and scrapped pokemon)

A remora-like Pokemon

Peanut baby

Peanut baby evolution (Peanut dragon?)

Early Flabebe concept

They even designed Floette and Florges (Did they decide these looked TOO good??)

I think the worst part about these leaks is that any chance of some of these designs being used in the future is now ZERO

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GameFreak Giga-Leak

Some of the leaked beta Pokemon go hard, man.

Unnamed Spider-Lily pokemon Beta Shiftry Un-named Magnet crab Pokemon Unnamed flower ganguro child pokemon Unnamed chicken/penguin/bowling pin pokemon

And then we have unused things that clearly got retooled into different Pokemon later

Beta Scraggy is interesting because it shows the general concept has been around AT LEAST since gen 3, meaning in gen 5 they dipped back into old concepts and pulled him out of the Beta realm. That means some of the cooler beta pokemon still have some hope of appearing in later games, though some of them may be changed, possibly beyond recognition... For example

Its possible that this fighting ape Pokemon with fire patterns may have been heavily retooled into the Infernape line in gen 4

This little fellow was far enough along in development that he had concept art and a name, "Warabito" or "Warabit" (Water-Rabit.) He was meant to be the gen 3 water starter, but was replaced with Mudkip at some point. Its likely this concept was cannibalized and retooled into gen 8's Scorbunny and gen 4's Buizel

This wouldn't be the first time one beta concept was used to create 2 unrelated Pokemon

We know that this thing was cannibalized and used in the designs for Blaziken, Latios, and Latias

Beta Pokemon is a truly fascinating realm of the franchise that, sadly we usually only get to see because of leaks. And thats probably because GameFreak never really throws out a design. Even an unused concept can be retooled and made an official pokemon years down the line, or pulled apart and used to make multiple new Pokemon

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This is some quality brain rot right here

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I feel like Game Theory has done irreparable damage to fandom brains

Not everything present in a game is canon. Up until maybe 10 years ago, optional content and easter eggs in a game were considered non-canon by default, unless otherwise directly stated.

In media, there's the term "Diegetic" Diegetic means that the characters within the story are experiencing it. If a song is playing, and the characters can hear it, then the music is diegetic. If a song is just playing to enhance a scene, then its called Non-Diegetic, and the characters in the story cannot hear it. Diegetics has evolved to encompass not just audio, but visual aspects of media as well. SPOILERS FOR A 25 YEAR OLD MOVIE

from a purely visual standpoint, Brad Pitt's character is non-diegetic for this entire movie despite the main character frequently interacting with him and him seemingly interacting with the world around him. Another great example of visual non-diegetics is the anime adaptation of JoJo part 4, in which the entirety of the season is colored in a bizarre otherworldly palette, most prominent among them being the Yellow skies and teal grass.

The characters within this world don't see a yellow sky. they see a blue sky.

This can be applied to video games as well. Just because you see something, does not mean that Link always sees it. Mario portraits in Hyrule Castle?

Non-diegetic easter egg. 90% of armor obtained in Breath of the wild and Tears of the Kingdom?

Non-Diegetic

Why does this matter? Because when it comes to non-diegetic things, like the color of the sky in JoJo part 4, or a large number of armor sets and weapons found in Breath of the wild and Tears of the kingdom, not only CAN they be disregarded when it comes to theory crafting, but they SHOULD be.

DE-MatPattify your brains, kids.

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The legend of Zelda: A title that finally makes sense

Buckle up kiddos, this is gonna be a LONG one

For a long time now, one question has plagued the Zelda fandom. Haunted us, kept us up at night, made us sit on the toilet in deep thought for way too long, causing our legs to fall asleep... And the question is... "If the story is about Link, then why's it called 'The legend of Zelda?'"

As I was pondering Tears of the Kingdom, as I tend to do, a realization struck me like a truck striking the protagonist of an Isekai anime in episode 1. But first, I need to lay the groundwork a little.

BotW and TotK play it fast and loose with the pre-established Zelda lore. Everything seems to be "canon" regardless of timeline, resulting in massive paradoxes and contradictions that can only mean that NONE of the previous games are canon. How can that be? Its right there in the name. They're legends. We haven't been playing through "historical facts" we've been playing through LEGENDS. Stories. So what makes Breath of the wild and Tears of the kingdom any different? Because we see the origin point of those legends.

In TotK, we see the earliest days of Hyrule, the origins of Ganondorf, and many many things that would make their way into the legends told in Hyrule. Legends we, as the player, have been experiencing over the last few decades.

The Sages

The "dark world"

Islands in the sky

And a constant paranoia that someone named Ganondorf would return, even though all living memory of that person had long since disappeared.

Breath and Tears are the only true canon Zelda games. Every other game has been a legend told throughout Hyrule's history within the world we see in Breath and Tears. Altered, and embellished over the centuries through countless retellings.

