Next year is the 35th anniversary of Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series. Since the very first time we took a sword from an old man in a cave we've journeyed to Hyrule and beyond many, many times to battle monsters, see the sights, catch up with old friends and relax in the company of some of the greatest video game adventures ever made.
But how well do you know the Legend of Zelda? Can you tell your Majora's Masks from your Minish Caps? Try taking our little quiz to find out. And once you're done, why not challenge your friends and family to find out who really possesses the Triforce of Wisdom?
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I need to play more Zelda
I couldn’t remember if Tingle was in Twilight Princess or not. Only one I got wrong
The final question is the only one I didn't know. Apparently his last name is only used once, and not in any of the actual games. Lol. By my standards, that doesn't count.
4/10 ouch! Need to study some more I think
8/10 for me. Never knew Ganon’s last name and forgot about Zelda 2.
didnt know that Skyward Sword was the "first" Zelda...
@DockEllisD Yes, thank you! I was also confused by this, haha.
10 out of 10 I 'Hy-rule' according to Nintendo life Pretty easy quiz considering I live and breathe Zelda though
10/10 pleased with that. Keep them coming
9/10, the nice thing about the anniversary question is even if you don't know the answer just thinking about which game would've released 20 years ago works
1/10 ohh my world😭😭🤮🤮
@DockEllisD Lol. You beat me to it!
Had the tingle one wrong, the ganondorf one wrong and the link in the title one wrong because I thought crossbow training was called link’s crossbow training.
Looked it up. It’s called link’s crossbow training indeed. And it’s nintendo published. Nintendolife should either do their research or phrase the question better. It didn’t say maingames, it said nintendo published games minus remakes.
9/10 I thought the first question included Link: The Faces of Evil. I also completely forgot about Links Crossbow Training
10/10
Pretty easy questions for a Zelda vet like me. I'll admit that I almost picked Tael for that fairy's name, though.
@DockEllisD Ha, I’ve switched the word ‘official’ to ‘mainline’
@DockEllisD technically not a "Legend of Zelda" game as it isn't in the title, but then by that reckoning neither is "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link".
Edit: my comment makes slightly less sense with the change to the question.
10/10, nice. I know Zelda a lot better than Mario it seems
I got the first question wrong because I was thinking of Link's Crossbow Training. A little bit sad about that.
@DockEllisD I made an account just to day that lol
I have only ever played 2 Zelda games- Spirit Tracks and Ocarina of Time- so I only got 4 out of 10.
Considering I’ve not played any of em, 6 out of 10 ain’t bad
9/10 cool, anything less and I’d be ashamed
6 out of 10.
I thought I'd do worse. Definitely guessed right on 2 or 3.
Somehow Ganon's last name stood out to me, and I got it right. Not sure how.
This was way easier than the Mario one. Still pretty fun.
10/10. I have no life.
10/10 But I did almost choose the wrong game for Tingle at first. Though I blame the picture for that, his disturbing visage distracted me for a brief moment 😆
Edit: typo
8/10 got the "Link" and Ganondorf questions wrong. Forgot about ALBW and had no clue about the Ganondorf question.
10/10 But the Ganon one was definitely a lucky guess
9/10, had no clue Ganondorf even had a last name.
9/10 I missed the first question. I counted Link's Crossbow Training.
@Dezzy the order of the games also isn’t told in-game, so you can invalidate that question too. The release date of Majora’s Mask isn’t given in-game either, just the copyright year. It’s easy to invalidate a question when you get it wrong.
9/10. Got the first question wrong because I can't add up lol.
9/10 for me. Damn Phillips CD-i...
8/10. Forgot the answer to the goron question and guessed wrong on the Tingle question. Could be worse.
10/10 here. Could have easily gotten the Tatl/Tael one wrong, though.
@DockEllisD Question clearly says "mainline". Link's Crossbow Training is a spin-off game.
10/10. It's the only acceptable outcome when Zelda is one of my favorite series of all time
Gotta be honest though, I guessed on that last one lol. I remember seeing his last name before but it isn't like I'm gonna go out of my way to remember something so unimportant
9/10, not bad. Was hoping for a perfect score, but to my credit, the wrong answer was about Tingle.
10 out of 10. Yay for me.
This was fun. Please do more of these Nintendolife.
10/10. Pretty good for someone who never even beaten a Zelda game 10 years ago
10/10 obviously😌
10/10 but not gonna lie I guessed a few and got lucky.
@ALinkttPresent
Well release date isn't a lore question though, so that's a non-sequitur.
And the fact that Skyward Sword is the first game CAN be inferred from the story. It's just that it needed to be confirmed by Nintendo independently.
10/10 Forgot Link's Crossbow training. Have read the Link to the Past manual.
