LOL, you've got a point there.

They certainly successfully trolled me

Well they said a couple of times there is a secret timeline, haven't they? And of course it is very hard to believe indeed. Maybe one day far in the future, with all Zelda titles remaked, there will be some kind of correlation.

Anyways that should mean this game is the first one according to the speculative storyline.

Re-imagining Zelda.

Yeah. I do think the same.

By the way and somehow off/in topic: I would love to see a JPRG Zelda someday. If done right, that would be amazing. Hand Zelda over to Monolith!!

And what differs Zelda so much from basic jRPG experience?

Add a deeper interactions with other characters, teaming up, character growth (level them up), weapon and item synthezising or crafting, a bit more of strategy into battles, that sort of things. I'd love to see new characters and a more complex story. I know some people may not want to see Link put into that situation, but I'd personally love to.

Everything from OOT on is pretty clearly linked (bar the Flagship titles, which are sort of in their own little world).  MM and TWW are both direct sequels to OOT (though each follows a different alternate timeline, one for the world Link came back to, the other for the one he didn't).  Then PH is a direct sequel to TWW, and ST follows it centuries later.  TP follows centuries after MM.  And now we're learning SS takes place before OOT, so you can probably expect some connections there.

The earlier games (LOZ, AOL, ALTTP, LA) are pretty easy to connect to each other as well.  As are the Flagship games (OOA, OOS, FS, MC).

Ew, no.  I'd take Hyrule Tactics though...

Nothing of these defines jRPG experience, futhermore a good bit of them lacks a good bit of features you've listed. In fact, there're games that very close to Zelda but still claimed to be jRPGs while Zelda isn't, though all jRPGs as well as Zelda games are derivates from the same root. Genres are conventionalities to some extent.

Some? That's an underestimation =)

We both know how problematic it is to define what an jrpg or a rpg is. People have argued about it for a while and we could manage to do it for a billion hours more.

A link to the past was the first real EPIC game I ever played, and as for me the most epic genre out there is RPG (not that God of War or Uncharted alike are not) and as I love the melodrama that comes with jrpg, I would love to experience a jrpg Zelda, just as I said.

It may never happen, of course, and no need to put this franchise in a situation in which ortodox purist feel they have violated the holiness of Virgin Zelda, specially when there are so many awesome rpgs out there. I was just expressing something that I would love to see, no harm intended to anyone.

You know what? I fucking believe him...