SO, treating Breath and Tears as the true canon, we see that the present day Zelda traveled back in time to the era of Hyrule's founding. She spent time with the first king and queen, telling them of her time, of the calamity, and of a swordsman named Link who wields a magic sword. She witnessed the rise and fall of the one true Ganondorf, but with prior knowledge of the future KNOWING that he'd come back, she planted the seeds to make sure that the world would be ready in her era to fight Ganondorf when he returned.

She told the sages the story of her home time, of a swordsman named Link who would stand against Ganondorf when he returned, and save Hyrule. Events that would not come to pass in the span of any of their lifetimes. Over the centuries, the story she told was passed down and spread. Altered and embellished with each retelling to the point that, over time, it was unrecognizable from the one Zelda had told all those years ago, and it may have reached a point where reality and fantasy blended together. Its possible that, the story became so old that people began making up new installments to the story of a heroic swordsman named "Link" wielding a magic sword, saving Hyrule and other lands time and time again. Some stories followed the same Link.

others followed some new kid who happened to be named Link

But all were inspired by one Link who lived in a time that had yet to come

and over the centuries, that original story was lost to time. But its fundamentals remained. The fundamentals at the core of the story, the HISTORY that had yet to come, that Zelda told all those centuries ago. The Demon king Ganondorf will return, and a hero named Link, wielding a sword with the power to destroy evil, will stand against him. And THAT, is the legend of Zelda.

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The legend of Zelda: A title that finally makes sense

Buckle up kiddos, this is gonna be a LONG one

For a long time now, one question has plagued the Zelda fandom. Haunted us, kept us up at night, made us sit on the toilet in deep thought for way too long, causing our legs to fall asleep... And the question is... "If the story is about Link, then why's it called 'The legend of Zelda?'"

As I was pondering Tears of the Kingdom, as I tend to do, a realization struck me like a truck striking the protagonist of an Isekai anime in episode 1. But first, I need to lay the groundwork a little.

BotW and TotK play it fast and loose with the pre-established Zelda lore. Everything seems to be "canon" regardless of timeline, resulting in massive paradoxes and contradictions that can only mean that NONE of the previous games are canon. How can that be? Its right there in the name. They're legends. We haven't been playing through "historical facts" we've been playing through LEGENDS. Stories. So what makes Breath of the wild and Tears of the kingdom any different? Because we see the origin point of those legends.

In TotK, we see the earliest days of Hyrule, the origins of Ganondorf, and many many things that would make their way into the legends told in Hyrule. Legends we, as the player, have been experiencing over the last few decades.

The Sages

The "dark world"

Islands in the sky

And a constant paranoia that someone named Ganondorf would return, even though all living memory of that person had long since disappeared.

Breath and Tears are the only true canon Zelda games. Every other game has been a legend told throughout Hyrule's history within the world we see in Breath and Tears. Altered, and embellished over the centuries through countless retellings.

SO, treating Breath and Tears as the true canon, we see that the present day Zelda traveled back in time to the era of Hyrule's founding. She spent time with the first king and queen, telling them of her time, of the calamity, and of a swordsman named Link who wields a magic sword. She witnessed the rise and fall of the one true Ganondorf, but with prior knowledge of the future KNOWING that he'd come back, she planted the seeds to make sure that the world would be ready in her era to fight Ganondorf when he returned.

She told the sages the story of her home time, of a swordsman named Link who would stand against Ganondorf when he returned, and save Hyrule. Events that would not come to pass in the span of any of their lifetimes. Over the centuries, the story she told was passed down and spread. Altered and embellished with each retelling to the point that, over time, it was unrecognizable from the one Zelda had told all those years ago, and it may have reached a point where reality and fantasy blended together. Its possible that, the story became so old that people began making up new installments to the story of a heroic swordsman named "Link" wielding a magic sword, saving Hyrule and other lands time and time again. Some stories followed the same Link.

others followed some new kid who happened to be named Link

But all were inspired by one Link who lived in a time that had yet to come

and over the centuries, that original story was lost to time. But its fundamentals remained. The fundamentals at the core of the story, the HISTORY that had yet to come, that Zelda told all those centuries ago. The Demon king Ganondorf will return, and a hero named Link, wielding a sword with the power to destroy evil, will stand against him. And THAT, is the legend of Zelda.

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Sounds like something ol' MatPat would have figured out in his prime.

Probably find an object in the world with a specific length we can determine in real world measurements, then figure out how many it takes laying end to end to make, say, 1 kilometer, or build up to a Km. Then from there, take that and see how many kilometers fit inside a given region. Do some math witchcraft and bam. You got areas.

But there's an easier way.

Birdamn study guy! He tells you exactly how far you traveled in meters. Mark you starting point, mark your landing point, take note of whatever distance he said you traveled bam, you have your ruler. Take a screenshot of the map, get it on your computer and work it out from there.

He measures distance in meters, so 1000 meters = 1Kilometer

it might be a stupid question but is there a way to know the area of hyrule and the area of each region ? Like I don't know how it would be calculated and I don't know if an awesome someone already did that, if someone has any answer, please tell in the comms or in tags 🙏🙏🙏