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Direct from Brooklyn
Jun. 18th, 2004 05:06 pmI did some cataloging at Longwood Gardens today, but I forgot one step in the process, so I ended up having to do several books over again. I'm dumb. It was no big deal, though, since the whole process takes very little time.
I was looking for information on when the various Zelda games took place, and I came across this page. Apparently the order in which the games took place is up to a lot of debate, and the creators have never wanted to tie themselves down to a specific order. As usual, the fans are more concerned about this than the creators. It's kind of a nerdy fanboy kind of thing to think about, but I find it kind of interesting, and I've done much the same thing with Oz books. I guess I'm kind of a nerdy fanboy myself. As far as video games go, I've looked at people trying to tie together the various Final Fantasy games, which I don't think were ever intended to even take place on the same world (aside from X and X-2, but I've never played those). The creators of the Mario games (the same guy, Shigeru Miyamoto, is in charge of both the Mario and Zelda series, by the way) have said they don't care much about continuity, but I think MOST of the games fit together pretty well. There seems to have been a bit of retroactive continuity introduced with Yoshi's Island, though. While none of the games said anything of the sort, I know that Mario cartoons, comics, Choose Your Own Adventure-style books, and even the crappy movie agreed that Mario and Luigi were from Brooklyn. This is an idea I like, not only because that's a place where it makes sense for two Italian plumbers to live, but because it gives the series a sense of people from our world adventuring in a strange land, like Dorothy in Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Fry in Futurama, or any number of other fictional characters. In Yoshi's Island, however, we learn that not only were the Mario Brothers apparently born in the Mushroom Kingdom, but they were twins, and were delivered by the stork. Honestly, I think the game could have been done without the stork bit. It's not Dumbo, after all. That doesn't mean I don't like the idea of a prequel with Mario and Luigi as babies (although they're pretty annoying babies), but it didn't have to make them PRE-babies. The series seems to fit together pretty well, though, with Yoshi's Island first, then Yoshi's Story, then the other games in the order in which they were made (although I think Super Mario Land 2 is supposed to take place right after the first SML). Zelda is more confusing, with a lot of games being prequels, and other ones being able to fit in pretty much anywhere.
Okay, I think that's enough talk about video game continuity for one day. I'll bet no one found that to be at all interesting.
I was looking for information on when the various Zelda games took place, and I came across this page. Apparently the order in which the games took place is up to a lot of debate, and the creators have never wanted to tie themselves down to a specific order. As usual, the fans are more concerned about this than the creators. It's kind of a nerdy fanboy kind of thing to think about, but I find it kind of interesting, and I've done much the same thing with Oz books. I guess I'm kind of a nerdy fanboy myself. As far as video games go, I've looked at people trying to tie together the various Final Fantasy games, which I don't think were ever intended to even take place on the same world (aside from X and X-2, but I've never played those). The creators of the Mario games (the same guy, Shigeru Miyamoto, is in charge of both the Mario and Zelda series, by the way) have said they don't care much about continuity, but I think MOST of the games fit together pretty well. There seems to have been a bit of retroactive continuity introduced with Yoshi's Island, though. While none of the games said anything of the sort, I know that Mario cartoons, comics, Choose Your Own Adventure-style books, and even the crappy movie agreed that Mario and Luigi were from Brooklyn. This is an idea I like, not only because that's a place where it makes sense for two Italian plumbers to live, but because it gives the series a sense of people from our world adventuring in a strange land, like Dorothy in Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Fry in Futurama, or any number of other fictional characters. In Yoshi's Island, however, we learn that not only were the Mario Brothers apparently born in the Mushroom Kingdom, but they were twins, and were delivered by the stork. Honestly, I think the game could have been done without the stork bit. It's not Dumbo, after all. That doesn't mean I don't like the idea of a prequel with Mario and Luigi as babies (although they're pretty annoying babies), but it didn't have to make them PRE-babies. The series seems to fit together pretty well, though, with Yoshi's Island first, then Yoshi's Story, then the other games in the order in which they were made (although I think Super Mario Land 2 is supposed to take place right after the first SML). Zelda is more confusing, with a lot of games being prequels, and other ones being able to fit in pretty much anywhere.
Okay, I think that's enough talk about video game continuity for one day. I'll bet no one found that to be at all interesting.
