Zelda would have been better off if Link Between Worlds had never existed[SPOILERS]

[Clyde32]

cheshirescat said:

Jon-Erich said:

cheshirescat said:
I think nintendo would have been better off overall if they didn't try to create this convoluted zelda timeline. It's altogether pointless and, frankly, Hyrule must have the dullest history books of all time, their society is cursed to relive the same events over and over again.

I know that for ywars, Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma kept a some kind of continuity record. I'm also certain that the canon had most likely been redone many times, but the fans wanted it and Nintendo finally gave in. As for reliving the same events, real life history is the same way. How many times has humanity repeated the same mistakes? How many times should we have learned from the past but have not? To me, that's not surprising. What is surprising is when fictional history is written and turns out to be true. Actually, that's more scary than surprising.

It's still convoluted and unnecessary, each installation of the zelda franchise stands on its own legs just fine and any connection with previous games is so tenuous as to go unnoticed by all but the most crazed and diligent of fans.  And I may have missed it, but when was the last time a man named Julius Caesar marched an army into Rome, took over the Senate only to be betrayed by an old friend name Brutus and his brother-in-law Cassius?  Because I am pretty sure that's only happened once, whereas Hyrule's history is doomed to see Ganon plot to take the power of the triforce for himself from a princess named zelda and a plucky mute fairy guy in a green hat and tunic for the rest of eternity.

This is partly why I am so fond of Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening, because at least they are different.

Ganon's only really after the triforce in three games. The first one, where he takes the triforce of power from Zelda, Ocarina of Time; where he gains access to the realm; and Wind Waker; which is the same Ganondorf from Ocarina of Time, trying to fulfill his original plan.

But in the Wind Waker, you see his original motives for getting the triforce. He only wanted what was best for his people. 

And only the Hero of time is ever a fairy guy.