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"Stop complaining SR!"

There comes a time in a man's life when he asks himself, "What's in a name?" Well what is in a name? It's a label, a metaphorical ticket to an identity, it makes something or someone describable with one or a few words. It's like the name 'John Smith'. Some would think of that as an advertised alchoholic drink, others would consider it a very English name, whereas some would just think of it as a random name, like the now trademarked 'Joe Bloggs'. In another case, you'd think of the name Sanjei (sorry if it is spelt incorrectly) as the name of someone from an asian background. But in reality, it's not the name that counts, it's the content. It's the person, object, or meaning behind the label that counts. To badly quote William Shakespear's play, 'Romeo and Juliet', "Would a rose smell as sweet if by another name?" Well the answer is ofcourse, yes! If I decided to rename a rose 'Bob' for example, it would smell exactly the same! So why is Special Reserve moaning about the new name for The Legend of Zelda, titled, "Winds of Takuto"?

If you missed the news, or are too lazy to go to upwire, then I'll give it to you in brief. Special Reserve's news website, upwire, reported that Nintendo of Japan announced a title for the next 'The Legend of Zelda' game, set to feature on the GameCube in February next year in the UK if all goes to plan. The title, as I've already mentioned is 'Winds of Takuto', which sounds ok enough, yet Special Reserve seem to think it a rubbish name? Why? Well from what I can gather from the news report, it is because they can not understand it. So because Special Reserve aren't patient enough to wait for the game, to find out it's content and complete storyline which is bound to make the title make sense, the title, in their own words, "Sucks".

Did Special Reserve do the same with the original title for the Nintendo 64's second 'The Legend of Zelda' game? That was originally named "The Mask of Mujula" and was only later renamed 'Majora's Mask'. Did the original title of that game suck because nobody knew who or what Mujula was? No! Did the final version of the title such because, until they read the reviews and/or played the game, they didn't know who or what Majora was? No! So my question is, why does 'Winds of Takuto' suck?

I'll admit it sounds unusual, Takuto either being a Japanese word or name, or maybe just be something made up by Miyamoto, but the name doesn't suck! If the reporter on behalf of upwire actually put some research into the game, they'd already know that wind plays a great part in the game. For example, the direction of the wind is shown in the raft sections of the game, and not only will that effect the speed the sail-powered raft goes, it effects Link's 'Robin Hood' style hat and will effect elements such as flags in the game. That isn't the only innovation in this Nintendo title, but it is the most relevant to the title of the game. Before anyone says anything, I do know that simulated wind has been in games before, such as for flags, flames, and even blowing ships in Sega RPGs, but the wind has never played such a big role in a game before.

So what is so rubbish about this title? What makes it any worse than the titles for other games, such as the groan inducing (not for pleasurable reasons) Carmageddon, or the straight to the point title of Sega Bass Fishing? I can't see what's wrong with the title of this new The Legend of Zelda game! So can someone please explain what it is Special Reserve find wrong with the title that I am missing?

Or could it that you guys are reading way to much into this!

Could it be that Ali needed an 'angle' when writing the story and he thought he would go with saying that the name of the game wasn't that good. After all, it would have been a very short news story if it had just said, 'the new Zelda game is called....' etc.

Plus going with this 'crap name' angle means that story was quite a bit longer than the small amount of information really warranted. Read it again, how much is real information (or news) and how much is filler waffling about the crap name. Take away the fact that Ali thought the name is poor, and what you left with? NOT MUCH.

And you could hardly go for the 'wow what a brilliant name' slant on the news story, cause it isn’t. We have no idea what it's about so saying the new sub-title is brilliant is somewhat pointless.

Accept that fact that the 'crap name' slant was simply a way of making the news story longer, so it looked like it was a good bit of news. When in fact it was rather short, and not overly interesting.

I wonder if Takuto be the name of the giant bird that captures Link's sister?

Surely SR, being the oracle site for games information, should know something like that? :D

The ocarina has been in Link's inventory since the SNES, possible even the NES. Although, the NES version did have a wind flute in it, so i'm going to stick with the SNES.


Anyway, translations nearly always change, take Mario Sunshine for example. Everyone remember seeing " Shine get? They changed it to "Shine" now, so I would expect a different name.

:)

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Tiltawhirl wrote:
> I think it's a pretty good name, nice and Zelda style.
>
> Ocarina of Time was an odd name if you didn't know what the game was
> about, I mean why of all things a fecking Ocarina?

Exactly - I mean, what would SR prefer this game to be called? The great adventure of link? Or something so highly unoriginal like that?

Nevermind Edgy - mine was the worst possible post to do with the subject ever - and it went off - course more times than Colin McRae after a bottle of Whiskey

Tribute wrote:
> Hey, I've done this on my winds on takuto post, but on a much less
> grandiose scale.. oh yeah, and mine was rubbish.

Sorry, I've not been on here much lately - so I haven't been able to keep up to date with who's posted what.

I'm sure SR didn't mean it.

Winds of Takuto is a lovely Zelda-esque title.

I think it's a pretty good name, nice and Zelda style.

Ocarina of Time was an odd name if you didn't know what the game was about, I mean why of all things a fecking Ocarina?

Hey, I've done this on my winds on takuto post, but on a much less grandiose scale.. oh yeah, and mine was rubbish.