Unvarnished, A Blog by Travis Smith
Unvarnished, A Blog by Travis Smith
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For some strange, unexplainable reason, fans always want things to be connected – it’s like we feel some kind of perverse joy of seeing otherwise unrelated works of art connect in some sort of shared continuity, even when those connections were likely unintentional and don’t enhance any of the works in a substantial manner. I’m not talking about something like, say, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where each movie has been designed from the get-go to be a puzzle piece where every element fits closely togethe
Gaming’s most infamous example of this is most certainly “The Legend of Zelda” series, which has had its fair share of direct sequels (“A Link to the Past” and “A Link Between Worlds”; “Wind Waker”, “Spirit Tracks” and “Phantom Hourglass”; and, of course, the original “Legend of Zelda” and “Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link”), but for the most part, every game in that franchise has been standalone, telling its own story which only shares a couple of elements with all of its counterparts. There’s always a mute
Of course, the games were never meant to fit together, if only because one of them, “Ocarina of Time”, creates a time paradox due to a split timeline, so unless you place that game at the very end (which is impossible because it already has a direct sequel, “Majora’s Mask”), it’s impossible for all games to be on the same timeline. That didn’t really stop the fans, though, who fully embraced the split timeline theory and basically placed half of the Zelda games prior to “Ocarina of Time”, while the other ha
Unvarnished, A Blog by Travis Smith
Unvarnished, A Blog by Travis Smith