/vr/ - Retro Games

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That's the best I figure it can be narrowed down to. Some people will look at that and say it's more convoluted and complicated than just having one timeline, but I think it's less of a headache trying to make new entries fit when they're only among like 3 or 4 other games, as opposed to like 20. It would help from a metacontextual standpoint to only need to keep track of the events of immediate prequels/sequels.

All the shit listed under SS and BotW was first mentioned either in SS itself or by Hyrule Historia. Some of it might not necessarily contradict the earlier titles, but imo it's unfitting to retroactively apply that lore to the plots of games which were never specifically meant to take it into consideration. I still think Hylia is a convoluted and unnecessary addition to the mythos; there was a perfectly satisfactory creation story with the three goddesses, three Triforce pieces representing them, and three mortals who would embody their attributes. Link and Zelda already each had a goddess acting as their patron.

I put Oracles after ALTTP and before LA, which is where it's officially placed, but a lot of people have pointed out how this is more just the easiest place to put it, rather than it making much sense to do so; Oracles Zelda looks completely different from the one in ALTTP, and seemingly hasn't met Link before, inplying that Oracles is disconnected from ALTTP, unless the Zelda of that game stepped down and had another take her place, a long-lost sister or something.

Personally, I would also probably put the NES games in their own branch. They're very different in tone and aesthetic from ALTTP and its ilk, more inspired by western stuff like D&D/Tolkien, and I really just don't like to imagine that the relatively happy world of ALTTP/the GB games/ALBW culminates in Hyrule becoming a desolate wasteland, but I guess the same could be said for OoT's world eventually getting wiped out by a biblical flood.