Does Twilight princess have anything to do with the Ocarina of time? I haven't played it at all, but is it even remotely related or have any allusions to Ocarina?

[hide] Twilight princess is the storyline of Adult Link from Ocarina of Time after getting the Master Sword and losing his memories. And i believe Windwaker was Kind Links Storyline after Ocarina of Time if he didnt get the master sword (or something like that) Dont forget that there are the Kid and Adult link storylines.[/hide]

[hide]So in ocarina when he goes back in time after defeating ganon he looses his memories? Or at the end of the game when Link is staring at Zelda they remember what happened in the future?[/hide]

 

 

 

Also, could anyone tell me the ending to Majora's mask and if Zelda was in that game at all?

Free_Steel, sorry but you are not even close.

 

 

 

[hide=The general timeline of Zelda]

 

We'll leave out the earlier games and start with Ocarina. After events in OoT, Link leaves on Epona to journey the land of Hyrule, and in Majora's Mask he stumbles into an alternate world. MM is the only direct sequel of another Zelda game, and it has nothing to do with Ganon or Zelda or Hyrule. It is the only game that features the same Link as another.

 

 

 

Twilight Princess, if I remember correctly, takes place some hundred years or so after or before OoT, I can't remember which. I forget what they said about Ganondorf in TP, that would help but eh.

 

 

 

Wind Waker takes place thousands of years after the other games.

 

 

 

With the exception of MM, no Zelda game shares a Link (no pun intended) or is anywhere close enough in the timeline to have relevance on another.[/hide]

I'd say you're correct NOM.

 

 

 

For the most part link is not the same link but the name just symbolizes a boy who will help save the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Only really linked games were OoT and Majoras mask, and I think Zelda 1 + 2 were linked? Also wind waker / phantom hourglass were linked.

The Oracle games for the Gameboy Color were also linked.

Well, I left out the others and mainly focused on the big console games as that was the general question :P . The timeline for Zelda is wicked screwed. Actually, I'll correct myself and say that PH is a direct sequel to WW, featuring the same Link I believe, and Zelda 1 and 2 are direct sequels but I'm unsure whether they feature the same Link/Zelda.

 

 

 

And the Oracle games don't even take place in Hyrule, so I didn't include them either. I also have no real idea where the sets fit in to the overall timeline, as well as the Minish Cap/Four Swords games as I've never played them.

 

 

 

Ok, I'll try to piece it together with as many games as possible.

 

 

 

1 Ocarina of Time - it explains the origins of Ganon, with him being born to the Gerudos, so it would be first, I also think it has been confirmed.

 

 

 

2. Majora's Mask - direct sequel

 

 

 

3. Twilight Princess - I'm thinking this because the Ganondorf is very similar, as well as the general landscape or Hyrule, moreso than any other two games. A few hundred years or so after OoT.

 

 

 

4. The Legend of Zelda - completely different landscape, but I think it fits here because Ganon is sort of just there, and it may stand to reason that he somehow survived being impaled at he end of TP.

 

 

 

5. Zelda 2 - direct sequel, attempting to stop Ganon from returning.

 

 

 

6. Wind Waker - huge leap in time here, but there's no real questioning it besides what may go in between.

 

 

 

7. Phantom Hourglass - direct sequel.

 

 

 

I have no idea where A Link to the Past or Link's Awakening fit in, as well as Minish Cap, Four Swords, Four Swords adventures, or either of the Oracle games.

 

 

 

Nuts.

Thanks Nom for your timeline :).

 

I wish they would make a sequel to OoT featuring all the same people... that would really be awesome

[hide]Four Swords Adventures would have to be before ALttP because Ganon obtains that trident thing in FSA, which he uses in ALttP. Some say that FSA is first in the storyline, and ALttP is the last one, but Ganon didn't have the trident in OoT :S [/hide]

For the end of MM

 

[hide=Spoilers]You kill the freak with majora's mask on the clock tower[/hide]

Well, I left out the others and mainly focused on the big console games as that was the general question :P . The timeline for Zelda is wicked screwed. Actually, I'll correct myself and say that PH is a direct sequel to WW, featuring the same Link I believe, and Zelda 1 and 2 are direct sequels but I'm unsure whether they feature the same Link/Zelda.

