Well, originally the trio were going to be remakes of the Original two Zelda games and a new Zelda, but then that plan was scraped and they were going to make 3 Oracle games that connected with passwords and focused on different gameplay mechanics (Ages would have time travel, Secrets would have seasons, colors, and time of day (apparently), and IDK what the precursor to Seasons was going to have). However, the only reason it didn't work out was because they couldn't figure out how to make the password system work in a triangle (besides, players could defeat the games in any order, such as "Ages -> Seasons -> Secrets" "Seasons -> Ages -Secrets" "Secrets -> Seasons -> Ages" etc.) and they weren't sure people were going to be willing to buy three games. They felt Secrets was the most restrictive (apparently you had to solve puzzles at certain times of the day to proceed, and they thought that would put off gamers that had to use the internal clock (like in Gold and Silver) to wait for the right time), so it was axed, the Rod of Seasons went to OoS as were the old bosses (also carried over from the original plan to remake the original Zelda game), and Farore was relegated to the keeper of passwords in the two games.KevTehNev wrote:There's most likely no way the 3rd oracle game would come out. One of them was going to pretty much be the same map as the original zelda (i'm guessing thats why a lot of the seasons bosses were just old bosses) And they would have to rework Ages and Seasons way too much to fit that game in.
However, elements of the third game remain in the duo, namely the fact that there's a third flame to go along with the flames of Despair and Destruction, which would have likely been lit by finishing the Secrets game and some other things I'm forgetting off the top of my head (daisies 3 am).
To me though, I don't think it would be too hard to make the third game and there wouldn't be a need to change much (if anything) in the other Oracle games. The way I see it, they could include the two games on the same cart, allow the player to play through either Ages or Seasons, after they beat that, they essentially play the "new game plus" (I.E. linked version) of the other one that they didn't play. After they beat THAT, rather than fighting Twinrova and Ganon, the player unlocks the Secrets game (which was originally based in Hyrule), plays through that (with cameos of characters from both Seasons and Ages), and finally ends with the Twinrova and Ganon fight (possibly upgraded into a "final dungeon" ala Ganon's Tower of sorts. With this, the Secrets game will always be the final game of the trio, and only inserts itself directly between Ages/Seasons and the "final battle" from the linked game.
That would definitely be a great remake of the games and expand the content enough to where I definitely wouldn't mind paying $40 for that as a 3DS game (even if it's still entirely sprite based).
-K-
