This New Zelda Game Changes Everything

The New Zelda Game Changes Everything

#pointcrow #tearsofthekingdom #zelda

[Begidell]

At first I was skeptical but now Oh my god this makes so much sense.

[pitaya_is_cool]

Ganon actually hasn’t given up on reincarnation, it’s a mistranslation. The original says that dark beast ganon was born out of ganon’s obsessive REFUSAL to give up on reincarnation.

[zapssr]

The problem with this is some of the texts were mistranslated and the Japanese text were different from the English ones. And for the BOTW Ganon “has given up on the reincarnation” was completely contradictory of what was said on the Japanese version that if was translated, Zelda said “This form was born from his obsessive refusal to give up on revival…”

[npcdallas]

It was already stated that botw and totk take place super far into the future so their placement on any of the 3 timelines don’t matter, and the sky islands were formed when Hylia wanted to protect the land from Demise and his army so she just straight up launched it into the sky and reincarnated as Zelda and waited for someone to come along and be capable of using the full tri force (Link)

[NathanTruby]

The thing is, it's not just one Ouroboros, it's two, signifying how Link and Zelda (along with Ganon) are connected. When one appears, the others follow.

[bigfeesh]

If the Zelda timeline is circular then the branching lines are actually what happens in each cycle, just one at a time. Child, adult and fallen hero timelines would actually follow each other instead of happening together. With BotW and everything from Skyward Sword to OoT being constant because there has to be a calamity that causes Hylia to raise the sky islands and that leads down the same path until OoT when Zelda and Link mess with time and cause different events to happen leading to the timeline changes.

[teddytoucan]

I would like to comment that the quote “ganon has given up on reincarnation” in the English version is the exact fucking opposite of the Japanese version, where it says ganon has an absolute refusal to be defeated

[themillersthree]

if you finished the dragons tears quest you'll know why it's called that

[DarioKalen_Kagenui]

The theory can still work without this bit, but I just want to point out that as most people know, Ganon "giving up on reincarnation" was a localisation mistake, only the English language has it. Every other language (and most importantly, the original Japanese) just says that Ganon hasn't been able to properly reincarnate (due to Zelda slowing him down, and now you as Link have destroyed the body he was trying to reincarnate into, but you haven't completely killed him) he's taken this beast form.

[youtubethinksidontexist]

In the Japanese version Zelda states that his form was born out of an unstoppable need to reincarnate

[crane]

Remember when we thought this game would have a story connecting the timeline? Good times

[jasoninkurai]

I actually think that this game is about breaking the cycle of Hylia and Demise, basically putting an end to Demise's cycle of hatred and death.

[ThePieGuy]

Last time the word tears were used in a Zelda game it was the sacred tears in the sacred realm in skyward sword, those tears were used to ignite the flames of the three goddesses of the triforce and to turn the goddess sword into the master sword.

With the master sword being broken we could see a return of those tears (probably in a different way than in skyward sword) be used to restore the master sword in order to once again seal Gannon or Demise.

[pox_pietru]

Mans leaving even MatPat flabbergasted with this one.

[RealmsSMPStudios]

I think it’s now technically the prequel to The Legend of Zelda: Revenge of the Koroks…

[augustomoreira]

some random lizard: **bites its own tail cuz its itchy**
humans: i see. thats very good wisdom.

[HybridAngel]

I think it would be really interesting personally if tears of the kingdom both perpetuated the never ending cycle, but also ended. Like this has happened before, the technology, the reincarnations, everything, just keeps looping, and we in this game, find evidence of it, and finally put an end to the cycle.

[mitwhitgaming]

Didn't the original Japanese say not "giving up on reincarnation, " but rather, and I'm paraphrasing, "refusing to die and reincarnating." The exact opposite, but also makes more sense.

[younggod]

Oroboros symbols don't stand for infinity, the stand for someone destroying themselves out of greed. But I get your point in general, and I think it's true

[WLYLL]

The “ganon has given up on reincarnation” part is actually a mistranslation