10th March 2004, 9:10 PM
Well, I certainly didn't think that. The explanation I've heard before is that it occurs after OOT/MM, but that's also flawed because in that era, the triforce was sent into the sacred realm and couldn't possibly be accessible. Wind Waker also isn't possible for the same reason (unless something happens in the next GCN Zelda to allow for it). This only leaves room for them occuring after Zelda 2 when the triforce was finally fully recovered, but then the age problem shows up again. Link in Zelda 2 is clearly an adult (well, late teen early adult), and in fact it's an important story point. Nope to that as well. Even by saying it's another world inside the triforce these things proove it couldn't be using any existing Link or era.
Essentially, the only way it works sensibly, especially since the idea of it all occuring within the triforce doesn't really hold water with absolutely nothing to show it's the case (occam's razor, simplest explanation is the right one), is the alternate reality thing. The Zelda world already has alternate realities, like the Dark World (and it's magical connection to the light world), and the world of Termina that Link visits in Majora's Mask. This one is simply the first to occur completely seperate from the main Zelda world. However, I don't think it can even be attached to the same MULTIVERSE as the normal Zelda world, because it's made rather clear that, even across multiple realities, the triforce is one of a kind since there isn't a double of it in the light world in LTTP. Though, I suppose it's possible that the Trinity created many triforces on many worlds across the multiverse. I think though it might be best to consider it a Zelda storyline completely outside the normal Zelda games. Four Swords I think also falls under this, as it doesn't really fit anywhere either. Maybe thought they both occur in the SAME world unto themselves though. Perhaps the Capcom games should be thought of as "outside" the normal Zelda universe.
Essentially, the only way it works sensibly, especially since the idea of it all occuring within the triforce doesn't really hold water with absolutely nothing to show it's the case (occam's razor, simplest explanation is the right one), is the alternate reality thing. The Zelda world already has alternate realities, like the Dark World (and it's magical connection to the light world), and the world of Termina that Link visits in Majora's Mask. This one is simply the first to occur completely seperate from the main Zelda world. However, I don't think it can even be attached to the same MULTIVERSE as the normal Zelda world, because it's made rather clear that, even across multiple realities, the triforce is one of a kind since there isn't a double of it in the light world in LTTP. Though, I suppose it's possible that the Trinity created many triforces on many worlds across the multiverse. I think though it might be best to consider it a Zelda storyline completely outside the normal Zelda games. Four Swords I think also falls under this, as it doesn't really fit anywhere either. Maybe thought they both occur in the SAME world unto themselves though. Perhaps the Capcom games should be thought of as "outside" the normal Zelda universe.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)