Official Zelda Timeline to be Revealed on December 21

[PolloDiablo]

I do wonder, why now?

25th anniversary

 

[KingVamp]

25th anniversary

IDk, part of me feel like they should have keep quiet about the official timeline despite that. :/

 

[prowler]

25th anniversary

IDk, part of me feel like they should have keep quiet despite that. :/

should keep quiet about it?
please, do go on.

 

[BoxmanWTF]

watch that chapter be about how the three golden goddesses created Hyrule.
It did say "The Timeline of Hyrule, Kingdom of the Gods"
Not the timeline of the legend of zelda

 

[Cyan]

yeah, it looks like it's a timeline of hyrule only, and maybe not all games will be listed.
Like Castlevania, they officially "removed" and "merged" a lot of games to make it a more consistent timeline.

based on the chapter's titles, it's just big timeline which looks like :
The Timeline of Hyrule, Kingdom of the Gods………………………………Skyward Swords
The Legend of Gods and the Hero of Time……………………………………Ocarina of time
The Downfall of Hyrule and the Last Hero………………………………………?? (Zelda2? link to the past? all others?)
The Twilight Realm and the Hero’s Descendant……………………………Twilight princess
The Hero of Wind and the New World……………………………………………Wind Waker (and spin-off), Link's awakening (awakening to what? he just dreamed he was a hero in past lives, so will he became one too?)

Well, We will see what they have decided to change to make it a consistent timeline. They have many choices to pick from many players who made a timeline long ago

 

[gloweyjoey]

well, Miyamoto did say this all the way back in 1998



Miyamoto: Ocarina of Time is the first story, then the original Legend of Zelda, then Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and finally A Link to the Past. It's not very clear where Link's Awakening fits in--it could be anytime after Ocarina of Time.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I would imagine Minish Cap falls somewhere in between Skyward Sword and OoT. I'm not entirely sure where though.

 

[iggloovortex]

I dont believe the Zelda fanbase is ready for this. I expect much QQ-ing and complaints about how "its not what they thought."
I'm hoping Ninty trolls everyone and puts a timeline of Ocarina of Time or something. That would be hilarious

 

[Foxi4]

Interesting. From what I remember, even Nintendo officials weren't sure as to which game falls where in the timeline since nearly every adventure seemed to be unrelated, at least to some extent. I don't really see a point in artificially tying together games that were not designed to compliment each other in the first place.

 

[Bladexdsl]

it's not rucking fair why does japan get all the best collectables?

 

[gloweyjoey]

Interesting. From what I remember, even Nintendo officials weren't sure as to which game falls where in the timeline since nearly every adventure seemed to be unrelated, at least to some extent. I don't really see a point in artificially tying together games that were not designed to compliment each other in the first place.

I believe you are wrong. For as long as the timeline has been something to be considered(after oot) Miyamoto said there was an official timeline and has also said that the games are like lost parchments telling stories of the land but contained different Links and Zeldas.

 

[yuyuyup]

The Truth: Nintendo has no reasonable explanation whatsoever.

 

[gloweyjoey]

Just in case anyone wanted to say again that there was no official time line...


“Yes there is a master timeline but its confidential document! The only people to have access to that document are myself, Mr. Miyamoto and the director of the title. We cant share it with anyone else! I have already talked to Mr. Miyamoto about this so I am comfortable in releasing this information – this title [Skyward Sword] takes place before Ocarina of Time. if I said that a certain title was ‘the first Zelda game’, then that means that we cant ever make a title that takes place before that! So for us to add titles to the series, we have to have a way of putting the titles before or after each other.” - Eiji Aonuma

 

[prowler]

there is no official timeline.

 

[gloweyjoey]

there is no official timeline.

Spoiler

 

[Canonbeat234]

Sounds like trolling to me, why would Nintendo screw themselves in the foot by implying there's a timeline to this series? Did people play the Zelda games for fun only?

 

[Cyan]

Did people play the Zelda games for fun only?

I do, and I don't care if there's a time line or not.
I play the games individually. (like Final Fantasy, or Tales of, or even Mario games! I don't care if they are not linked)


Maybe you meant "didn't"?
Then I would agree with you. a game is just for fun.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Did people play the Zelda games for fun only?

that's usually why you play games for

 

[chyyran]

Yay

I wonder if this'll get an English edition..

If not, I guess at least we'll be able to get an idea of the timeline, I'm sure someone will translate that part..

 

[T-hug]

Is this book getting a western release?