Gametrailer's Legend of Zelda Timeline

[Eric]

http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episod ... d-of-zelda

Pretty damn neat.

[Julius Seeker]

I enjoyed it, and I can hardly wait for the next game =)

Personally I think the logic is kind of flawed on it though, the third timeline from Ocarina of Time doesn't make sense because at the end of the game, two timelines exist - there was no third timeline where he died.

[Eric]

It's official from Nintendo though, there's 3 timelines, and it makes sense since in a Link to the Past it states that the Sages are the ones that banished Gannon to the Dark Realm, not the hero of time.

[Zeus]

Just buy the book when it comes out, it'll clear up everything :-)

[Julius Seeker]

There was no part in Ocarina of Time where the Sages banished Ganon though =P

I realize this is official from Nintendo, but they're just making stuff up that didn't actually happen in the game.

If a timeline existed where Link was killed by Ganon in Ocarina of Time, then there would be only one timeline; the timeline where the player didn't finish the game due to death. There would be no timeline where he succeeded and banished Ganon from the world, and no timeline where he got sent back as a kid to warn Hyrule; both timelines are established during the ending of Ocarina of Time.

Having two branches from Ocarina of Time makes sense because Link establishes one timeline by defeating Ganon, and when Link travels back in time at the end changing the course of history and establishing another. At no point during this does Link die.

That's why I don't like the dead-Link timeline. I'm still buying the book when it releases in January though! =D

[Eric]

That's because we only saw the the scenario where the hero of time won. :p

The scenario where he lost, we didn't see, but it's outlined in a Link to the Past, Nintendo even retconned the text in the GBA(Or DS? I forget)remake of Link to the Past to say it was the armies of Hyrule that took up arms and the Sages that banished Ganon, which fits that timeline.

Think of them as 3 timelines branching from tOoT: Power Timeline(Ganon was victorious), Wisdom Timeline(Zelda left alone in the repaired future), Courage Timeline(Link sent back to his own time).

Also I fully admit that the Zelda timeline is...thin lol, but Nintendo has found a way to make it work!

[Julius Seeker]

A different scenario would be the same as saying "this is the timeline if things happened differently in Ocarina of Time."

That's where my problem lies, because that means two different stories are required for Ocarina of Time in order to make a third timeline work.