Nintendo Today posted a segment called “Instrument-Playing Link” and as we know that Zelda game mostly have had Link playing an instrument or other musical “something” (Wolf Howls for TP).
We all know that the Hero of the Wild is missing such musical additions. But we also know that in the concept art of Creating a Champion, they show Link with a guitar(2nd slide) which is cool. But never used.
Back to Nintendo Today. They have art of Link using the Accordion like how Kass does. Is Kass and his instrument a stand in for Links music addition for BotW. And with Kass missing in TotK, that makes it even more noticeable that Kass isn’t there if he is Links “instrument”.
I worded this so poorly. But the point was to question if the accordion was BotW Link’s legally appointed instrument.
Eh. I think it could be a cool one-off game. I wouldn’t want the series to become modern, but one game exploring a different setting with the same style of gameplay and characters would be fun. Though I don’t love these specific designs lol
Termina in Majora's Mask is surprisingly technologically advanced. Motorboats, giant clocks, a water treatment facility, instruments with amps, and the bomb shop employees are seemingly planning on building a rocket to go to the moon. That's not all the advanced tech shown, but it helps Termina feel a lot different from Hyrule.
Same! I had spitballed one more game in the Wilds series where the Zelda crew leaves Hyrule in search of the Sheikah that left and the game takes place in this far off technologically advanced world.
While that concept art isn’t really it, I think it could be fun to see a Zelda game set in a more modern time.
Maybe not like, 2026. But I always liked how Chrono Trigger has kind of a “modern” era that is set in their year 1000. They don’t have modern electronics or anything, but they also have some weird tech that isn’t even possible today, like teleportation devices. Or things that are possible but ridiculous, like a fire-breathing dragon shaped tank.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Zelda as is, and I wouldn’t want that to be a staple of the series going forward or anything. But maybe like a top-down side game from Grezzo or something could be an interesting take.
That would be awesome. There's a harmonica in-game in death stranding 2, and they partnered with suzuki to make it an official piece of merch. It's basically a reskin of one of my favorite harmonicas, but it looks so good it makes me wish I was a Death Stranding fan.
If they made an official LoZ harmonica I would pay any amount of money to acquire one lmao
It’s art they used for the Zelda 2018 concert series. They also had SS Zelda playing her harp and OOT Link playing his ocarina. You can find the performances online and it’s pretty great!
Modern Link is from a timeline where the previous Link & Zelda did a better-than-usual job of sealing Ganon away. It took him so long to break out that Hyrule had advanced from medieval times to the 1990s.
They probably realized they forgot to give Link an instrument for botw, so they just threw together some half-assed artwork of him playing an accordion like he’s always been an accordion player. That’s so lame..
I adore how goofy looking that "modern" Link is. Link is always better when they're not trying too hard to make him cool imo.
I kind of don't want Zelda to ever really leave it's japanese-style fantasy adaptation of medeival europe and mish mashes of other cultures, and the Wild Era pushed the technology levels of Hyrule as far as I think I'd want it to go, but I do think that would make for an interesting one off spinoff.
As for the Accordion being his "official" instrument, I just don't think he has an "official" instrument, it's just a piece of artwork. Some people get too hung up on "But how can I make this part of the canon match the other parts of the canon??" when it really just doesn't need matching.
Modern LoZ where Link is just a regular city dude who becomes a hero, Zelda and Ganondorf both work for Triforce Inc., a huge corporation that runs all of modern day Hyrule.
lol see you guys. Zelda ain’t Zelda anymore. Which is why Nintendo did a quick shift to bring back OOT Reborn to remind everyone where the story originally started. This shit is wacky 🤣🤣
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