Where in the timeline is zelda breath of the wild

[Nazulu]

Wait, ANY Nintendo series has a timeline?!

Metroid says hi.

Those have a timeline too?! I thought they were just awesome games about shooting aliens. I mean you lose your equipment every single time. You'd think if Samus had been in each one she'd have duct-tapped the rockets to her arm or something.

Jeez, what's the Mario Timline? Or Pokemon?

Non of them started with timelines. That crap came in later and they are all as loose as the duct-tape they used to stick them together. According to Game Theory, Mario Galaxy was meant to explain the other Mario games, but it's as good as a ret-con I reckon.

 

[FPLOON]

Either post-Sprit Tracks, making this setting in the mist of Hyrule's Rebirth... or the pre-convergence given it's open-world aesthetics...

Other than that, I'm leaning more towards both only Link isn't the real Big Boss, Raiden following the rules of nature, or Zelda's dad...

 

[InsanityRequiem]

I?m gonna be the crazy person here with a batshit insane idea. The characters, the location, the landmarks? All of it makes me think this is the Convergent Point in the time lines. Just as Ocarina of Time was the Divergent Point in which we got three separate time lines, Breath of the Wild will be the Convergent Point for all three timelines.

Now that would be something unexpected! What makes you say that? You have me interested now XD

I?m going off of three things basically. Locations, landmarks, and characters.

Locations leads me to believe the NES/SNES games due to the fact that a couple of the creators, while talking about what they?ve put in the game, specifically talked about going back to the early games. While vague, early means the first few games, which were based on Link losing.

Landmarks makes me think of the stuff shown, like the large broken bridge that is prominent in a part of the map, the bridge has many similarities to the bridge in Twilight Princess and a couple creators have said that the childhood timeline has been used for reference.

Characters make me think the adult Link timeline has been used as well due to the ?old man? that we see early on as well as the Koroks that are in hidden locations throughout the land. Koroks are a WindWaker character group and the old man kinda looks like a combination of WW Ganondorf and the King. Something about him makes me think one or the other.


Edit: But like I said, crazy theory. The possibility of it just being the Child Link timeline being the only timeline used is higher.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Welll... first you have to decide whether there is a linear timeline or a split timeline. I'm sure by the time of Zelda Brain-Computer Interface powered by the Ninsondex 12 cloud console, where all console companies merged into one unholy megacorporation... I'm pretty sure a BArts (Hyrule Studies) is going to be needed.

I'm kind of hoping it takes place in the Age of Decay split timeline of the first two games (Nes games that is). Right at the end.... but the cell shading might suggest the adult Link splitest path where the Hero of Time was successful and has passed into legend.

Or it could be right after the 'first' game of Skyward Sword. Way before the Hero of Time. But someone said there were the Kokiri? So who knows... or it could be that there is no timeline (which I'm inclined to believe).... and at best a series of parallel worlds where people look the same but one small (or not) difference to allow that sense of alienation. Like a certain game...

 

[Roboshi]

Zelda doesn't have a timeline. Any timeline you try to construct will have at least half a dozen titles that don't fit.

There is an official timeline, although it WAS made after the fact and released in the hyrule historia (an art book about all the zelda games).

Now that said the official timeline has a couple of mistakes in it, such as link having a green cap BEFORE the minish cap when it established that the hero never wore a cap until that game. But it's to be expected when the timeline was made so late on.

Therefore I think we can be a little more lenient with details such as the presence of koroks etc. and only concentrate on the bigger details like the state of the master sword and where ganon is right now (and indeed if he's ganon or ganondorf)

 

[Yoshi178]

Wait, ANY Nintendo series has a timeline?!

Metroid says hi.

Those have a timeline too?! I thought they were just awesome games about shooting aliens. I mean you lose your equipment every single time. You'd think if Samus had been in each one she'd have duct-tapped the rockets to her arm or something.

Metroid/Zero Mission = the start of the Metroid timeline
then Metroid Prime
then Metroid Prime hunters
Then Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
Then Metroid Prime 3
Then Metroid II Return of Samus
Then Super Metroid
Then Metroid Other M
and Metroid Fusion is the final game in the timeline.

Sakamoto said Metroid Prime isn't part of the timeline anymore but F%#$ him and his shitty ideas like Other M was.

still don't know where Metroid Prime Federation Force enters the timeline though.

 

[Hawki]

Those have a timeline too?! I thought they were just awesome games about shooting aliens. I mean you lose your equipment every single time. You'd think if Samus had been in each one she'd have duct-tapped the rockets to her arm or something.
Metroid/Zero Mission = the start of the Metroid timeline
then Metroid Prime
then Metroid Prime hunters
Then Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
Then Metroid Prime 3
Then Metroid II Return of Samus
Then Super Metroid
Then Metroid Other M
and Metroid Fusion is the final game in the timeline.

Sakamoto said Metroid Prime isn't part of the timeline anymore but F%#$ him and his shitty ideas like Other M was.

still don't know where Metroid Prime Federation Force enters the timeline though.

It's funny how people are now treating Sakamoto like the Metroid equivalent of George Lucas, yet Gene Rodenberry is held up as a staple of "quality" in Star Trek ever since 2009.

But to answer your question, Federation Force takes place between Corruption and Return of Samus.

 

[Jute88]

Yeah, I'm going with the majority and say it's probably after Wind Waker. But OPs idea that it could be between OoT and WW sounds a bit weird. So, we'd play a game where we eventually lose? I admit, the player losing in the end is not necessarely a bad idea to explore, but could you imagine the amount of butthurt fans?

