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Nintendo officially places Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom outside series' established timeline (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Headline is misleading. There is no canon timeline and never has been, regardless of what officially-licensed book it was published in.

The game designers have said many times that they don't take any sort of timeline into account when designing a new Zelda game. They nail down the mechanics, and the story comes next, and if it happens to match up thematically in relation to another game, that's just a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

The canon is anything that appears in the games. There are clear timelines between many of the games, asserted within the game text or game subtext.

Producers have gone on record echoing what's states in the HH, both before and after it was published.

Do not mistake the canon for something the producers and designers feel in any way bound by. That's not what the term means when discussing media.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean that's one way to look at it I suppose. However I don't think the story being secondary to gameplay means we have to discount what is there available to us. Like if you want to ignore it that's fine but I don't think you can say it's wholesale not canon.

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/dont_misinterpret_aonumas_words_hyrule_historias_timeline_is_fully_canon/

Edit: also want to say I am not taking this link as gospel, but just showing how the words can be interpreted many ways.

Also the newest timeline is on display at the official Nintendo live event in Sydney, which I would argue is more legit than a licensed book

Regardless it's not really that important, so if people like the timeline, who cares? Nintendo clearly acknowledges it, and the devs don't use it when making new games. Both can be true