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The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Jean-François Cudennec University of Derby, College of Science and Engineering, Derby, United Kingdom. Email: jf.cudennec (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF A thick layer of time In the realm of Ninte…
The recurrence of this type of conflict is a commonplace of fantasy worlds, and a convenient way to turn the lore of these games into repeated iterations of commercial successes (Sangster, 2023), developing a stereotypical “stock of characters and devices […] into a predictable plot in which the perennially understaffed forces of good triumph over a monolithic evil” (Attebery, 1992). Here the game somewhat breaks the fourth wall, as Impa describes a previous battle between the protagonists, suggesting the existence the other episodes of the series in a delightful mise en abyme, even for those who are not accounted with the intricated official timeline, a curious mixing of both linear and circular times (Aonuma, 2020). This is particularly true compared to other regions of the world: over the same Holocene period, the Middle East saw the appearance and spreading of Neolithic cultures, invention of irrigation and it corollary the environmental collapse and desertification of the Tigre and Euphrates River system, the rise and fall of Mesopotamian, Assyrian, and Egyptian empires.
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