I guess I could start off by asking if you are a linearist or a splitist. And if you have something to say about the timeline that has or has not been said already, then by all means, say it. If you have a certain video that explains everything and stands by your belief in the timeline, then post it. I know ocarinahero10 has a good explanation for the timline, if you want to check that out, here:
Keep in mind, these videos were made more than a year ago.
So, say whatever your opinion is on the order of the timline. and who knows, some people might get into some seriously heated Zelda arguements xD
I don't hurt my head over the Zelda timeline. Face it. It is literally impossible to make sense of the Zelda timeline. Some Zelda games are linked together in an obvious manner, while others just seem to exist separately.
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Minish cap comes first because that's how Link got his hat and the oracle games don't fit in because they didn't happen.
You have to remember that most of the Zeldas all feature different Links, so regardless of whether he got his hat or not in Minish Cap, that fact becomes void in the next game because it's a different Link. For example, the Link in Spirit Tracks got his hat because it was part of the castle guard uniform.
I don't even try to make sense of it all. Firstly, I haven't played them all so it would be just about impossible. Secondly, I think its pretty much impossible anyway. There are just too many games and variables. I did however find those videos intriguing. Especially the part about TP Link's father and mother o_O Miyamoto claims there is a set timeline somewhere. I just hope one day that they finally reveal it!
Zelda II > Majora's Mask > A Link to the Past > Oracle of Ages > Ocarina of Time > Spirit Tracks > Skyward Sword > Wind Waker > The Legend of Zelda in the female timeline.
Twilight Princess > Four Swords Adventures > Phantom Hourglass > Link's Awakening > Minish Cap > Oracle of Seasons in the Cucco Master timeline.
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There can only be one, like in that foreign movie where there could only be one, and in the end there is only one dude left, because that was the point.
Since Link's Awakening was just a dream, it never existed. So that game doesn't count. If it was real, I'd guess it would have occurred after A Link to the Past.
Minish Cap AND Skyward Sword Four Swords Adventures Wind Waker Phantom Hourglass Spirit Tracks Ocarina of Time (3D) Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda Zelda II A Link to the Past Link's Awakening Oracles Twilight Princess
Minish Cap Four Swords Adventures Wind Waker Phantom Hourglass Spirit Tracks Skyward Sword Ocarina of Time (3D) Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda Zelda II A Link to the Past Link's Awakening Oracles Twilight Princess
The Wind Waker and it's sequels couldn't have occurred before Skyward Sword, because the Master Sword and Hyrule already existed in those games. Skyward Sword tells the origins of the Master Sword and Link's first journey to Hyrule, so that makes it the very first game chronologically.
Minish Cap AND Skyward Sword Four Swords Adventures Wind Waker Phantom Hourglass Spirit Tracks Ocarina of Time (3D) Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda Zelda II A Link to the Past Link's Awakening Oracles Twilight Princess
The Wind Waker and it's sequels couldn't have occurred before Skyward Sword, because the Master Sword and Hyrule already existed in those games. Skyward Sword tells the origins of the Master Sword and Link's first journey to Hyrule, so that makes it the very first game chronologically.
But Minish Cap is where Link gets his hat! Maybe Link was doing minish cap and Skyward sword at the same time.
@ SupersushiLax - guess I'm not the only one who thinks it might come to linking them together. (though I'm hoping they stay sperate)
I think the games follow an order in a straight line but they can only be guessed at because nintendo is holding the knowledge to piece them all together from us. First comes Skyward Sword which apperently involes the creation of the master sword, followed many years later (alot of years because the sky world never gets mentioned) Ocarini of Time where I think it will become the origns of Ganondorf, and here is why I think it's linear after Link saves the future zelda sends him to the past to catch up on lost years resulting in his travels and my favorite zelda game Majora's Mask which fills us in on one of the major events (for I think they will gives us more of those missing years as games) Link needed to go back in the past for to make sure the future still happened without Link being there to stop Ganondorf from getting the triforce (remember they never showed the doors closing to stop him and only in the future is he stopped, however the evil of the mask not the power is gone by the end of the game, suggesting it shall be used again. So after Link's version of the Odyssey he comes back and stop ganondorf just like in Ocarini of time, only now it's just the future with out needing to go back in time.
