S02E06:Unraveling The Legend of Zelda: 7 Years of Hope

Ready to hear untold stories of the intricate web of The Legend of Zelda's timelines? This episode serves as your guide through the fascinating intricacies and underlying narratives that make the Ocarina of Time a standout game. We unearth the thrilling tale of Zelda's transformation and the resulting spin-off, The Legend of Zelda: Seven Years of Hope. We're unmasking the Sheikah tribe, Zelda's training, and the mini-game elements that breathe life into an already enthralling story.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Wasteland Party Ayo, time for another episode. So I guess you guys are probably thinking what is he going to talk about this time? What Astonine thing is going to come out of this guy's mouth? Well, I was thinking one day I was like Wasteland either one or two things happen in this timeline. There's something went wrong around. I guess your 2000s or late 2000s or a lot of things are just hit and miss. So I leaned towards the first option and I just started browsing on the old games that my host currently has. Now. My host, if you guys remember, is the body that I'm occupying right now, because I guess, technically, I heard someone say that I'm an ethereal being or something like that. But I'm just a normal guy that just so happens to be in the wrong timeline. That's just stuck, and I just want to tell you guys about the Legend of Zelda really quick Now.

Speaker 1: 1:23

A lot of people, especially in this timeline, really love the Orc Ring of Time. You ask almost anybody that either knows very little about games or a lot, and they tend to say that Orc Ring of Time is the quintessential Legend of Zelda game, and I agree with this too. It did wonders for technology and the genre itself of an adventure game. It probably even pioneered the whole sense of an adventure game, but I'm getting way ahead of myself. That game alone during my timeline had so many sales that Nintendo made this thing, where they just decided to take advantage of the fanbase. Now, if you guys remember before I told you that early on Nintendo did whatever they could in my timeline too Create a whole bunch of studios and really, really invest in the gaming market and eventually corner that market itself. And one of the things they did was because of how popular the Legend of Zelda was, and also because in my timeline there wasn't so much gender biases around playing video games, that they decided to split the Legend of Zelda franchise into two. So from then on, each Legend of Zelda game actually starred Zelda, and Zelda would have its own game that would release along the same time as another official Hero of Time. That's what they were called in my timeline.

Speaker 1: 3:13

All the games that had Link in them were called the Hero of Time, and all the Zelda games that had Zelda in them, where you controlled Zelda, was called the Legend of Zelda. And I know a lot of people at least here would be really weirded out by that, because it's a very odd concept. I'm pretty sure a certain amount of them had had to deal with people calling Link Zelda, especially when they played Super Smash Brothers. So a lot of people know about this little fun fact and a lot of people don't. So, during Ocarina of Time, there are three timelines that end up being created from that game, and if you guys ever looked at the Hyrule Historia that you guys have in this timeline, you can see that there are three distinct branches on the tree. But I'm not going to get into what it's what, because it was confusing in my own timeline and I know it's probably just as confusing in yours.

Speaker 1: 4:20

But what I wanted to talk about was what spawned the spin off of Ocarina of Time, which was called Legend of Zelda, seven Years of Hope. Now, like I said before, a lot of people don't pay much attention to this fun fact, but while Link was sealed away, when he jumped from his childhood state to his adult state, where he was strong enough to fight Ganon, zelda was left behind. Zelda had to be tough, join the Sheikah tribe, pretend to be a man in the Sheikah tribe and become Sheik, and she got a tan and all this stuff and that game itself showed you all the things she had to do in order to get strong and be able to guide Link once he became an adult. So if you want to know the way it actually started off, it was actually very similar to Wind Waker, where she was caught by Ganon as a kid and was sealed away in a dungeon. For some reason Ganon didn't kill her because I think at that time he was still trying to understand how the dry force worked. And you play the game right then and there and you get a little simple tutorial on the buttons and it controls very similar to the way you control Link in Ocarina of Time, but they added these extra elements Very similar to when you would go into the half of Garden of Hyrule and you played that kind of mini stealth game. Well, they improved upon it a little bit and Zelda had to wait for the guard to fall asleep and then she used her robes and, fashioned like a whip, which was going to later on have that mechanic of Sheik's chain whip that she has in Super Smash Bros Melee she whips her clothes and grabs the keys, opens the door, escapes and when she reaches outside she finds out that she's in Gerudo Fortress, where there's a whole bunch of Gerudo women armed to the teeth, and she has to find a way to sneak away from them and go through Hyrule Field.

