No, Link's boat got struck by lightning and ended up on Koholint Island, a creation of the godlike dreaming Wind Fish. Link was never dreaming, everything he experienced actually happened, but as dreams are ephereal, so too is Koholint once the Wind Fish awakens.
The japanese title is "The dreaming island".
I do like the western title though, as a kid, I thought it just referred to the moment at the beginning when Link awakens in Marin's house.
It could also be taken as a spiritual awakening.
Link carries out the awakening. It's Link's awakening (of the wind fish.)
I mean, in a poetic sense you can call your escape from an "unnatural" dream-illusion place "your" awakening either way though, yeah.
>it's blah blah whine
It's a shitty localized title because NOA didn't think moronic mutt children wouldn't buy a game with a fruity sounding title that didn't forcibly remind you who the hero was
It’s a reference to Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening. The main character turns into an artist lesbian and with tremendous guilt and confusion towards her husband decides to drown herself by swimming out into the ocean as far as she can.
She then awakens on a mysterious island and needs to collect seashells for a giant fish, who teaches her music and the meaning of life. She regains consciousness after having been rescued by a fishing vessel and goes home to her husband.
It's the story of Links awakening of the Wind Fish.
Throughout the whole game they tell you outright it's the wind fish that your have to awaken. Not Link.
>Link was never dreaming
Koholint island isn't real. Link's dream merged with the wind fish's dream. It's like when you jack into a computer and you fight enemies in virtual reality. In this case, Link jacked into the wind fish's dream by falling asleep within the the radius of the wind fish's psychic domain as the wind fish was also sleeping. But then Link couldn't wake up unless he made the wind fish wake up first. Otherwise his consciousness would have been trapped in the wind fish dimension and the Link that exists in the real world would have fallen off that floating piece of wood and drowned, or been eaten by a shark or something.
How long was Link floating? A few hours maybe? The storm was at night and it was light out when he woke up. Maybe it’s like Inception where dream time moves faster than real time
It is pretty neat how all the bosses and monsters are trying to stop you from waking the Wind Fish, but it's not like they were doing anything harmful to the residents of the island. Literally everyone is happy and you go in and erase it all.
Moblins and shit only appeared once link sets out to wake the wind fish though right?I thought it was links appearance that jeopardises the nightmares way of life which scares them to start filling the land with monsters
Are you kidding? Madam MeowMeow's chain chomp dog BowWow was stolen. By a friggin' Moblin!
They also abduct Marin and leave her on a broken bridge with no way down.
Not sure if I would include Richard getting kicked out of his castle because I'd imagine those soldiers were human rather than monsters.
frick
no, he got fricked up by the storm and was baking his delirious ass off in the sun for who knows how many hours
No, Link's boat got struck by lightning and ended up on Koholint Island, a creation of the godlike dreaming Wind Fish. Link was never dreaming, everything he experienced actually happened, but as dreams are ephereal, so too is Koholint once the Wind Fish awakens.
>Wind Fish awakens.
It's Link's Awakening, not "The Wind Fish's Awakening".
The japanese title is "The dreaming island".
I do like the western title though, as a kid, I thought it just referred to the moment at the beginning when Link awakens in Marin's house.
It could also be taken as a spiritual awakening.
Link carries out the awakening. It's Link's awakening (of the wind fish.)
I mean, in a poetic sense you can call your escape from an "unnatural" dream-illusion place "your" awakening either way though, yeah.
>it's blah blah whine
It's a shitty localized title because NOA didn't think moronic mutt children wouldn't buy a game with a fruity sounding title that didn't forcibly remind you who the hero was
And they were right.
Who cares.
why so angry, anon?
That's a beautiful way to interpret it.
It’s a reference to Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening. The main character turns into an artist lesbian and with tremendous guilt and confusion towards her husband decides to drown herself by swimming out into the ocean as far as she can.
She then awakens on a mysterious island and needs to collect seashells for a giant fish, who teaches her music and the meaning of life. She regains consciousness after having been rescued by a fishing vessel and goes home to her husband.
based 11th-grade literature poster
How is that 11th grade? Never heard that book before in my life
For my next act, I’m going to claim that Great Expectations is the basis for Ocarina of Time.
Alright, let's see it then. Do it, I dare you.
It's the story of Links awakening of the Wind Fish.
Throughout the whole game they tell you outright it's the wind fish that your have to awaken. Not Link.
The Windfish is Link.
>Link was never dreaming
Koholint island isn't real. Link's dream merged with the wind fish's dream. It's like when you jack into a computer and you fight enemies in virtual reality. In this case, Link jacked into the wind fish's dream by falling asleep within the the radius of the wind fish's psychic domain as the wind fish was also sleeping. But then Link couldn't wake up unless he made the wind fish wake up first. Otherwise his consciousness would have been trapped in the wind fish dimension and the Link that exists in the real world would have fallen off that floating piece of wood and drowned, or been eaten by a shark or something.
How long was Link floating? A few hours maybe? The storm was at night and it was light out when he woke up. Maybe it’s like Inception where dream time moves faster than real time
dreams be like that
why didn't this homie just let the fish sleep and build a boat and get outta there
dick move tbqh smdh
It is pretty neat how all the bosses and monsters are trying to stop you from waking the Wind Fish, but it's not like they were doing anything harmful to the residents of the island. Literally everyone is happy and you go in and erase it all.
Are you kidding? Madam MeowMeow's chain chomp dog BowWow was stolen. By a friggin' Moblin!
Moblins and shit only appeared once link sets out to wake the wind fish though right?I thought it was links appearance that jeopardises the nightmares way of life which scares them to start filling the land with monsters
They also abduct Marin and leave her on a broken bridge with no way down.
Not sure if I would include Richard getting kicked out of his castle because I'd imagine those soldiers were human rather than monsters.
no, think of it like the bermuda triangle
Link is very much awake through the whole game
i like marin singing and wishing to be a seagull then link wakes up to one flying near him
That seagull WAS Marin, she was trapped in the Windfish's dream and was only allowed to awaken when she could teach somebody the song of the Windfish.
my head done melted