HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE

At the end of PH, the priates basically tell Link that he was gone ten minutes, right? At least that's what I heard.

But you can get up to 25 minutes on your Phantom Hourglass, and it's entirely possible to use them all.


Some0ne help me cause my brain's gonna explode.

Wait, what?
How does the sand have to do with that?

What happenend during the game didn't happen in the real world, but in some kind of dream world. Think Link's Awakening with an entire ocean instead of one single island and you get the picture.

This is why only 10 minutes passed for the pirates, while you experienced a couple of days.

Think The Pagemaster.
Why, oh why, do I remember that movie?

Bucket Mouse: It wasn't that bad.

But yeah, they might have been in some sort of Phantom World. Alternatively, breaking the Phantom Hourglass might have had a more significant time-reversal effect.

Remember how the Sands of Hours can also be used to manipulate time?

Yeah.

Hey, wait then why do you see Linebeck's ship at the end? And Link smiles as if he knew he was going to see it in the real world.

Beacause Linebeck is probably a member of their world as well. I believe that Link was thrown through a dimension rift when the fog occurs. Time passes differently in this rift.

Originally Posted by Bucket Mouse

Think The Pagemaster.
Why, oh why, do I remember that movie?

I loved that film.

So, PH was just a crappy reiteration of LA? Figures.

I was just under the impression that at the end the ocean just sent you back and that it was all real, and not a dream since you see Linebecks ship.

Originally Posted by Freedom G

I was just under the impression that at the end the ocean just sent you back and that it was all real, and not a dream since you see Linebecks ship.

Well, it was Linebeck's wish to the Ocean King, that he wanted to go on travelling with his boat. Much like Marin asked the Windfish, that she wants to be a seagull. You see both of them at the very end of the game in the real world, their wishes fulfilled.

If people found that ending confusing, they should try Braid.

There's no mystery here. Lock the thread. The pirate's quote had nothing to do with the Sands of Hours. Link thought he and Tetra were out for a month or so, (maybe) but they were only dreaming. and the dream by the pirate's point of view was only 10 minutes long. No big paradox there.

Originally Posted by Oni Dark Link

Beacause Linebeck is probably a member of their world as well. I believe that Link was thrown through a dimension rift when the fog occurs. Time passes differently in this rift.

It's probably more like LA:
Marin was part of that dream world, but if you complete the game without dying, you get that special ending with the seagull, and most argue that that certain part means that Marin's wish was granted... yet that part is seen by Link his real world, and not the dream world.

So, since PH is very much like LA, it's probable that Linebeck's wish was granted despite the fact that Link meets him in a different world, making it possible for Link to see him in his real world.

I don't think it was a dream. Their minds just traveled to another world and left there bodies behind. I do believe that Linebeck existed. In fact one could say that the world of the ocean king is a flooded Termina!

well you never see night its like it all happened in one day

Originally Posted by Oni Dark Link

In fact one could say that the world of the ocean king is a flooded Termina!

i support this theory

Originally Posted by Zeruda

It's probably more like LA:
Marin was part of that dream world, but if you complete the game without dying, you get that special ending with the seagull, and most argue that that certain part means that Marin's wish was granted... yet that part is seen by Link his real world, and not the dream world.

I always thought the original (not DX) ending was just an Easter Egg for comic relief, and the DX (color) ending was meant to demonstrate that Link looked up at the seagulls and REMEMBERED Marin's wish, not that it was granted.

The Ocean kin's world is not the same as the one Link and Zelda are from so they do not use the same time. Also theories about Ciela being able to control time has been used to explain this but I don't think she has enough power to do that. The Ocean King says very clearly in the end that it is now time for Link and Zelda to return to their own world.

...like LOST.