Speaker 1: 6:55

And then in Hyrule Field there's soldiers and Gerudo warriors out there on patrol as well. So it's one big stealth mission to get to Hyrule. But by the time Zelda actually gets to Hyrule there's an actual full blown war going on and it seems like Ganondorf is winning with some sort of magical power that he has. So from there she sees Impa, meets up with Impa and they both hide away to the Sheikah tribe's secret lair. Now there they talk about how nothing can be done and the Sheikah tribe is small and can only do so much. So then Zelda, by her own I guess virtue. She says, okay, I'm gonna learn how to fight, in case I have to do this all on my own. Now, throughout that whole endeavor she's training. They're teaching you a whole bunch of moves. They teach you how to use the chain whip.

Speaker 1: 8:06

Input the Jess Tiselda that she should disguise herself as a boy just in case someone recognizes her blonde hair. She's the only blonde girl that showed up for the Sheikah tribe and the Sheikahs are all great haired people so they allow this outsider to join them. She or he gives a big speech to the entire town and says that to dedicate her new life or his new life to the Sheikah tribe, he will call himself Sheik and Zelda excels at every single lesson that's taught and throughout that actual seven year binge, each year is a mission. So at the beginning of the first year is her learning her moves and fighting some of the elder Sheikah in the tribe, and then when the second year goes around, they start sending spies to look for the Sheikah tribe. So each year you're fighting different people that are trying to come in find the Sheikah tribe. You stop them one by one, one by one, and it's kind of like a weird offbeat sort of tower defense kind of sort of not really where they would send you on missions because they would suspect certain Gerudo or Gerudo paid mercenaries that would try to get into the Sheikah tribes secret entrance and they would stop them.

Speaker 1: 9:58

And around the fifth year they actually find the Sheikah tribe. They kill everybody and Sheik becomes the only one left and it becomes this really crazy thing and she slowly just starts killing off all of these other mercenary groups that killed the Sheikah tribe and Impa, on her dying breath, says please don't lose hope for the Hero of Time. And you get to see this very emotional part of Zelda and how much she had to still keep hope that the Hero of Time will come. So Zelda dedicates her life to find the temples that Link needs to pass in order to save all of Hyrule. And she gets all this information. She actually not necessarily speed runs, but she actually has to basically clear the way, because all of those temples were guarded by soldiers before Link ever even got to be there, and it's Sheik that actually cleared everything out for you before he even got there. So that's one of the reasons why it seems so empty when you get to the entrances of those dungeons.

Speaker 1: 11:28

And so at the end of the game, at the very, very end, having a very sentimental moment at the temple of time, just hoping to see something, anything at all, she's praying to the goddess please let me have some hope. And then that's when she turns around and then there's Link and then that's the end of the game and it started doing this sort of cliffhanger-y thing that Zelda games started doing in my timeline and I kind of really liked it. It's kind of like a never-ending story vibe-ish and yeah, that was a game that you guys never played, but that was the best I could describe or at least from my memory, because all I got is my memory now. So I guess I'll just end it there. I hope everybody enjoyed it.

Speaker 1: 12:23

I'm trying my best to upload full visual representations of the podcasts on TikTok and I'm also experimenting with the new way to engage with everybody through Twitch. So stay tuned. I'll make sure I tell everything that I do on the socials through TikTok, twitter, instagram or X or whatever you want to call it. But I hope everybody had fun and I'll see you guys later. Oh, and don't ever forget that there's always a better version of something, as long as somebody can conceive it.