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I went ahead and finished Breath of the Wild over the weekend... it's interesting because it's honestly one of the better stories in the Zelda franchise, but it's also one of the games where the gameplay feels very separated from the story. I think it helps that the game is set 100 years after a disaster that befell Hyrule, and the story mostly deals with finding out what, exactly, happened in that initial disaster. So you get some drama, some tragedy, and a few mysteries that gradually reveal themselves. Plus, since most of this stuff happened a century ago, it's not quite as jarring to have your character spending time wandering around the world doing odd jobs instead of taking care of the problem as fast as possible.

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Austin Hanson

I still believe that BotW is in the downfall timeline. Other than that, still great art!

bananacreamcake

You mean the timeline where Link is defeated? I suppose if it's in the far future of that timeline, but there's a lot of mentions in-story of specific characters from OOT and how they helped the Legendary Hero defeat Ganon, so it seems more likely to me that it would be in one of the other two official timelines.

Austin Hanson

I see this game sometime after zelda 2 adventure of link. And it could be talking about all of the games that take place between the fall of link in OoT and the zelda 2.

bananacreamcake

Well, after posting my comment I realized I wasn't totally sure what the Downfall timeline entails... so it's an alternate timeline where all the events of OOT occur, so all the characters who helped to seal Ganon away do succeed (and would still be importanty, practically mythological stories by this point). But before he's locked away he manages to get the other two Triforce pieces, which he uses to transform the Sacred Realm into the Dark World. This is also the timeline with the most monstrous form of Ganon... so I think you're right. It still all adds up to the Downfall timeline seeming like it makes the most sense as the setting for this game.

Austin Hanson

Yeah it's the only timeline that makes sense. The adult link timeline results in THE Hyrule being destroyed completely by drowning it. And for some reason it doesn't make much sense for the game to be in the child link timeline which includes twilight princess. I guess logically it just seems that it is in the downfall timeline. I guess it's just in the timeline link has pissed off ganon so many times that would be reasonable for him to give up reincarnation and turn into that entity of rage. And when a certain female champion mentions that Ganon was once a gerudo, it ties back to OoT where it was the first and only time in the downfall timeline that he had a human form. Heck canon says that him becoming the pig monster was from a failed attempt to resurrect him.