Nintendo can fuck off with all that "magic is really technology" bullshit if that's where they're heading with the series.
I like the fact that there's technology in the Zelda games. Jukeboxes in OOT, aliens in MM? Good stuff, it adds to the unique flavor of the Zelda universe. But don't call the goddesses ancient aliens and say that what fuels the Triforce and dozens of other series relics isn't magic but highly advanced technology. I can only imagine that the people in this thread who are clamoring for Nintendo to go in this direction are such hard-boiled cynics in real life that they find it difficult to immerse themselves in traditional fantasy. I'm sorry you need an explanation for everything, but some of us still
like to suspend our disbelief every now and then and enjoy a world where magic exists and can't be explained away--you know,
fantasy.
What's your opinion on robots in Skyward Sword? Magnets and mechanisms in Twilight Princess? Steamboats in Phantom Hourglass? Trains in Spirit Tracks? Neon signs in Ocarina of Time? UFOs in Majora's Mask?
Zelda games always had a dash of "hi-tech."
Yes, always. Throughout the franchise's 30 year history. From the very first game. Remember the laser gun in Zelda II? The jet pack in A Link to the Past? Good times.
Spirit Tracks is an abomination.
Heh, that doesn't really work in reverse.
Heh, it really does when it's fantasy we're talking about.
Magic throughout history is technology and phenomena that people don't understand.
Good thing this is a video game series in which a hero seeks out giant golden talking triangles that can grant wishes and not history.
Well, yeah, that's the whole idea of this trope. Fantasy setting where misunderstood technology is considered magic. If they went full sci-fi it wouldn't be that anymore.
Both sci-fi and fantasy have unbelievable settings and creatures that don't exist in reality, so what do you suppose separates the two genres from each other?
What makes Star Wars fantasy rather than science fiction despite the huge role that advanced technology plays in the franchise?
Magic.
Whether it's labeled ''misunderstood technology" or not, once you posit a scientific explanation for magic, you
have, in effect, gone full sci-fi. The presence of swords and dragons and other fantasy tropes does nothing to change that.
Can't magic just be magic? Can't we have amazing, incomprehensible things rather than things we just don't understand
yet but know must have some mundane explanation?
If Nintendo explains away magic with technology the way people (mistakenly) thought that George Lucas was explaining away the Force with midichlorians, it will no longer be fantasy but sci-fi with fantasy tropes, and the series I loved will be dead to me.
Speaking of the Twili, their "magic" is very techno-looking, too. With the black squares and glowing circuitry. The robotic wallmasters they made to protect the sols look a lot like Gohdan from Wind Waker:
The whole Palace of Twilight is very techno.
Magic has almost always been depicted as glowing. What else would you expect from the physical manifestation of a magic spell but for it to glow?
Anyway, that symbol resembles a labyrinth, which, if you didn't know, is more than just a type of maze, but a symbol found in ancient cultures:
http://symboldictionary.net/?p=3287
Not every piece of fantasy needs an explanation.
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