About the official Zelda timeline - I believe it only exists because of a conspiracy theory among certain fans. I was on the Nintendo Power forums during the N64 / GameCube era. There were people on the Zelda board who were convinced that Shigeru Miyamoto had planned out the entire history of Hyrule Tolkien-style. They believed that whenever Nintendo started a new game Miyamoto would pick the era he wanted to cover, reveal the necessary details to the dev team, and then would keep the rest secret. These fans were convinced that any inconsistencies between the games would be explain if only Nintendo would release the timeline.
On top of that, there was the Single Link / Multi-Link debate. Some people believed that there was only one Link who was the star of all of the games, like Mario or Samus Aran. Others believed that with the exception of direct sequels (like Zelda II or Link's Awakening) there was a new Link in every game.
In the early 2000s the official Zelda website had a Flash interface where you controlled Link and walked around a map to go to different pages. This site had a timeline for the series that was Single-Link based. They claimed he met multiple Princess Zeldas because of time-travel and occasional suspended animation.
Then Wind Waker came along and shot Single-Link theory in the head. Multi-Link was now undeniable canon but fans still wanted a complete history of Hyrule. EVERYTHING needed to be filled in.
It got so bad that some fans were convinced that Twilight Princess would tell the story of the flood described in Wind Waker. They seemed to think this would make everything in the series (and their lives) make sense. They didn't care when I pointed out that WW explicitly states that the flood happened BECAUSE a Link DID NOT appear. They just replied "he could be one of the people praying for Ganondorf to be stopped". How do you make a game about that?!
Anyway, that's the history of the Zelda Timeline. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
#1 Ok, so Nintendo hates Zelda CDi games' guts, HOWEVER Link's description in Super Smash Bros Ultimate says his name was in 5(!) games, "the last one is a bit hard to remember" as the quote goes.
And because I remembered that description, I messed up #1
How are you supposed to know Ganondorf's last name?
@Whyita It (and his alias Mandrag Ganon) were mentioned in the English manual for "A Link to the Past". I'm pretty sure they've never been mentioned in-game.
Aw, HELL no! No more of these annoying quizzes for this guy...
Too Easy! I pride myself on my ability to know trivia from my second favorite single player Nintendo franchise.
Yay, 10/10! Thank god there weren't really any 2D Zelda game questions.
10/10, hand me my nerd certificate please so I may show it to prospective employers.
Aced it. I've played all but two of the mainline Zelda titles at this point. Next!
10/10. I Hyrule!!!!👍🏿
After 3 questions I was sitting on a big fat zero!
Somehow I pulled a 7 question streak out of the bag to restore a little dignity.
Nice. 10/10 for the Mario Quiz, and now 10/10 for the Zelda Quiz.
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@DockEllisD was just going to say this. Smh fake gamers
@DockEllisD Not a mainline game.
10/10 for me, yay for my nerdiness!
10/10. I found this one to be way easier than the recent Mario quiz.
8 out of 10. Not bad although I feel cheated out of the first question which I would’ve scored correctly had they counted Crossbow Training.
Nice, 10 out of 10. Last one was a total guess but I guessed right!
@DockEllisD Agreed. I counted that when it's not a "remake or re-release", yet got it wrong -_- How is Link's Crossbow Training a remake or rerelease?
7/10 for me. This article made me long for more Tingle!
7/10, but it's really an 8/10 for the first question forgetting Link's Crossbow Training.
I don't understand the Tingle question. When and where was he in Ocarina?
8/10 - got the CD-i and the Tingle question wrong. Do more of these quizzes!!!
8/10 ain’t bad. Learned some things to like I didn’t know skyward sword was the start of it all or Gabon’s full name.
9/10 Somehow I managed to forget about a link to the past. I learned about the Dragmire thing when reading about what people were naming their Ganon Horses in botw, and someone had named theirs Dragmire, after that, and I liked it so I went with it as well
No Links Crossbow Training or The Faces of Evil
7/10. I should have slowed down. I got the 2020 aniversary one wrong because of math. I never played the Oracle games. They came out a monthe before the release of the GBA? Why in the world not make them launch titles? I HAD a GBA. Never had a color or pocket.
Can’t believe I got one wrong. You fail me yet again, Selfscream.
10/10 Not a very hard quiz if even a non-fan such as myself can ace it.
Got 7/10 due to thinking Link's Crossbow Training would be included as a joke, not knowing enough about the CD-i games(was a 50/50 between Link's and Zelda's Adventure, but unfortunately, I guessed wrong), and not realising that Tingle's re-appearances did not, in-fact, start with Wind Waker.
9/10. Totally miscounted the years.
10 out of 10
The only one that really had me stop and think for a moment was question 3.
If you know the answer to q2 you’re not a true fan
8/10?! Noice.Noice.
I didn't do very well. The only Zelda games I finished was BOTW, and Links Awakening remake (with heavy use of guides), although I own and started Phantom hourglass, The SNES, Wii and N64 games. Plus Windwaker on my Wii. Found them all too hard, got stuck and didn't hold my interest. I don't claim to be the biggest fan, but Zelda is my second favorite Nintendo franchise. I got 4-10 and a lot of that was lucky guesses.
