Eiji Aonuma: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Will Never Be Placed In The Timeline

Nintendo Insider writes: Its long and rich history has been much debated, but The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has stated that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will never be placed in the chronological timeline.

[Geobros]

To be honest, I never loved all the time line story and the book. I never understood why they tried to relate every game.

[EddieNX]

I just like the idea that there have been multiple incarnations of the hero of time, each in his own time and place. Screw the timeline.

[TheColbertinator]

Nobody really cares. Great series with plenty of great games is the only concern.

[CobraKai]

Wow. I like his reasoning. It’s so true

[nommers]

Most of the Zelda games are so loosely connected that there might as well not be a timeline.

[Zeldafan64]

I like the timeline regardless of whether it makes any sense.

[Sirk7x]

Yeah, when you have time travel and parallel universes, it doesn't even really matter when and where they take place lol. It is cool when they purposely design it to fit in with an established game, but the rest, you're just fumbling for pieces. BoTW seems to take place hundreds of thousands of years in the future of any game, and doesn't matter. It's a bit of a letdown, but doesn't take away from enjoying the game.

[porkChop]

I get what's he's saying, but before the game came out he said it had a specific place in the timeline, and that players would have to play the game to find out. But no one has really figured out a definitive answer because the game fits all the timelines in different ways.

I get not wanting to restrict it to a certain timeline, but the game *was* created in a specific timeline according to what he previously said. Not clarifying which timeline doesn't change the fact that the game does have a set point in the chronology.

Either way it doesn't really matter to me, the game was awesome regardless. I just think it's weird to create a story with a chronology in mind, but then pretend it's not part of said chronology. It doesn't make sense lol.

[ZeekQuattro]

It wouldn't of fit anywhere in the timeline anyway. It highlights events from the Link succeeds and Link fails timelines.

[inxine]

i feel like they only "created" a timeline, because fans created their own. it also feels like alot of the games are so loosely connected to eachother that theres almost no need for a timeline.