IGN - When Link is Dead

IGN - So, apparently, Link is dead.

I'm as surprised as anyone, as aside from some infrequent and quickly corrected Game Over screens over the years, my Link has never personally met that fate. My Link's always been brought briskly back to life – courtesy of a bottled fairy or the reset button – and he's always gone on to continue and complete his current quest.

[MsclMexican]

So Link is dead huh?

Given the fact that the Legend of Zelda has the most complex story in a video game to date, Im not surprised.

Hell, I'd even believe that it was Tingle who took down Ganon.

[blaaah]

Yeah well his soul is in a different body in almost every game.. he HAS to die sooner or later.. no big deal..

[Pikajew]

Gordon Freemon has Link's soul because he cant talk

[NukaCola]

The story isn't the most complex, it's the timeline is still such a mystery to us all. Even though some have made assumptions and theories that seem legit, until Nintendo clarifies, we will be mystified.

[Soplox]

@NukaCola the timeline has just been revealed by Nintendo itself as part of the celebration of the 25th Anniversary

[Tanir]

u just made me crack the hell up. Lol!!!!!! zelda???? story complex???????????????

how bout lazy, un-imaginative and boring. You play the game because zelda is fun, there is very little story in zelda, its the same story as mario, and keeps having the same villain except in the hand held games.

they made up the Re-incarnated hero junk because they could be lazy, re use characters and enemies. Its only complex because people try to make sense of something that was never supposed to make sense in the first place. Come on, out of no where we have a zelda time line?

makes no sense, very few of the zelda games connect. I wish that the story would change, that it would progress. Sorta like Majora's mask or the DS games that kept the same wind waker link. But to just try something new with the same character is just plain lazy

trying to say zelda have a deep and complex story is like saying Mario and Dark/Demons Soul's has a complex deep story. All of these games are amazing great fun, but they do not have a story

[StraightPath]

lol @ your fail comment

[TheGameFoxJTV]

Cool story. Too bad it's all total bullshit from someone who knows not what they speak of.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

The most complex story in a game to date? Cmon man really.

[theonlylolking]

"Legend of Zelda has the most complex story in a video game to date"

Only a fanboy of the Legend of Zelda would say a thing like that. Since it is not true.

[Qrphe]

If by "complex" you mean a clusterfuzz of timelines then yes

[iNFAMOUZ1]

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[bwazy]

So this is just a big "What If" article eh?

What if Samus was never found by the Chozo, what if Mario never got his plumbing apprenticeship, what is Master Chief died while in cryo, what if Donkey Kong choked on a banana.

[Tarantino_Life]

Gears of War >>> zelda. Gears defined the games industry.. Gears of War has the deepest story known to Mankind.. Nolan is going to make a gears movie next..

[Blacktric]

I take it Tarantino is too busy making a Forza movie?

[NiKK_419]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I hope you're not serious. If so, you haven't played anything besides gears of war. "Gears defined the games industry." Who can actually say that with a straight face?

[TheGameFoxJTV]

I can't even tell if this is serious. XD

[maniacmayhem]

so with this article and the big N's timeline shouldn't the name be changed to Legend of Link?

Because Link is doing a hell of a lot more than Zelda has done. Across different plains of reality also.

[SilentNegotiator]

"Zelda" is too embedded into the brand recognition to change it now. It would be a foolish move.

But I see what you're saying. These games really are about Link, not Zelda.

[Conzul]

LOL, link got "stuck in the water temple".
What a way to go.

[Jirachi]

Ugh the reason the other games don't result in splits in time when link dies is because 1.most of them don't have time travel 2.the ones that do have time travel the way things would turn out would cause the world to in if link died were as with oot link that wasn't the case because gannondorf got sealed during the sealing war.

Think of this if link failed in say mm the entire world would be destroyed by the moon meaning not only would there be no more links there would be no more anybody.
Ww gannondorf got the entire triforce without link there to stop him the world would be destroyed.
Ss if link would've failed gannondorf wouldn't even exist only demise.