 

 

 

And the Oracle games don't even take place in Hyrule, so I didn't include them either. I also have no real idea where the sets fit in to the overall timeline, as well as the Minish Cap/Four Swords games as I've never played them.

 

 

 

Ok, I'll try to piece it together with as many games as possible.

 

 

 

1 Ocarina of Time - it explains the origins of Ganon, with him being born to the Gerudos, so it would be first, I also think it has been confirmed.

 

 

 

2. Majora's Mask - direct sequel

 

 

 

3. Twilight Princess - I'm thinking this because the Ganondorf is very similar, as well as the general landscape or Hyrule, moreso than any other two games. A few hundred years or so after OoT.

 

 

 

4. The Legend of Zelda - completely different landscape, but I think it fits here because Ganon is sort of just there, and it may stand to reason that he somehow survived being impaled at he end of TP.

 

 

 

5. Zelda 2 - direct sequel, attempting to stop Ganon from returning.

 

 

 

6. Wind Waker - huge leap in time here, but there's no real questioning it besides what may go in between.

 

 

 

7. Phantom Hourglass - direct sequel.

 

 

 

I have no idea where A Link to the Past or Link's Awakening fit in, as well as Minish Cap, Four Swords, Four Swords adventures, or either of the Oracle games.

 

 

 

Nuts.

 

I tend to agree, the only logical place TP fits into any kind of chronological order is after MM and before WW; but we also have to remember that in WW the story at the start speaks of hyrule being flooded by the gods when the hero failed to return to defeat Ganondorf after he escaped from the scared realm.

 

 

 

And by that, you can only then say that TP and WW are not on the same timeline, and rather once OoT and MM are finished, it swings either to TP with Zant, Ganondorf and the Twilight Realm, or on the path spoken in WW - where Ganondorf escapes and attacks Hyrule so the gods flood the land.

 

 

 

The two (WW and TP) can't co-exist in the same time-line given WW historical mythology as to what happened in the past (reference only to OoT and the defeat on Ganondorf).

Also I don't think links awakening can really fit anywhere, from what my memory serves me I don't think it took place in hyrule. All I remember is it had something to do with a bird. :lol:

Well, I left out the others and mainly focused on the big console games as that was the general question :P . The timeline for Zelda is wicked screwed. Actually, I'll correct myself and say that PH is a direct sequel to WW, featuring the same Link I believe, and Zelda 1 and 2 are direct sequels but I'm unsure whether they feature the same Link/Zelda.

 

 

 

And the Oracle games don't even take place in Hyrule, so I didn't include them either. I also have no real idea where the sets fit in to the overall timeline, as well as the Minish Cap/Four Swords games as I've never played them.

 

 

 

Ok, I'll try to piece it together with as many games as possible.

 

 

 

1 Ocarina of Time - it explains the origins of Ganon, with him being born to the Gerudos, so it would be first, I also think it has been confirmed.

 

 

 

2. Majora's Mask - direct sequel

 

 

 

3. Twilight Princess - I'm thinking this because the Ganondorf is very similar, as well as the general landscape or Hyrule, moreso than any other two games. A few hundred years or so after OoT.

 

 

 

4. The Legend of Zelda - completely different landscape, but I think it fits here because Ganon is sort of just there, and it may stand to reason that he somehow survived being impaled at he end of TP.

 

 

 

5. Zelda 2 - direct sequel, attempting to stop Ganon from returning.

 

 

 

6. Wind Waker - huge leap in time here, but there's no real questioning it besides what may go in between.

 

 

 

7. Phantom Hourglass - direct sequel.

 

 

 

I have no idea where A Link to the Past or Link's Awakening fit in, as well as Minish Cap, Four Swords, Four Swords adventures, or either of the Oracle games.

 

 

 

Nuts.

 

 

 

Agreed, and with what darkrick said, I'll just try and push a Link to the Past in after Zelda II and before Wind Waker.

