For as long as The Legend of Zelda has existed, its timeline has caused confusion. Online debates have often raged over which games fall where on the timeline, and which timelines they even exist in to begin with.
With such a young development team, you'd expect The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's Switch 2 remake to face a lot of timeline-related questions, especially since some developers admitted they hadn't played the original game. Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma, who oversaw the remake, sought to simplify things with one piece of advice: just "focus on the game."
Spoilers for The Legend of Zelda timelines ahead.
The Legend of Zelda is split into multiple timelines. The Creation and Early Eras explores how Hyrule came to be and includes games like Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Time. Ocarina of Time then serves to split the series into three further timelines:
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom then unite these timelines, telling the story of a distant legend. It's all a little bit messy, and with a fledgling development team, Aonuma revealed to Game Informer that he received lots of questions about it during development.
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