The Legend of Zelda Day
December 26, 2019 4:48 PM Subscribe
It's Zelda Day (Dec 26) again! Here's the news from Hyrule:
Romhacker Mark Kurko has made some awesome hacks putting Banjo & Kazooie into multiple other games, most notably Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker.
Speedruns of Breath of the Wild have gotten crazy. Here's one done in 27:29. Or instead, watch this comedy animation of the general idea, of which more is accurate than you might think.
Super Mario Maker 2 recently had an update that put the Master Sword into the game, which lets you play as Link. Link has a wide variety of moves that empowers players a lot. This video demonstrates the new abilities.
In more technical news, an arbitrary code execution glitch has been discovered in Ocarina of Time, possibly one day opening the door to ludicrous hacks like Flappy Bird in Super Mario World
New member StarkRoads found this extremely geeky recreation of the E3 Breath of the Wild 2 trailer redone on the N64.
I call today "Zelda Day" because four different people posted a Zelda-themed post in the same day here a few years back. I've tried to make a post about the series on this day each year since. 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2016 (The Whelk) - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2011 (The Whelk) - 2010 (kaibutsu) - 2010- 2010 (Avenger50) - 2010 (loquacious)
They've been posted before, but to remind.... If you want more Zelda than you can possibly handle, try out Zelda Randomizer, Zelda 2 Randomizer, the A Link to the Past Randomizer, or the amazing Super Metroid/A Link to the Past Combo Randomizer, for infinite explorations of hyrulespace.
Speedruns of Breath of the Wild have gotten crazy. Here's one done in 27:29. Or instead, watch this comedy animation of the general idea, of which more is accurate than you might think.
Super Mario Maker 2 recently had an update that put the Master Sword into the game, which lets you play as Link. Link has a wide variety of moves that empowers players a lot. This video demonstrates the new abilities.
In more technical news, an arbitrary code execution glitch has been discovered in Ocarina of Time, possibly one day opening the door to ludicrous hacks like Flappy Bird in Super Mario World
New member StarkRoads found this extremely geeky recreation of the E3 Breath of the Wild 2 trailer redone on the N64.
I call today "Zelda Day" because four different people posted a Zelda-themed post in the same day here a few years back. I've tried to make a post about the series on this day each year since. 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2016 (The Whelk) - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2011 (The Whelk) - 2010 (kaibutsu) - 2010- 2010 (Avenger50) - 2010 (loquacious)
They've been posted before, but to remind.... If you want more Zelda than you can possibly handle, try out Zelda Randomizer, Zelda 2 Randomizer, the A Link to the Past Randomizer, or the amazing Super Metroid/A Link to the Past Combo Randomizer, for infinite explorations of hyrulespace.
Isn't Zelda Day the older sister of Felicia? Or younger?
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:06 PM on December 26, 2019 [9 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:06 PM on December 26, 2019 [9 favorites]
Yay Zelda day! I am proud to have played the smallest of parts in this smallest of metafilter traditions.
In honor of this day, I finally gave up on my super completionist run at breath of the wild, and Finished the Damn Game, Already, which, it turns out, takes like twenty minutes and a single try if you've already flushed over a hundred shrines and carefully upgraded ever piece of clothing you've ever found. Great game, that.
Happy Zelda day!
[Edit: finished, not flushed, but it's a good enough typo that I'm letting it stand.]
posted by kaibutsu at 5:09 PM on December 26, 2019 [7 favorites]
In honor of this day, I finally gave up on my super completionist run at breath of the wild, and Finished the Damn Game, Already, which, it turns out, takes like twenty minutes and a single try if you've already flushed over a hundred shrines and carefully upgraded ever piece of clothing you've ever found. Great game, that.
Happy Zelda day!
[Edit: finished, not flushed, but it's a good enough typo that I'm letting it stand.]
posted by kaibutsu at 5:09 PM on December 26, 2019 [7 favorites]
I think my favourite thing about Breath of the Wild speedruns is seeing them through the lens of the game’s story. After a century asleep in the Shrine of Resurrection, having barely escaped death at the hands of the corrupted robotic guardians of a long past and vastly more advanced era driven by the will of the great existential evil that in that century has brought ruin to the kingdom of his liege, Link wakes up, busts out in his underwear, launches himself across the horizon with like a mallet and some fish he finds on the way and defeats the greatest evil the world has ever known in 15 minutes without putting pants on.
What is not to love about that, I ask you.
posted by mhoye at 5:28 PM on December 26, 2019 [30 favorites]
What is not to love about that, I ask you.
posted by mhoye at 5:28 PM on December 26, 2019 [30 favorites]
*looks at thread content*
*looks at thread creator*
You're not Fizz... Where's Fizz?
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 5:31 PM on December 26, 2019 [3 favorites]
*looks at thread creator*
You're not Fizz... Where's Fizz?
