All right gamrConnect, we're going to play Zelda games together!

[Mr Khan]

Helios said:

Mr Khan said:

Khuutra said:

"Continuity" is a strong word, stronger than "timeline" - so do you think the Four Sword continuity is entirely separate from that featured in the other games?

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.

If we are to assume that Twilight Princess is in the child line, as are all games except Wind Waker and the DS titles (and now OoT and Skyward Sword), then we could find a way to easily fit a "Ganon" origin story in there without creating too many difficulties. If we consider the fact that Ganondorf, the man, died at the end of Twilight Princess, then he very well could need an origin story as to how he returned, transformed completely into the inhuman monster that serves as the foe in the Zelda games that he features in further down the line.