[hide]The following is a list of the Nintendo-published games in order of their first release, with their release years (in parentheses), along with any additional information about their placement in the timeline.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda (FDS: 1986, NES: 1987, FC: 1994, GCN: 2002 (AC), 2003 (CE), GBA: 2004, VC: 2006)

 

 

 

This is the first game of the series. In this game, Ganon is in his pig-like beast form. According to the instruction manual and the official website, shortly before the beginning of the game, Ganon broke free from the Dark World,[32] and his army attacked Hyrule, stole the Triforce of Power, and captured the ruling Princess Zelda, but not before she had time to break up and hide the Triforce of Wisdom.[33]

 

 

 

* Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (FDS: 1987, NES: 1988, GCN: 2003 (CE), GBA: 2004, VC: 2007)

 

 

 

According to its instruction manual, it takes place "several seasons" after the first game, and features the same Link, but a different Zelda. Moreover, the story references Ganon's destruction by Link in the first game. The game's back-story also references an old legend of Hyrule. According to it, long ago, a prince of Hyrule should have inherited the Triforce after the king's death, but he only obtained part of it. Indeed, his sister, Princess Zelda, let him keep the Triforce of Power and the Triforce of Wisdom, but the late king hid the Triforce of Courage. The prince and a magician questioned Zelda, but she refused to reveal the location of the last piece of the Triforce. In anger, the magician cast an eternal sleeping spell on Zelda, before dying himself. In grief, the prince ordered that all future girls of the royal family be named Zelda.[34] The previous historical Zelda who hid the Triforce of Courage is still asleep at the beginning of the game, and is awakened by Link after he retrieves the Triforce of Courage at the end of the story. This Princess Zelda is not the same one rescued by Link in the first The Legend of Zelda game. The events of this legend were never mentioned in any other games of the series.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SFC: 1991, SNES: 1992, BS: 1997, GBA: 2002 (FS), VC: 2006)

 

 

 

This is the first of many Zelda games to have Hyrule's history told within the game, and the first in which Ganon's real name, Ganondorf, is revealed. During this game, Ganon is in his demonic form, and sealed in the "Golden Land" (more commonly known as the Sacred Realm)[35] with the Triforce. The game's instruction manual tells how all three pieces of the Triforce were originally hidden in the Golden Land. One day long ago, it was found by Ganondorf the Thief, and it granted his evil wish for a monstrous army to attack Hyrule. While the Knights of Hyrule defended the land, the Seven Sages created a magic seal to close off the Golden Realm.[36] The game itself revolves around Ganon's ultimately-successful attempt to break the Sages' seal. Princess Zelda alerts Link to this, and Link goes on a quest to find the Master Sword (its first named appearance in the series), then defeats Ganon to reclaim the Triforce, using various means to travel between Hyrule and the Golden Land (now called the Dark World) during his efforts.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening/DX (GB: 1993, GBC: 1998 (DX))

 

 

 

In this installment, Link shipwrecks on Koholint Island while on his journey. He finds he has lost his equipment, and the only way he can leave the island is to find and wake a creature of great power called the Wind Fish.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest (N64: 1998, GCN: 2002 (MQ), 2003 (CE), iQue: 2003, VC: 2007)

 

 

 

After its release, this game was confirmed by Shigeru Miyamoto as the first in the series' continuity at the time.[37] At the beginning of the game, Ganondorf, the king of the Gerudo tribe, has not yet gained the Triforce, though he does possess magical powers. As the game progresses, Ganondorf follows Link into the Sacred Realm and, as Link pulls the Master Sword from its pedestal, he appears, telling Link he will rule Hyrule as a result of Link giving him access to the Sacred Realm. Link is then promptly put into suspended animation for seven years, until he is "of age" to wield the Master Sword. In the meantime, Ganondorf finds the Triforce, but because his heart is not balanced, it divides into its three pieces: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. Ganondorf retains the Triforce of Power, and uses it to take over and rule Hyrule for seven years. When Link wakes seven years later, he eventually awakens the Seven Sages and defeats Ganondorf, the Sages then sealing him in the Sacred Realm.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64: 2000, GCN: 2003 (CE))

 

 

 

This game takes place after the events of Ocarina of Time, and stars the same Link, after returning to his youth. While traveling, he is attacked by a Skull Kid and accidentally enters a parallel world called Termina, which is going to be destroyed by a falling moon in three days. Link must relive the same three days repeatedly while trying to undo the events created by the Skull Kid through the power of Majora's Mask, and find a way to stop the impending apocalypse.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC: 2001) and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (GBC: 2001)

