#OOA

[froggyscraps]

new hyper fixation that has been building up for the past two years and is at it's peak

Thanks to the Kingdom Hearts drought I have been speed running a lot of the Legend of Zelda games and just recently finished Ages and am going through Seasons

[violet-xd09]

[clayspacestation]

Back in the Zelda hyperfix

I love Ralph I need him to come back…

V Additional doodles!! V

[funsizedcrow]

got the mermaid suit in oracle of ages blacked out and this was on the page. i love mermaid link

[thelittlelegends]

THE LITTLE LEGENDS

This is a blog for sharing and spreading love for the smaller Zelda games in the fandom!

For everyone crying over Spirit Tracks being forgotten, to people who wish someone else remembered the struggle to find a fourth player for Four Swords or sobbing at the end of online co-op for Tri Force Heroes – this is a home to join others in that love. Mainline and third-party Zelda games are all included!

The criteria for which Zelda games count as “small” is hard to quantify. To make things easier, we went by the numbers posted to Archive of Our Own, which has the option to disambiguate which game you’re writing for and is the current best-known fanfiction site. From there, we removed some things to try and narrow it down to core game fics and picked everything that was under 1000 works.

The resulting list of Zelda games is as follows:

CDI games = 14

Zelda cartoon = 29

Cadence of Hyrule = 50

Tri Force Heroes = 51

Oracle of Seasons = 76

Oracle of Ages = 85

Zelda II: Adventure of Link = 93

Zelda (1986) = 180

Spirit Tracks = 183

Phantom Hourglass = 191

Link’s Awakening = 256

Link to the Past = 260

Minish Cap = 290

Four Swords = 359

Four Swords Adventures = 423

A Link Between Worlds = 587

Wind Waker = 739

Some of this will be a case of poor tagging, and things winding up in the wrong place. (eg. Four Swords has 1200 entries, but upon removing all Four Swords Adventures or Manga story tags it reduces to 359.) Others may not be here at all because nobody has posted it under it’s own name vs a related game or “& Related Fandoms.”

While this means these numbers are not absolute, they still represent the problem: it’s hard to find content for your favourite games if it's in the list above, and we want to fix that!

WHAT DOES THAT ENTAIL?

The event we’re planning is very chill, very low-stakes way of building up interest and knowledge, and then collecting and sharing fanworks produced.

The event month will be AUGUST, 2024.

Every few days in August we’ll make a post for each game on the list (and any bonus games that were highlighted alongside the main ones), which people can reblog with a link to the fanwork they created! You can also make your own posts and tag the blog plus the game of the day but we cannot promise to see and reblog everything.

In the lead-up to August, we will be doing round-up posts for each of the above games.

Some will be doubled up and treated as “bonuses” due to their small pool of fans (CDI, the Cartoon), and if there are some we don’t know about we may take them on as suggestions!

Each of these initial game posts will include basic stats about the game: when they were released, on what hardware, where you can find them now, and what their story was. It will also include links to a walkthrough or two, for those without access to the necessary hardware.

The purpose of these posts is to be shared!

Reblog them with your favourite artwork, current fanworks you love and adore, your favourite AU they’re featured in! Share the lore you wish everyone knew, and the characters who get forgotten!

Share prompts you’ve never gotten around to using, or ones you don’t feel competent to handle!

Do not feel bad about doing this! Every exchange or event I’ve been in, people desperately wanted prompts and ideas to spark their own imagination!

The goal is for people to learn more about games that they may have never heard of before, or not had the time or ability to engage with in full on their own. And from there we can push up those numbers on AO3 for everyone to enjoy!

The scheduled games to be “main” features of this event, and their respective introductory dates, are as follows:

May 5th = Minish Cap

May 12th = Zelda II: AoL

May 19th = Oracle of Ages / Oracle of Seasons

May 26th = Cadence of Hyrule

June 2nd = Phantom Hourglass

June 9th = Four Swords Adventures / Four Swords [Game]

June 16th = Link’s Awakening

June 23rd = Zelda (1986)

June 30th = Link to the Past

July 7th = Tri Force Heroes

July 14th = Spirit Tracks

July 21st = Link Between Worlds

July 28th = Wind Waker

Exact dates for the posting schedule of new fanworks in August will be released soon!

[zeldatourney]

[zelinkacrosstime]

🩵 Oracle of Ages/Seasons: "Stroll of the Season" 💚

Illustration by @jimmyjims in collaboration with @pl0xm4st3r and @maqiisan

[themortaldraw]

abandoned wip from last year.... i should finsih it. you deserve better, king

[lilyblossom-art]

Last one!!

Technically, the alttp and oox zeldas are seperate but fgizhgkk

Also the two on the left turned out a bit too short i think but this isn't supposed to be a height chart so it's okay

[lonlonmilkfan]

DIN, the OG FLARE DANCER!! I wanted to give her more of a fire dancer outfit and fire fans, proud how it turned out. :3

[webhead3345]

Just got the Heart Recovery Ring L-1 in Oracle of Ages and found that the recovery mechanic requires Link to be walking (or moving) for it to work.

Just imagining that being the way it works for Legend made me think of how inconvenient that could be for a whole slew of different types of injuries. XD

[violet-xd09]

[airplanned]

I started playing Oracle of Ages, and there is so much more going on than in Oracle of Seasons!

I showed up, and Impa was there, and she was like, “Hey Link! I need you to move this rock for me, because it has a triangle on it and you’re triforce guy!” It then turned out that Impa’s was possessed by the bad guy, and my very first act in this game was to mess stuff up. Possessed Impa is a great idea that should happen more often.

Nayru, who we know as the goddess of Wisdom in OoT, in this game has the power to control time. So that’s more Wisdom-Time connection that pops up with Zelda being the sage of time in OoT and TotK.

Also, with Nayru traveling back through time, it occurs to me that my question of where the three dragons in totk came from and who they used to be could have a fun head canon answer that revolves around Oracle of Ages and Seasons. I will think more on this.

I remember nothing about this game except that Ralph is great. So far that holds up.

[louwhose]

finished oracle of ages a couple of days ago and now onto oracle of seasons and zelda just showed up and omg she is so amazing already and she left hyrule all on her own just cuz and she gave me a ring called a double joy ring and I would love it on its own but also it's FROM ZELDA and lets enemies drop more hearts and I went to see her and she told me to rest for a bit because I looked tired and she recharged my hearts is this ring you gave me a proposal very well I accept I love you so much

[thelittlelegends]

Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons are linked games currently playable through Nintendo Online's base tier. Completing one game unlocks additional story aspects in the second! While they can be played in any order, I'd recommend starting with Seasons. Or you can read walkthroughs here and here, or watch here and here!

Reblog and add what you love about the game, things you would like to see, or other resources for those who would like to learn more about it! Here are some suggestions to get you started:

Links to existing fanworks

Most underrated characters

Your favorite gameplay mechanics, story moments, etc

Analysis of story themes, character arcs, and so on

Favorite game items

Best music moments

That art idea you don't think you'll ever get around to drawing

Story tropes that are perfect but no one seems to include

(Don't know what's going on? Check out this post!)

[zeldatourney]