It might have worked around the era of Twilight Princess; there was enough continuity in the series that it had consistent lore, the games were trending toward cinematic, lots of cut scenes and character arcs and such. Not sure a movie is going to play well in the “We physically cannot care about this story” era represented by BotW and TotK.
Honestly, I don’t think there was ever a time when Zelda had lore that spanned outside the borders of the individual games. Or at least, where lore like that was considered important or taken seriously. The whole timelines thing always seemed to me like a kind of after-thought.
The Legend of Zelda has a lot more in common with Final Fantasy. There’ll be a lot of similar things in between each game, but each game is self-contained.
I agree, I think the whole “official timeline” thing was 100% a fan created mythos which Nintendo saw was gaining traction and played into to make more money. It’s pretty clear that most of the games had very little connection to one another beyond the basic concept of the core theme (the hero saving the world from a great evil) repeating itself.
Each game tells you where they are in the timeline in relation to the other games since the beginning (except the Capcom ones). If you think the fans made it up, you straight up did not read.
It is my understanding the whole three timelines splitting at Ocarina of Time was made up by Nintendo for Hyrule Historia. Fans wanted the series overall to make sense as one mythos, Nintendo is physically incapable of caring about this story. This came to a head with BotW being specifically designed to not fit in any of the three timelines; it’s in the far future, there are Rito and Zora around, etc. and then TotK directly contradicts Ocarina of Time.
It might have worked around the era of Twilight Princess; there was enough continuity in the series that it had consistent lore, the games were trending toward cinematic, lots of cut scenes and character arcs and such. Not sure a movie is going to play well in the “We physically cannot care about this story” era represented by BotW and TotK.
Honestly, I don’t think there was ever a time when Zelda had lore that spanned outside the borders of the individual games. Or at least, where lore like that was considered important or taken seriously. The whole timelines thing always seemed to me like a kind of after-thought.
The Legend of Zelda has a lot more in common with Final Fantasy. There’ll be a lot of similar things in between each game, but each game is self-contained.
I agree, I think the whole “official timeline” thing was 100% a fan created mythos which Nintendo saw was gaining traction and played into to make more money. It’s pretty clear that most of the games had very little connection to one another beyond the basic concept of the core theme (the hero saving the world from a great evil) repeating itself.
Each game tells you where they are in the timeline in relation to the other games since the beginning (except the Capcom ones). If you think the fans made it up, you straight up did not read.
It is my understanding the whole three timelines splitting at Ocarina of Time was made up by Nintendo for Hyrule Historia. Fans wanted the series overall to make sense as one mythos, Nintendo is physically incapable of caring about this story. This came to a head with BotW being specifically designed to not fit in any of the three timelines; it’s in the far future, there are Rito and Zora around, etc. and then TotK directly contradicts Ocarina of Time.