| Helios said: What the three-pronged timeline does is that it reinstates OoT as (the lead-in to) ALttP's backstory. It's an elegant solution, implicitly explaining how Ganondorf obtained the complete Triforce. Him not dying further simplifies matters, although as Khuutra said, that is never a problem in the long run. What is truly important about the official timeline is that it shows that the chronological canon of the series is fairly solidified, and that Nintendo generally tries to respect the original intent behind the games. There is plainly a general pathological mythos as well, which is treated with the same respect. The only true retcon here is the ALttP/Oracles-LA connection, and that was fairly blatant within the Oracles themselves. With Fujibayashi now in the main director's chair, there was really no reason to dispute it anymore. On a related note, the reasoning behind the Four Swords games is consistent with what we have been told, but the details (if any) will be interesting to read about, nonetheless. |
I had relegated Four Swords into discontinuity, since i assumed it either had no story or shared the story of FSA, but i wedged FSA as a direct sequel to LttP, based on what i had read and heard on the matter. It is odder still to put it in the post-TP era, because what does that say of Vaati, who skipped around from the pre-OoT era all the way to the end of one of the lines?
This shows the weakness of me having never played any of the non-3D Zeldas (barring the DS games). I should really do that sometime...
Oh, and Khuutra, your theory runs into the hole of necessary backtracking for the Spirit Temple, which would create a 4th timeline, though otherwise i like the idea
Maybe the third line comes from: Link revives all sages, gets killed by Ganondorf/Ganon?
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
