The Legend of Zelda: Tales of Hyrule

Tales of Hyrule is a game released by Nintendo in 2015 for
the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.  Tales of Hyrule is
considered of Zelda’s crowning achievements of all time. It has graphics that
push the console to its limits, an original never-before-seen battle system,
and the addition of actual voices and voice actors.
In the game, the protagonist is Link, along with his
comrades: Impa, Ruto, Lana, Kyuketsuki, Zelda, and Agitha. The heroes fight
against Ganondorf, an evil overlord, while traveling through time to save their
world.  The game’s characteristic genre
is “Legendary RPG, Embellished with Voices.”
== Story ==
Tales of Hyrule begins by showing a heroic battle between
four unknown warriors against an evil sorcerer, Ganondorf, the outcome of which
changed the fate of the world. The warriors are victorious, but Ganondorf
escapes through time. However, four different heroes await him: they seal the
weakened Ganondorf away by using the power of two pendants, thus returning
peace to the world.
In Hyrule Castle, twenty years after Ganondorf was sealed
away, there lived a young swordsman named Link and his best friend Zelda. Link
is sleeping in the castle, until a Twili named Zant and his soldiers destroy
it. Zelda runs and tells Link that Hyrule has been destroyed by Zant and she
gives you the Ocarina. Everyone is killed in the attack, including the King of
Hyrule and both of Link’s parents. While Zelda mourns, Link vows for revenge.
He decides he will head to Skyloft, as his mother asked of him before she
passed away. The two friends decide they will meet up later in Skyloft. But
before his arrival in Skyloft, He talks to the Great Deku Tree, who tells you that
Zant is after the Triforce. Upon his arrival in Skyloft, Link is soon betrayed
by his uncle and is thrown in jail, captured by Zant. The heirloom pendant
entrusted to Link given by his father is taken away from him, but Link does not
know of its significance in holding Ganondorf sealed, nor that his father was
one of the four who sealed him away.
Link meets Impa, who is in jail, and she joins and helps
Link escape. Soon afterward, the duo meets Zelda again at the home of Ruto,
another descendant of the four warriors (Lord Jabu-Jabu). Ruto informs the
party that Jabu-Jabu knew Link’s parents and Impa’s mother quite well, and they
once joined together to seal away a great evil. She is horrified to hear that
Link’s pendant has been stolen and immediately runs off towards a nearby
mausoleum.  Link, Impa, and Zelda deduce
that Zant must be there, and so follow Ruto without her knowledge and against
her will. Unfortunately, Zant manages to release Ganondorf using the pendants
before Ruto and the party can stop him. With no hope of dealing with the
all-powerful Ganondorf for now, Ruto attempts to send Link, Impa, and Zelda
back two centuries into the past, so that they will learn about Ganondorf and
procure a means to preemptively defeat him. After killing Zant, Ganondorf
attacks the party with a magic spell that Zelda dives right in front of. So it
is that Link and Ruto are left behind to suffer Ganondorf’s wrath, with only a
broken bow and a diary respectively all that Impa and Link have to remember
them by.
In the past, Ganondorf is still causing chaos preparing for
an imminent war against the two largest human countries, Hyrule and Lorule.  These events happened one hundred eighty-eight
years before he was sealed. In this time period, Ganondorf’s evil pervades most
of the world, and he even controls the prince of Hyrule’s royal family. The
party learns that the only way to defeat Ganondorf is by using magic, but
neither Link nor Impa can practice the magical arts—only elves and half-elves
can use the powerful spells. However, they soon meet Lana, and Kyuketsuki, who
join them in their quest.  Lana is a
summoner, so she can evoke a magical or elemental spirit and is thus one of the
only humans who can indirectly use magic by forming a pact with the spirits via
special rings and then summoning them in battle. She suggests that the Goron
Darunia may be useful to them, and so the party travels across the world to the
Dodongo’s Cavern in search of Rupees and members who would be willing to join
to help fight Ganondorf.
Once they reach Dodongo’s Cavern, they fend off Ganondorf’s
army in the war. They proceed to Ganondorf’s castle in search of him, with
hopes of restoring peace to the world and avenging the deaths of their loved
ones. Reaching the throne room, an epic battle with Ganondorf ensues.
Unfortunately, Ganondorf escapes through time, much in the same way as before.
The party travels back to their original time to interrupt the resurrected
Ganondorf from killing Lord Jabu-Jabu and the King of Hyrule in the mausoleum,
and fight him once more. This time Ganondorf is completely defeated, and the
cave begins to collapse in on itself and an unconscious Ganondorf. In the
aftermath, the party decides that with Ganondorf most likely dead, they have
succeeded and can part ways so that Lana and Kyuketsuki can return to their
original time. But at that moment, a time-traveler arrives from the future to
inform them that Ganondorf is still alive and is terrorizing the future
one-hundred years to deal with Ganondorf and his minions once and for all.
Upon the advancement of their journey, Link, Impa, Ruto,
Lana, Kyuketsuki, Zelda, and Darunia learn of the Infinity Sword, which is
considered to be the only weapon that may eliminate Ganondorf once and for all
by sealing his ability to flee through time. After acquiring it and another
ally, the Princess of Insects Agitha, the party ventures into Ganondorf’s
castle, invisible to those who do not wield the Infinity Sword. When they reach
the top, they battle against Ganondorf who they learn is much more than a
simple sorcerer. He is a traveler from another world that is trying to save the
Great Deku Tree from withering and dying; the manna from the tree exudes is of
utmost importance to the survival of his home.  After his defeat, Link and the others return
to the Tree, and the Twilight Princess Midna explains Ganondorf’s
circumstances. The game's protagonists come to realize that in the end,
Ganondorf was merely trying to save his people, a noble intent marred by his
actions. Finally, Lana and Kyuketsuki return to their own time, while Agitha, a
denizen of the future, parts ways with them. Midna, after the party leaves,
helps Ganondorf’s home survive with the manna from the Great Deku Tree. Link
and Zelda come back to Hyrule, looking for the Triforce, finding out it was
Midna who stole it.
== Characters ==
Link – A young swordsman from Hyrule who sets out on a
revenge-fueled journey after losing his family in a bloody massacre.
Impa – A calm and collected healer who was taken prisoner by
evil knights just before the Demon King Ganondorf is released. She joins Link on
his quest when they escape together.
Zelda – Link’s childhood friend who loses her father, the
King of Hyrule when their kingdom is destroyed. With her powerful magic, she
swears to get revenge by defeating the Demon King Ganondorf.
Lana – A sorceress from Hyrule who helps Link by summoning
spirits. Her goal is to one day master the art of magic despite being a human.
Kyuketsuki – A cheerful half-elf, half-vampire witch with
powerful magic who can feel the world's energy slowly draining away.
Agitha – A young princess who searches desperately for her
parents, only to find them under the ruthless control of Ganondorf.
Ganondorf – The “Demon King” who wishes to eradicate all
Hylian life. Although sealed away by four warriors in the past, he is set free
at the beginning of the story.
== Gameplay ==
The game uses the Linear Motion Battle System or LMBS for
short, where battles are fought on 2D plane with enemies that act in real time.
Standard RPG features such as Stamina and Potions are implemented. Commands
must be input either using button presses or selecting options via a menu.  Heading to either the far left or far right
of the screen will cause an Escape. Targeting enemies is automatically assigned
beforehand but can be changes manually. Physical arts only work at either long
or short range, while the effects of spells are limited to those targets that
are displayed on the screen, and all actions stop when high-level spells are
cast. It is only possible to control Link in story mode, but in Free Play, you
can play as any party member. 
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