Nintendo on ilmeisesti paljastanut Japanissa ilmestyneessä Zelda-taidekirjassa myös sarjan pitkään fanien toimesta spekuloidun aikajanan virallisen version.
Eli Ocarina on koko sarjan vedenjakaja; siitä aikajana haarautuu peräti kolmeen suuntaan. Aikajana A:ssa Link epäonnistuu pysäyttämään Ganonin, joka johtaa ensin A Link to the Pastin tapahtumiin. Muut kaksi aikajanaa pohjaavat sille, että Link päihitti Ganonin Ocarina of Timessa. Aikajana B sille, että Link palasi lapsuuteensa ja aikana C sille minkä Link jätti taakseen seitsemän vuotta tulevaisuudessa.
Harva nyt Zeldoja pelaa sen takia, että niissä on vahva tarina, mutta mielenkiintoinen paljastushan tämä on jos tosiaan ihan virallinen aikajana kysymyksessä. Aikaisemminhan kahden aikajanan selitys on ollut se suosituin. Nyt niitä onkin peräti kolme!
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The Zelda series starts with a simple progression. The first four games in the timeline, from earliest to latest are:
1. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
2. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
3. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Here's where things get complicated, because Ocarina deals with a leap in time and technically only spells out one of those timelines with its ending. However, if these reports are to be believed, Nintendo has generated three scenarios based on Ocarina of Time.
The first, which we'll call Timeline A, assumes Link actually fails to stop Ganon. How or why this is a logical storyline path is a bit lost on us, because the game resolves that battle, but regardless, here are the games that follow Timeline A:
5-A. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
6-A. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Oracle of Ages
7-A. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
8-A. The Legend of Zelda
9-A. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
So there's that - many games based on an odd presumption. Regardless, the next path, Timeline B, works from the presented ending of Ocarina of Time, featuring Link returning to live through his childhood. As we all know, Majora's Mask picks up shortly after Ocarina's ending, leading to these games:
5-B. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
6-B. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
7-B. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
One more timeline for you. This one starts with Ganon's defeat in the Ocarina of Time era, and progresses from there - from the time that Link advanced and eventually left so he could be a child once again. Here are the games in Timeline C:
5-C. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
6-C. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
7-C. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks