It was only September of this year that Nintendo representatives stood up at Australia’s Nintendo Live 2024 to declare that the two open-world Zelda games—Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom—exist on neither the Hero Is Defeated nor Hero Is ...

The official Zelda timeline has been added to reveal how The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom fits with the rest of the series.

The official Zelda timeline is the focus of much debate among the series’ hardcore fans, with rumblings over Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom’s place in all this recently settled when Nintendo popped both in a time and place all their own.

Echoes of Wisdom's official place on the Zelda timeline, and it turns out that the princess's adventure happens directly before the events of the first game. The Zelda timeline is, frankly, rather confusing – there's a whole timeline split after the events of Ocarina of Time depending on whether or not Link is defeated,