 

 

 

These games are connected via a password system, and one takes place immediately after the other. They can be played and regarded in either order. The Twinrova sisters from Ocarina of Time appear in these games, and plot to resurrect Ganon.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (GBA: 2002)

 

 

 

The versions of Link and Princess Zelda featured in this game are childhood friends. This is the first game in which Vaati and the Four Sword appear. According to an interview, Eiji Aonuma, a major designer and the director of many games in the Zelda series, considered this game to be the oldest in the timeline, implying that both this and The Minish Cap occur earlier than Ocarina of Time.[citation needed]

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN: 2002)

 

 

 

This game takes place hundreds of years after Ocarina of Time.[citation needed] Hyrule has been lost for centuries, and now all that remains of its civilization are a few scattered islands on the Great Sea. Halfway through The Wind Waker, the Link and Zelda from this game discover they are the successors to their counterparts in the old kingdom of Hyrule (now drowned beneath the Great Sea). It is revealed in dialogue between survivors of Hyrule that the Link of The Wind Waker is not related to the Hero of Time, the Link of Ocarina of Time; however, later on in the game, he is referred to as the "Hero of Winds".

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (GCN: 2004)

 

 

 

This game tells the story of how Ganondorf obtains the power of an ancient trident and becomes the demon, Ganon.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA: 2004)

 

 

 

This game involves the origins of the Four Sword, as well as Vaati, the primary antagonist.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii: 2006, GCN: 2006)

 

 

 

This game takes place at least a hundred years after Ocarina of Time.[38] In an interview with Japan's Nintendo Dream Magazine, Aonuma stated that Twilight Princess occurs in a "parallel" world to The Wind Waker, following an alternate timeline[2] in which Ganondorf does not take over Hyrule, and is instead sentenced to execution following the conclusion of Ocarina of Time.

 

 

 

* The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS: 2007)

 

 

 

This game has been released in Japan and North America, and was released in Australia on October 11, 2007,[39] and Europe on October 19, 2007.[40] It is set after The Wind Waker and in the same setting, where Link must rescue Tetra after she is captured by a ghost ship.

 

 

 

The creators maintain that the series has a set timeline, however due to debates over the available information the timeline continues to be disputed. Miyamoto stated in a 2003 interview that there is a master document detailing the timeline.[41] Eiji Aonuma has also stated in a July 2007 video interview that there is such a document on his PC, and that this document is considered confidential.[42] According to this interview, development of a Zelda title can commence without the team knowing in advance where exactly the title will fit into the timeline; but by the time the title is finished, its placement in the timeline will be determined. However, this document has not been seen publicly, and there is little other proof of its existence.[/hide]

 

 

 

Just found. >.>

 

Qouted from wiki.

Ah yes, I forgot about that little detail at the beginning of WW. In that case, my timeline would still stand as it is, but there would have to be a branch off of Ocarina of time to loop around the rest and connect with WW :-k .

 

 

 

And according to Limpbizkit's source, the Minish Cap and Four Swords are both older than Ocarina, which makes sense since they don't feature Ganon. And I would also place A Link to the Past after Ocarina and before Twilight Princess, now that I think about it. Since in that summary it talks about the Seven Sages, which are in both OoT and TP.

 

 

 

So, a revised timeline!

 

 

 

1. Minish Cap

 

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2. Four Swords

 

v

 

3. Four Swords Adventures

 

v

 

4. Ocarina of Time ---------> 5. Majora's Mask.

 

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>-------------------------------v

 

|....................................... |

 

v...................................... |

 

6. A Link to the Past........ |

 

v.......................................|

 

7. Twilight Princess.......... |

 

v.......................................|

 

8. The Legend of Zelda ....|

 

v.......................................|

 

9. Zelda II.........................|

 

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10. Wind Waker <-----------

 

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11. Phantom Hourglass

 

 

 

On their own:

 

 

 

Oracle of Seasons

 

v^

 

Oracle of Ages

 

 

 

Link's Awakening (has like nothing to do with traditional Zelda at all lol)

 

 

 

 

 

Still unsure about Four Swords Adventures. I placed it before Ocarina and after Four Swords because it tells how Ganondorf got the trident thing and became Ganon, and if I recall correctly Ganon had a trident when you fought him at the end of OoT. So it would probably fit there, as he could already have gone on that little adventure before events in OoT.

