The chaotic timeline in videogame franchises

[mZuzek]

Chrkeller said:

160rmf said:

Well, when it envolves time travelling, theres no way to not get messy. I am always open to the theory that you cant erase a catastrophic present by going back in time an fixing what got wrong before, youll just branch out in alternative timelines.

However I agree that it was just an afterthought to them after making so many Zelda games, despite blending so well, specially the part of the many process of specification among Ritos and Zoras and many others cameos or references 

Agreed but with ocarina, link doesn't travel back, he travels forward.  And some how when he travels back, after securing the future it splits.  That doesn't make sense to me.  

When Link travels back in time at the end of Ocarina, he goes back to the beginning of the game and stops Ganon from taking over Hyrule because he knows what leads to those events. So he saves Hyrule without having to put it through the events of OoT itself, and goes off on his own journey in Majora's Mask.

However, the future he just left by time travelling is the one where the events of the game did happen, where he and Zelda sealed Ganon away, but because Link isn't in that timeline anymore, Ganon takes over when he breaks the seal - which leads to the events of Wind Waker.

It took me a while to get it, it is confusing.