So this is almost definitely a sequel to OoT right...

So this is almost definitely a sequel to OoT right? That's the Spirit Temple and I'm willing to bet a lot of those characters were sages/descendants.

I also think the voice telling Link he has no recollection of him is the Deku Tree.

Most likely. Probably takes place in downfall timeline, some time after OoT.

The Deku Tree looks a lot like the OoT one too.

Can't be the adult timeline anyway because zoras are still around.

The pool that Zelda was sitting in was also one of the goddess shrine locales from Skyward Sword.

deku tree died nigga

>Can't be the adult timeline anyway because zoras are still around.

But there seem to be Ritos as well which suggests a weird in between phase.

have you guys not played wind waker? botw takes place after wind waker.

rito evolved becoming fully bird people
zoras evolved into those shark things

...

It obviously take place in the WW timeline so no.

>I also think the voice telling Link he has no recollection of him is the Deku Tree.

What makes you think that? Was it the fact Link was standing in front of the fucking Deku Tree when we heard it?

This is a remake of the original Zelda with a bit of time travel to tie it to Ocarina of Time. Notice Link is in the wilderness and the E3 demo starts with him meeting some old asshole by a fire.

Calamity Jane will be fought under Spectacle Rock.

>this game is about how Hyrule got flooded to cause WW to happen
>the legends say Link didn't appear to stop Ganon, but the truth was that he stopped him right at the time the gods stepped in and caused the flood

How will you contain your tears, anons?

Zoras became the rito.

The fuck is with all the retarded misinfo in this thread jesus

Jesus christ what a blurry fucking mess why is there a shitty brown filter on every screenshot of this game

oh shit, forgot about that
I remember as a kid thinking how retarded it was that fish people evolved into bird people

Yes, but he was reborn as the Deku Tree sprout. Hence being able to recall the Hero of Time's past. So it's the same tree.

This new race is much more birdlike than the Rito from WW.

Watch the trailer again as soon as you hear a male voice, when Link is standing in front of the Master Sword. The Deku Tree's lips are moving to the voice's words.

>OoT Hyrule Castle Town and Temple of Time
>SS goddess statues and shrines

No.

I'm on the side saying that this is 100 years after the Wind Waker games, it's the only timeline that would have both Zoras and Ritos and it sorta makes sense if Hyrule goes back to normal after Wind Waker for Zoras and Ritos to coexist.


Don't forget that Wind Waker is a sequel to OoT so it would have OoT looking shit in it.

what about this fucker?

Its touched upon in hyrule histria that they were transformed into bird people. It wasnt evolution and theres no real semblance of how much time passed since the flood.


Anyway the goddesses transformed them cause sealing hyrule under water wouldnt make much sense if the fish niggers swam down and knew about it

But in WW the Zora died out. The great ocean killed everything. The sea yielded no fish according to Ganon, which I guess was bullshit since there was a talking fish in every single zone in the game...

But it was implied that the Zora were gone.

and this thing across from it?

Let's try to interpret this in a different light:

>the bird people were from a different land and migrated to Hyrule some time ago
>the bird people could've evolved from Loftwings
>the bird people are the result of divine magic, like the Ritos were

Ok then why are there Koroks and Rito in this game then fagget?

Could be a different tree, hudreds and hundreds of years had passed between OoT and WW.

Keep in mind that not everything is consistent in continuity and they didn't have plans like BoTW during WW's development.

The point is that there are currently blatant connections and references to OoT, TP and SS in this game and that's all that matters right now.

You're right. But there's definitely a chance that somewhere in the Great Ocean the last remaining Zoras were alive and when you defeat Ganondorf and reset everything back to the way they were, they were able to populate again.

I'm willing to bet that the Zora storyline in BotW is about how their race almost went extinct 100 years ago until the Hero of the Triforce or whatever saved them

Koroks are their original form, they took on a human appearance in OoT for Link's sake.

>Rito
We don't even know if these are Rito.

Hard to say for sure. I doubt Nintendo really cares that much about continuity anyhow. Could be Rito and Zora and a direct sequel to Zelda 2 because Fuck You It's January!

It's WW
>Rito only evolved in the adult timeline
>Koroks only existed in the adult timeline
>Ancient sea salt
>Deku tree (only in OoT and Wind Waker) or it could be the father of the three from the Oracles
>Rock formations like in pic related would've been the result of erosion, since forcibly mining it out would cause it to crumble
I mean, it could also be a merging of the timelines or something. All three timelines very well could converge, since there are elements of all 3 of the timelines, like Castle Town, or the return of Ganon (only in Downfall, since he was defeated/killed/imprisoned in Adult and Child).

