I don't know if it's the same for anyone else, but I see this as a really bittersweet moment. He had to leave his home and his friends behind to face mortal danger in the course of a quest that he didn't choose to undertake, slept for seven years to wake up in a big, weird body, in a once-vibrant city now decayed and infested with the walking dead, and when he finally comes home, none of his friends really recognize him. So he faces mortal danger again, allowing Saria to awaken as a Sage, and what does she say?
"...I know you...No...You don't have to explain it to me...Because it is destiny that you and I can't live in the same world."
His friend, possibly his first friend and the only one to recognize him, and she makes it clear that fate won't allow them to exist together. At least it flows nicely into this story
I don't know if it's the same for anyone else, but I see this as a really bittersweet moment. He had to leave his home and his friends behind to face mortal danger in the course of a quest that he didn't choose to undertake, slept for seven years to wake up in a big, weird body, in a once-vibrant city now decayed and infested with the walking dead, and when he finally comes home, none of his friends really recognize him. So he faces mortal danger again, allowing Saria to awaken as a Sage, and what does she say?
"...I know you...No...You don't have to explain it to me...Because it is destiny that you and I can't live in the same world."
His friend, possibly his first friend and the only one to recognize him, and she makes it clear that fate won't allow them to exist together. At least it flows nicely into this story
It's one of the things I like a lot about the Zelda franchise. It's suppose to action and adventure and it has a boat-load of comedy aspects, but if you really look into it you can see some really deep issues being portrayed. Not too many stories can blend so many different genres in a coherent way. That's why I hope "Breath of the Wild" gives us similar feels.
I don't know if it's the same for anyone else, but I see this as a really bittersweet moment. He had to leave his home and his friends behind to face mortal danger in the course of a quest that he didn't choose to undertake, slept for seven years to wake up in a big, weird body, in a once-vibrant city now decayed and infested with the walking dead, and when he finally comes home, none of his friends really recognize him. So he faces mortal danger again, allowing Saria to awaken as a Sage, and what does she say?
"...I know you...No...You don't have to explain it to me...Because it is destiny that you and I can't live in the same world."
His friend, possibly his first friend and the only one to recognize him, and she makes it clear that fate won't allow them to exist together. At least it flows nicely into this story
Now that you say it, it makes sense for him to leave Hyrule for Termina. It wasn't that he was seeking some elusive "friend", he might have been looking for a house. I mean, in a few hours, he sees his (distant) father figure die, he's pretty much kicked out of the forest after being told that kokiris can't leave the forest, he meets a princess, and then he's told he has to risk his life to make people. The more I think about it, the more being a hero really fucking suck, you give up your own life and comfort to fix problems, and OoT is even worse because all your friends become sages (aka can't return to a normal life either), so Link's only friends at the end of OoT are Malon and Zelda.