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 5:31 PM on December 26, 2019 [3 favorites]
This reminded me that I bought Breath of the Wild on Black Friday and managed to die in two minutes by falling off a cliff.
I should probably go back to that game.
posted by invokeuse at 6:23 PM on December 26, 2019 [1 favorite]
I should probably go back to that game.
posted by invokeuse at 6:23 PM on December 26, 2019 [1 favorite]
I should probably go back to that game.
One of the most wonderful things about BotW is a world that seems fully realized to the point of barely caring who you are or that you’re there at all.
You want to climb that rock wall and it’s raining? Tough luck. If you’re fool enough to walk out into a thunderstorm carrying a metal spear, the game will straight up murder you outright for that mistake; if you’re next to a river, that same lightning strike will make the fish float to the surface, briefly stunned. Keese, Hyrule’s little 1-hit-point elemental bats, will flap up to you right after you've just dispatched 5k HP worth of Silver Lynel like "I can do this, this is my moment". The Hyrule of BotW is utterly unbothered by your presence in it; it takes some getting used to, and it’s kind of magical.
posted by mhoye at 6:37 PM on December 26, 2019 [16 favorites]
One of the most wonderful things about BotW is a world that seems fully realized to the point of barely caring who you are or that you’re there at all.
You want to climb that rock wall and it’s raining? Tough luck. If you’re fool enough to walk out into a thunderstorm carrying a metal spear, the game will straight up murder you outright for that mistake; if you’re next to a river, that same lightning strike will make the fish float to the surface, briefly stunned. Keese, Hyrule’s little 1-hit-point elemental bats, will flap up to you right after you've just dispatched 5k HP worth of Silver Lynel like "I can do this, this is my moment". The Hyrule of BotW is utterly unbothered by your presence in it; it takes some getting used to, and it’s kind of magical.
posted by mhoye at 6:37 PM on December 26, 2019 [16 favorites]
Ok so what I want is, a Legend of Zelda game where you play as Zelda living in the height of the magic technological Utopia that seems to be in every Zelda game's lore. Her father is a researcher pushing the limits of the magical technology. The game starts when she starts hearing voices coming from her magical tablet. It's a boy named Link, who describes a verdant world very much unlike her own.
They hit it off, comparing worlds and giving each other advice as they each go on small adventures. Over time they grow more curious about each other's worlds, and they start to find weird similarities between them: ruins in one where a great city stands in the other, a peaceful park in one world is a twisty forest in the other. Perhaps they live in alternate realities? Maybe it's possible for them to travel between them and meet each other?
Zelda decides to ask her father about it, but to her horror she finds that the experiment he's conducting in her world is causing earthquakes and storms in Link's world. Her father doesn't believe her, so Zelda and Link set out to find a way to stop the experiments. Zelda sneaks her way through secure facilities while Link slashes his way through ruins. Together they put together what they need to stop the calamity approaching in Link's world.
The day of the final experiment comes. Zelda sneaks into the facility while Link fights his way into the darkest, most dangerous part of his world. They find the effect of the experiment is thinning whatever it is that separates them, so for the first time they can see and interact with each other as ghostly echoes. As Zelda prepares to input the commands to stop the experiment, her father confronts her.
The experiments are not what are causing the coming catastrophe, they are stopping a catastrophe that threatens to destroy Zelda's world. Their technology is at its core dangerous and unstable, it will inevitably lead to a buildup of dangerous magical harmonics that will destroy their civilization, unless those harmonics can be redirected away.
"My friend lives in the world you're destroying! Many people like him live there," Zelda says, "they deserve to live on!"
"Preposterous," her father says, "my experiments are in time manipulation. I'm sending the harmonics to the far future."
Suddenly, it's clear. Link isn't in a parallel world, he's in Zelda's future. One where the calamity came and went and people live on in peace with nature. So what does Zelda do? Does she choose to allow her world to end and Link's world to be, or does she sacrifice Link and his world to claim a new future for her own world? How she chooses determines how her legend ends.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:43 PM on December 26, 2019 [30 favorites]
They hit it off, comparing worlds and giving each other advice as they each go on small adventures. Over time they grow more curious about each other's worlds, and they start to find weird similarities between them: ruins in one where a great city stands in the other, a peaceful park in one world is a twisty forest in the other. Perhaps they live in alternate realities? Maybe it's possible for them to travel between them and meet each other?
Zelda decides to ask her father about it, but to her horror she finds that the experiment he's conducting in her world is causing earthquakes and storms in Link's world. Her father doesn't believe her, so Zelda and Link set out to find a way to stop the experiments. Zelda sneaks her way through secure facilities while Link slashes his way through ruins. Together they put together what they need to stop the calamity approaching in Link's world.
