A new release, Hyrule Warriors DLC, and an overlooked cameo in part 8 of the increasingly crowded unofficial Zelda Timeline project.
Firstly, the game with a crowded title, My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Now Zelda characters have been in a Picross game before: Japan-exclusive Picross NP Vol. 5. Drawing from Ocarina of Time, the pictures became animated when finished, but I didn’t judge it substantial enough to include as a separate entry on the timeline; like a manga that’s a straight adaptation, or the panels in Streetpass Plaza, it’s pretty much just another view of the game’s events and characters without any extra event happening to them. This new title, on the other hand, has Midna talking to you as the tutorial. So it’s a new event for Midna in her imp form… somehow. The puzzles are not animated as NP 5’s were, but a new Midna appearance with new dialogue puts this release up a notch to Timeline territory.
The reveal of additional DLC packs for Hyrule Warriors (Legends) adds a few logos to the Timeline. New eras are being accessed: Link’s Awakening and A Link Between Worlds in the Link to the Past-ish era, and Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks in the Wind Waker-ish era. While we don’t have all the answers yet, only knowing that Marin will appear, that’s really all I need to know for the Timeline. The only question is which game in particular the character in the PH/ST pack will come from, and what the Adventure map portrays (I’m guessing New Hyrule for the latter). But I’ve just put the logo next to both games, so it shouldn’t need any more changes.
Finally, while browsing Mario games, I stumbled on a little cameo that I hadn’t seen mentioned elsewhere. Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up was one of many edutainment titles for DOS in the 90s. In this case “and Friends” is not just the usual Luigis, Princesses, and Toads; Link has an appearance in two… scenes? It’s a digital colouring book basically. He’s a patron at Mario’s restaurant in one, and working as a travel agent(!) in another. The latter clearly shows locations in our world; there’s a lot of Mario characters present but it seems to take place here.
But which Link is it? Sometimes it’s difficult to tell between his portrayal in Link to the Past and Adventure of Link. But, we do have a Moblin and Daira in a third scene from the game (in a classroom being taught by Luigi), drawn after Zelda II’s look, so it seems intended to be the Link from that game. He’s been to our world before, in Tetris and F-1 Race at least, so it fits.
This image I’m progressively doctoring is getting super cluttered. At some point I do intend to suck it up and create a new timeline image from scratch… maybe. Until then, until then. Please check the tag on this blog for past Timeline ramblings and future updates.
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