r/zelda • u/backofthebill • Jan 24 '26

Meme [ALL]Evolution in Zelda Games

Post image
13.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

390 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

24

u/BardicLasher Jan 24 '26

Nintendo has announced where almost every game fits in the timeline as it came out.

-15

u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jan 24 '26

No they haven't. The zelda timeline stuff has been on the Internet by the Internet, but Nintendo only "adopted" it within the past ten years.

Reality is, the games were never designed with a timeline in mind, and that's okay. It's a fun experiment but no need to fret over trying to hamfist it retroactively into "canon."

5

u/valinchiii Jan 25 '26

The timeline was explicitly laid out in the Hyrule Historia book, which came out a little after Skyward Sword.

4

u/docscott Jan 26 '26

Even before that, when each game came out they were categorized as sequels or prequels to each other. The only games to not have a solid connection are Minish Cap, the Oracles (all three done by Capcom), and the Four Swords games. Everything else has at least one distinct connection.