The day of the final experiment comes. Zelda sneaks into the facility while Link fights his way into the darkest, most dangerous part of his world. They find the effect of the experiment is thinning whatever it is that separates them, so for the first time they can see and interact with each other as ghostly echoes. As Zelda prepares to input the commands to stop the experiment, her father confronts her.
The experiments are not what are causing the coming catastrophe, they are stopping a catastrophe that threatens to destroy Zelda's world. Their technology is at its core dangerous and unstable, it will inevitably lead to a buildup of dangerous magical harmonics that will destroy their civilization, unless those harmonics can be redirected away.
"My friend lives in the world you're destroying! Many people like him live there," Zelda says, "they deserve to live on!"
"Preposterous," her father says, "my experiments are in time manipulation. I'm sending the harmonics to the far future."
Suddenly, it's clear. Link isn't in a parallel world, he's in Zelda's future. One where the calamity came and went and people live on in peace with nature. So what does Zelda do? Does she choose to allow her world to end and Link's world to be, or does she sacrifice Link and his world to claim a new future for her own world? How she chooses determines how her legend ends.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:43 PM on December 26, 2019 [30 favorites]
Me.Encylopedia, I would play the HELL out of that game you described.
posted by Doleful Creature at 6:59 PM on December 26, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by Doleful Creature at 6:59 PM on December 26, 2019 [4 favorites]
Glad I could contribute to the post!
Are there any corners of the Zelda universe going under-appreciated? I notice Tri Force Heroes is quite cheap these days. Challenging and with a decent learning curve...online can be rough, and it's reallllly not built for single player, but it's an awesome couch co-op experience. You only need one copy of the game for local play. And you can put Link in the Legendary Dress of Healing!
posted by StarkRoads at 7:19 PM on December 26, 2019 [1 favorite]
Are there any corners of the Zelda universe going under-appreciated? I notice Tri Force Heroes is quite cheap these days. Challenging and with a decent learning curve...online can be rough, and it's reallllly not built for single player, but it's an awesome couch co-op experience. You only need one copy of the game for local play. And you can put Link in the Legendary Dress of Healing!
posted by StarkRoads at 7:19 PM on December 26, 2019 [1 favorite]
I keep a list throughout the year of interesting Zelda links to save up for December 26, it's just been a quiet year for Zelda stuff, other than the above, that someone else (or sometimes myself) didn't find worth immediately posting. I wanted to include more about Link's Awakening 3.0, but although most people like it overall, the biggest stuff about it has been performance glitches and the shallowness of the dungeon editor, and I want to keep Zelda Day posts positive for the most part. So, I'm sorry if this post ended up being pretty light by previous years' standards.
posted by JHarris at 8:29 PM on December 26, 2019
posted by JHarris at 8:29 PM on December 26, 2019
Here's a late find, how fast does Link move, in different situations, in Breath of the Wild?
posted by JHarris at 12:34 AM on December 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 12:34 AM on December 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
Just got back into Breath of the Wild because my 7 yo started playing it, and that speedrun animation is hilarious.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 2:15 AM on December 27, 2019
posted by EndsOfInvention at 2:15 AM on December 27, 2019
On a related note, the 3D-Print-Your-Own-Tabletop-Gaming-Miniature website Hero Forge recently added ocarinas as an equipment option.
posted by radwolf76 at 3:50 AM on December 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by radwolf76 at 3:50 AM on December 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
If you want more zelda themed game analysis videos in your life (I know I do) check out Jeremy Parish's excellent retrospectives on the original NES game and Link's Awakening DX.
There was also progress in performing glitchtacular speedruns in Majora's Mask this year. as explained here. Basically it involves tricking the game into having a guard throw you to the moon, instead of out of the room you were in...
posted by StarkRoads at 9:06 AM on December 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
There was also progress in performing glitchtacular speedruns in Majora's Mask this year. as explained here. Basically it involves tricking the game into having a guard throw you to the moon, instead of out of the room you were in...
posted by StarkRoads at 9:06 AM on December 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
I just yesterday finished the Champions' Ballad extended quest in Master Mode, after about eight months of painstakingly working through the game in Master Mode, with the further self-imposed restriction of "can't teleport anywhere." Much more so than defeating Ganon it feels like I've finished the game which has consumed a year of my life, and I'm not even a video games person prior to getting BOTW. I'ma patting myself on the back, I guess.
posted by daisystomper at 3:07 PM on December 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by daisystomper at 3:07 PM on December 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
If you did all that without teleporting, you don't just need a pat on the back. Have yerself a nice glass of cold Lon-Lon Milk, you deserve it.
posted by JHarris at 3:20 PM on December 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 3:20 PM on December 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
Here's more surprisingly accurate speedrun animations, complete with annotations explaining the specific tactics and even examples.
posted by fomhar at 12:08 PM on December 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by fomhar at 12:08 PM on December 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
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