The Legend of Zelda series

A couple interesting videos I found, starting with an orchestral cover:



For those who are more concerned with the voice-acting in Breath of the Wild, I found a voice-acting comparison video:




Anyone else up for continuing speculation on which timeline branch that Breath of the Wild will be set in, before the game comes out in March alongside the Switch?

Personally, I am still convinced that this is set in the Fallen Hero Timeline, especially because of the nuances (and dialogue) in the most recent trailer.

www.zeldainformer.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-dlc-confirmed/

Breath of the Wild is going to have DLC season pass. you can not purchase any of the DLC individually, you have to buy the season pass to get it.

• Day 1:
  • new Treasure Chests
  - Found in the Great Plateau
  - Contains useful items
  - Includes exclusive in-game clothing (Nintendo Switch T-shirt for Link)



• DLC Pack 1 (Summer)
  • Adds new Cave of Trials challenge
  • New Hard Mode
  • Additional map feature



• DLC Pack 2 (Winter)
  • Full All New original story
  • New dungeon
  • Additional challenges

well, unlike most dlc like ea/ubi cutting half the game and selling it back a few weeks after launch as dlc or re5 selling you a multiplayer mode as dlc THATS ON THE FUCKING DISK!..., this feels like content that probably never got further than "hey wouldnt it be cool if we did X? yeah but lets file that under to be used later" and under normal circumstances would go into the next game, and remember they waited until a bit after the game had gone gold to even announce it (that means the game is done, off to print, and now the dev team either gets downsized, parted off into new projects, or continues work on a day one patch or dlc)

this is dlc done very well, they give you a little bonus thank you at launch (a shirt, a couple chests with a few items) and then they are releasing content 5-10 MONTHS down the line (which smartly falls in line fairly well with the 'summer drought' and the holiday season) whichll renew peoples interest in the game and give them more stuff to do after theyve likely played through a large portion of the game, as well as help bring in more sales during those periods i mentioned

the extra upside to this is theres also still a handheld team that could be working on another zelda, so we may be seeing an approach that can keep the quality of zelda at its high level and not have massive gaps between titles without putting too much stress on the dev teams and aonuma, you have a major release every few years thats a big 3d title, with little bits of dlc scattered about the year after release while aonuma and the head team begin the planning and the dev team stays to work on fun dlc before beginning production on the next big game, meanwhile the handheld team can be working on 1-2 games that come out in that gap similar to how link between worlds and triforce heroes came out between skyward and botw

so im excited for this, theyre using it as an extension of a great game as opposed to a cheap way to milk a few extra bucks out of you, and if it catches on we may see dlc coming back to being a good thing again

i cant wait for the hilarity thatll ensue with people summoning chests and meat above enemies and exploding barrels

I got an email from the store that my switch and Zelda: BotW is going to arrive to me at Tuesday next week. Sometimes I just hate living in North-Norway, mail and packages takes so long to get here. But the reviews does look quite promising for a Zelda game. Lets hope that those scores are legit and not just because they got an early copy of the game.

this... this sums up my thoughts on botw beautifully

personally I am thinking that the only reason theyre using that Link because its literally the first ever link giving the sword to the newest Link.

Remember how in Twilight Princess HD the developers put those three drawings on the stone walls of the walk way leading from the village, to the castle, depicting Link, a man, and a woman interacting with Gorons, Zoras, and bird people?


The developers said that this drawing was meant to connect Twilight Princess to BoTW. So if anything I'm sure the game is part of the Child Timeline, set maybe some time before, or after, TP. If not that, then part of the Unified Timeline some how.

So definitely the child timeline then, BoTW and TP wouldn't be be able to be connected if it wasnt in that timeline.