The Phantom Hourglass..sound like LA to you?

From Nintendo's E3 website:

Many months have passed since the events of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Link, Tetra and Tetra’s band of pirates have set sail in search of new lands. They come across a patch of ocean covered in a dense fog, in which they discover an abandoned ship. Tetra falls into danger when she explores the ship alone, and Link falls into the ocean when he attempts to rescue her. When he washes up unconscious on the shores of a mysterious island, he is awakened by the sound of a fairy’s voice. With the aid of this fairy, he sets off to find Tetra – and his way back to the seas he once knew.


From me:

1. The game was developed by the exact same team members of EAD who made Link's Awakening...

2. The game has a very interesting storyline that takes place after the Wind Waker...

3. This game may just as well be the prequel to Link's Awakening...

4. I'm sure the ending of this videogame will lead right into Link's Awakening, actually, it will fit perfectly...

5. It sounds like a series of three if you say Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Link's Awakening. notice the "Wake" in both LA and WW....LA and WW both have something to do with the "wind", ex. The Wind Fish.

6. Maybe in Link's Awakening.....Link was really looking for Tetra, based on what we know now....I wouldn't be surprised....the creators could have come up with a story line and Phantom Hourglass could be the prequel to Link's Awakening...

Just so you all know this.....I don't want to hear anybody tell me that "Link to the Past" is the prequel to Link's Awakening....

if Nintendo makes a Link to the Future....that will be a Link to the Past's sequel....

LTTP is also not related to the Minish Cap in any way....got it?

I'm mostly 99.9 percent right so let me believe what I want to believe....

Great....

Have you also noticed how Link's Adventure and A Link to the Past both have 'Link' in them! Hello! Waker and Awakening mean both completely different things.

Are you by any chance related to EcRoFiRT? He is also very good in seeing similarities between two totally different games.

Link trying to save Tetra and Link doing a completely random adventure on some island don't seem very similar to me.

Ow and Link to the Past is the prequel to Link's Awakening, why? Because you said I couldn't say it and well this is what I believe. I can't tell you what I believe but you can tell me what you believe?

Simmilar yes. But why would link get marooned on an island twice in a row? Thats just stupid. Oh and by the way, why would you make a thread where you are not willing to hear our side of the story and you just make a statment... "I will believe what I want to believe" now I am not saying that you cant, by all means please do, but you must be open to suggestions as well my friend.

Joe


~Just because the names sound the same dosent mean they are sequels or prequels. ~

Yes, you are so right with the similarities. The first time I read the reviews and looked at the screenshots I immediatly thought of LoZ:LA. And Link's not stupid to get marooned on an island twice. I mean, these are totally different storylines. But how much you wanna bet that this phantom hourglass thingy is just like some sort of time demension in which this phantom island just appears. Then at the end of the game its gonna dissapear? Or Link and the crew will wake up and escape the Phantom dimension? Lol. Hey, and wouldn't it be funny if the Wind Fish woke up and it turns out he dreamt the whole OoT storyline. With MM, TWW, and the others? Hahaha. That would be hilarious!

Looks like your saving Zelda again...I mean "Tetra". It could be before LA but I always thought the Orcale games were before LA. Because you sail away at the end of the Orcale games in a ship that looks JUST like the one in the begining of LA. Hmmmm...

It's also confirmed by Nintendo that Link's Awakening is a direct sequel to A Link to the Past. the story of Link's Awakening took place just shortly after A Link to the Past. After defeating Ganon, Link decided to leave hyrule to hone his skills, should Ganon ever return. On his voyage, Link gets caught in a storm and is shipwrecked on Koholint Island. Yes, Koholint turned out to be a dream. but just because it was a dream doesn't mean it wasn't real... if you get what i'm saying.

And Nintendo's release of the Phantom Hourglass, as we all know, is a direct sequel to Wind Waker. I can see the similarity between PH and LA by the fact that link gets shipwrecked on an island, but that's about it. I think it's just a concept similarity, just like how Ocarina of Time, in concept, is exactly like A Link to the Past. find three symbols/stones and get Master Sword. save the seven sages/maidens and defeat Ganon. hell, Phantom Ganon in concept is just a levitating Aghanim with wall paintings. and similarly, Phantom Ganon/Aghanim were also the first bosses you fought after getting the Master Sword.