This however is where I get confused however I can guess where the games fit based on when the master sword is in a game. See once it gets lost in Wind Waker (being in Ganondorf's skull) the games that follow are missing it. Which brings up Twilight Princess and A Link to the Past which seem to be connected by the location of the master sword, we can also guess that because of that they occur before the Wind Waker, which comes first is unknown but it seems likely Twilight Princess does in which the Twilight realm at some point is given the triforce where it will keep growing untill it is the true other side of the coin. Afterwards would mean A Link to the Past happens and I would guess that after the triforce was restored and returned, Ganondorf has returned and got sealed in the sacred realm or as i would guess the Twilight realm durning the sealing wars. After this game I'm guessing Ganondorf surived but the silver arrows one of this three weakness were formed and from what I gather the four swords games start now. But I think it's likely that they don't start till after the water levels come back down. So instead Wind Walker happens in which the master sword is lost, which I think it will return after a future Link pulls it from ganondorf's skull reviving him and bring the sword back into play. Then Phantom Hourglass happens and without the master sword, a new replacement blade is formed, the phantom sword, which turns back into the phantom hourglass, meaning it will likely show up again at some point. Then we have Spirit Tracks (my second favorite), which uses yet another non master sword, which means now we have a land mass again. Though sometime later the tracks must vanish having nothing to seal away or soemthing because they don't come back.
Then I think Four Swords, Four Swords Adventures and then the Minish Cap happen but this is only a guess at were they are for they could have happened before the flood but I think that the Minish Cap happens after Spirit Tracks just because of the simularities between the castles and town but I don't know because it feels like games and story pieces are missing. The Oracle games I think happen about now and Link's Awakening I think happens before the Wind Walker or after phantom Hourglass just because of the Wind Fish needing an ocean to be found but once again it's guess work. Then the series comes to The Legend of Zelda and ends in Zelda II. Link's Crossbow Training most likely happens after Twilight Princess. I don't think Smash Bros counts as the fact that it's action figures and trophies fighting.
Before I forget Zelda CD-i never happended, they only occured as Ganondorf's dreams
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Since Link's Awakening was just a dream, it never existed. So that game doesn't count. If it was real, I'd guess it would have occurred after A Link to the Past.
But it is real, because the Wind Fish's sleep occurred for a period of time, meaning that it does fit in with the timeline, after Link to the Past; most of the weapons and the play-style are the same.
You have to remember that most of the Zeldas all feature different Links, so regardless of whether he got his hat or not in Minish Cap, that fact becomes void in the next game because it's a different Link. For example, the Link in Spirit Tracks got his hat because it was part of the castle guard uniform.
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Theory where Wind Waker and Twilight Princess happen in different timelines after OOT's child and adult ending, has been stated true many times by Eiji Aonuma. I myself woudn't include older games before OOT in the timeline, since before it was released there clearly was no timeline. Four Sword games cannot be put in the general timeline either. So, in all it's simplicity, the timeline is as follows: Skyward Sword> Ocarina of Time> (splitting to 1. and 2.) 1. >Majora's Mask> Twilight Princess 2. >Wind Waker> Phantom Hourglass> Spirit Tracks OOT and MM features the same Link, as WW and PH. Other than that it's always different Link. Ganon dies in the end of both WW and TP.
Minish Cap AND Skyward Sword Four Swords Adventures Wind Waker Phantom Hourglass Spirit Tracks Ocarina of Time (3D) Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda Zelda II A Link to the Past Link's Awakening Oracles Twilight Princess
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Toon Story: Minish Cap Four Swords (Adventures) Wind Waker Phantom Hourglass Spirit Tracks
Original Story: Skyward Sword Ocarina of Time (3D) ----> Majora's Mask A Link To The Past The Legend of Zelda Zelda II Oracles Twilight Princess
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