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Caleb, Of Asui
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I'm pretty big about the story, so, while I was first playing the series, I thought about the timeline quite a lot. I never really viewed the concept as a debate like so many other people do. I'm not very great at debating, plus that takes all the fun out of figuring it out.
So, yes, my current timeline is more-or-less obvious. I came up with it quite a while after I finished the series. (That excludes Zelda II, since that's so hard. I do know what happens in the ending, though.) It's more-or-less obvious since it follows the release order so adherantly, but places them on different sides of the timeline. When I came up with it, I was thinking a lot about what side each game goes on. What I came up with was that, since Twilight Princess (less cartoon-y) is in the Young Link timeline and The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass (more cartoon-y) are in the Adult Link timeline, the side they go on is first based on if it's Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask (there, it's obvious), then based on if it's cartoony or not.
Quite obviously, we need the 3d games to take place before the 2d games. Otherwise, the story doesn't work. The Minish Cape must also be moved to before Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures. So, here are the three main differences from the release order:
1. 3d games are preceed all the other games.
2. Move The Minish Cap to before Four Swords.
3. Seperate the games to the right side of the timeline.
So, with these changes, the timeline is as follows:
-----Ocarina of Time-----
Majora's Mask----------
----------The Wind Waker
Twilight Princess----------
----------Phantom Hourglass
The Legend of Zelda----------
The Adventure of Link----------
A Link to the Past----------
Link's Awakening----------
First Oracle Game----------
Second Oracle Game----------
----------The Minish Cap
----------Four Swords
----------Four Swords Adventures
There has to be a lot of space between The Wind Waker and The Minish Cap for the flood over Hyrule to recede. It makes sense for this to happen, since this is what ended up happening with a lot of real floods of similar proportions, though it definetely takes a long time.
A lot of what makes it make sense has to do with details I previously figured out a while ago. I'm not taking the time to type everything I'll barely be able to think of right here, so, if you don't understand something, please ask. I'd like to see some people challenge my timeline with something other than "There's no timeline because blah blah blah...." That gets pretty annoying pretty fast.
So, yes, my current timeline is more-or-less obvious. I came up with it quite a while after I finished the series. (That excludes Zelda II, since that's so hard. I do know what happens in the ending, though.) It's more-or-less obvious since it follows the release order so adherantly, but places them on different sides of the timeline. When I came up with it, I was thinking a lot about what side each game goes on. What I came up with was that, since Twilight Princess (less cartoon-y) is in the Young Link timeline and The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass (more cartoon-y) are in the Adult Link timeline, the side they go on is first based on if it's Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask (there, it's obvious), then based on if it's cartoony or not.
Quite obviously, we need the 3d games to take place before the 2d games. Otherwise, the story doesn't work. The Minish Cape must also be moved to before Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures. So, here are the three main differences from the release order:
1. 3d games are preceed all the other games.
2. Move The Minish Cap to before Four Swords.
3. Seperate the games to the right side of the timeline.
So, with these changes, the timeline is as follows:
-----Ocarina of Time-----
Majora's Mask----------
----------The Wind Waker
Twilight Princess----------
----------Phantom Hourglass
The Legend of Zelda----------
The Adventure of Link----------
A Link to the Past----------
Link's Awakening----------
First Oracle Game----------
Second Oracle Game----------
----------The Minish Cap
----------Four Swords
----------Four Swords Adventures
There has to be a lot of space between The Wind Waker and The Minish Cap for the flood over Hyrule to recede. It makes sense for this to happen, since this is what ended up happening with a lot of real floods of similar proportions, though it definetely takes a long time.
A lot of what makes it make sense has to do with details I previously figured out a while ago. I'm not taking the time to type everything I'll barely be able to think of right here, so, if you don't understand something, please ask. I'd like to see some people challenge my timeline with something other than "There's no timeline because blah blah blah...." That gets pretty annoying pretty fast.