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Why they called him Icarus, I'll never know. I always associate the name with a guy who got into family trouble, his cooldad gave him a way out, and he went full retard. HEAT MELTS WAX, YOU TARD.The Greek myth of Icarus involved a boy who, upon wings made by his own father, flew too close to the sun and his wings failed.
F-Zero and Star Tropics would be nice to see too. ^^Thanks, Vixy!
So I got the newest Game Informer today, and in it is a 25th Anniversary look back at the series. After that feature is a 10-page feature on Skyward Sword.
Why am I posting this here, you ask? Simple; there's a sidebar regarding this very issue...Quote from: Game InformerTHE CHRONOLOGY OF ZELDA
Each Zelda game stands on its own fairly well, but hardcore Zelda fans have spent ages concocting complex theories about how the whole series could connect into a complicated history of Hyrule. With Nintendo being so forthcoming about Skyward Sword being a prequel to Ocarina of Time and telling the origin story of the Master Sword, I can't help but ask Aonuma if the developers behind the games spend much time thinking about how they relate to each other.
"Obviously we've made so many games now that we can't help but think about how those games connect to one another," Aonuma says. "However, that consideration comes late in the development process. When we create a new game, we don't start with a preset notion of what the story is going to be or how it's going to flow. We start by focusing in on what the core gameplay element is going to be and then develop from that."
With Skyward sword, the team went into the game knowing that the core gameplay element would be the WiiMotion Plus. With the focus on more fully realized controls, it made sense for the sword itself to play an important part in the plot. So when does it get put into the official timeline?
"There is a document on my computer that has a stamp on it that says 'Top Secret,'" Aonuma tells me with a laugh. "I actually haven't even shown it to many of the staff members. One of the special privileges of being the producer of the series is that I have the right as we're finalizing the game's story to then decide where it fits in."
Aonuma says he is afraid that revealing the official Nintendo timeline would lead future Zelda teams to focus on the story more than the gameplay. "People start to focus in on the storyline and gaps in the timeline," he explains. According to Aonuma's design philosophy this is "a backward way of creating a game." Wish as they might for an official word from on high, fans are probably going to have to keep guessing on the true nature of Zelda's history.
tl;dr There is an official timeline, but we'll never see it.
I changed that because it sounded like I was talking about you too. I was not. Sorry for the confusion.You specifically named me as the one who was wrong... and now you're apologizing for confusing me by claiming you weren't referring to me?
