(before i start i have to say i haven't played FS or FSA.. because i can't... but i do know the story plot etc to the best that i can without playing it... anyway, on with what i have to say)
I could make peace with the third split, it does make a lot of sense in a lot of places with relative ease that other theorists just overlooked. But a couple of things bother me.
I never wanted Minish Cap to come so early in the timeline, nor the Four Swords, because the Four Sword is very similar to the Master Sword which can lock away/repel/trap evil like a very convoluted lock and key effect when coupled with a dark entity and or the pedestal of time. For the Four Sword to exist while the Master Sword is alive and well... being Dormant after SS with Impa guarding it until Demise's essence has faded means nothing, since at the end of ALttP the epilogue said the Mast Sword sleeps forever/eternally... which is why in the timeline that we have now LoZ link goes ahead and pulls it... it just seems pointless to have both the Four Sword and Master Sword side by side and not at all mentioned in games surrounding it. THEN for some reason FSA occurs after MM and TP... i don't get that at all. It makes me think the Gods/Zelda have preferences on which Sword to pick up and use... 'Do we want four Links or just the one...?' Both swords seemingly do the same thing and exist side by side... it feels really messy, i'dve preferred MC, FS and FSA being the third timeline or a trilogy farther down the line on any of the splits rather than right at the beginning and then seemingly randomly at the end. Its just bizarre so if anyone can tell me why....
Another thing, on the third 'fail' split, i'm not too much interested in finding out how or when Link died... or if he even did... my main problem with it is that there are some damn good games in there and a lot of heritage. I've heard it said that the 'fail' timeline is a 'what if' scenario... which to me just feels as if it detracts from so much ALttP is one of the best Zelda games with one hell of a story both during the game and outside of it like the imprisoning war, to have that as only a what if? Though that is just personal feeling on the subject... the Four Sword thing is what bugs me the most... it doesn't really have any place outside of TP does it? Where is the Master Sword at the beginning of FSA? it should still be in Ganondorf....(is it?, again i haven't played FSA or FS) which makes sense for Link to then pick up the Four Sword as a way of taking out Vaati... but still, for the Four sword to go unmentioned for so long...
So can anyone help me out on this aspect of the timeline? Wjhy the Four Sword is lorded and then neglected and only ends up existing in the Child timeline when it was first introduced in the main timeline (SS, MC, FS, OOT) therefore should really still exist in the 'fail' and 'adult' timelines too?