kain_kusanagi on 03 December 2012
This timeline stuff doesn't ruin Zelda for me, but I would have preferred it if Nintendo had just stated that most Zelda games are not connected. While there are a few direct sequels, the main titles have nothing to do with each other. Link is just the name of the Hero, Zelda is the name of the princess, and Hyrule is the name of the world. Nintendo could have called the series Adventures in Hyrule and had different character names for each game and they would have been just as good.
I always treated them as separate realities. Kind of like reboots. Smashing them together doesn't seem to satisfy anyone.
