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Subject: Why was it called "Ocarina of Time"

I mean why did the developers chose the title "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"?.

You cannot actually control the flow of time WITH the Ocarina in Ocarina of Time. Up until Majora's Mask, the Ocarina's only purpise was to warp link around Hyrule. So why not "Ocarina of Teleportation" or something like that?

Or was Majora's Mask already planned even before OoT?

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Because you're the Hero of Time.

  • 12.28.2012 7:18 PM PDT

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If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, etc., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Because the Ocarina allowed you to travel through two timelines: As a child and as an adult.

[Edited on 12.28.2012 7:19 PM PST]

  • 12.28.2012 7:18 PM PDT

Posted by: CrazyT
Because the Ocarina allowed you to travel through two timelines: As a child and as an adult.

Didn't the Master Sword do that?

  • 12.28.2012 7:19 PM PDT

lolnope.

Why do you ask so many questions that we more than likely, don't have the answers to or for? Role with it man. Send a letter to Nintendo or the devs if you really want to know. Otherwise, my guess is because they just said -blam!-it#SWAGYOLO.

  • 12.28.2012 7:19 PM PDT

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But you needed the Song of Time played through the Ocarina of Time to get through the Door of Time :-D
Posted by: CharlesBrown33
Posted by: CrazyT
Because the Ocarina allowed you to travel through two timelines: As a child and as an adult.

Didn't the Master Sword do that?

  • 12.28.2012 7:20 PM PDT

What are these first person words you speak of?

Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

  • 12.28.2012 7:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Count Blinkula
But you needed the Song of Time played through the Ocarina of Time to get through the Door of Time :-D
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Posted by: CrazyT
Because the Ocarina allowed you to travel through two timelines: As a child and as an adult.

Didn't the Master Sword do that?

So I guess the word "Time" takes another connotation in the game.

  • 12.28.2012 7:21 PM PDT

Posted by: Teh puma
Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

Teh Puma either didn't read the OP or he didn't fully understand my doubt.

The "Song of Time" was used to move... blocks... out of the way... yeah. And the Door of Time might as well be called the Sacred Door or Realm Door whatever.

  • 12.28.2012 7:22 PM PDT

Posted by: Count Blinkula
But you needed the Song of Time played through the Ocarina of Time to get through the Door of Time :-D
Posted by: CharlesBrown33
Posted by: CrazyT
Because the Ocarina allowed you to travel through two timelines: As a child and as an adult.

Didn't the Master Sword do that?

This! Blink knows!

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Posted by: Teh puma
Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

Teh Puma either didn't read the OP or he didn't fully understand my doubt.

The "Song of Time" was used to move... blocks... out of the way... yeah. And the Door of Time might as well be called the Sacred Door or Realm Door whatever.


But the Door of Time is in the Temple of Time.

  • 12.28.2012 7:23 PM PDT

Moving at the speed of light is considered time traveling, so why shouldn't teleportation be considered the same?

  • 12.28.2012 7:25 PM PDT

ooga booga boooh

Time was a pinnacle aspect of the entire game. It was one of the, if not the, first game to have distinctive features between night and day, such as different enemies, the closing of the castle gate and people going to their homes.

As well, there were timed missions, something not previously seen on consoles. Overall, yeah, the key function of the ocarina was time flow, and its significance to the game over all.

  • 12.28.2012 7:25 PM PDT

Why did they call it "A Link to the Past" when you weren't linking to the past, you were linking to an alternate Hyrule known as the Dark World? Seems like a more legitimate question.

[Edited on 12.28.2012 7:26 PM PST]

  • 12.28.2012 7:25 PM PDT

What are these first person words you speak of?


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Posted by: Teh puma
Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

Teh Puma either didn't read the OP or he didn't fully understand my doubt.


He understood it, and he gave you an answer.

You're asking why name it in such a way, when you do not recognize it as having the ability to control the flow of time. However, apparently you overlooked something, because it has the ability to control the flow of time, as shown by specific block puzzles. It is able to bring things back, and force them to, different areas of time.

You also stated that it's only purpose was to warp around, which is certainly not true, as already shown.

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

  • 12.28.2012 7:28 PM PDT

Posted by: jacob crawford
Time was a pinnacle aspect of the entire game. It was one of the, if not the, first game to have distinctive features between night and day, such as different enemies, the closing of the castle gate and people going to their homes.

As well, there were timed missions, something not previously seen on consoles. Overall, yeah, the key function of the ocarina was time flow, and its significance to the game over all.

Still doesn't have a whole lot to do with an Ocarina that for some reason references time.