6/10. I haven't played too many Zelda games.
I only finished Skyward Sword and Breath of the Wild. But I started Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess.
8 out of 10. Lol and i consider myself a die hard link fan hahah
Woop 10/10
I knew most without needing multiple choice too 😉
Lovable Tingle...
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what the hell is wrong with you?!
10 out of 10 for me. I knew the last one as that's what I always name the Giant Horse in Breath of the Wild.
9 out of 10. I failed.
I got confused with A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds because it was kinda advertised as a remake but I got it correct anyway. I did find one or two quite difficult as I’ve never owned a Nintendo home console only handheld, so I am hoping for some ports and remakes for switch.
@DockEllisD My bad, you got a fair point then.
5/10 for someone who hasn't played a single Zelda game except for BOTW.
Enjoyed that, thanks! Don't normally get 10/10, but did with this one. Had to think hardest about the first question.
10/10! I haven't played every Zelda game so I'm happy with that.
10/10 thank you, almost forgot Gannondorf’s name but hey.
This was fun do another one for a game I don’t know, I love random facts about games
if it wasn’t for multiple choice I would have forgotten Ganon’s last name
@JugOfVoodoo This is really interesting to hear about for me because my first introduction to any sort of unified chronology for the Zelda games was Hyrule Historia. No doubt in a few more games, they will have messed up their own chronology sufficiently that it needs to be rewritten all over again. I think that this will always be the case because Nintendo always seem to design the game first and give it a plot (which may or may not follow from previous plots) afterwards. This creates excellent games, but as a side-effect, it also writes inconsistent chronologies.
Great quiz, thanks ☺
10/10, this was pretty fun.
@Judal27 What could be MORE important than Ganondorf's last name!!?? 👹 😜
9/10. I got the first one wrong because I included Link's Crossbow Training, but judging from the comments, this was a mistake a lot of people made.
In my defence I don’t think I should be expected to remember games that have Tingle in it. I try to forget them! Apparently he’s super popular in Japan though. 😕
I got 8/10. Not bad. I Hy-rule!
Ganon has a last name??
I got an 8 out of 10 I think I did great considering I dont revisit games . _ . How would I remember Talt was the fairy companion's name in Majoras Mask, I just remembered it was with a T that started.
@SSJW looks like they did make it official 3 years ago https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/04/random_nintendo_officially_states_ganondorfs_last_name
https://zelda.com/online-guide/
9/10
Better than last time.
I would've gotten 10/10 but I got the first question wrong and thought that Link's Crossbow Training counted.
@ALinkttPresent
Same here. I couldn't picture him in Twilight or Oracle of Ages, so just guessed Oracle and got it wrong.
@SSJW
To be honest, it's been so many years since I've played the Oracle games, I can't remember much of anything of them!
10/10! Phew~
I was kind of expecting this test would go beyond my knowledge, as I don't consider myself an outright expert, so I'm glad I made it. ^^
8/10 isn't bad. Didn't know Ganondorf even had a last name, so I guessed. And I didn't know Majora's Mask released in 2000, for some odd reason I figured it was Wind Waker.
8/10. I got 3 and 6 wrong. I didn't pay much attention to Skyward Sword since I thought it sucked, but now that I think about it, I do remember reading something about Skyward Sword being the first chronological game. And who can keep track of anniversaries...?
9/10 here. I must have either forgot about A Link Between Worlds or subconsciously counted it as a remake.
10/10 for me. Zelda is my favorite Nintendo series, even though I haven't tried that hard to learn everything about it I knew every answer pretty easily. I guess I like the series more than I realized.
9/10
Games are dumb
8/10! Not too shabby, though I am seriously jealous of some of the people in this comment section that have hardly played any of the Zelda games. The first tine you play them is the most special for sure.
7 out of 10. I’m happy with that x x
Surprised none of the questions covered one of the truly lesser known facts regarding Zelda lore: Tingle and The Hero of Time are actually the same person!
10 out of 10. Of course, its my favorite franchise after all.
@JugOfVoodoo Well I never had the original game, only the ports, so I had no idea...
10/10. Well chuffed with that.
@Dezzy I know I’ve heard it referenced somewhere but unsure where. I think it’s listed in Smash Bro’s.
You scored 10 out of 10.
Easy-peasy
I am a fan of Zelda since the first one I played on nes, but I don't remember some of the things in it . I got 3 out of 10
Got a perfect 10/10. I've played too much Zelda.
Well, actually no.
10/10 pff, next..
The question that took the longest to answer was the first. And that's because you have to pretty much think of all games' titles just to make sure you have it right.
10/10.
Don’t ask me how I knew the name “King Harkinian” before learning about the cartoon, comics and CD-i games because I have no idea where that tidbit came from. I also don’t know how I learned Ganondorf’s last name.
9/10. Titl instead of Tatl. MM only one I never played. FML
the first one is wrong it should be five if you count links crossbow training on the wii
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