/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7364787
I like to think Kasuto might have been this nigga if he wasnt Mido the Shadow sage before sheik's role was merged with Zelda's.
This art and the 1997 overdump are a treasure trove.

>>7338607
Nice, glad my autism paid off.
For the unfamiliar: >>7332309

>>7326549
Based on absolutely no evidence except Shadow being an element attributed to the Sheikah, who are ninja, I present you this theory:

>During this period of development, they had just began changing the plot to account for Child Link and time travel, as we know
>According to the "seal" graphics, the Shadow Sage was Mido (hence "Mido's Seal".
>We did not know of Sheik publicly until mid-1998 by a time his design was largely finalized except for having blue eyes
>However, 2011's Hyrule Historia gave us this art piece dating September 1996 if not EARLIER than that
>Here we can see EL SHEIK MORENAZO
Since EL SHEIK MORENAZO is seemingly still what would become the final Sheik (and therefore, still a Sheikah considering the Lens of Truth already exist in this mid-1997 data), what if then
>this version of Sheik is the Shadow Sage
>Therefore, this version of Sheik is Mido.

Dumb asspull theories for your consideration.

>>6394930
Zelda 64 fascinates me the most because before the change to cart and the semi-final HUD, it was completely a different beast. Probably no story was finished, but judging by Yuusuke Nakano's sketches, there's a LOT of mileage to take, like Sheik being separate from Zelda... Like in this piece from Historia and Encylopedia, show Sheik as an actual arab-like youth and nothing like Zelda.

Man, it's just... Well, for example, there's Nihon Falcom who write Ys and The Legend of Heroes games ahead of time and adapt and program the games around the story, while Nintendo with Zelda just keep making the game and rewriting the story as development keeps happening. What could have been Ocarina of Time will never stop fueling my imagination.