  • 12.28.2012 7:29 PM PDT

Posted by: Hylebos
Why did they call it "A Link to the Past" when you weren't linking to the past, you were linking to an alternate Hyrule known as the Dark World? Seems like a more legitimate question.

Because it was a prequel. Man, I'm going to read some Zelda lore tonight.

  • 12.28.2012 7:30 PM PDT

Posted by: Teh puma

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Posted by: Teh puma
Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

Teh Puma either didn't read the OP or he didn't fully understand my doubt.


He understood it, and he gave you an answer.

You're asking why name it in such a way, when you do not recognize it as having the ability to control the flow of time. However, apparently you overlooked something, because it has the ability to control the flow of time, as shown by specific block puzzles. It is able to bring things back, and force them to, different areas of time.

You also stated that it's only purpose was to warp around, which is certainly not true, as already shown.

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

...What?

Dude, you used the Ocarina to move blocks and to warp around. None of those things specifically require such a high remark on "Time" as given in the title of the game.

I'm aware that the Ocarina controls time, but this wasn't shown in Ocarina of Time, but in Majora's Mask.

  • 12.28.2012 7:33 PM PDT

What are these first person words you speak of?


Posted by: CharlesBrown33
Posted by: Teh puma

Posted by: CharlesBrown33
Posted by: Teh puma
Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

Teh Puma either didn't read the OP or he didn't fully understand my doubt.


He understood it, and he gave you an answer.

You're asking why name it in such a way, when you do not recognize it as having the ability to control the flow of time. However, apparently you overlooked something, because it has the ability to control the flow of time, as shown by specific block puzzles. It is able to bring things back, and force them to, different areas of time.

You also stated that it's only purpose was to warp around, which is certainly not true, as already shown.

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

...What?

Dude, you used the Ocarina to move blocks and to warp around. None of those things specifically require such a high remark on "Time" as given in the title of the game.

I'm aware that the Ocarina controls time, but this wasn't shown in Ocarina of Time, but in Majora's Mask.


And do you know what those blocks were called?

  • 12.28.2012 7:37 PM PDT

Posted by: Teh puma

Posted by: CharlesBrown33
Posted by: Teh puma

Posted by: CharlesBrown33
Posted by: Teh puma
Because the Ocarina has the ability to travel through time, and force other objects to travel through time. As shown by Majora's mask, and many block puzzles in OoT.

Teh Puma either didn't read the OP or he didn't fully understand my doubt.


He understood it, and he gave you an answer.

You're asking why name it in such a way, when you do not recognize it as having the ability to control the flow of time. However, apparently you overlooked something, because it has the ability to control the flow of time, as shown by specific block puzzles. It is able to bring things back, and force them to, different areas of time.

You also stated that it's only purpose was to warp around, which is certainly not true, as already shown.

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

...What?

Dude, you used the Ocarina to move blocks and to warp around. None of those things specifically require such a high remark on "Time" as given in the title of the game.

I'm aware that the Ocarina controls time, but this wasn't shown in Ocarina of Time, but in Majora's Mask.


And do you know what those blocks were called?

Dat explanation.

It seems to me more like Nintendo plastered the word "Time" in all of these things only to mildly reference the fact that the Master Sword allows you to travel through time eventually in the game.

  • 12.28.2012 7:42 PM PDT

What are these first person words you speak of?


Posted by: CharlesBrown33

Dat explanation.


What explanation? Could you possibly be more vague?

If the last few responses do not satisfy you, teh puma is fine with just leaving you off with the point of it's actual meaning/purpose of the word itself.

We have a pedestal of time, hidden behind the door of time, inside the temple of time, which is opened by a tool; and who'd have thought it'd also share the word, time?

Naming it as such, doesn't seem to be off of a logical line of thought.

[Edited on 12.28.2012 7:59 PM PST]

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Well time travel and ocarinas both play a big role in the game so it kinda works. I hear what you're saying though, OP.

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Posted by: Teh puma
We have a pedestal of time, hidden behind the door of time, inside the temple of time, which is opened by a tool; and who'd have thought it'd also share the word, time?



All done by the Hero of Time.

  • 12.28.2012 8:00 PM PDT

If then pen is mightier than the sword, then why do actions speak louder than words?

Most current thread - http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=76233031
Good for a laugh - http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=74028139

Because only the Hero of Time using the Ocarina of Time could open the Door of Time to the Temple of Time and get to the Pedestal of time then retrieve the Sword that allows you to travel through time.

Edit: Was beaten to it D:

[Edited on 12.28.2012 10:34 PM PST]

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