Mr Khan said:
I believe he's merely grouping them into their immediately recongizable associations: much like how Spirit Tracks is in the Wind Waker continuity, since you can, clearly and explicitly, trace it back there, less explicitly than, say, what binds Twilight Princess and LttP together (if anything) But then that raises the question of where exactly the 4 swords continuity goes. Iirc (as its another game i haven't played), Ganon made, like, a bonus appearance in 4 Swords Adventures, right? Perhaps wedged between the LttP continuity and the original game? |
That's it, yes. For all intents and purposes, the Four Sword games (or rather, the 2D games in general) might as well take place in their own continuity (spiritual connection to the DS titles notwitstanding). They are in fact entirely self-sustaining. Therefore, until their relation to the rest of the series is elaborated upon, I find it practical to treat them as such.
Four Swords Adventures does feature an origin story for Ganon - separate from that of Ocarina of Time - and it most likely functions as a sequel to ALttP, though it impossible to say for certain. Regardless, it is an awesome game that anyone who's ever heard of a supposed lack of arcade-ness in the Zelda series should play.
