History Trivia / TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames

** ''Hyrule Historia'' reveals [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:OoS_Ganondorf_Concept_Artwork.png concept artwork for Ganondorf]], who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning he was considered but cut for unknown reasons.
** [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:OoSOnoxConcept.png Concept art of Onox]] shows him holding a huge two-headed axe with a flail attached to the handle.

* FlipFlopOfGod: These games were first stated to be a midquel between ''A Link to the Past'' and ''Link's Awakening'' with the same Link. This has sense been modified to be an indirect sequel to both with a new Link.

* NamesTheSame: ''Ages'' is the only Zelda game to have both River Zoras (Evil) and Lake Zoras (Good), and explains that they are separate species that don't like each other; though evolutionary cousins.

* NamesTheSame: Labrynna (Ages) is the only Zelda game to have both River Zoras (Evil) and Lake Zoras (Good), and explains that they are separate species that don't like each other; though evolutionary cousins.

* FanNickname: The Maku Tree in ''Ages'' is also known as "Waifu Tree".

** The development of these two games is a rather interesting and complex one. There were going to be ''three'' games, collectively called "The Triforce Series," and would link to each other to form a complete narrative. The "Power" chapter would have gameplay focused on changing seasons using the Rod of Seasons, the "Wisdom" chapter would focus on puzzles involving color and a Magic Paintbrush item, and the "Courage" chapter would focus on time with the day changing between morning, noon, afternoon, and night. However, it was soon agreed that linking three games together in one continuous narrative, but allowing the games to be played in any order, would be too complex (indeed, you would be able to play through such a combination six different ways). Thus plans were changed to just two games, with story and gameplay recycled into the games that became ''Oracle of Seasons'' and ''Oracle of Ages''. As TheArtifact entry on the main page explains, elements of the original trilogy intent remain in the final product when one knows them to recognize them.
** In addition to the above plan, the trilogy was meant to be preceded by a remake of the original NES ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' for the Game Boy Color, with both the remake and the "Trilogy' project being the result of a Capcom producer outright ''threatening'' Miyamoto that if his team wasn't given the chance to make a ''Zelda'' game, Capcom would just make their own SerialNumbersFiledOff version.

** In addition to the above plan, the trilogy was meant to preceded by a remake of the original NES ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' for the Game Boy Color, with both the remake and the "Trilogy' project being the result of a Capcom producer outright ''threatening'' Miyamoto that if his team wasn't given the chance to make a ''Zelda'' game, Capcom would just make their own SerialNumbersFiledOff version.

** In addition to the above plan, one of the games was going to be a remake of the original NES ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''.

** ''Hyrule Historia'' reveals [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:Ganondorf_OoX_concept.png concept artwork for Ganondorf]], who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning he was considered but cut for unknown reasons.

** [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:OoSOnoxConcept.png Concept art of Onox]] shows him holding a huge two-headed axe with a flail attached to the handle.

** Hyrule Historia reveals [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:Ganondorf_OoX_concept.png concept artwork for Ganondorf]], who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning he was considered but cut for unknown reasons.

** In addition to the above plan, one of the games was going to be a remake of the original NES ''Legend of Zelda''.
** Hyrule Historia reveals concept artwork for Ganondorf, who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning he was considered but cut for unknown reasons.

** Hyrule Historia reveals concept artwork for Ganondorf, who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning he was considered but cut for unknown reasons.
* The Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons have the same names as 2 of the goddesses that created the Triforce, Din (the Oracle of Seasons) is the Goddess of Power. Nayru (the Oracle of Ages) is the Goddess of Wisdom. And Farore, the Goddess of Courage, appears in the linked version of the two games (where you link the two together to get the true ending). It's never made clear whether this is just a case of NamesTheSame or if these are the goddesses who created the Triforce.

** Hyrule Historia reveals concept artwork for Ganondorf, who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning he was considered but cut for unknown reasons.

** Hyrule Historia reveals artwork for Ganondorf, who only appears as a mindless Ganon, meaning it is likely he was to appear.

