11th March 2004, 1:40 PM
Eh, with enough imagination you can pretty much put together the timeline any way you want to, with some exceptions (obviously MM takes place right after OoT and obviously WW takes place after OoT). It's not like other games where the developers have a grand plan and reveal the pieces one by one and know exactly where each piece goes, it's more like they intentionally keep the stories vague in order to leave lots of room for different ideas or alterations in the future. It does seem that the current Zelda developers do care about the story and are beginning to turn it into one whole, cohesive myth, but even then there are some missteps, like the whole Ganon thing you mentioned.