Isaiah TriForce Johnson is a name that will be instantly familiar to most Nintendo fans. One of the company's most loyal supporters, TriForce is famed for being first in line at hardware launches, wearing a Power Glove every waking moment of the day and running his own incredibly successful eSports firm, Empire Arcadia.
Our very own Jon Wahlgren caught up with TriForce at this year's PAX Prime and was lucky enough to watch the master at work on Hyrule Warriors. In addition to showing off his skills as everyone's favourite Demon Lord Ganondorf, TriForce let us in on a little secret — he's working on a YouTube project which will offer an alternative timeline to the Legend of Zelda series.
Called Order of Time, the series will feature exclusive interviews with leading Zelda fans. TriForce is keen to stress that he has the utmost respect for the work done by team behind the excellent Hyrule Historia — this new project is simply a different perspective on a fascinating franchise.
You can watch the announcement interview below — and apologies in advance for the sound. As ever, let us know what you think about this project by posting a comment.
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Cool beans, I'll probably catch that when it comes out. Stay tuned to Nlife for a release date?
When I saw his name in the title I thought he was standing in line waiting for Zelda U
I like his idea of a single timeline with potential diversions instead of the triple alternate reality concept.
Awesome! I love this guy!
I hope the CD-i games get included this time!
I always found the hero of time gets his childhood back only to get caught up in the events of MM really dark. I mean he loses his childhood twice technically to be the hero. I don't suppose he can change that still interested to see what he comes up with the ninty timelines pretty tight though.
Nintendo must feel proud at the amount of time fans waste trying to come up with a timeline when one was never envisioned or planned for in the first place.
Sounds awesome, I appreciate the work he will put into it, but Nintendo is still god.
I'm not interested in a fan timeline when there's already an official one (which I do have a lot of interest in)
I don't understand why people care or demand that all the Zelda games are in the same timeline, or is a divergence from the same timeline.
There was such a demand for one Nintendo actually made one up to satisfy people.
I do not accept things as canon unless they are mentioned/shown within the games. I don't care about what a developer says in interviews, if they manure up plot hole patches in them or whatever, if it's not actually in the game it's not canon.
Why do people have such a ridiculously hard time accepting that each Zelda game not directly linked to another by the story of the game itself within the game itself (like Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Track) may just not be connected to the other Zelda games?
I play each Zelda game as if it's in its own "universe". Timeline?Canon? I don't care. Maybe I'm in the minority though.
I wonder which spinoffs he'll include, if any.
@DarkKirby That's very cool. I tend to share your view, though I have a lot of fun reading through the Zelda timelines.
@Geonjaha Wind Waker made it abundantly clear that there WAS a connection to OOT. Then Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks Were direct sequels. A Link Between Worlds, clearly has ties to ALttP. Lastly, Skyward Sword makes the foundation for the origin of Zelda, Link, and Ganon's reincarnations. Nintendo knew what they were doing with this timeline stuff
I've heard Triforce's timeline in a pod cast, and it's very clever and sticks to game content
You know, I never really understood the fan timelines and the official timeline with the branching paths. I always felt it was one flowing timeline, with Ocarina of Time -> Majora's Mask -> Twilight Princess -> Wind Waker, in that order.
As soon as Link was returned to the past by Zelda at the end of OoT, the future timeline ceased to exist, because Zelda then told everyone about Ganon's plot and he was captured before he could act upon the events that created the future timeline. Link then went to Termina and never returned, and TP Link stepped in to stop Ganon in his absence. Then the Great Flood from WW occurred an unknown amount of time after the events of TP. Of course, I haven't played these games in a while so I may be missing some details, but that's roughly how I see it.
Despite the cries of some stating it's useless to consider the notion of a unified timeline for all the games, it's definitely an element of the Zelda series I find fascinating.
That incredibly successful eSports firm is currently made up of only two members, who will be leaving in the fall as a result of Empire Arcadia's corruption and Triforce refusing to pay them owed money.
Almost all of EMP's success should be attributed to Mew2king and Armada, the two Smash players, not it's scumbag "CEO."
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