** The development of these two games is a rather interesting and complex one. There were going to be ''three'' games, collectively called "The Triforce Series," and would link to each other to form a complete narrative. The "Power" chapter would have gameplay focused on changing seasons using the Rod of Seasons, the "Wisdom" chapter would focus on puzzles involving color and a Magic Paintbrush item, and the "Courage" chapter would focus on time with the day changing between morning, noon, afternoon, and night. However, it was soon agreed that linking three games together in one continuous narrative, but allowing the games to be played in any order, would be too complex (indeed, you would be able to play through such a combination six different ways). Thus plans were changed to just two games, with story and gameplay recycled into the games that became ''Oracle of Seasons'' and ''Oracle of Ages''.

** The development of these two games is a rather interesting and complex one. There were going to be ''three'' games, collectively called "The Twiforce Series," and would link to each other to form a complete narrative. The "Power" chapter would have gameplay focused on changing seasons using the Rod of Seasons, the "Wisdom" chapter would focus on puzzles involving color and a Magic Paintbrush item, and the "Courage" chapter would focus on time with the day changing between morning, noon, afternoon, and night. However, it was soon agreed that linking three games together in one continuous narrative, but allowing the games to be played in any order, would be too complex (indeed, you would be able to play through such a combination six different ways). Thus plans were changed to just two games, with story and gameplay recycled into the games that became ''Oracle of Seasons'' and ''Oracle of Ages''.

** The development of these two games is a rather interesting and complex one. There were going to be ''three'' games, collectively called "The Twiforce Series," and would link to each other to form a complete narrative. The "Power" chapter would have gameplay focused on changing seasons using the Rod of Seasons, the "Wisdom" chapter would focus on puzzles involving color and a Magic Paintbrush item, and the "Courage" chapter would focus on time with the day changing between morning, noon, afternoon, and night. However, it was soon agreed that linking three games together in one continuous narrative, but allowing the games to be played in any order, would be too complex (indeed, you would be able to play through such a combination nine different ways). Thus plans were changed to just two games, with story and gameplay recycled into the games that became ''Oracle of Seasons'' and ''Oracle of Ages''.

* An interesting fact about these games is that they are the first canon ''Zelda'' games created with third-party involvement. It was originally titled ''The Triforce Series'' and was intended to be a trilogy of games with the same premise of linking the games together (in any order) to form one solid narrative. However, complications and budget forced a reduction to two games. In addition, one of the games was intended to be a remake of the first ''Zelda'' game, which was reworked into Oracle of Seasons after the Triforce Trilogy was cancelled, explaining why Holodrum's game map was similar to the map of the first Zelda game.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The trilogy's first release had noted that things were connected in such a way that there would originally have been three games with linking portions. The third game was eventually cut, one of the main reasons being that it would make the linked game feature far too complex.
** Oracle of Light / Mystic Seed of Courage was to be the third one and would dealt with actual dimension travel between a 'dark' and 'light' world; each representing a split in a time line (Ages and Seasons caused by some time ripple) that would have lead Link to the realization that he was actually in the same world but one had a lack of color and the other had too much.
** Accordingly the color had a way of changing the dark world and the light worlds respectively by giving/taking it away to open paths, move doors, and even [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy repainting reality]].
** One of the Mystic Seed games was going to be a straight remake of the original Legend of Zelda. Its assets were reused for Orace of Seasons, which is why so many of that game's bosses are taken from the first game.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The trilogy's first release had noted that things were connected in such a way that there would originally have been three games with linking portions.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The triology's first release had noted that things were connected in such a way that there would originally have been three games with linking portions.

** Accordingly the color had a way of changing the dark world and the light worlds respectively by giving/taking it away to open paths, move doors, and even [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy repainting reality]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to [[http://zeldawiki.org/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Mystical_Seed_of_Courage the Zelda Wiki,]] Farore's game was supposed to have been the time-travel one, and Nayru's the color-puzzles one. Then "Mystical Seed of Courage" got axed and ''Oracle of Ages'' picked up the time-travel plot.