What does Any Forums think of the official/canon Zelda timeline

What does Any Forums think of the official/canon Zelda timeline.

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The idea that every game HAS to fit into the universe is so fucking retarded. Timeline fags are the worst.

Games like Zelda can exist independent of each other. It's a simple story. They follow the same themes. Links Awakening does not have to take place in the same universe as Breath of the Wild

It's not as good as the DK timeline

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Its unnecessary. Some games are explicitly connected, but the games are mainly supposed to be about different variations of the Legend.

>the games are mainly supposed to be about different variations of the Legend
Oh man, yeah. Minish Cap? That's totally the exact same story as A Link to the Past. It's just a VARIATION of the same story, bro.

completely unnecessary, and arguably irrelevant after botw

Stories get changed with different details as they get told over time and are passed on between people. There doesn't need to be a structured timeline, autist.

>alternate timelines not caused by story events
It's shit.

I'm in fucking tears

>DK king of swing
man that was a weird game, was fun but I couldn't get anywhere in it as a kid

>literally 1/3 of the series amounts to a what if scenario

kino

It actually makes perfect sense nearly all the time but retards who can't let their headcanon go (also mistranslations) ruin it

The outright denied this retarded headcanon, it has NEVER ever been the same story. How can you even believe Majora's Mask and Skyward Sword are retellings of the same story?

Need more games in the best timeline, aka, the MM timeline. Give me more grimdark shit

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I'm gonna fill all you fuckers in on how it actually went down, because every time this topic is brought up you have a billion dipshit clowns parroting garbage like "hurr durr it's the same story being retold in different eras" nonsense.

Nearly EVERY single game in the entire franchise is explicitly shown, in the games themselves, that they were intentionally created as a direct sequel or prequel to an existing game. The only ones this does not apply to are the Four Swords/Minish Cap games, which while connected to each other, were hamfisted between the other games where they could fit (any time before OoT for FS/MC, and after for FSA).\

The timeline splitting got fucked because Aonuma or whoever wrote Wind Waker forgot that ALttP onwards was already the adult timeline (that OoT was created as a prequel to), so they had to backpedal and split it into an extra adult timeline. This is what eventually led to them giving up on it all and making BotW take place so far in the future it doesn't directly work or not work with any of the timelines.

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>the hero is defeated
I never understood this. We played Ocarina of Time. Link won. How can they just make up he lost?

My theory is that nintendo intentionally came up with something stupid to ensure that nobody could have guessed the canon timeline

The abandoned timeline.

>Kotaku: Each Zelda game seems like a new iteration in the same theme. There is always sort of that hallmark back to there was a previous light sword bearer in ages past. Should we just accept every time that Zelda is a reimagining of the same theme? Is it sort of assumed that every thousand years this same thing is happening over again?
>Eiji Aonuma: It's certainly not the same story being told over and over again. It's not that we have a one thousand year time span between every game or anything like that. When creating a Zelda game there is the connection between Link and Zelda and the Triforce and Ganon. When we get set to make a new Zelda game, we are focusing on the theme of the game and the game play rather than to create a new timeline for the series.
>Kotaku: So it's basically a reimagiining of the same story line?
>Eiji Aonuma: No, not so much. It actually really comes back to the mythology of the land of Hyrule. There is a Triforce and each segment is tied to a different (Long explanation of the Triforce and Zelda mythos.) It is in a sense events recurring overtime.
Reminder to LAUGH at this retard

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Awful. Now they're locked into this baloney when it was just fine being ambiguous.
>timeline dorks could have their fun
>"it's the same story retold" people could have their fun
>"isn't it the same Link all the way through?" ignorant people could be right too
now, nope. the anal retentive people got their way and ruined it for everyone else.
Once again proving that gamers are their own worst enemies.

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that user already said some games are continuations you illiterate, lazy fuckshit.

The bitching over the Zelda timeline is insanely petty and autistic.

me again

see what I'm talking about? the biggest turbo-agro loudmouths are the ones chastising everyone else for having a good time... the way it was all throughout Zelda's peak under Koizumi.

YOU fuckers brought SS on us. You should be flogged.

it was never ambiguous. Zelda 2 is obviously 2, ALttP was created as a backstory for the sacred realm, LA is a direct sequel to that (Link mistakes Marin for Zelda), and OoT was created as a backstory for ganondorf and the seven sages. it really isn't subtle.

Was it ever confirmed at what point in the OoT storyline Link was defeated? Was it to Ganon or some earlier point?

This
>Zelda 1 (The Hyrule Fantasy)
>it's the first

>Zelda 2 (The Adventure of Link)
>direct sequel of Zelda 1 with the same protagonist

>Zelda 3 (A Link to the Past)
>actually seems unconnected to other (specific) games, but was stated since release to be a distant prequel of every Zelda released before

>Zelda 4 (Link's Awakening)
>direct sequel of Zelda 3 with the same protagonist

>Zelda 5 (Ocarina of Time)
>distant prequel of every game so far

>Zelda 6 (Majora's Mask)
>direct sequel of Zelda 5 with the same protagonist

>Zelda 7 (Oracle of Seasons - Oracle of Ages)
>direct sequel of Zelda 3/4 with the same protagonist

>Zelda 8 (Four Swords)
>actually seems unconnected to other (specific) games, but was stated since release to be a distant prequel of every Zelda released before


>Zelda 9 (The Wind Waker)
>direct sequel of Zelda 5

>Zelda 10 (Four Swords Adventures)
>distant sequel of Zelda 8

>Zelda 11 (The Minish Cap)
>direct prequel of Zelda 8/10

>Zelda 12 (Twilight Princess)
>direct sequel of Zelda 5

>Zelda 13 (Phantom Hourglass)
>direct sequel of Zelda 9

>Zelda 14 (Spirit Tracks)
>distant sequel of Zelda 9/13

>Zelda 15 (Skyward Sword)
>distant prequel of every single game

>Zelda 16 (A Link between Worlds)
>distant sequel of Zelda 3/4/7

>Zelda 17 (Triforce Heroes)
>direct sequel of Zelda 16

>Zelda 18 (Breath of the Wild)
>actually seems unconnected to other (specific) games... until now, now it's connected to the new game

>Zelda 19
>direct sequel of Zelda 18
Only idiots struggle with Historia/Encyclopedia timeline

no, see they realized they fucked up and that ww contradicted to alttp too late

Should have been the first timeline Link was absent from after gettting the jewels.

>>Zelda 7 (Oracle of Seasons - Oracle of Ages)
>>direct sequel of Zelda 3/4 with the same protagonist
Not anymore lol
New Link

It wasn't, they only said the hero failed and thus was defeated, allowing Ganon to take over the Triforce.