Thread 719036562

Is the Zelda timeline really necessary? I can understand sequels and midquels, but to say something like the first and second game title happening to be the most recent set of events in the lore is a bit shoehorned. Ocarina of Time couldn't had been THAT important, right?

>>719036562 (OP)
It's not, but fanbases are gonna fanbase
They gotta theorycraft, connect the dots, etc

Can you idiots make an actual thread where the OP isn't absolute fucking garbage for once? God damn.

>>719036562 (OP)
The real travesty is not getting more games with Young Link

>>719036702
The argument that the fanbase is behind all these mishaps falls flat when Nintendo itself has not only acknowledged it, but forged the timeline as it is today.

>>719036562 (OP)
Legitimate answer?

The timeline is sorta important but only for the 3D games before BotW, this is because Majora was a direct sequel, which worked fine, but then Twilight and Wind Waker also wanted to be sequels, making several references to The Hero of Time, the sages, and Ganon's failure.

The 2D games could exist entirely as their own continuity and BotW onward really have nothing in common with the prior 3D games so it's full on reboot. Basically if a game doesn't try to forcefully connect itself to Ocarina of Time like the gamecube titles, it can exist on it's own continuity. it would also probably be for the best for the classic 3D games to be separate from the new because as of Skyward Sword onward they push the whole Link x Zelda thing which has strong incest implications if every Zelda afterward were to end up with some of the Links.

>>719037057
Miyamoto and friends have been talking about them being sequels and prequels from the very start as well.

>>719037010
Yeah and I hate it. Young Link was the ultimate adventurer vessel for adolescent boys and now we are forever stuck with adult twink Link for the fujos.

>>719037713
cute peatrice

>>719036562 (OP)
Let me guess: The picture is from porn.

>>719036562 (OP)
No. They only put one in that book to sell copies. The games were obviously never meant to fit into some kind of sprawling Gundam-esque timeline with alternate universes and all that shit. When specific entries have continuity with each other, it's made explicit. Everything else is just easter eggs.

>>719039489
You mean the former adolescent boys that are now gay men

>>719037713
>but then Twilight and Wind Waker also wanted to be sequels
Any way for the 2 to co-exist in the same timeline? No outside bullshit, only in-game.

>>719040172
yes, Link gets his shota cock properly milked by Cremia

>>719036562 (OP)
Every Zelda game has hints that it occurs at some point in time relative to 1-2 other Zelda games that already existed when it came out. The only game in the entire series to contradict where another game originally sat is Wind Waker, and that happened because of creator favoritism. That's why the official timeline has three prongs instead of two.

>>719040589
No not really, both games are explicitly Ganondorf returning from Ocarina of Time and both end with him actually dying, it can't be a reincarnated version of him for either because he actually recalls the past. plus TP is very very close to OoT in terms of overall timeframe with the constant callbacks like the fishing lady, Skull Kid, and likely the Hero's Shade. Also WW's intro and Jabu's dialog on Outset are all about how WW Link isn't related by blood or soul so the King of Red Lions was taking a gamble, whilst TP Link is referred to as lineage to the Hero's Shade and chosen by the gods with his triforce piece being handed to him on a silver platter, so that's also an issue