History Headscratchers / TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword

*** You’re not supposed to fail, storyline-wise. Game overs aren’t canon, so neither would that.

** Zelda's own words are that Hylia gave up her "divine powers" and "immortal form", and she also refers to it as a sacrifice. What is she sacrificing if dying as a mortal would make her become a god again? It's also not uncommon for gods to be killable in both fictional and real-world mythologies. They're immortal in the sense that they won't grow old or die of natural causes, but there have been ways in which some of them can be killed.

* Who thought it would be a good idea to build's Skyloft's one and only bar on a separate island? I know that the logic in game is that Lumpy Pumpkin is there people who to take a respite at when flying around, but that doesn't make too much sense. Particularly since none of the customers you see in the place are even knights. How would the average person even get there? It seems a bit stupid that the only place in the entire goddamn sky where there's any form of public service for drinking, relaxation and entertainment is on a separate piece of land that takes ages to fly over to from Skyloft. Heck pumpkin soup goes cold quickly, but they're still making freaking soup deliveries to skyloft. So they decided to build their only public place where anyone can relax and unwind anywhere in the entire sky on a place that's as far away from the main populace as possible, and began a business selling a type of drink that gets cold very quickly to people via long-distance deliveries. Why didn't anyone suggest, you know, moving the damn bar a little closer to Skyloft's mainland? Or better yet, building it ''on'' the mainland?

* I know it's easy to brush past this, but why didn't Link have to actually touch the complete Triforce in order to wish for the destruction of Demise? Various earlier games called for someone to "lay their hand" upon it in order to use its power, and fulfilling that condition to the letter was the key to foiling Ganondorf's plot in ''The Wind Waker.'' Was it too much trouble to animate Link reaching out and touching it as he made the wish?

* When you meet him at Skyview Temple, Ghirahim complains about how a servant of the goddess snatched up Zelda before he could capture her when she landed on the surface. On my first playthrough, I thought he was talking about Fi, but she's been with Link the entire time, as far as we know. Zelda traveled through the forest and up the volcano on her own before she was captured, which is when she met Impa inside the Earth Temple, so it couldn't have been her either. The only other servant the game mentions is Grannie, who was sitting in the temple before Link got there and couldn't have accompanied Zelda on her travels simultaneously. So who was Ghirahim referring to as the one who originally rescued her?

*** I think it's more likely that Impa opened the doors for Zelda (granted, from her slender figure and thin limbs, she doesn't look very strong in terms of raw strength). Alternatively, Zelda and Impa may have used levers and/or their combined strength. Or maybe the door's mechanisms are designed to open automatically for Hylia.

*** Yeah, the very first section in A Link to the Past is about Link proving himself in all three virtues by collecting the Pendants, and the same game shows that Link he's able to touch and wish upon the Triforce without it splitting. As for the Kokiri Tunic setting the precedent for Link's green garb, The Minish Cap predating Ocarina already screwed that up, so why blame this game for that? And Zelda II had heavily implied that Link and Zelda ended up together at the end of the game. It sounds to me like the people complaining about this "lore defilement" are the ones who aren't that familiar with Zelda lore.