Justin takes a shot at piecing together Nintendo's confusing Zelda timeline.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between worlds is a fantastic title and ended up being my 2013 game of the year. However, Nintendo's chronological placement of the game has undone their own carefully considered timeline from Hyrule Historia.
This five-part Feature will take a closer look at Nintendo’s placement of A Link Between Worlds on their official timeline, as well as a look at where I’d place it on my own timeline in an attempt to fix things. In the end I will let you, the readers, be the judge as to which version makes more sense.
(NOTE: There will be plenty of Zelda spoilers discussed in this Feature.)
The ending of OOT as I think of it also makes little sense. Link's goal is to prevent ganondorf from entering the sacred realm and acquiring the triforce so let's break down the three endingsIt only makes sense if link is telling her not to open the sacred realm and to instead hide the ocarina so ganon can't reach it, even then
Hero falls: Link dies and ganon is sealed in the sacred realm with the triforce of power.
Future timeline: Ganon shows up again and hyrule gets flooded, again he has the triforce of power.
Link's childhood: link returns and somehow convinces the king not to trust Ganondorf when his daughter, who apparently has some gift of prophecy that people know about is unable to do so herself.
Later on the sages try to execute ganondorf and learn that he has somehow gained the triforce of power because... I dunno,
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Either way he failed all three times, way to go hero.
No, that doesn't make any sense either since all of that already happened BEFORE the point in time that Link returned to. Now, you could argue that Link told Zelda (after enough time had passed with nothing else happening so Impa would have brought her back out of hiding) that he had sealed Ganondorf in the Sacred Realm, after which, the King sent the Sages into the Sacred Realm after him, and that's where the whole execution took place... The only problem there is that Hyrule Hystoria specifically says he never entered the Sacred Realm.
It only makes sense if link is telling her not to open the sacred realm and to instead hide the ocarina so ganon can't reach it, even then