Skyward Sword story inconsistencies (SPOILERS!)

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fordy said:

(This thread is meant to contain spoilers, so don't blame me if you read this and come across a part of the story you haven't reached yet)

 

 

I know this thread is a little late, considering we're approaching the 1 year mark of Skyward Sword. I stopped playing after the first temple with a distaste in the game, but only recently I've came back to it, and it's really grown on me. My favourite part is the return of the physical incarnation of the Triforce, and being able to actually acquire it. Must just be my obsession of treasures shaped like golden triangles. However, this is what baffles me (and it's probably already been discussed before). I want to get this off my chest, but my friends are even further behind in the game than I am.

The Triforce has always signified the ultimate power in the Zelda series. Only in three games I can count have wishes been granted from the Triforce (as a whole). In The Adventure of Link, the united Triforce awakens Zelda from her eternal slumber and reigns in an era of peace for Hyrule (and by most timeline theories, signals the end of the Zelda timeline). Same with Link to the Past. Not only did Ganon get a wish which turned the Golden Land into The Dark World, Link's wishes at the end bring people back from the dead. The third game is Skyward Sword, in where a wish is granted before the end of the game

So Link collects the pieces of the Triforce, unites them and makes the wish to destroy Demise. All good so far...but, shouldn't this signify the end of the game? Link is in posession of the ultimate power, and he lets Zelda get captured and sent into the past where Demise still resides. Surely if the Temple of Time resides, it's not outside the power of the Triforce to go back into the past and wish for Demise to be destroyed there, as well.

On a side note, the game focuses around the creation of the Master Sword, yet the Triforce is referred to as the ultimate power from "the old gods". Wouldn't they be (considering this would be a game for the start of the Zelda timeline) classed as more "newer" gods earlier in the timeline than say Ocarina of Time or Link to the Past? 

It's never to late to talk about SS.

 

OT: It's simple and not a consistency, the Triforce put an end to Demise  from now onwards. It ''killed'' Demise but only after Link gathered the Triforce, meaning that in the past, before link gathered the triforce, Demise is still existent. It did'nt erase Demise from existent like he never existed, he still existed meaning that all the harm he did in the past and the creation of Ghirahim and the war that caused hylians to go up into the sky still occured. All it did is seal for good his prison with the big statue and ''kill'' him. I'm not really sure why you would'nt be ok with the fact that if Girahim kidnaps zelda and go thru a time portal into the past he would be able to get to demise.

On the side note: I'm not sure I understand your point, but if you mean what I think you mean, then yes the ''old gods'' are were not as old in SS as in other games since in SS is the first game but they are still pretty old. The same way as if I talk about cave men being a old civilisation, sur if you go back in time 2000 years ago, the ''old civilisation'' im talking about are technicaly not as old (2012 years younger) but they are still millions of years old.