TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

The Legend Of Zelda - General Thread

Go To

Folt Warlock Necromancer from Hollow Bastion! >=D Since: Jun, 2010
Warlock Necromancer
#11026: Mar 25th 2012 at 2:36:23 PM

[up][up][up] YES! cool

edited 25th Mar '12 2:36:40 PM by Folt

Fantastic Supreme Überkaiser Emperor Folt of The Infinity and Beyond" ... "The First"!
X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
You'll never see it coming...
#11027: Mar 25th 2012 at 2:53:01 PM

Something that just crossed my mind. Does anyone think that the harp Sheik uses in OoT is the same as the Goddess Harp?

"Just wants a friend but had to give up his ding dong for it, tragic." - AngelLightStar
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#11028: Mar 25th 2012 at 2:54:13 PM

I thought that was all but outright stated.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
You'll never see it coming...
#11029: Mar 25th 2012 at 2:57:24 PM

Wait. Aonuma did say that outright.

(facepalm)

"Just wants a friend but had to give up his ding dong for it, tragic." - AngelLightStar
KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#11030: Mar 25th 2012 at 3:23:32 PM

If I recall correctly, wasn't it just said it was a possibility, and not that it definitely is or isn't?

X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
You'll never see it coming...
#11031: Mar 25th 2012 at 3:28:14 PM

Well, I did some further research, and he said that the two shared the same design. That's not necessarily a confirmation or a denial, but I'd personally say that lends more credence to them being one in the same than not.

"Just wants a friend but had to give up his ding dong for it, tragic." - AngelLightStar
KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#11032: Mar 25th 2012 at 3:36:35 PM

Ah, well I saw the similar designs pointed out in the Hyrule Historia, where it simply said, "could they be the same thing?"

So yeah, so specific confirmation or denial from anywhere.

SNDL Since: Mar, 2011
#11033: Mar 25th 2012 at 3:56:18 PM

The harp is pretty much the one and same, seeing as Zelda has it in both games.

I do wonder, though, why do they change their instruments? First there's the harp, then the Ocarina, the the Wind Waker, and then the Spirit Flute. And that's counting the Adult Timeline.

BadWolf21 Since: May, 2010
#11034: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:00:14 PM

The Wind Waker is not an instrument.

X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
You'll never see it coming...
#11035: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:06:08 PM

What do you mean, why change the instrument? They all have different functions and varying plot importance.

"Just wants a friend but had to give up his ding dong for it, tragic." - AngelLightStar
asterism from the place I'm at Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#11036: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:09:20 PM

Wind instruments seem to be the most popular.

Ironically, the music related thingy that actually controls the wind is not a wind instrument.

edited 25th Mar '12 4:09:56 PM by asterism

Bewitching Eyes
KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#11037: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:12:15 PM

What do mean they keep changing their instruments? And it's several hundred, if not thousands, of years between SS and OOT. They could just be harps with similar designs, maybe based off drawings of the Goddess Harp. Or the same harp, lasting those many years because it's magic.

You know, just about every game has an instrument as an item (including the Wind Waker), even if it's just minor.

The NES games and ALTTP had Flutes, OOT and MM has the Ocarinas (plus others for mask forms), OOS and OOA have the flutes that call your animal friends, OOA has the Harp of Ages, WW has the Wind Waker, MC has the Ocarina of Wind, TP has a Horse Call, ST has the Spirit Flute, and SS has the Goddess Harp. Plus LA is all about collecting the instruments to wake the Wind Fish. The only one that don't, I think, are FS, FSA, and PH.

edited 25th Mar '12 5:14:15 PM by KuroBaraHime

BadWolf21 Since: May, 2010
#11038: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:18:14 PM

It's entirely possible that it's the same harp, with new string. Don't know why it needs to be magic (although it clearly is, seeing as it brings in a full orchestra when it's played).

Swampertrox Since: Oct, 2010
#11039: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:19:21 PM

They keep changing the instrument because having the same thing with the same function in each game would be boring.

KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#11040: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:22:10 PM

Well, I'd just assumed an important harp related to a goddess is enchanted somehow. But yeah, I'd suppose the metal frame could last a long time if taken care of, even if the strings would need to be replaced.

X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
You'll never see it coming...
#11041: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:27:34 PM

Yeah. Bad Wolf, I don't quite see why the Goddess Harp wouldn't be enchanted in some way.

"Just wants a friend but had to give up his ding dong for it, tragic." - AngelLightStar
BadWolf21 Since: May, 2010
#11042: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:29:08 PM

Well obviously it's enchanted. Its a magic harp. I meant that I doubt it's got magic string preservation.

Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#11043: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:31:23 PM

Magic always seems to imply that age doesn't affect it.

I mean, by the time of LTTP the Master Sword should break with a single swing if it was a normal sword.

edited 25th Mar '12 4:31:34 PM by Mukora

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#11044: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:36:25 PM

Well, it's the obvious reason to enchant something. To keep it preserved, to keep it from breaking, and to keep it useful.

And if I recall correctly, the Goddess Harp has been around for 1000 years, so it'd either have to be enchanted or preserved in a magical spot. And the former would be more useful given that it'd be annoying for say, a string to break while Link in the middle of his journey.

edited 25th Mar '12 4:38:39 PM by KuroBaraHime

asterism from the place I'm at Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#11045: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:41:01 PM

WW has the Wind Waker
WW also has a lyre and a cello violin. You just don't get to play them.

Similarly, LA has a grand total of nine magical instruments.

Bewitching Eyes
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#11046: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:41:23 PM

I think we can safely assume that any sort of magic item, especially one blessed by the goddess, ages a lot better mundane objects.

Also, the whole "wind instruments" thing gave me the mental image of Link toting around a magic bassoon.

Reaction Image Repository
asterism from the place I'm at Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#11047: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:42:52 PM

Link's Awakening has a magic organ. As instruments go, it's not even portable.

Bewitching Eyes
X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
You'll never see it coming...
#11048: Mar 25th 2012 at 4:52:10 PM

The instruments in LA were a bit strange even by series standards.

That being said, Link needs either a magic triangle or cowbell in a future game. tongue

"Just wants a friend but had to give up his ding dong for it, tragic." - AngelLightStar
Tarsen Since: Dec, 2009
#11049: Mar 25th 2012 at 6:17:33 PM

nah, he needs a bottle to blow into.

several, in fact.

beer bottles.

the bottles would have a double use: make music and get link shitfaced when low on health. side effects include projectile vomiting at enemies to stun them.

later on he'll get the ability to swallow projectile items to use later when he projectile vomits, making the vomit deadly :O

edited 25th Mar '12 6:18:36 PM by Tarsen

X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky

Total posts: 51,876
Top