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Is Link About to Die?

Posted by Zonk on from the sad-day-for-fancy-lads dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sometimes we know more than we think we know. An about.com article asks if we might already know what happens in The Twilight Princess. If we do, it's not going to be a happy ending. Based primarily on the introduction to The Wind Waker, and the fact that we now know Twilight Princess takes place between Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time, it makes some pretty interesting claims about Link's future. Is Link about to die?" Miyamoto may have been hinting about this earlier this year.

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  1. Huh? by doctor_nation · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not like there's any real continuity of character here. I mean, there's no specific Link character who is in all of the games. I always interpreted Link to be a sort of genetic/time-less hero born again and again. It's basically implied that each one dies at some point after his game ends. So explicitly having him die in game wouldn't really matter that much, since we know there will be another one at some point. And honestly, I wouldn't be that upset if he died anyway. It's not like there's any personality there.

    1. Re:Huh? by steveo777 · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Agreed, aside from Ocarina and Majora's Mask, there is no continuity, though, in some cases, it is implied. On the other hand... It's always the same, relatively useless, napping Zelda. She doesn't seem to do anything except fire a few arrows here and there. But, even though it's her legend, she spends half the time either sleeping, or not being Zelda.

      Don't even get me started on Marim (Link's Awakening).

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      This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
  2. You know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Sometimes I wish Slashdot had an option to turn off (potential) spoilers. I still remember screaming "thanks, you fucker" at the screen when Michael posted the story on the front page. I had a similar reaction when the demise of Ken Jennings was announced a month and a half before the event took place.

    I didn't want to know that Link dies before I played the game. I'd be happy to make the discovery on my own. So next time you want to post a spoiler in a story, at least use the [Read more...] function and give us some warning.

  3. Not likely by Leknor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Zelda games never had a strong connection between games. Each only alluded to each other with hints and details to excite the fanboys (of which I am). This article is taking a giant leap of faith to force the connection it tries to make.

  4. FAIL not DIE!!?!?!?!? by cttforsale · · Score: 3, Informative

    TFA asks if "Link is about to FAIL". As in FAIL his mission.

  5. How is this different? by Sugar+Moose · · Score: 5, Funny

    He died dozens of times in the previous games I played with him. Of course he'll die in the next game. I'm not perfect you know, sheesh.

  6. whoa, retroflash by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Blue Link needs food badly?"

    "Blue Link, your life force is running out?"

    //remember, don't shoot potions!

  7. Um... by RyoShin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you mean A Link is going to die. The games loosely exist along the same time line (though I have yet to see a LoZ with hover boards, foo), and each game is a different Link and different Zelda.

    I think Zelda II on the NES even went through some thing about all the princesses being named Zelda because one was in a deep neverending sleep, or some such stuff.

    In Wind Waker, we're told that the main character isn't even of the Link lineage. He has to search for pieces of his part of the Triforce, remember. The game even says that the hero had left the realm, (referring to Majora's Mask), forcing the Triforce Piece of Courage to split apart.

    Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask supposedly have the same Link (Majora's Mask taking place a few years after Link defeats Ganon in OoT and is returned to kid form.)

    The Oracle games are supposed to match up with another Zelda game as well, though I can't recall which one right now. The same may be true for Link's Awakening.

    So, even if Link does die in the game (which would certainly be a change; whether it's appreciated or not has yet to be seen), it won't be the end of the Zelda franchise.

    If he does die, I think we'd see it as more of a "selfless sacrifice" type of thing. Link struggles with the main enemy to subdue him while the supporting hero(ine) blasts him into the Dark World or whatever, but in the process Link is pulled in as well. This would actually be a nice set up to the next game (which is most likely on the Revolution,) where you once again have a non-lineage Link and you wind up having to release the real Link to defeat the evil.

    1. Re:Um... by arkanes · · Score: 3, Funny

      And kids, this is why you should stay in school and pay attention in English class. Not because otherwise you'll spend all your time on the internet writing pretentious timelines about video games (I wouldn't take that kind of cheap shot, even if there's some truth to it), but because if you're going to spend all your time on the internet writing pretentious timelines about videogames, you should know how to link a narrative together and how to phrase yourself without sounding like you're a 3rd grader reading a book report.

  8. Is Link about to die? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, this is a question that could be asked in a *lot* of Slashdot stories...

    Chris Mattern