Zelda order: This is how you play Link’s adventures correctly

Link has saved the land of Hyrule and its inhabitants from destruction more than once. We’ll show you how to play Zelda in the right order.

Zelda: One of the most successful action adventures

The game series “The Legend of Zelda” is one of the best known and most successful. Ever since the first Nintendo console, Link, Zelda and Ganon have been an integral part of the video game cosmos. This is also particularly well known master sword, which can banish and seal the dark. At the end, the monster Ganon or an incarnation of himself usually waits, usually through Ganondorf shown. However, it is not easy to put the games into one right order bring to. Our article will help!

The successor to “Breath of the Wild” is already in development but has been postponed to 2023. But there are still first moving images:

Zelda: The Story in Three Timelines

The reason for this lies in the events that took place during the fourth adventure “Ocarina of Time” occur. It’s not just one of the most popular series offshoots: it actually creates one historical fork in the road. In the game, Link embarks on a seven year journey through time, when he draws the Master Sword from the Seal Stone. Eventually arise three timelines:

1. Link pulls the sword from the stone and manages to thwart Ganondorf’s plans. He stays grown and keeps the master sword.
2. Link draws the sword from the stone, thwarting Ganondorf’s plans and returns to his true days as a young hero. There he can already counter Ganondorf’s diabolical plans and doesn’t even have to grow up. So the master sword remains in the seal stone.
3. Link pulls the sword out of the stone, grows up, but cannot stop Ganondorf’s plans. link fails so and can’t save Hyrule.

The series “The Legend of Zelda“ has existed for more than 30 years. Our photo gallery takes you through the many adventures of Link and Zelda in more detail:

Zelda: The correct order in the overview

You realize that it’s not that easy so far 18 games to play the Zelda series correctly in chronological order. Here you get one correct representation of the different timelines as well as the events that take place before “Ocarina of Time”:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
2. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
3. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

As previously described, the chronology of the games is now split into three timelines that arise from the events in “Ocarina of Time” and take place in parallel.

First timeline

Link is defeated by Ganondorf: Hyrule’s Fall and the Last Hero

1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
2. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages & Oracle of Seasons
3. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
4. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
5. The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
6. The Legend of Zelda
7. The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link

Second timeline

Link defeats Ganondorf and returns to his true days as a young hero: The Shadow World and the Hero’s Descendants

1. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Third timeline

Link defeats Ganondorf and stays grown: The Hero of the Wind and the New World

1. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
2. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
3. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

to “The Legend of Zelda“ there are many fan projects. For example, a very special card made of wood:

Zelda: Where is Breath of the Wild?

It’s a bit complicated, but now you have an overview of all parts of The Legend of Zelda and their order. but JUST! Where is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? In fact, it’s entirely true that the critically acclaimed Switch adventure doesn’t make this list. According to Nintendo, “Breath of the Wild” can not on the official timelines to be added. Of course, that may change at some point, but for now, Breath of the Wild is all on its own. However, it is of course clear that the direct sequel to “Breath of the Wild” will definitely continue the events of the story.

In the following quiz you can test your knowledge about “The Legend of Zelda“ put to the test:

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