Four swords? the game cube one? Where you'd have the multi colored links with 4 player co-op?

 

I'm sure thats a remake of a past one.

Ya, I'm fairly certain that four swords is just the multiplayer remake of A link to the past.

Naw, it's the sequel to the Four Swords that was packaged with the GBA remake of ALttP. Both separate games.

 

 

 

EDIT: To clear things up, the GBA ALttP remake also included a second, new game, Four Swords. It had a story and gameplay of its own and is a full-fledged game in the Zelda franchise. Four Swords Adventures was the Gamecube sequel to it, and it brought Ganon in along with Vaati, the primary antagonist of the first FS.

For the end of MM

 

[hide=Spoilers]You kill the freak with majora's mask on the clock tower[/hide]

 

 

 

That's wrong... kinda.

 

[hide=(longer) More detailed ending to MM]It turns out that Skull Kid was being possessed the entire time by the Majora's Mask. The mask disposseses him, flys up to the moon, and you follow to fight him.

 

Gets kind of confusing, there's a world inside the moon, with a tree and some people (you can give all of your masks to those people, and if you have every single one, you'll get the Diety Mask, you'll get all your masks back if you use Song of Time). Anyways, Skull Kid is crying at the tree in the middle, and you talk to him, get teleported to some arena, kill the mask in three forms, and win!

 

 

 

Oh, the diety mask makes you adult Link, with a very powerful magic sword, and I believe you are invincible.

 

[/hide]

 

 

 

OT: Twilight Princess has nothing to do with OoT. The only direct sequels are MM and Phantom Hourglass, as far as I know. Both can be played just as well on their own.[/hide]

[hide]

Still unsure about Four Swords Adventures. I placed it before Ocarina and after Four Swords because it tells how Ganondorf got the trident thing and became Ganon, and if I recall correctly Ganon had a trident when you fought him at the end of OoT. So it would probably fit there, as he could already have gone on that little adventure before events in OoT.

 

 

 

no he didn't, he used a pair of scimitars to defeat link.

 

 

 

Anyway; no, twilight is not a sequel to the ocarina of time. Although the inportant landmarks haven't moved with the exception of zora river and the zora home. [/hide]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15194.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should help a little bit.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15194.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should help a little bit.

 

 

 

Was about to post time as well.

 

 

 

[hide]The storyline is, after Oot ended, there was a split timeline. Timeline A is when Link returns back home as a child, Timeline B is when Zelda places link back in the past, leaving her current world 'Link-less'

 

 

 

So this means Oot Link and Tp link are different.

 

 

 

**WARNING: Ending**

 

 

 

Also, I haven't played all the zelda games but at the end of TP, he had a scar on his Chest, meaning it is a sequel from another game as the scar came from the past link. Ganon is always the same, Link and Zelda are most of the time, different.[/hide]

[hide] Twilight princess is the storyline of Adult Link from Ocarina of Time after getting the Master Sword and losing his memories. And i believe Windwaker was Kind Links Storyline after Ocarina of Time if he didnt get the master sword (or something like that) Dont forget that there are the Kid and Adult link storylines.[/hide]

 

 

 

Reverse that, mate. TP was one that took place in the Kid Link section.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WW

 

/

 

Adult Link

 

/

 

OoT

 

\

 

Kid Link

 

\

 

TP

 

 

 

You see, when Adult Link went back in time to become Kid Link, he, therefore, disappeared from the Adult Link time, allowing Ganondorf to be homefree when he escaped. Now, I would be willing to bet that a grown up Kid Link was in some unwritten way responsible for Ganondorf's capture and imprisonment Pre-TP, since Ganondorf had godly power and could take out an entire army, simply because he Triforce of Power keeps him alive, though Link decided against killing him, for some strange reason.

 

 

 

 

 

And to Panthera: The scar was from the failed execution that was shown in TP.

If you still care:

 

Chronologically Confused: AVGN Explains Zelda Timeline

 

[hide]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29488.html?type=flv[/hide]

 

 

 

Warning: Mild language is used, if this offends your, fast foward through the opening

 

 

 

*This is to make up for my slaughtering at the begining