No Timeline

I am here to tell you my idea of the timeline.

There isn't any. Now, you guys might get angry, don't get me or think this is nonsense, but i would like that you listen(well, actually ..read.. :3) and tell me what you think of my theory.

the thing is, there are too many glitches and differences to make a decent timeline. the great sea is a very good example of this.

Now, here is the thing where you people are going to fire at me, and that is the connection between certain Zelda games. of course i believe there are strong and weak connections. these are examples:

Strong: FS-FSA, OoT-MM
Average: OoT-WW, tMC-FS
Vaguely: Oot-ALttP

I like the idea that there isnt any timeline but only connections. this gives much more freedom for EA and SM.

-They can let their fantasy go their natural way ( no thinking of if it fits)
-They can make turns in style and story( not thinking of that enemy is already dead or won't fit in Hyrule etc.)

So summing up:
-No timeline
-However, there are connections

If you've noticed, all the 3D games fit neatly into there own time line, which is.
OOT-MM-TP-TWW. (It is stated on the front page of ZU at the current moment that TP is between oot and tww.)

There are other factual timelines such as. ALTTP-LA. Some may argue about this but it is pretty much fact, as it was originaly meant to be a sequel.

As you said before TMC-FS-FSA. But we don't know exactly what happens between TMC and FS, but the fact is they go in that order.

Of course we also have OOS/OOA which obviously go together. And LOZ-AOL.

These are not just connections, they are factual, mini timelines.

I hope the gameplay remains more importened then the timeline.

Well the timeline isn't that important for me. Gameplay goes first and the individual scenario then....

I am here to tell you my idea of the timeline.

There isn't any. Now, you guys might get angry, don't get me or think this is nonsense, but i would like that you listen(well, actually ..read.. :3) and tell me what you think of my theory.

the thing is, there are too many glitches and differences to make a decent timeline. the great sea is a very good example of this.

Now, here is the thing where you people are going to fire at me, and that is the connection between certain Zelda games. of course i believe there are strong and weak connections. these are examples:

Strong: FS-FSA, OoT-MM
Average: OoT-WW, tMC-FS
Vaguely: Oot-ALttP

I like the idea that there isnt any timeline but only connections. this gives much more freedom for EA and SM.

-They can let their fantasy go their natural way ( no thinking of if it fits)
-They can make turns in style and story( not thinking of that enemy is already dead or won't fit in Hyrule etc.)

So summing up:
-No timeline
-However, there are connections

Um... Gannon-banned...

16. There is no storyline: This one should have been here a long time ago, I just didn't have proof to back it up. If you head on over to Miyamoto Shrine, you will find a link on the left for "Interviews". Click it, and then click the 2003 Super Play interview. In that interview, Shigeru Miyamoto says that there is a large document that relates the games to each other. In addition, in a recent GameSpy interview, the new head of Zelda, Eiji Aonuma, said he cares very much for story and is going to make more sense of Zelda's story in the future. And oh yeah, at Camp Hyrule 2004, Bill Trinen, the NOA Localization guy, commented that there is indeed a Zelda Timeline, that there has been one for as long as he has known, but it was due to some previous localization "issue" that it became so skewed. However, he said Eiji Aonuma and all the Zelda teams in Japan and the US are working to make the timeline clear to fans, and are actively working to tie it all together with each new game.

Here's the interview:

Superplay: So that's why the third game looked like the first one?

Shigeru Miyamoto: Exactly. We actually see A link to the Past as the real sequel to Legend of Zelda. Zelda II was more of a side story about what happened to Link after the events in Legend of Zelda.

Superplay: How do the Zelda games timelines link together? Is there any connection between the different games, or do you take tell us a new Zelda story each time?

Shigeru Miyamoto: For every Zelda game we tell a new story, but we actually have an enormous document that explains how the game relates to the others, and bind them together. But to be honest, they are not that important to us. We care more about developing the game system... give the player new challenges for every chapter that is born.

I added the question above, because it connects to his statement that ALttP is the so-far last game in the timeline.

It is also stated somewhere that ALTTP stars the predecessors of the original link and zelda. (I think it says this on the box but I'm not sure.) So all is thrown into chaos.

Just so you know, this timeline is confirmed

TMC-FS-FSA

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Certain games are meant to connect with one another, OoT and MM, OoT and tWW, LoZ and AoL, OoS and OoA, Alttp and LA, and TMC FS and FSA.

To try and connect all of these game intsead of them being small little vinettes is pure foolishness

Of course there is a timeline! Majora's Mask for example, it has been confirmed it is a sequel to Ocarina of Time! Oracle of Ages/Seasons are really one story, you can link them and depending on which you play first the timeline is different. Plus, Twilight Princess is also a sequel to WInd Waker! See, there is all ready clues to a timeline.