I liked the theory that each one was just in the distant future from each other (like thousands or millions of years maybe). It’s interesting that there’s an actual lore between games, especially that the original Zelda is from a timeline where OoT Link loses, and I guess kid OoT Link and adult OoT Link have different timelines.
Isn’t windwaker following the adult timeline and twilight princess the kid one but both where Link succeeds?
Guess it kinda makes sense if you think about it as a split at the end of oot? Idk, timeline is wild and I never thought about it too much.
So is it like, save everyone as a kid, save everyone as an adult, and total failure? How does OoT end? Do you beat Ganondorf in the future and the past?
Afaik the timeline after beating the game splits, the adult timeline carries on from there and then the child timeline carries on as if Gannondorf never took over in the first place
Really don’t get this obsession fans have with tying all these games together.
Fans? This is an official source from Nintendo, how is this fans being weird? 😅
The only reason the timeline exists is because fans kept asking for one.
I think it’s fun to imagine a deep world that can explain all these variations of reality like stitching all the fromsoft games into a single universe.
You would think the fact that Hyrule is always different (sometimes even having a Lorule) and one of the most popular entries (remade three times) was a literal fever dream, that people would say realize the only actual Link is the character we played on the way.
I for one like the idea that hyrule is some crazy oroboros of rhyming timelines.
Theres no reason it has to be that way, but i like it.
I thought it was just that they’re set far into the future
I’ve no idea why anyone takes the idea of a Zelda timeline even remotely seriously.
No different than people being into star trek, star wars, a song of fire and ice, DC or Marvel lore. People like stories they can converse over. Timelines are yet another piece to talk about.
Because Nintendo made one. They published the “official” timeline like a decade ago, and then made a TON of references to it in Breath of the Wild. Not our fault they then decided to shit on it with Tears of the Kingdom.
What’s a work of fiction that you care about? Possibly something formative to your childhood, or something that was just really damn good and you love it?
Now imagine the author/artist/dev/whatever making some boneheaded decisions that make this thing you love worse in petty and annoying ways that don’t really matter but they should know better since they’ve been doing it longer than you’ve been alive.
If you can imagine this scenario, then you understand why zelda fans are upset, again
Yeah I’m disappointed rhat they shifted from ‘so far in the future it’s irrelevant’ to ‘let’s soft reboot the whole thing’.
Imagine TOTK as not an overstuffed addon, but set during the war with Demise. But then they’d have to deal with that pesky triforce again…
I can’t think of many things I care less about than fictional things being reworked. They’re fiction. “There has to be this truth to this fiction!” is something that will never keep me awake at night and is completely foreign to me. It’s like the same shit when people started whining that the ghost busters are girls, and that Ariel can’t be black. is it entertaining, is the only question I care about.
And don’t get me wrong, I get upset when I watch my sports teams so I’m not, by any stretch of the imagination, above getting upset over stupid shit. Lol
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