How can the Zelda timeline be fixed? Which games need to be declared non-canon?

How can the Zelda timeline be fixed? Which games need to be declared non-canon?

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We should canonise the CD-I games

>caring about timelines rather than style and structure of a given game
do you also watch marvel movies

No but I'm a Fate fan which is basically the capeshit of the east.

Never played it, just seen some memes. Who is link even? Where does he come from, and why does he live in a royal palace, seemingly not being related or betrolled to Zelda?

Zelda is the incarnation of a goddess and Link is different depending on the game. Their souls are fated to be reborn over and over again and have similar destinies that constantly gets repeated. Only in BOTW is Link related to the Royal Family since he's a personal guard of Princess Zelda there. In most games he's a literally who.

you remove the entire timeline because nerd arguments of what is just tiring

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>being mad that the series is finally getting some world building

Did people ever figure out which timeline BotW is in? It's pretty ambiguous (probably intentionally) with the references to all of then.

No fixing is needed, it's fine the way it is.

It's so far into the future that it doesn't matter. All 3 timelines will eventually merge by having the same shit happen in every one of them. All timelines will be flooded, have a twilight invasion, have Ganon get a full triforce and so on. The only thing we know is that there was a Sheikah high tech golden age 10,000 years before BOTW.

It's likely a "soft reboot". All past games are just "legends" in BotW.

> How can the Zelda Timeline be fixed
It can't but at the same time the notion that the Timeline is just this series of unconnected stories is incorrect, most games in the series form some sort of story within them;
TLoZ -> AoL
ALttP -> LA -> OoS/OoA -> ALBW -> TFH
OoT -> MM -> TP
OoT -> WW -> PH -> ST

Most of the stuff that goes towards the reasoning for how events between games played out, outside of the aforementioned linkages is usually pretty basic and more so focused on getting from A to B, like how we went from the prospering Hyrule in ALBW to the non-existent one in TLoZ. I think the biggest issues tend to stem from the Four Swords Games and Minish Cap. FS handles its plot like an arcade-game more than anything and it's always baffled me why they bothered to include it although I assume it's probably because they want to include FSA which given what we've found out over the years was originally meant to be a prequel to ALttP effectively bridging the gap between OoT and ALttP (FSA is meant to have been the Imprisoning War). MC is just kind of an odd ball, It obviously has to take place before FS or FSA but honestly I think it'd probably have made more sense to drop FS from the timeline and just have MC take place some time before FSA but after TP since Vaati doesn't even show up outside of those three games.

SS taking place at the start works fine it just doesn't really have a direct connection to the rest of the series, in a sense it's the reverse of BotW since both take place at their respective extremes in the timeline. I think if there was one thing I wish they'd change about the Timeline is the Fallen Timeline being a thing, it's less so that there are three timelines but more so that Fallen is a What if Timeline whereas Child and Adult both can exist just in separate realities.

BotW is the fix the timeline needed. It makes all the games canon and non-canon at the same time.

More or less this. I'd personally say Breath of the Wild looks most reasonable in the Twilight Princess timeline, but it doesn't matter any more. They effectively rebooted the franchise, and we're not likely to see any more games that take place before Breath of the Wild. It's a linear timeline from here on.

Disregard all timeline bullshit. Treat every game as a retelling of the same legend or whatever. If it isn't directly conected to another game, then the other games don't matter.
The one game I'd declare "non-canon" is Skyward Sword, because the whole "Demise is destined to return in some capacity and get BTFO by a Zelda and a Link" does nothing but gimp the series from a storytelling standpoint.

At the end of the next game, zoom out of the last scene and show a book closing. show it was an old guy telling stories to a bunch of blond kids with elf ears. One of them asks if all the stories were true and he says they were all legends of zelda. He gets up to take the book and puts it away in a closet and you can see green folded up clothes and the master sword hung up with some other trademark tools link uses. Que credits

The Sheikah technology and guardians are the only thing that I hate about the reboot.

It's in the Warriors Timeline. Its prequel is a Warriors game. The Warriors Timelime is an offshoot of the Child Timeline where the timelines become merged.

None of the handheld games should be canon. NES, N64, GC, Wii and Switch are the only real Zelda platforms.

>and he says they were all legends of zelda.
I clapped

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Nice bait, don't forget the SNES next time

but the ww time line alredy end, dorf is fucked up and the master sword is not required anymore

I'm not baiting.

And Hyrule is destroyed and Zelda left the remnants of the kingdom. Ganondorf has no reason to return when there is no incarnation of Hylia to fight against.

They haven't even made any games since BotW, how do you know this?

>"Downfall Timeline" is completely severed from OoT and is its own universe starting from ALttP
>Minish Cap/Four Swords/FSA is its own timeline
>Triforce Heroes isn't canon to anything and is really a one-shot parody

>>Minish Cap/Four Swords/FSA is its own timeline
They are trash made to milk money from the name Zelda.

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Merge the Minish Csp and LttP timelines since FSA establishes the LttP Ganon and his trident.

>Minish Cap
>Trash

Wasn't everything merged in the Warriors game?

Why does the timeline anger people so much? I've never seen some optional lore piss of so many people.

Why were the four sword games canon again?

This is honestly the best way to treat it
I grew up obsessing over timeline and canon, but over time I just got tired of it all and decided that the Legend itself was being carried down by each generation, with each re-telling either filling in new blanks or changing elements to spice things up
OoT is the LttP story but with some added time travel, WW ditches that and throws in some sailing, the fella who passed on TP just wanted Link to be a wolf and be ridden by a sassy imp girl

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The timeline is a fucking joke made so you stupid autist would stop bitching.
>For some reason link failing in OOT is enough to create a timeline, something that should theoretically apply to all links with splits on every game for a fail state
>BOTW just condenses all the timelines back into one singularity so who gives a shit

A lot of people's headcanons got obliterated by it.

I wonder if in another 20 years if Nintendo will finally start kicking themselves for the stupid ass demise plot.

>Disregard all timeline bullshit. Treat every game as a retelling of the same legend or whatever.
BotW did it best, where each game is its own legend.

That third timeline its pretty bullshit honestly