It's just reminiscent inspiration. Phantom Hourglass and Link's Awakening are only truly connected, storyline wise, in that they're both games in the universe of The Legend of Zelda.

Just so you all know this.....I don't want to hear anybody tell me that "Link to the Past" is the prequel to Link's Awakening....

Okay, i won't say that. The Oracle games are before LA and after LttP.

And, if they make a "Link to the Present game", where will it be?? before or after your "Link to the Future"

I don't care if i'm told not so say it. It has to be pointed out.

I have an official source too, proving my point. Well... I used to. I had the player's guide that came with Ocarina of Time Master Quest when i pre-ordered Wind Waker, years back. In the guide was a Zelda retrospective section, with a brief history of each game leading up to Ocarina of Time.
It specifically said that Link's Awakening was the first Zelda to be a direct sequel to it's predecessor, which was A Link to the Past. The guide this retrospective came from was the official guide released by Nintendo.

You can't argue against official statement from Nintendo. Link's Awakening is A Link to the Past's sequel, not the continuation of Phantom Hourglass. I would scan it if i could, but unfortunately i no longer have the guide. I sold it in a garage sale because i didn't think i'd need a guide for a game i've played to death already (and for some reason it didn't even include a guide for the Master Quest version anyway, just the normal OoT). But i do remember specifically from the retrospective that Link's Awakening is A Link to the Past's sequel, not Phantom Hourglass'. Besides, if it was, then that means they'd have been planning Phantom Hourglass since like... early 90's. and that sounds highly far-fetched, near to the point of impossibility.

Phantom Hourglass, sure, it has similar elements to that of Link's Awakening, but that's just Nintendo taking inspiration from the design of a previous game.
For example, just because Minish Cap has old OoT characters in it, doesn't mean it's the same Link in the same Hyrule as Ocarina of Time. It's just reminiscing to, and finding inspiration from previous games.

NOTE: I also remember, we really don't actually know where exactly the Oracle Games are set. There's some evidence that it's before Link's Awakening, yes, but that's still speculation. I don't believe Nintendo has ever actually given official word on the Oracle games' placement in the "timeline" that they say they use as a model for the series.

It does seem to sound alot like LA. I just hope this game is not doomed to fail.
As I've heard the controls are better weird... And a sequel to the Wind Waker?
Does not sound to promising, but since Nintendo is doing so well at the moment. I would not be surprised if this becomes a massive hit.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

From me:

1. The game was developed by the exact same team members of EAD who made Link's Awakening...

The Oracle games and The Minish Cap were both developed by Capcom. Very different games.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

2. The game has a very interesting storyline that takes place after the Wind Waker...

It sure does.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

3. This game may just as well be the prequel to Link's Awakening...

It may, but how could TWW and PH fit between ALTTP and LA?

Originally Posted by Jelandon

4. I'm sure the ending of this videogame will lead right into Link's Awakening, actually, it will fit perfectly...

Uh... how did you get a copy of the full storyline?

Originally Posted by Jelandon

5. It sounds like a series of three if you say Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Link's Awakening. notice the "Wake" in both LA and WW....LA and WW both have something to do with the "wind", ex. The Wind Fish.

Did you also notice how they all have the letter 'a' in their names?

Originally Posted by Jelandon

6. Maybe in Link's Awakening.....Link was really looking for Tetra, based on what we know now....I wouldn't be surprised....the creators could have come up with a story line and Phantom Hourglass could be the prequel to Link's Awakening...

No, when he 'wakes up' in Marin's house in LA he asks for Zelda, not Tetra.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

Just so you all know this.....I don't want to hear anybody tell me that "Link to the Past" is the prequel to Link's Awakening....

But... I'm pretty sure it is.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

if Nintendo makes a Link to the Future....that will be a Link to the Past's sequel....

Because names give us all the facts about a game.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

LTTP is also not related to the Minish Cap in any way....got it?

No, it's not.

Originally Posted by Jelandon

I'm mostly 99.9 percent right so let me believe what I want to believe....

Your opinion is not fact.

Good point, i don´t really agree with Link "bein´ marooned twice in an unreal island" I bet the island like in LA is some mirage/dream or something like that
-_-, how disappointing.