@sarumarine said:
It's hard to tell nowadays with the timeline stuff people seem hellbent on stringing together, and it's not helped by Nintendo itself. When Link's Awakening came out initially it was just a Zelda game for the gameboy. I don't remember seeing anywhere that it was a sequel or related to Link to the Past in anyway.
I vaguely recall it being LttP Link traveling the world to become a better hero. I can't recall WHERE that came from, but it's a pretty old recollection and not likely a timeline people thing.
I have no problem with the various timeline, but then it better actually matter at some point down the line Crisis on Infinite Earth's style.
I'm fairly positive the manual for Link's Awakening, which my 9-year-old self looked through a bunch, was where it said he was traveling the world to become a better hero. It didn't specifically say "following the events of Link to the Past", but I think it mentioned something about being after Ganon's defeat. At the time, that most obviously implied it to be a sequel to LttP, but it's vague enough that Nintendo could slot Link's Awakening in several places in the timeline. The Zelda series really has a ton of those sorts of ambiguities, because it's really never been that story-driven.
For the record, the timeline is still super dumb, and anyone thinking it's ever actually going anywhere to some final confrontation or anything is delusional. If Nintendo were actually trying to do significant universe building, then each game wouldn't speak in such vague generalities and contradict other games and retcon the mythology on occasion.
All the different gods, deities, essences, sages, spirits, Twili, etc. across all the different games really don't seem to come together into any coherent whole. It's just whatever works for that game, with a few random hints to previous Zeldas thrown in for the hell of it.
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