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The Zelda Timeline
If you've been keeping up with the news, Nintendo has released a new official Zelda artbook in Japan that details the "actual" Zelda timeline. Scans have been showing up on the internet since last night, and from the translations Kotaku put together this graphic. Not only is it a split timeline, it's a 3-way split timeline based off the three different versions of history in Ocarina: One where Link fails to defeat Ganon and the world falls into chaos(LttP), one where Link defeats Ganon and the story continues from his childhood where he re-meets Zelda(MM), and one where Link defeats Ganon and his story continues as an adult(WW).
Thoughts? If you want to dig through the actual scans themselves and the translations, a lot of it is being posted here.
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Other than that, I'm glad the developers have the common sense I've had for a while now and put them in the obvious order. I've seen some stupid timelines, but this has a lot of good things (ALttP being a predecessor to Link's Awakening, with Zelda I and II taking place at the end of everything, the split timeline, blah blah blah). While it may require some retconning, it's easily the most logical timeline established thus far, and I'm glad Nintendo hasn't done anything stupid.
Okay, Dave's never steered me wrong.
*suicide*
I will grant you that Eiji Aonuma, who has helmed most of the games in the last decade or so, has made several references to an overall timeline. In my humble opinion, I think that the timeline he talks about was an attempt to try to tie together a bunch of the original games into a cohesive narrative, and the later games are the glue. The theory that there are three split timelines from OoT would kind of agree with that. That's not exactly looking forward to have something that messed up.
I do like the speculating, though. It is rather fun.
To bring up ponies for the hell of it, just because they have shout-outs to G1 stuff in G4 ponies doesn't mean G1 and G4 exist in the same universe.
The Majority of elements from the original my little pony read like an ingredients list or a spec sheet for the FIM episodes, so I'd call it the same universe. I mean, a ton of the groundwork is laid out there, Spike is lifted from there, Celestia and Luna are very strongly based on characters from there (Fun Fax, back then they were called "Princess Ponies", and were a little more similar to the regulars in FIM, but everybody has to grow up sometime, I guess.) It's more than just a few shout-outs, and just because My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans hold the original work in disdain and wish to disassociate themselves and believe that everything MLP:FIM sprang fully formed from the holy Faust's forehead, fact remains, the two are very strongly linked, and no amount of pretending will make that fact go away.
@open_sketchbook - Except Zelda reuses characters, has direct links between the games SINCE the 2nd one came out, since it was made as a direct sequel, inarguably, whereas Final Fantasy never reuses whole characters, just names (ignoring the part of Final Fantasy X-2 where the developers tried to make it be part of the back-story to FFVII by explaining in the FFX Ultimania Guide in Japan that the character Shinra would eventually build a rocket, fly to another planet, and that it was the FFVII planet). Comparing them makes no sense.