Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I just watched this Retrospective on YouTube, and they spend the last part trying to come up with a timeline for Zelda, including explaining why Minish Cap is first. Could this be the basis for your theory, Chaltab?
No, I've thought TMC was the earliest since I played it. It's a fairly popular placement at Zelda Legends, or at least it was until someone decided that the similarities in graphic design were a totally valid way of determining the timeline.
But I did think of another reason why Link's Awakening should be after A Link to the Past. The game takes place as a dream of Link, and a lot of the activity is based off of his memories. He faces a lot of enemies and bosses first seen in A Link to the Past including, most importantly of all, Shadow Agahnim, whose real counterpart only appears in A Link to the Past. One could argue this is a prophetic type of dream, but it makes more sense to me that it would be revived in his nightmares.
I just watched this Retrospective on YouTube, and they spend the last part trying to come up with a timeline for Zelda, including explaining why Minish Cap is first. Could this be the basis for your theory, Chaltab?
No, I've thought TMC was the earliest since I played it. It's a fairly popular placement at Zelda Legends, or at least it was until someone decided that the similarities in graphic design were a totally valid way of determining the timeline.
But I did think of another reason why Link's Awakening should be after A Link to the Past. The game takes place as a dream of Link, and a lot of the activity is based off of his memories. He faces a lot of enemies and bosses first seen in A Link to the Past including, most importantly of all, Shadow Agahnim, whose real counterpart only appears in A Link to the Past. One could argue this is a prophetic type of dream, but it makes more sense to me that it would be revived in his nightmares.
True. Prophetic type dream is indeed my reasoning. (Not that anything in LA really makes much sense.)
Honestly, the best argument against my timeline is the Triforce. In Oracle it starts out in a shrine or castle, but in ALTTP it's in the Pyramid of Power. For mine to work, I have to assume that while Link was gone saving the other nations, The Triforce somehow entered the Dark World and was found by Ganon.