Oracle Series

The Oracle Series consists of the two Game Boy Color Legend of Zelda games, ' and ', made by Capcom and Nintendo.

The Series
The original idea was for a trilogy known as the "Triforce Trilogy", which was going to be updated remakes of The Legend of Zelda and The Adventure of Link, and a third installment. After consulting with Shigeru Miyamoto, it was decided to make an original trilogy, called the "Mysterious/Mystical Seed Trilogy", each game revolving around one of the three Goddesses — Din for The Mysterious Seed of Power", which had gameplay mechanics related to Seasons; Nayru for "The Mysterious Seed of Wisdom", which used color as the central gameplay element; and Farore for "The Mysterious Seed of Courage", a time-travel adventure (Ages);. Nintendo eventually decided that having only two games would make linking easier, so Farore's game was canceled. The result was Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.

Oracle of Ages
A game taking place in the world of Labrynna. It all starts with a cry for help. As Impa is being threatened by evil monsters, she notices that you, the Hero Of Ages are the one to stop the evil invasions. Will Link be able to save the true and pure goddess Nayru? Only the ages can tell. Join Link on his epic journey through the different ages and times as he rescues Nayru from the evil clutches of Veran!

Oracle of Seasons
A game taking place in the world of Holodrum. The Seasons are thrown into complete chaos. Link must wield the Rod of Seasons and master the Essences of Nature to return Holodrum to regularity.

The Mystical Seed of Courage
The canceled third game in the series.

Linking Secrets
A staplepoint of the Oracle Series is its unique ability to interlink using passwords. The passwords are all totally random and will only work on a specific playthrough of a game. Through Linking Secrets, Link can work with Farore to obtain rare items which he could not otherwise get.

Password-Linked Events
There are various events which happen only when one of the games is played after the other in sequence.

Oracle of Ages Events
When playing a Password-Linked Oracle of Ages, various changes occur in Lybranna which would otherwise not happen.

Rosa
Rosa, from Subrosia, follows Link to Cresent Island, strangely into the past as well. When his items are stolen by the Tokay, she intimidates the one that stole his Shovel and gets it back to Link.

Sea of Storms
In a Linked Oracle of Ages, a cave appears underwater in the Sea of Storms that wasn't there before. In this cave is the.

Black Tower
In the Present about halfway through a Linked Oracle of Ages, Impa will be at the Black Tower. She will warn Link that Vire has kidnapped Princess Zelda and taken her into the tower and asks him to go save her. The rescue of the Princess plays out like the original Donkey Kong game with Vire as Donkey Kong, Princess Zelda as Pauline, and Link as Jumpman (Mario). After she is saved, she will give Link the.

Queen Ambi's Love
In a Linked Oracle of Seasons, the storyline brought up but never completed in Oracle of Ages of Queen Ambi's long lost lover is concluded. After clearing the Ancient Ruins, Queen Ambi will be at the Samasa Desert entrance. Nayru sent her there by her request. She is looking for her long lost love. Her lover is the Piratain Captain. Ambi says she understands why he can't stay and that she will be waiting whenever he returns. Apparently the Captain originally vanished in Ambi's time because he and his crew got trapped in the Sea of Storms in the course of his exploration and could not get out.

Great Moblin
After clearing Snake's Remains, Impa will be worried out of her mind for the safety of Princess Zelda and will ask Link to find her. After going north a short distance, Link will run into the Great Moblin and his thugs attempting to rob and kidnap Princess Zelda. . After seeing Link, the Great Moblin complains about how he must have followed him from Labrynna to harass him and then challenges Link to a fight. Fighting off the Great Moblin will earn Link the.

Hero's Cave
In both games there is a Hero's Cave which plays a minor part in the original storylines for each game but when playing a linked version becomes unnecessary to the plot. Instead they are converted into expansive, but optional, dungeons for Link to explore and conquer. Both require late-game items to complete and they give Link an exclusive reward for completing them. The Oracle of Seasons Hero's Cave gives Link the, and the Oracle of Ages Hero's Cave gives Link the.

Revival of Ganon
The Oracle Series has an over-arching plot that plays out throughout both games in a Linked format. In both games Twinrova is orchestrating an elaborate plot to revive Ganon using their minions Veran and Onox to light the Flame of Sorrow and the Flame of Destruction respectively, and the ultimate kidnapping of Princess Zelda, the world's symbol of hope, to light the Flame of Despair. They intend to use the three flames to revive Ganon. Their final move is to sacrifice Zelda to Ganon for him to use as a vessel. When Link saves Zelda, Twinrova decides to sacrifice themselves as vessels for Ganon. Because this is not the way the rites were intended to be done, the revival of Ganon instead results in a fairly mindless version of him that only seeks to destroy everything rather than rule over everyone.

Trivia

 * A majority of the graphics in the Oracle Series are recycled from Link's Awakening.