 

[Jute88]

It's funny how people are now treating Sakamoto like the Metroid equivalent of George Lucas, yet Gene Rodenberry is held up as a staple of "quality" in Star Trek ever since 2009.

Really? I always got the impression that Gene was considered as this uncomfortable uncle of Star Trek franchise that, while having some good ideas every now and then, had a lot more bad ideas that fortunately weren't realized. three-breasted Troi? Ferengi with huge sex organs? Wesley Crushes. Is anyone denying that Star Trek improved immensely with Gene's passing?

 

[Hawki]

It's funny how people are now treating Sakamoto like the Metroid equivalent of George Lucas, yet Gene Rodenberry is held up as a staple of "quality" in Star Trek ever since 2009.

Really? I always got the impression that Gene was considered as this uncomfortable uncle of Star Trek franchise that, while having some good ideas every now and then, had a lot more bad ideas that fortunately weren't realized. three-breasted Troi? Ferengi with huge sex organs? Wesley Crushes. Is anyone denying that Star Trek improved immensely with Gene's passing?

I've seen arguments from both ends of the spectrum. But taking arguments at face value, there does seem to be those within the Star Trek fanbase that do treat "Rodenberry's vision" as something that shouldn't be erred from.

 

[Jute88]

It's funny how people are now treating Sakamoto like the Metroid equivalent of George Lucas, yet Gene Rodenberry is held up as a staple of "quality" in Star Trek ever since 2009.

Really? I always got the impression that Gene was considered as this uncomfortable uncle of Star Trek franchise that, while having some good ideas every now and then, had a lot more bad ideas that fortunately weren't realized. three-breasted Troi? Ferengi with huge sex organs? Wesley Crushes. Is anyone denying that Star Trek improved immensely with Gene's passing?

I've seen arguments from both ends of the spectrum. But taking arguments at face value, there does seem to be those within the Star Trek fanbase that do treat "Rodenberry's vision" as something that shouldn't be erred from.

Roddenberry's vision, atleast regarding humans as an enlightened species trying to help other civilizations peacefully is a really beautiful idea, but trying to create drama from it is a bit problematic. Not to mention it can easily become The White Man's Burden if handled poorly.

 

[Pseudonym]

Link wakes up in some kind of fututistic planetarium in what seems to be a ruined hyrule. So either this is before Skyward Sword when we know at least some kind of advanced civilization existed, in some kind of hyrule before hyrule. I don't think this is likely.

It might also be in new hyrule founded after windwaker (which apparently was at some point destroyed).

 

[Larry Xiong]

Zelda doesn't have a timeline.

this if Zelda or Mario have a timeline they should get older and older but they never does Nintendo live in a fantasy world for Zelda and Mario maybe for Kriby too

 

[Hawki]

Zelda doesn't have a timeline.

this if Zelda or Mario have a timeline they should get older and older but they never does Nintendo live in a fantasy world for Zelda and Mario maybe for Kriby too

There's two problems with that assertion:

1) Zelda has a demonstrable timeline - three timelines actually, given how Ocarina of Time creates a branching timeline and whatnot. Link growing old isn't an issue because there's multiple Links.

2) A series where characters don't age doesn't preclude a chronological series of events - this is an example of a floating timeline, where part of the suspension of disbelief is that the characters are remaining at the same age, even as time moves on. The Simpsons is one well known example. Some episodes have to occur after others for their plots to work, and it stands to reason that each episode occurs after the ones before it. However, we have to buy that that the characters and world themselves are remaining static. Mario is an example of this, but what order the games take place in is more down to personal interpretation. Certainly I've seen people have fun with that. On the other side of the spectrum I gave Sonic the same treatment, and I'm hardly the only one to do so.

 

[Hawki]

Out of the few games which aren't placed (which Nintendo acknowledge the existence of), I believe that Link Between Worlds is set after Link to the Past, Triforce Heroes hasn't been placed (though it is kind of a spinoff), and Breath of the Wild is what is currently being discussed.

A Link Between Worlds takes place after ALttP, and Tri-Force Heroes takes place after ALBW (think it was mentioned that only a few months pass between the two games).

 

[Yoshi178]

I mean... Zelda has an official timeline by Nintendo. It was printed in the Hyrule Historia. It's even quite logical in how it works, and the games tend to make references to each other.

oh you mean that timeline that was pretty much only made up by Nintendo because of all the zelda fans who kept demanding there actually be a storyline from Nintendo so they EVENTUALLY printed one out to shut them up and finally get them off their back.

you mean THAT timeline?

 

[Silvanus]

oh you mean that timeline that was pretty much only made up by Nintendo because of all the zelda fans who kept demanding there actually be a storyline from Nintendo so they EVENTUALLY printed one out to shut them up and finally get them off their back.

you mean THAT timeline?

This is a little harder to imagine when the games themselves draw links between each-other at times, before the Historia was published.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I think the timeline is nonsense and the worst thing Nintendo has done is pay any attention to it. You can't build a timeline when there was obviously no consideration given to such a thing for the majority of the series. Even worse, Hyrule Historia does the worst possible job of it and doesn't even actually make sense.

Buuut, if you are interested you should go to the Zelda Universe forums, people over there are really into timeline nonsense and there's already a 9-page thread about timeline predictions.