You are right with that, however, the area left of the placed beacon is dark on the minimap, which indicates a low altitude, flat area. If the massive size of the area between the beacon and link at the start of the trailer is anything to go by, the large plains later in the trailer certainly could be of the area left of the beacon. There also is a river there and a bridge wouldnt be out of the realom of possibilities. In other words: they only showed the south-east part of the minimap in the wholde trailer, and the scope of this new zelda is massive beyond the series has ever
seen. It also falls in line with miyamoto asking theme to be there already and Aonuma responding with no: they took a different path by horse, showing of the wide plains and forest, instead of flying directly to the beacon, all while showing only a small part of the game (the south-east corner of the minimap, that is). I would estimate the south-east part of the minmap to be 1.5-2 times bigger than all of twillight princess.
See above, when you take into account how fucking large this area is below link when he is flying towards the beacon, it is absolutely possible the plains are left of the beacon. This game is MASSIVE.
Yeah, that area is big. I'm not saying it's not big. It's easily as big as you think it is. I'm saying it's not big enough to be the area with the absolutely massive plains. That area is way too big and the mountains too far away to be confined to the section of the map you think it's in. Also, they pass by the water with it on their left. Nowhere along that river could they be traveling with it to their left not see massive mountains really close.
And it absolutely certainly is not the area with the bridge. It's too close to death mountain, there are mountains blocking any view of death mountain from that area, there is no place around that area where you could get that view of death mountain and the bridge. There is no place for that massive bridge. The place south of Lake Hylia has a straight unobstructed view of death mountain and there is a bridge in the same view crossing lake hylia on the map.
Look how far away the bridge tower on the other side of the bridge must be:
BTW, couldn't we use this to get an estimate of how long the bridge is? Assuming both bridge towers are the same size, if we could figure out how high/wide they are and the percentage the far one shrunk we should be able to figure out how far apart they are, no?
My question is - RagnarokX do you think they would have made it all the way to the Lake Hylia in this demo? I'm going to say it would take about half an hour barrelling directly to the lakes shown on the map and that's not even taking into account the mountains and highlands they would have to cross which we clearly saw none of!
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No I don't mean that is the field that Link rides through! Though I completely agree with your labelling on these shots. I just wanted to use the field beneath Link as a frame of reference for scale.
This is where I think the 'open fields' that Link rides through and encounters the horses are... If it's around the same size as the area under Link (which it is, and probably bigger) then it's pretty believable. Marked in green for dat green green grass!
Again, the forest is big, but not big enough to be the one where Link is riding around. We see the area you circled when Link is gliding with the sailcloth and it's not big or flat enough. The place where Link is riding is much more massive than that. Massive enough to not see mountains close by. And unless they teleported they probably went through the big plain anyway because that's how you would get to the bridge across Lake Hylia. They enter the dungeon area from the bridge.
In my route post I pointed out how much time must have passed:
When Link looks at the tower, glides towards it, and finds Epona, it is sunset. When he is riding around the plains it is midday. That means at least 1 night and half a day in-game passed between those sections. When they make it to the dungeon area across the Lake Hylia bridge it's morning. That means half a day and 1 night passed between those sections. Of course, being developers, they could teleport around and change the time of day as they please.
There is just no way this view is anywhere but here, and it absolutely certainly isn't anywhere near the tower they put the beacon on.
I'm not certain, but this mountain might be Death Mountain:
It's the right shape and looks like it has smoke coming out of it, but the video quality is so terrible and they only look at it for a few seconds. If so, they can't see this from anywhere but the large plains.