The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia

Great book, shame about the silly timeline

“Verified Purchase

This book is great for any Zelda fan. The hardback covers and pages are of excellent quality. There is a lot of artwork, screenshots and information contained in the book which will take hours and hours to read through.

My main gripe, and the reason I knock a star off, is this silly timeline that first appeared in the Hyrule Historia. They really try to work with it when explaining the history of Hyrule and connecting the games, and it just comes across as stupid and confusing, and as a Zelda fan I find it disappointing. I mean, why does it split into 3 timelines after Ocarina of Time? When I completed that game, I was triumphant and it ended with Link as a child. No idea where the other two timelines come from. What’s wrong with treating the games i” read more