The Legend of Zelda : breathing spell of the Wildhas in conclusion found a place in the   enfranchisement ’s timeline , but Nintendo has decided to make it a little more complicated than that . Although there has been much debate about whereBreath of the Wildfits into the long history of Hyrule , the answer is n’t as bare as placing the game at the end of a timeline .

As the latest statute title in the long - runningZeldafranchise , the Nintendo Switch game blew critics away with its expansive   backcloth and the biggest version of Hyrule that gamers have ever seen . The open - public feel allowed instrumentalist to explore more of Hyrule than   old chapter and learn more about the mythical land ’s   complex history . It now become out thatBreath of the Wild ’s Hyrule is literally in a world of its own .

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The officialNintendo Japansite update itself to includeBreath of the Wildand reassert that the game is formally at the end of the timeline . With Mount Daphnes call after a sealed male monarch of Hyrule and the ruin of Lon Lon Ranch found inBreath of the Wild , it did n’t take a mavin to calculate out that the title was a sequel to the the likes of ofOcarina of TimeandThe Wind Waker .

Back in 2011 , Nintendo releasedHyrule Historiato answer where each of the secret plan accommodate into theZeldatimeline . Since then , three more biz have been released . WhileA Link Between WorldsandTri Force Heroeswere successors toA Link to the Past , placingBreath of the Wildhas been a little slick . bewilderingly , Nintendo has made it even more complicated by putting the latest biz in a whole timeline of its own .

In an interesting development , series producer Eiji Aonuma explicate toFamitsuBreath of the Wild ’s plate in the serial is finally up to the buff ’s mental imagery :

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" Hyrule ’s history interchange with time . When we think of the next game and what we want to do with it , we might think , ' Oh , this ’ll fit well ' , and direct it neatly into the timeline , but sometimes we reckon , ' Oh crap ' , and have to change the placement . Actually , the decide chronicle has been fine-tune many times . "

For those who do n’t know , Zeldawas already split up into three timeline . The Child Timeline embrace the likes ofMajora ’s Mask , the Adult Timeline was for games includingThe Wind Waker , and a Fallen Hero Timeline depicted a world where Ganondorf wonOcarina of Timeand   plow games likeThe Legend of Zelda . While it would ’ve been simple to slotBreath of the Wildinto any of these , it has been give a timeline of its own .

Although the game ’s confusing placement can be a little frustrating , it does   explicate the various Easter orchis to the rest of the serial without being an official continuation to anything before . The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wildmay be the goal of the current tale , but with a subsequence almost certainly set for the Nintendo Switch of whatever comes next , this young timeline could have another addition in the distant future tense .

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origin : Nintendo Japan , Famitsu

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