Oh yeah, and look who is crawling around on the Great Deku Tree in the trailer.

If this is Wind Waker, what if it's an alternate timeline split where Link and Zelda decided to resurrect Hyrule rather than search for another land?

Or an alternate timeline where the Great Sea gets drained as Ganondorf's wish on the Triforce?

>Terrible washed out fog over the whole scenes

This game looks like shit.

Pic related, a game from THREE GENERATIONS AGO and it looks nicer, so the open world excuse doesn't apply here.

>Posting a 480p game in 1080p

Every time

So OOT overworld with some extras confirmed?

personally I think that it's a direct sequel to four swords

Humanoid zoras only exist in the child timeline.

They are subjugated to lowly beasts in the fail timeline and become rito in the adult timeline.

this doesnt fit in any one single timeline.

They were forcefully evolved into Ritos, and only the ones around Hyrule.

And fish people appear in the Adult Timeline, too.

I bet nintendo regrets making that timeline nonsense now

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE

WHAT IS THAT IN FRONT OF THE DEKU TREE?

Come on Ninten D'oh! get it together

The Master Sword.

He's at the base of the sword's resting place.
He's guarding it.

Timeline made more sense than they intended and pointed towards Ganon being a misunderstood religious fighter framed as a villain by the equivalent of sjw atheists, except even more retarded cause they have proof of the triforce and goddesses.

idk probably for the best they scrapped it

with what? his roots?

Yes, it shows how much the textures hold up even today. matter what resolution BotW is, it will always look shit unless they do something about it before release (unlikely).

Probably. Why else would be be growing in front of it if he wasn't guarding it?

I'm scared. The last time I was this hyped for a game was Phantom Pain.

About that...

Don't get hyped.

Just don't.

Story alone looks like it's just going to be another safe rehash of OoT anyway.

Yeah?

It's the same area. Take note of the flowers around the Master Sword.
The Deku Tree's in the background, above.

The story for botw could be really cool but i just hope they fix some issues with the gameplay thats been in the demos, like healing during the pause screen away from any danger.

Either two swords or two different points in time, cause theres no rust on the one with the deku tree

Really not a big fan of Zelda playing with time travel in any way more complicated than OoT. It was iffy at best with SS

There are gorons in botw. It can't be ww.

Am I the only one that cried when he saw the master sword?

There was a goron in ww.

Not disagreeing with you but your proof was shortsighted.

The one in the trailer doesn't have rust on it. Not to mention the areas look similar, but not the same.

WW and PH had Gorons.

Spirit Tracks also showed that there are other lands than Hyrule, so it's possible that anything that skipped out on WW/PH could've just been in a different part of the world, moving back to Hyrule after the flood.

Different times.

It's pretty clear that this game is going to involve a time traveling mechanic between 100 years in the past and 100 years in the future.

You know how there's the three timelines and one is where Link fails? I'm betting this game is the events that follow that are in the backstory to ALttP

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH, they were merchants. I completely forgot.

It can't be after Wind Waker or we'd be in New Hyrule cruisin' on trains 'n' sheit

It's the downfall timeline and I guess Rito just evolved there as well

WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING FOGGY!

It makes the most sense

>WW explained what happened after OoT in the adult timeline and why it happened
>TP explained what happened after OoT in the child timeline and why it happened
>no game explaining the gap between OoT and ALTTP and why the Hero of Time failed

It makes the most sense.

>Zelda leads the evacutation of her remaining people to the mountaintops
>Link goes to face Ganondorf to keep him contained knowing full well that he won't make it out alive.

The story of ganondorf in Alttp is almost literally the events in OoT given the hero fails. Not sure theres any gap to fill there dude, or at least not crazy enough to account for calamity ganon

It's one of these

Either WW backstory or ALttP backstory

Then how does he end up in the tomb far away from the castle?

>mfw pirating this on WiiU with undub

It's got to be a prequel to WW. Between OoT and WW in the timeline, if you want to be that guy.

>undub
That's right, I now have to worry about this in zelda... fantastic.

This better have dual audio. They went through the trouble of recording this in a bunch of fucking languages. Even Uncharted lets you choose between like four or five

Yep, BotW Link is most definitely the one who lost to Ganon in the Fallen Hero timeline.

The opening to wind waker has a poorly drawn monster ganon grabbing a mountain top during his return.

