Link PART I

We've all been there, guys. Link is one of the best known Nintendo characters (besides Mario, of course) ever to hit the screens. He has been controlled in almost every Zelda game to date (some of you would say that he has been controlled in EVERY Zelda game, but count the Phillips CD-i version, dudes!!) and his trademark green clothes have been emblazoned in almost every gamer's heart.

His story began on 1985, when Nintendo introduced us to a cool adventure and exploration game [in the middle of nowhere] with the protagonist being "a young, thin boy"...

Does this look thin to you?!

His quest began when he found an old hag in a rugged cowl, asking for help. Mysteriously enough, this old lady who seems to have no sort of wealth or possession of any kind, has a connection to the Royal Family of Hyrule (aka: the middle of nowhere, as I suggested before) and talks about how Princess My-name-makes-up-the-title-of-most-of-these-games (not all 'Zelda' games are titled 'The Legend of Zelda') is captured by Porky Pig during his Cyanosis stage.

Coincidence has it that he already has the Triforce of Power

Suddenly, the boy picks up a wooden array of weapons (wooden sword, wooden shield, wooden boomerang, wooden bow, the wood list is endless... LOL) and embarks on a quest to gather the ridiculously far apart fragments of a fragment of the sacred relic known as the Triforce of Wisdom (full Triforce coming soon...) to confront Ganon with Silver Arrows.

Artist's rendering

Actual game. Notice the skull battlefield and skull dungeon map.

Then we move on to an epoch where the third slice of the Triforce makes up the background of the plot structure of and adventure title that's exclusive to Link. Get it? THE ADVENTURE OF LINK.

After Ganon's death, his offspring employ the search of Ganon's conqueror (guess who?) to sprinkle his blood over their master's ashes, reviving him in the process.

So that's why the... oh, now I get it!

Link has to wake up [a different] Princess Zelda from a curse bestowed upon her by an unknown wizard, or else she'll have to wait either for the wielder of the Triforce of Courage to wake her power or her true love to kiss her lips...

Hopefully, Link would do either. Or both.

As the SNES approaches and makes a dazzling move in game graphics, Link's games approach a new and distinctive way of playing. It also includes a brief story of our beloved Cyanosis-Porky-Pig (aka Ganon, RIP?)

The story denotes him as this

Zelda is captured (again) by a wizard who is believed to be the same one that placed the 'Sleeping Beauty' curse on her. Link has to enter the castle 'dungeon' (well, almost everything in Hyrule revolves around dungeons: such a criminal past...) and save her. This game introduced the Master Sword, an anti-evil blade made by the ancient people of Hyrule.

Link uses this blade to kill the wizard, but what do you know? Ganon comes out of his entrails, fully restored and, unfortunately, fully functional. He throws bats and a pitchfork at Link, who swiftly evades both and triumphantly strikes him down again with the Silver Arrows.

Artist's rendering

Actual game. Notice the Triforce battlefield and lack of map.

Time for the Game Boy!!!! Complete with a story that threw all the 'Zelda captured by Ganon' crap out the window!! In this game, Link goes away from Hyrule for a while, and as he makes an epic comeback, it turns out not to be such a comeback: in the middle of a storm, his ship is torn apart, and Link ends up in the beach of an unknown island.

Sound familiar?

He is then aided by a girl that strikes surprising resemblance to Zelda (but is, in fact, NOT Zelda) and suddenly told to hatch the Yoshi egg on the top of the island using eight sacred instruments to sing it's lullaby.

Although a rock could've been enough.

Then Nintendo 64 appeared, and Link just couldn't wait to grow up!

Literally!!

Ocarina of Time featured a never-before-seen experience, providing two incarnations of our beloved hero (seven years apart from each other) and it also represents a comeback of our big pig Ganon.

This time he's not so cyanode anymore...

This game was so well received (although its plot structure did not stray far from the original Zelda, you know, the saving-a-princess-from-a-pig part) by fans that it became the best videogame ever played, and it held that prized place up until about two weeks ago, lost to some shameless excuse for a game [I frankly don't know about].

And they're launching it again on Nintendo 3DS.

(End of Part I)