I see you had fun at the beach, Spire.
Back when I lived by the beach I was never inspired this much. I'm always much more inspired by mountains, which is why I fell in love with Colorado. Anyway, I'm gonna cut right to the chase. This morning, before I woke up, I had a dream. Now, I tend to have dreams every night, and I don't have a clue where the elements in the dream come from. But this particular morning, I was blessed with a Zelda dream. I was given a vision of some new Zelda game that I had never played before. This dream was so vivid, that though I woke up an hour ago, it is still fresh on my mind. I'm going to tell you before I forget. The dream goes as far as I can remember as follows:
I was walking through a store with my mom and two brothers. This is strange because one of my brothers, my older brother, does not live with us. I'm not sure which store it was, but it's quite possible it was a Toys-R-Us, around Halloween, because there was an entire section of costumes somewhere in the store. Well, it apparently wasn't Halloween time, but I wanted to look for something anyway. Please note that in real life, I no longer wear costumes on Halloween, aside from the occasional costume party.
I got bored of looking at costumes for all they had was the generic superhero, cop, fireman, etc. So I left. I wandered into the video game section (gee I wonder how) and that's when I spotted it: a new game available for demo. I picked up the controller immediately. The fact that this was not a Wii Remote is also unusual. I have no idea what it was though, as the dream did not focus on petty details. Anyhow, I picked up the controller and pressed start. Here is what I saw:
A completely stark region came into view. Before I knew it, trees were a part of the picture. Then came water, and rock formations, and eventually wind. I had no idea what I was seeing, until I understood this was a Zelda game, though the start screen bore no title in my memory. It sported no dialogue or text at the beginning, and jumped straight into a snippet of gameplay, giving me the impression this game was surely not complete, as if I were testing the product so far along in its progress, like at E3. Now, Link, clad in his tunic, looked almost exactly identical to his counterpart in TP and SSBB, and stood atop a GIGANTIC hill. This hill was surrounded by trees at the foot. There was a single sat of train tracks leading through the forest, if memory serves. As gameplay started, you were at the foot of the hill in a sleepy little forest, with no enemies. Around the foot of the hill was the only interesting thing about this forest. It was a big, lilac-whitish colored shell. It was about a few feet taller than a human body. Around the area of the shell were many groups of flowers of all varieties. The sheer detail of the graphics enthralled me. Upon walking up to the shell nothing happens, even when you examine it.
Somewhere in this forest is a small raised land form. A top the slight elevation, there was a garden. Perhaps the most beautiful thing imaginable in Zelda history, this garden was made of marble, with fountains, crystal clear water, and colorful flowers and plants. But still I was more intrigued with the shell. It was standing upright, shaped like an egg.
Nothing in my memory beyond this point serves as what could have happened between the exiting off the garden and the village. First, the player had to return to a village, probably by train, which was located in tall canyons. These villagers lived like Native American tribes, with houses built among the mountain wall and at the tops of cliffs, and there were large, long bridges connecting the cliffs to each other, the thoroughfare of the village.
Upon talking to some of the villagers and gathering some info, Link discovers a young maiden from the village is missing. She sings a beautiful song that she wrote, and in prophecy, is a very important person said to save the world one day. Well, I immediately knew that this shell must have some kind of connection. The strange thing is was the area the shell was located in. If someone evil put it there, why would they put it in an area so easily accessible to so many people. The skies begin to cloud up, and rain begins to fall steadily, as Link rides the train back to the forest, intent on finding what lies inside the shell.
Upon arriving in the forest, the player finds that almost all the trees have been decimated; either burned, or hacked down by some brutish force. Though the train tracks were uprooted, and the once beautiful garden now in ruins, the shell was still there. I can't remember anything else between this point and the very breaking of the shell. Here is how the shell is broken.
Link stands atop the hill, and theatrically dashes down it, losing no balance somehow, and he begins to execute his final smash from Brawl! What? A final smash in a Zelda game?! Well, in my dream, it happened, people. The player had to time it just right and do this three times to break the shell. Inside was a radiantly gorgeous, light purple skinned woman of some type, apparently unclothed, as Link has his "reaction" to women, except tenfold this time. The next thing I remember is quite foggy, as dreams tend to fog up as you grow closer to waking.
All I remember next is her saying she came by train from a far away island, where she was sent from, or something along those lines. She apparently has never seen a member of the opposite sex before, as she is overjoyed at seeing a man (Link). She apparently is already pregnant, though, as gave birth to several.... tree spirits, who are with her in the shell. These trees are glowing of different colors, and you can even name her offspring. A strange mechanic, but an interesting one nonetheless. I was still trying to figure out how she gave birth before I broke the shell when I suddenly woke up to another cloudy, humid, Texas day.
So I threw on some pants, had an epic bowl of cookie crisps and sat down with me dear MacBook, and began posting this right away. I'm not sure what this means or anything, or of it helps the progression of the project at all, but I felt like I should share an original thing that I got in a dream with you guys. I don't know if any of you guys wear a coat of many colors or anything, but maybe we can interpret this dream into something for our project. Just something on my mind, and it would have killed me inside if I didn't let it out before I forgot it.
