jigglet
Banned
When Nintendo talks about timelines, parallel timelines, how they all connect...this was some shit they made up in hindsight, right?
I'm not even talking about the absence of some epic pre-planned roadmap ala George Lucas' Star Wars. I'm suggesting they don't even have a plan on a game-by-game basis. I think they make each game as they go with its own story, characters and aesthetic, and everything else is just roughly (and I do mean roughly) jammed together, whether the pieces fit or not. I mean when they say shit like "it's not even the same Link", that says a lot.
Whenever I hear fans bicker about the timeline I think: what are you even arguing about? It honestly wouldn't surprise me if this isn't even managed by someone from higher up like Miyamoto or Aonuma. I truly believe without any humour that whichever artist is drawing the timeline literally makes it up as they go. As long as it's not too far out there, no one really objects and they say yeah, this is how it all fits.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I hate it when movies or games contort the shit out themselves to shoehorn them into an existing story and try to tie up loose ends (e.g. see Dark Knight Rises). I prefer stories that just ignore everything around them (e.g. Dark Knight, Zelda, Mario) and give us a clean break, no baggage. I just think it's funny when I see fans bicker about it when Nintendo is so bad with creating cohesive universes (again, I see this as a positive, so it's not a criticism).
Thoughts?
I'm not even talking about the absence of some epic pre-planned roadmap ala George Lucas' Star Wars. I'm suggesting they don't even have a plan on a game-by-game basis. I think they make each game as they go with its own story, characters and aesthetic, and everything else is just roughly (and I do mean roughly) jammed together, whether the pieces fit or not. I mean when they say shit like "it's not even the same Link", that says a lot.
Whenever I hear fans bicker about the timeline I think: what are you even arguing about? It honestly wouldn't surprise me if this isn't even managed by someone from higher up like Miyamoto or Aonuma. I truly believe without any humour that whichever artist is drawing the timeline literally makes it up as they go. As long as it's not too far out there, no one really objects and they say yeah, this is how it all fits.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I hate it when movies or games contort the shit out themselves to shoehorn them into an existing story and try to tie up loose ends (e.g. see Dark Knight Rises). I prefer stories that just ignore everything around them (e.g. Dark Knight, Zelda, Mario) and give us a clean break, no baggage. I just think it's funny when I see fans bicker about it when Nintendo is so bad with creating cohesive universes (again, I see this as a positive, so it's not a criticism).
Thoughts?
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