The Most Insane Ocarina of Time Facts & Theories

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  @sumac6910 · 8 months ago

  When I was a kid, I couldn&apos;t figure out how to get arrows. An older person visiting my house told me oh, I saw my kids playing that game. They hit a tree and arrows fell out. I proceeded to roll in to every tree in the game, hoping to unlock the bow and arrows. <br><br>Those are the kinds of experiences you got with pre internet gaming.

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  @DaveChurchill · 8 months ago (edited)

  Random video game writer hastily scratching down those sentences before lunch: &quot;This will surely have a documentary created about it 28 years from now&quot;

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  @Abyssoft · 8 months ago

  The world building and continuity they put into the first 3D Zelda game is very well thought out for its time.

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  @ujodanjinken · 8 months ago

  As much as I like the Talon/Naburu theory, I think the Gerudo and Goron mask responses from Talon are just him trying to say his wife is fat + red haired. Offspring of Gerudo females are also Gerudo females too - and since Malon is clearly not Gerudo, it kind of sinks a hole in the theory...unless I&apos;m missing something...

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  @mr.lavander7145 · 8 months ago

  I think Talon says goofy things because he drinks a lot of &quot;Chateau Romani&quot; (or whatever it&apos;s called in OoT). That&apos;s why he&apos;s sleeping in the middle of the day and Ingo is able to outfox him and steal the ranch while he&apos;s plastered.

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• RJ

  @rjshadow4321 · 8 months ago

  I always thought Talon was a drunk because he would go to places &nbsp;where normal people wouldn&apos;t and &quot;take a nap&quot;

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• BR

  @Bri-o1s · 8 months ago

  If you roll into the deku tree 255 times it underflows and you get the triforce. Trust me I saw it on a geocities site

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  @paulpower9959 · 8 months ago

  I think it has to be that the Gerudo mask is so… uncanny in it’s resemblance to the platonic ideal of a Gerudo that it both looks like all Gerudo and no gerudo at once

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• VM

  @vman103 · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1X8UXcdJ_8&amp;t=1033">17:13</a> - Through His Highness&apos; highny

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  @masonschwalm2010 · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1X8UXcdJ_8&amp;t=190">3:10</a> It’s always the milkman…😝😂

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• GE

  @GerardMenvussa · 8 months ago

  Every gerudo is half gerudo 😉

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  @LamanKnight · 8 months ago

  I see people have already suggested something like this, but I think that rather than Talon suggesting that he was married to a Gerudo and/or a Goron, his reactions to the Goron Mask and Gerudo Mask might be that they remind him of certain characteristics of his wife — like that she might have had red hair, a round face, or tan/brown skin; or that she gave the impression of quiet strength, as Gorons and Gerudos both do when they&apos;re being friendly. So, that could leave open the possibility of Malon&apos;s mother of being Hylian, and just having those traits.<br><br><br>Now, I do like the idea of Malon being a descendant of the Gerudo. I&apos;ve also heard theories point to the fact that Lon Lon Ranch is a little closer to Gerudo Valley than to any other settlements in Hyrule, so it might have been a place where the Gerudo would naturally stop by. I think I also remember someone pointing out that the designs on Malon&apos;s skirt and blouse resemble designs you can see on Nabooru&apos;s clothing — though that could mean anything from saying that Malon&apos;s clothes used to belong to her Gerudo mother; or that she finds Gerudo women pretty and graceful, so she wants to dress a little like them; or just that Malon bought some Gerudo-made clothing once.<br><br>I also think it&apos;s an interesting idea that Malon could have been left with her father because Malon was a rare Gerudo descendant who didn&apos;t manifest purely Gerudo genetics, and she showed more Hylian traits instead. Or for whatever reason, maybe she didn&apos;t seem like she would do well in a warrior culture, so she was much happier living on a farm, helping her father, and caring for animals.<br><br>But there&apos;s one big counterpoint to the idea of Talon&apos;s wife, Malon&apos;s mother, being a Gerudo: Malon&apos;s hair is a very different shade of red from the hair colour of the Gerudo. Gerudo have a deep, slightly cool shade of red hair. And as I look this up, Malon&apos;s hair colour (copper, orangeish-red) is very uncommon in <i>Ocarina of Time</i> . Some of the Kokiri, and a few Hylians (including Link and Zelda themselves), have strawberry-blond hair (i.e. blond with a little bit of reddish tinge). Some Hylians have dark reddish-brown hair.<br><br>The interesting thing, though, is that there is one ethnic group in Hyrule where some of its people have a hair colour very close to Malon&apos;s: the people from Kakariko Village. This includes the Potion Shop owner, the Happy Mask Salesman, the boy in the graveyard, the &quot;very rich family&quot; who have been transformed into Skulltulas, and that person who sits on the roof and watches Death Mountain. So... if anything, Talon&apos;s wife may be from Kakariko, and Malon may even be a descendant of the Sheikah. (Granted, this was before it was established that Sheikah generally all have white hair, and that white hair wasn&apos;t unique to Impa. So, this might not hold true anymore.)<br><br>Anyway! Thanks for sharing these theories. They were fun to listen to. (Oh, and by the way: for years, I thought the Hylian loach was a hoax... until I was playing the 3DS remake, and I saw and caught one. I took a picture to remember the occasion. Heh. That was a fun memory to remember today.)

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