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Zelda Video Games
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A list of Zelda video games that exist:
| | The Legend of Zelda - This was the first game released in the series, though most of the games released since appear to take place in earlier time periods. In this game, Ganon is already in his pig-like beast form. According to the instruction manual and the official website, shortly before the beginning of the game, Ganon broke free from the Dark World, and his army attacked Hyrule, stole the Triforce of Power, and captured the ruling Princess Zelda, but not before she had time to break up and hide the Triforce of Wisdom. | | | Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - The second Zelda game is a clear sequel to the first one. According to its instruction manual, it takes place "several seasons" after the first game, and features the same Link, but a different Zelda. Moreover, the story references Ganon's destruction by Link in the first game. The game's back-story also references an old legend of Hyrule. According to it, long ago, a prince of Hyrule should have inherited the Triforce after the king's death, but he only obtained part of it. Indeed, his sister, Princess Zelda, let him keep the Triforce of Power and the Triforce of Wisdom, but the late king hid the Triforce of Courage. The prince and a magician questioned Zelda, but she refused to reveal the location of the last piece of the Triforce. In anger, the magician cast an eternal sleeping spell on Zelda, before dying himself. In grief, the prince ordered that all future girls of the royal family be named Zelda. The previous historical Zelda who hid the Trifo | | | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - This is the first of many Zelda games to have Hyrule's history told within the game. It is also the first game in which Ganon's real name, Ganondorf, is revealed. During this game, Ganon is in his demonic form, and sealed in the "Golden Land" (more commonly known as the Sacred Realm) with the Triforce. The game's instruction manual tells how all three pieces of the Triforce were originally hidden in the Golden Land. One day long ago, it was found by Ganondorf the Thief, and it granted his evil wish for a monstrous army to attack Hyrule. While the Knights of Hyrule defended the land, the Seven Sages created a magic seal to close off the Golden Realm. The game itself revolves around Ganon's ultimately-successful attempt to break the Sages' seal. Princess Zelda alerts Link to this, and Link goes on a quest to find the Master Sword (its first named appearance in the series), then defeats Ganon to reclaim the Triforce, using various means to trav | | | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening/DX - This game occurs soon after the events of A Link to the Past, according to the game's instruction manual. It states that Link left Hyrule on a journey of enlightenment after defeating Ganon. In this installment, Link shipwrecks on the mysterious Koholint Island while on his journey. He awakes to find that he has lost his sword and shield, the latter which was ultimately recovered by the natives. His original course forcefully abandoned, Link is told that the only way he can leave the island is to find and wake a creature of great power called the Wind Fish. Thus, his adventure begins. | | | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest - After its release, this game was confirmed by Shigeru Miyamoto as the first in the series' continuity at the time.[38] At the beginning of the game, Ganondorf, the King of the Gerudo tribe, has not yet gained the Triforce, though he does possess sorcerous powers. As the game progresses, Ganondorf follows Link into the Sacred Realm and, just as Link pulls the Master Sword from its pedestal, he appears, telling Link that he will rule Hyrule, now that Link "led" him into the Sacred Realm. Link is then promptly put into suspended animation for seven years, until he is deemed "of age" to wield the Master Sword. In the meantime, Ganondorf finds the Triforce, but because his heart is not balanced, as per a prophecy previously spoken, he causes the Triforce to divide into its three pieces — the Triforce of Power, the Triforce of Wisdom, and the Triforce of Courage. Ganondorf retains the Triforce of Power, and uses it to launch an attack on | | | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - This game takes place months after the events of Ocarina of Time, and stars the same Link after returning to his youth, according to the in-game story. While traveling through the Lost Woods searching for Navi, he is attacked by a Skull Kid wearing a sinister mask, and while trying to get his stolen horse and Ocarina back, accidentally falls into a parallel world called Termina, which is going to be destroyed by a falling moon in three days. Link must relive the same three days over and over again while trying to undo the chaos created by the Skull Kid through the power of Majora's Mask, and find a way to stop the impending apocalypse. | | | The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Ages) - These games are connected via a password system, and one takes place immediately after the other. They can be played and regarded in either order. In-game dialogue between the Link and Zelda featured in these games seems to suggest that this may be their first meeting. The Twinrova sisters from Ocarina of Time appear in these games, and plot to resurrect Ganon. | | | The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords - The versions of Link and Princess Zelda featured in this game are childhood friends. This is the first game in which Vaati and the Four Sword appear. According to an interview, Eiji Aonuma, a major designer and the director of many games in the Zelda series, considered this game to be the oldest in the timeline, implying that both this and The Minish Cap occur earlier than Ocarina of Time. | | | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - This game takes place hundreds of years after Ocarina of Time. Hyrule has been lost for centuries, and now all that remains of its civilization are a few scattered islands on the Great Sea. Halfway through The Wind Waker, the Link and Zelda from this game discover they are the successors to their counterparts in the old kingdom of Hyrule (now drowned beneath the Great Sea). It is revealed in dialogue between survivors of Hyrule that the Link of The Wind Waker is not related to the Hero of Time, the Link of Ocarina of Time; however, later on in the game, he is referred to as the "Hero of Winds". | | | The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - This game takes place some time after the events of Four Swords. It tells the story of how Ganondorf of the Gerudo obtains the power of an ancient trident and becomes the demon, Ganon. This may be a second origin of Ganon. At the end of the game, Zelda calls Ganon an "ancient demon reborn", implying that he is the reincarnation of the old Ganondorf from Ocarina of Time. It is interesting to note that Ganon (and Dethl, as Ganon's Shadow) also uses a trident in A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Oracle of Seasons, and Oracle of Ages, though there has never been any indication the games or the ancient trident from Four Sword Adventures are directly connected. | | | The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - This game is staged long before Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures. It involves the origins of the namesake weapon of the aforementioned games, the Four Sword, as well as Vaati, their primary antagonist. No mention of Ganon is made throughout the game. This game is considered by some fans to be chronologically the first in the series, because neither the Triforce nor Ganon are mentioned, and the game depicts the original release of monsters upon the world. | | | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - This game takes place at least a hundred years after Ocarina of Time. In an interview with Japan's Nintendo Dream Magazine, Aonuma stated that Twilight Princess occurs in a "parallel" world to The Wind Waker, following an alternate timeline in which Ganondorf does not take over Hyrule, and is instead sentenced to execution following the conclusion of Ocarina of Time. | | | The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - This game has been released in Japan and North America, and is scheduled to be released in Australia on October 11, 2007, and Europe on October 19, 2007. It is set after The Wind Waker and in the same setting, where Link must rescue Tetra after she is captured by a ghost ship. |
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