Theres a fucked up mountain in BotW.

The adult timeline goes as link and zelda seal ganon in the sacred realm, zelda sends link back in time, then there isnt suppose to be a Link in that timeline any more, which is why the backstory opening for wind waker has ganon return unchallenged.

Surely BotW link cant be the one and only hero of time?

Every console game since Ocarina has been kind of a sequel to it. It's the most "legendary" and the one they know people will want to see referenced.

And fuck all this timeline talk. That shit has never mattered. Every game is a difference universe anyway.

>Surely BotW link cant be the one and only hero of time?

He looks fuckall like him so no.

That would also imply that BotW Zelda is also OoT Zelda and she clearly isn't.

And yet there is a deku tree that recognizes Link despite 100 years having passed.

The Deku Tree is an incredibly wise and powerful deity so it makes sense.

There's so much shit flying around that it really might just be some pulp fiction type thing. The 100 years ago doesn't have to refer to link being frozen, but the trailer would be throwing us off the scene intentionally then, which would be weird.

Well ganon is dead at the end of WW, so it cant be toon link and his deku tree.

Deku sprout only knew adult link, well before wind waker.

But adult link was sent back in time... not sealed away? or was it some weird residual fuckup where his spirit merged with his chikd form, but left behind an empty shell body in the adult timeline? Would zelda preserve that? would that be why the deku tree knows link, but lonk doesnt know the deku tree?

>scene
*scent

If this is the downfall timeline then OoT Link is most certainly dead.

The game itself could be set hundreds of years after OoT and most it likely is.

what evidence is there for the downfall timeline? Nothing lines up there.

My honest bet is that this is some sort of retcon of the timelines. Somehow all 3 timelines are going to be merged into BoTW and that's why the Deku Tree recognizes Link, since he'll remember the OoT Link but since the one we're getting is brand new he'll have no memory of him. It would also explain why Rito and Zora are in the same game.

So it could be (actually pretty likely, considering castle town)that most of the trailer is what happened 100 years ago, and link got his shit kicked in or whatever and got stuck in there to heal or whatever.

That would lead to a whole other series of questions, though. Many of them tending towards mediocre writing.

Rito were people with beaks for noses.

Bird dudes in BotW are just straight up bird faced bipedal birds.
You sure they're supposed to be the same species?

>So it could be (actually pretty likely, considering castle town)that most of the trailer is what happened 100 years ago, and link got his shit kicked in or whatever and got stuck in there to heal or whatever.

Yes. That's basically the gist of it.
And he somehow has """amnesia""" on top of all of it, so he doesn't remember what happened in the past.

I feel like the trailer was a red herring.

I suspect that nearly all of scenes involving Zelda took place in the past 100 years ago.

I still feel that the Link waking up 100 years later isn't the same Link from 100 years ago.

Not sure why I have such suspicions, but I do.

(You)

We were all reading s lot into it in the beginning, when they were really just trying to set up an OGLoZ style game.

>30 years since Zelda II released
>not making it Zelda III

Yeah, it looks like it's just going to be another OoT knockoff plot to the T, down to the point with Zelda even fucking everything up again and Link needing to travel into the future to stop Ganon.

If I have to collect 3 things to unlock the Master Sword in the first third of the game then I'm dropping it right then and there.

Why do I even expect Nintendo to make any risky or ballsy decisions with the Zelda IP anymore.

>the one who lost to Ganon

Nah Ganon crushed that nigger's head while forcefully raping Zelda with his pig dick ;_;, these are definitely new incarnations

You're expecting the wrong things, bro
Story's only there to serve gameplay in Ninty's eyes

Not that I don't expect the author of Ruroni Kenshin to pull some shit or other. I don't expect the writing to be boring.

ShindoL?

Cry to someone who cares

>Story's only there to serve gameplay in Ninty's eyes

And it's just one of the reasons why the Zelda series has gone to shit and why the recent ones don't really feel like epic adventures anymore.

But nothing has changed with their design philosophy. Story has always been there to serve gameplay, if at all.

Bro it's always been the case
Even for WW
They can make a story good even while not focusing on it heavily

it probably has to do with link being asleep in the pool perhaps a magic coma or something?

Well that's a different scenario because that was a femLink in a TP timeline but the basic principle is the same

>deity associated more with the goddess of courage than the ones of power and wisdom
>infinitely more powerful and wise than courageous
hmmm

If the timeskip for link required all that shit, how's Zelda still a young thing? Does Ganon dick have immortality semen or something?

Sauce?