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i was honestly bummed when Hyrule Historia came out and codified the timeline, because half of the fun of the series for me was trying to imagine where all these games that didn't quite fit together fit together. that, and the third branch essentially being a what-if and relegating the original games to it felt like a dismissive cop-out. i appreciate how BotW was full of enough contradictory evidence to not be placed in any one timeline and then TotK doubled down by contradicting the original Imprisoning War, and now Nintendo has given up on placing them anywhere. we are so back
I know, but its better than messing up everything into one soup that does not fit anymore. Zelda is a long running series and many more will come. So I at least appreciate that they do respect the history and not ruin everything by putting it into one noodle soup. The new Breath of the Wild era games have barely anything to do with the old games and stand on their own.
You know, unlike Disney (Star Wars).
The people who actually make these games have said that the timeline in Hyrule Historia is little no more than elevated fanfiction, because they don't follow it when making their games. It's all retcon and forced connections.
People who want them to have some shared continuity as if they're a real history might as well make a timeline for Mario too. It's silly, and misses the point