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[The Satellite]

We interrupt this broadcast for feels.

[Moonbread]

I'm not crying, YOU'RE CRYING.

[Naru]

Once more not watching because of super slow internet. But if it goes emotional I want to know. Don't say the game was canceled?!

[The Satellite]

It's not a video, it's just a text story about a longtime Zelda player who lost his brother, who loved Twilight Princess, and has the opportunity to be "reunited" with him via BotW's Wolf Link amiibo feature. Describing it like that sounds kinda cheesy but if you read the story you'll see how touching it is. No spoilers.

[Naru]

Still needed three times to finally get the site to fully load... not sure what to think, sure, it is good to have a way to handle the loss and it seems reasonable since both were huge zelda-fans, but it just feels wrong to me to let a person live on through a figurine with data in it. Especially since the data could always be lost some way or another.

[The Satellite]

A couple days ago, Nintendo released a short video of the Temple of Time. Nothing really new. But I looked closer, and... is it just me, or is there no Door of Time? Or anything resembling the Master Sword's resting place at the end of the E3 trailer? It's making me wonder what this could possibly mean, though it wouldn't be the first time the Master Sword would be found in a different location. Wind Waker you could argue many hypotheses for, such as the new castle being built over the original Temple of Time, but where did the pedestal come from in Skyward Sword? It wasn't there before the ending, when Link sealed it away for the time being. Plus, while it's never confirmed, the pedestal appears identical to the one the Goddess Sword was kept in in the sky, meaning they would have had to move the pedestal from the sky down to the surface which was at least able to be moved from inside the goddess statue into the temple itself.
 
So either it's not the same Temple of Time (even though it resembles the one from OoT) or they moved the Master Sword for undisclosed reasons. But what does that glowing goddess statue mean... ?

[Cukeman]

When the developers hint at connections between TP and BotW, the first thing I think of is getting an explanation for how the Temple of Time and Hyrule Castle Town got separated between OoT and TP.

Edited by Cukeman, 16 August 2016 - 03:58 PM.

[Nicholas Steel]

To me the Temple of Time in that trailer looks a lot like the Hyrule Castle in Wind Waker, and in that game the Sword was hidden in the basement of the structure. In any case, maybe someone before you, wielded the sword before losing the fight and you might find it on a corpse of a fallen warrior at the Temple of Time?

Edited by Nicholas Steel, 15 August 2016 - 06:41 AM.

[The Satellite]

Except the Master Sword was shown all rusted-like inside the Pedestal of Time in the E3 trailer already...

[Shane]

On the last clip, there appears to be a structure below the Temple of Time... dungeon maybe? There's a lot of weird things about this Temple of Time. Why is Hylia suddenly relevant and why do the Guardians seemed to have wanted to get into the temple? Given its described as the birthplace of Hyrule, this has to be the Sealed Temple aka Ocarina of Time's Temple of Time, right? It's not out of the question that this could be another Temple of Time (look at Skyward Sword) but the description the Old Man gave about the general area seems it's not an alternative Temple of Time.

 

(Edit: I guess Hylia could be relevent because of the heavy focus on Sheikah, but I still wonder. Also interestingly enough, there's six(?) smaller Goddess statues around the big one, which reminds me of the seven sages since Zelda was the Sage of Time in OoT. But I might be overthinking that.)

 

And having no Door of Time is just one of the many inconsistencies anyway; the temple is supposed to be facing away from Death Mountain but now the entrance is facing towards that general direction. I just don't think they entirely care about 100% recreating the design of the original Temple of Time. As for the Master Sword, it reminds me of the location in A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds but there's a ton of evidence that in those games the Master Sword was still in the Temple of Time area (just... completely destroyed). Maybe Hyrule Castle? It was mentioned Hyrule Castle was the most pure location but it does look like its located in a forest...

 

The whole game is so mysterious, and the story so far leaves far more questions than answers. Let's hope they keep it that way until release.

[Cukeman]

   As to the guardian remains near the Temple of Time, remember in WW how all the Moblins and Darknuts were frozen in the vicinity of the Master Sword? Now maybe that's just because they were in the act of storming the castle, but it might also be because the Master Sword is the key that seals the Sacred/Evil Realm.

   In OoT Ganondorf went through the Door of Time into the Sacred Realm when Link opened the "portal" by pulling up the Master Sword. So the monsters could be near the Temple of Time because a doorway in is also a doorway out. I think OoT said that the Temples are also doorways out of the Sacred Realm.

 

   Heh, I wonder what would've happened if young Link hadn't been frozen in time, and entered the Sacred Realm with the Master Sword to get the Triforce.

[The Satellite]

Seems the game is getting another delay so its true design can be fully realized:

 

[MoscowModder]

Alas, the picture does not load for me. Please be a joke?

[The Satellite]

Yes. Try this.

[MoscowModder]

This is perfection incarnate.