Those of us who have ever played Zelda before all know the story that the game follows: Villain emerges and causes evil, sometimes captures the princess or traps her in stone, hero is chosen then said hero goes on a quest through dungeons across the land to obtain certain special items needed to defeat said evil, hero wins, peace is restored, and the kingdom and the princess are saved the end, right?
Well, what if, for once, Link (that's the main characters real name in the Legend of Zelda games for those who don't know) does all of this but fails to defeat the evil, in this case, Ganondorf, Lord of the Shadows, King of Evil, and Ruler of the Gerudo Thieves, and the finishing blow causes him to be trapped in an eternal void, as was the fate of all who Link has defeated before. Talk about irony. Of course, though being the goddess Farore's chosen champion, as well as the Hero of Time and the Savior of Clock Town (taken from the games "Ocarina of Time" and "Majora's Mask" from the N64), has its perks like, say, never truly dying. So, instead of the eternal abyss, Farore's attempt to stop the spell doesn't completely work and ends up only altering it. Now Link must recover, make some friends, and find his way back to Hyrule in order to save it from destruction.
Will Link succeed, or will the Hero of Time, for once, be too late?