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. When Nintendo released the , fans coul🅷d latch onto a more concrete explanation of the timeline that others had already pieced together thro♕ugh hard work and time.
But even within Nintendo's official Legend of Zelda guides, lore, an🔯d encyclopedias, there are discrepancies. So what are fan🔜s 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 infor🌜mation. 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 tim𝓡elines. 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 T💙he Legend Of Zelda Manga
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 ꦆ 🌸 The Legend Of Zelda Game and Watch
Platforms & Release Years: Handheld Console (1989), Game & Watch™ꦐ: The Legend of Zelda™ System (2021)
Plot: The story was based on the original The Legend of Zelda 𒅌game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Some fans suggested that this was some weird proto DS one-game system. But that remains a theory.
Unique Features: N🌳intendo announced a new release of the nostalgic console for 2021 packed with 3 games from the series along with minꦚi-games:
- 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 Legend Of Zelda Game Watch 🍸
Platforms & Release Years: Electronic Wristwatch (1989)
Plot: W🔯hat a difference one word makes, eh? Nelsonic released this watch with a Zelda game on it in 1989. The story centered around the original The Legend of Zelda similarly to the Game and Watch.
36 T🐓he Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword ꦿ
Platforms & Release Years: Wii (2011), Wii U (2016), &🍰 Ninteඣndo Switch (2021)
Plot: Three Golden Go🧸ddesses came together and Din created the Earth, Naryu created order, and Farore created life. They left the Triforce behind for 𒅌some reason, but it could grant its holder tremendous power.
The Goddess Hylia ruled peacefully with the Triforce until the Demon King Demise wan෴ted it for himself, but Hylia sealed him away theꦇn put herself into a mortal body to defeat Demise when he escaped his cage. There’s also the Goddess Sword and Fi the spirit. In short, Zelda is the reincarnated Hylia, Link becomes the Hylian 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 t🎶he Hero of Time in Zelda loreꦛ.
35 ﷽ ಌ The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Platforms & Release Years: GameBoy Advance (2002)
Plot: This game introduces the antagonist Vaati, a wind sorcerer, 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 🎶garment, and light to “drive back the darkness.”
Link gets sent to the Picori to seek out Vaati and stop him, de-petrify Zelda, and restore the Picori blad🌞e to create the 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 Fairies in order to gain access to Vaati's palace. He defeats Vaati then seals him inside t🀅he Four Sword.
33 The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time ꦅ
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 whoඣse ♓premonitions help them foil Ganon’s plans. But Link needed to power up the Master Sword over seven years.
In that time, Ganondorf gains po⭕wer, pollutes the Sacred Realm and takes control of Hyrule castle. Link and Zelda manage to seal him there then Zelda sends 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 thre൲e different timelines in the universe and has seen various re-releases over the years.
FALLEN HERO TIMELINE
32 Barcod💙e Battler 2: Zelda 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. Link and Zelda communicate telepathically and Link saves the day.
Unique Features: Nintendo Sܫwitch owner🐲s can now play it via the SNES Library.
30 ꦦ BS-X: The Story Of The Town Whose Name Was Stolen
Platforms & Release Years: SNES via Satellaview (1995)
Plot: This game released alongside the Satellaview system, an expansion for the Super Famicom that enabled radio and s🍃atellite data reception, in 1995. It features twജo 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 is ❀essentially th🧸e same as the original Zelda game and the town used to be Hyrule (probably).