168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda has dozens of games in the franchise, but, thankfully, the timeline is just a bit less confusing than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Castlevania's or that of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid franchise. W෴hen Nintendo released the , fans could latch onto a more concrete explanation of the timeline that others had already pieced together through hard work and time.
But even within Nintendo's official Legend of Zelda guides, lore, and encyclopedias, there are discrepancies.🅺 So💯 what are fans new to the series to do when they want to play vintage games?
While the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:canonical game timeline may not be the easiest thing to follow, the lore of the series is only getting deeper with each game that gets released — with Breath of the Wild having had some incredibly revelatory information. Let's explore the stories in the Legend of Zelda universe from🦂 Wind Waker to Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time, after which it diverges into three timelines. But don't worry! We'll cover those as well.
Updated on June 18, 2021, by Juliet Childers: Brian David Gilbert isn't the only one who can make a comprehensive chronological list of media from the iconic franchise. With E3 2021, Zelda fans got more information about Breath of The Wild 2. Even if 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the name remains a mystery, it tells us more about where it and the original game fall in the lore timeline.
39 The Legend Of 🦋Zelda Mang🌠a
Platforms & Release Years: Print Manga (1999)
Plot: First created in 1999 by Akira Himekawa, this was an exclusive comic celebrating the 25th anniversary of the franchise. It includes Link’s origin as being selected as the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hero of Hyrule.
38 ﷽ 🍃 The Legend Of Zelda Game and Watch
Platforms & Release Years: Handheld Console (1989), Game & Watch™: The Legend of Ze🍎lda™ System (20𓄧21)
Plot: ♏The story was based on the original The Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). So🍌me fans suggested that this was some weird proto DS one-game system. But that remains a theory.
Unique Features: Nintendo announced a new release of the nostalgic console for 2021 packed with 3 games from the series along with mini-ga𝔍mes:
- The Legend of Zelda
- Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Vermin
- interactable digital clock and timer
37 🍸 The Leg𓆏end Of Zelda Game Watch
Platforms & Release Years: Electronic Wristwatch (1989)
Plot: What a difference one word makes, eh? Nelsonic released this watch with a Zelda game on it in 1989. The story cent♏ered around the original The Legend🍷 of Zelda similarly to the Game and Watch.
36 𓆉 The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Platforms & Release Years: Wi﷽i (2011), Wii U (2016), &am💃p; Nintendo Switch (2021)
Plot: Three Golden Goddesses ꦍcame together and Din created the Earth, Naryu created order, an𓄧d Farore created life. They left the Triforce behind for some reason, but it could grant its holder tremendous power.
The Goddess Hylia ruled peacefully with the Triforce until the Demon King Demise wanted it for himself, but Hylia sealed him away then put herself into a mortal body to defeat Demise when he escaped his ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcage. There’s also the Goddess Sword and Fi the spirit. In short, Zelda is the reincarnated Hylia, Link becomes the Hyli🤡an Hero, and Ganon is created out of Demise’s ire and hatred.
Unique Features: It established the creation of the world and the cycle of the Hero of Tim꧅e in Zelda lore.
35 The Legend Of Zelda: The M🎀inish Cap ༺
Platforms & Release Years: GameBoy Advance (2002)
Plot: This game introduces the antagonist Vaati, a wind sorℱcerer, and acts as a sort of origin story for him, as well as the Four Sword. Hyruleans call the Minish citizens “Picori” and they are tiny creatures who gave a young man a sword, green garm♛ent, and light to “drive back the darkness.”
Link get𓆏s sent to the Picori to seek out Vaati and stop him, de-petrify Zelda, and restore the Picori blade to create t🦄he Four Sword.
34 🐠 The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords
Platforms & Release Years: GameBoy Advance (2002)
Plot: The game connects to A Link to the Past. Link uses the Four Sword to split himself into four Links (three clones and one original). Link, with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:help of his clones, finds the four Great Fairiesꦿ in order to gain access to Vaati's palace. He deꦆfeats Vaati then seals him inside the Four Sword.
33 ♕ ✨ The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time
Platforms & Release Years: Nintendo 64 (1998)
Plot: Lauded as the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:best game in the franchise, Ganondorf, as the Gerudo leader, wants the Triforce of power. He curses the Great Deku Tree to get an emerald to open the Door of Time. Link and his fairy familiar Navi want to stop this, so they team up with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Princess Zelda whose premonitions help them foil Ganon’s plans. But Link needed to power up the Master Sꦰword over seven years.
In that time, Ganondorf gains power,🦩 pollutes the Sacred Realm and takes control of Hyrule castle. Link and Zelda manage to seal him there then Zelda seꦬnds Link back in time using the Ocarina. The Master Sword is returned, the Door of Time closed, and Navi disappears.
Unique Features: The events of the game also trigger three different timelines in the unive🀅rse and has seen various re-releases over the years.
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32 🎉 Barcode Battler 2: Zeld✱a No Densetsu: Kamigami No Triforce
Platforms & Release Years: Barcodes(???) (1992)
Plot: Released in 1992 by Epoch Co., this game involved users scanning barcodes to fight enemies in the form of cards. Story-wise, it was mostly just a retelling of the next game on the list: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:A Link to the Past.
31 🎃 🐭 The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Platforms & Release Years: SNES (1991)
Plot: In the game, Link loses in his battle against Ganon, so the Seven Sages separate Ganon into the Dark World and the Sacred Realm is also sealed. Known as the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:era of light and dark, a dark wizard named Agahnim terrorizes Hyrule after a long period of peace in order to break Ganon’s seal. Lꦿink and Zelda communicate telepathically and Link saves the day.
Unique Features: Nintendo Switch owners can now play it via the SNES Liꦏbrary.
30 BS-X: The꧟ Story Of The𝕴 Town Whose Name Was Stolen
Platforms & Release Years: SNES via Satellaview (1995)
Plot: This game released alongside the Satellav🐽iew system, an expansion for the Super Famicom that enabled radio and satellite data rece💞ption, in 1995. It features two kids as the players, but some consider them to be an iteration of Link since he appears in a later BS game.
Unique Features: The plot isꦚ essentially the same as the original Zelda gam𓄧e and the town used to be Hyrule (probably).