#Nintendo provides Echoes of Knowledge to the official Zelda timeline

Ever since The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge got here out this previous September, followers started questioning the place precisely it matches on the franchise’s infamously convoluted timeline. After months of theories and hypothesis, Nintendo lastly gave us a definitive reply out of nowhere.

Just a few hours in the past, Nintendo up to date the official Legend of Zelda timeline on its web site in an effort to add Echoes of Knowledge. The latest installment within the franchise is a part of the “Fallen Hero” Timeline, a branched subsection that takes place in a hypothetical state of affairs during which Ganondorf defeated Hyperlink on the finish of Ocarina of Time.

To be extra particular, Echoes of Knowledge takes place after the 3DS co-op sport, Tri Power Heroes, and proper earlier than the occasions of the unique The Legend of Zelda for NES. Though, like most different entries on this franchise, there doesn’t appear to be any direct connections between all three video games and the plot of every one takes place hundreds of years other than the others.

Does the position of Echoes of Knowledge within the Zelda timeline make sense?

The Legend of Zelda’s timeline is notorious for its complexity and branched paths, so it’s necessary to level out whether or not the brand-new addition of Echoes of Knowledge is smart or not, and thankfully, it does. For starters, the “Fallen Hero” Timeline has many of the 2D Legend of Zelda titles in it, from the unique NES title to Hyperlink to the Previous and even A Hyperlink Between Phrases. Whereas Echoes of Knowledge does characteristic 3D graphics, Nintendo and Grezzo nonetheless constructed it as a 2D sport with a top-view perspective, so it nonetheless matches completely.

Alternatively, this placement isn’t a lot of a shock as a result of Hyperlink’s Awakening can also be on the “Fallen Hero” timeline. Satoshi Terada and Eiji Aonuma not too long ago revealed in an interview that Grezzo’s Nintendo Swap remake of Hyperlink’s Awakening was an enormous affect on the event of Echoes of Knowledge, so many followers theorized that each video games belonged to the identical a part of the timeline. In case you have been questioning in regards to the placement of the opposite two latest mainline entries, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, you must know that Nintendo retains them out of the primary Legend of Zelda timeline, on their very own separate timeline.