Earlier this morning, Nintendo lastly did the factor and introduced The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, a mainline Zelda recreation that forged the titular princess within the lead function, at its most up-to-date Direct. Sure, we find out about Age of Calamity, in addition to Zelda’s Journey, however does most anyone else? No.
Many (well-adjusted) followers cheered for the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, and to have fun, they even introduced again a joke seemingly as outdated as time. You see, regardless of Zelda being the namesake of the sequence, Hyperlink has been the protagonist of many of the franchise. For a very long time, followers have hoped for a Zelda-led title that may reverse their roles, making it in order that Hyperlink is the one being saved by Zelda. This hypothetical recreation’s identify: why, The Legend of Hyperlink, after all.
Of their pleasure, many took to Twitter to jokingly declare that Nintendo clearly bought the secret fallacious. Others have taken the chance to point out off their very own fan artwork of the idea of a Zelda-led recreation.
After which there’s this huge mind play.
As enjoyable as it’s to ponder why Nintendo didn’t truly go ahead with the joke, there are two very probably causes. The primary is that Nintendo’s builders could also be so indifferent from the web and all of the jokes we make on there that it by no means critically crossed anybody’s thoughts. Nintendo is thought for truly retaining its employees, which is why there are such a lot of senior people there which have labored on a few of these franchises for literal many years, like Aonuma. They most likely don’t pay all of the chatter on-line any thoughts, and hey, good for them.
The extra probably case is that it completely did come up in some unspecified time in the future, however in an effort to hold the model intact, they went ahead with the Legend of Zelda moniker. Additionally, the final time there was a Zelda-led recreation that modified up the naming scheme…it sort of sucked.
As humorous as The Legend of Hyperlink is, it doesn’t fairly roll off the tongue in the identical manner. Although you and I could also be sure it isn’t complicated, there are different extra informal players and purchasers who is perhaps thrown for a loop by the sudden identify change. There are already individuals who assume Hyperlink is known as Zelda as a result of he’s the hero of the video games, so naming the Zelda-led recreation after Hyperlink may give somebody an aneurysm. A lot as I hate it, it’s simply less complicated this fashion, however The Legend of Hyperlink shall stay on in all our hearts and minds. And Twitter now, I suppose.
