October 24, 2011

OOT and TP Map Overlays!

I woke up this morning and thought for a second. The Twilight Princess map of Hyrule looks similar to Ocarina of Time's overworld. Mind you, I played TP on the Wii, so the map was flipped horizontally. I did some re-flipping, some reorientation, and got some interesting results.

1.) The very first image is the TP map flipped around onto the Ocarina of Time overlay. The Temple of Time was used as a reference point. If you look, areas "roughly" line up. Ruins around the Temple of Time indicate that the old castle town was in this area. You can see the ruins of two fountains; and one is assumed to be the old castle town main fountain. Originally, I thought that Ordona would be the Kokiri Forest area- but it is not. It is somewhere in between old Hyrule Castle and Death Mountain (if the map placement is correct).

2) Both Gerudo Deserts line up.

3) Lake Hylia is interesting. In Twilight Princess, it is much closer to Hyrule Castle. If we overlay the OOT map though, Lake Hylia overlaps Snowpeak! Interesting. It could be that there were some unseen mountains behind Lake Hylia in Ocarina of Time, and the surface below Snow Peak was Lake Hylia.

4) Old Kokiri Forest is also not in Twilight Princess. It is located where the current Bridge of Eldin is. Oddly, in the forest temple (in Faron province), there are kokiri emblems on the doors of the temple.

5) Zora's Domain from Ocarina of Time would be the location of Kakariko Village from Twilight Princess. There is a graveyard behind Kakariko, and because of the teleporter tunnel underwater, I would suggest that the back of the graveyard is actually old Zora's Domain. The new Zora's Domain is elsewhere, around Lake Hylia (TP).

6) Death mountain (roughly) corresponds to its TP counterpart. In TP, it is more to the south.

7) Both Temple of Time(s) match up identically. Assuming this is correct, were Hyrule real, and we were investigating, this would be an interesting thing to look at. What do you think?



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