C
Caleb, Of Asui
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Let's take a look at Zelda Dungeon's most recent news post:
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2011/12/a-closer-look-at-the-new-hyrule-historia-book/
Part-way through the video, the person comes to the page that actually shows the timeline in its entirety, and even if you can't read Japanese or speak French, you can clearly see that it's the purported official timeline everyone's been talking about. It does appear to clarify, however, what does and doesn't involve the same Link and Zelda (and Impa :p).
/--TWW/PH--ST
SS--TMC--FS--OoT/MM--TP--FSA
\--LttP\OoX\LA--LoZ\AoL
Not that there was much room to debate what involved the same Link or a different Link, but I was a bit curious about A Link to the Past and the Oracle games. In a lot of ways, this actually makes a lot more sense. When I first looked at the timeline, I first thought "Holy crap, triple split," then "What's with Four Swords Adventures?"
The more I think about it, the more certain things make sense. An old interview around the release of Four Swords stated it was the "oldest legend" or something like that, and clearly it is the beginning of the timeline at the time of its release. This also seems to make clearer sense of the many, many interviews during Ocarina of Time's development stating that it is the Seal War. Still, though, I can't make a ton of sense of Four Swords Adventures. :/ I mean, it works, but... why?
The really scary thing about this, though, is that this is the second time that I've filmed a video blog that has to do with Zelda and the very next day a news article on Zelda Dungeon debunks it. Before I have the video published. >_< When did I get jinxed? The first video was about Operation Moonfall, by the way, and was followed by "oh we need to make an original 3DS Zelda title before that happens." I did publish my timeline theory video, though. I really need to make a follow-up, in which I'll probably say a lot of the things I said here.
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2011/12/a-closer-look-at-the-new-hyrule-historia-book/
Part-way through the video, the person comes to the page that actually shows the timeline in its entirety, and even if you can't read Japanese or speak French, you can clearly see that it's the purported official timeline everyone's been talking about. It does appear to clarify, however, what does and doesn't involve the same Link and Zelda (and Impa :p).
/--TWW/PH--ST
SS--TMC--FS--OoT/MM--TP--FSA
\--LttP\OoX\LA--LoZ\AoL
Not that there was much room to debate what involved the same Link or a different Link, but I was a bit curious about A Link to the Past and the Oracle games. In a lot of ways, this actually makes a lot more sense. When I first looked at the timeline, I first thought "Holy crap, triple split," then "What's with Four Swords Adventures?"
The more I think about it, the more certain things make sense. An old interview around the release of Four Swords stated it was the "oldest legend" or something like that, and clearly it is the beginning of the timeline at the time of its release. This also seems to make clearer sense of the many, many interviews during Ocarina of Time's development stating that it is the Seal War. Still, though, I can't make a ton of sense of Four Swords Adventures. :/ I mean, it works, but... why?
The really scary thing about this, though, is that this is the second time that I've filmed a video blog that has to do with Zelda and the very next day a news article on Zelda Dungeon debunks it. Before I have the video published. >_< When did I get jinxed? The first video was about Operation Moonfall, by the way, and was followed by "oh we need to make an original 3DS Zelda title before that happens." I did publish my timeline theory video, though. I really need to make a follow-up, in which I'll probably say a lot of the things I said here.