#Zelda timeline series#

After drawing the Four Sword, Link splits into four copies himself - green, red, blue, and purple - and they all have to work together to defeat various foes to get to Vaati, reseal him in the Four Sword, and rescue Zelda.įours Swords is the first multiplayer game in the series that was bundled with the 2002 Game Boy Advance version of A Link to the Past. Vaati breaks from the seal of the Four Sword and kidnaps Zelda with the intent of making her his bride. Read our review of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. You can currently play the game on Nintendo Switch thanks to the GBA game update. The Minish Cap is a prequel to Four Swords because once the Picori Blade is reforged, it turns into the Four Sword, which seals Vaati inside it. After Vaati unleashes a horde of monsters from breaking the sword’s seal and turns Zelda to stone in the process, Link sets off to reforge the Picori Blade with the help of Ezlo, the eponymous Minish Cap who has the power to shrink the wearer down to the size of the Minish. It's here that sorcerer Vaati, the first reincarnation of Demise, seeks the Light Force as he believes it hides the Picori Blade. Link accompanies Zelda to the Picori Festival to celebrate tiny people who call themselves Minish. The Minish Cap is the only canon Zelda title developed by a company other than Nintendo, which is Capcom. Read our review of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD 2. The remaster has two control schematics: one where the Joy-Cons replicate the motion control maps of the Wiimote and the Nunchuck, and another where the sword can be used with the right analog stick in handheld mode. Nearly 10 years after its release as a Wii game, Skyward Sword received an HD remaster for the Nintendo Switch. This game stars the first Link, who forges the Master Sword from the Goddess Sword with the help of Fi as he rescues Zelda from the demon lord Ghirahim in order to revive his master, Demise. Skyward Sword takes place thousands of years after the Ancient Battle in the Era of the Goddess Hylia, set on the floating island of Skyloft where knowledge of the surface world below is nonexistent.

Hyrule Warriors is its own separate thing because it was developed by Koei Tecmo, Omega Force, and Team Ninja - the creators of Dynasty Warriors - so we’re excluding the game from the list for that reason.Įarly History Timeline 1. That being said, here is the list of The Legend of Zelda games in chronological order according to the fictional continuity. The Calamity Timeline, which aptly starts with Age of Calamity, is separate from those timelines because it rendered them a myth. However, Nintendo released the master timeline in Hyrule Historia in 2011, which starts with Skyward Sword and branches into three different timelines after Ocarina of Time: the Child Timeline, the Adult Timeline, and the Fallen Hero Timeline.

The inconsistency in Link’s age is because Nintendo made the timeline open to interpretation.

If you’ve been a hardcore Legend of Zelda fan since 1986, you may have noticed that Link appears as a young adult in one game, a child in another, and vice versa.

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How to Play The Legend of Zelda Games In Chronological Order