The chaotic timeline in videogame franchises

[Chrkeller]

mZuzek said:

Chrkeller said:

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.

If he could stop ganon in the present, why bother traveling to the future to begin with?  And if he changes his actions in the present than the future would be changed.

I mean it splits in three, lol.  Just silly, imo.  Still my favorite franchise in gaming.