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[Tawa]

Which reminds me, I saw this interesting theory on another forum that the new game is a second branch; it's after Wind Waker, but Link lost in the final battle of WW and Ganondorf used the Triforce to restore Hyrule, and then everything went to hell because, well, it's Ganondorf ruling Hyrule.

Personally, I'm hoping for a game set after Twilight Princess, partly because I don't really see any conflicting ending/setup between the end of TP and the start of BotW and partly because the Child timeline currently has three games in it and one of them is Four Swords Adventures.

[SOLDIER First]

Honestly for a Ganondorf-ruled Hyrule it looks amazingly... non-dark-and-dreary-and-full-of-death-y. Especially considering what seven years of Ganondorf did in OoT.

[Furtuka]

Honestly for a Ganondorf-ruled Hyrule it looks amazingly... non-dark-and-dreary-and-full-of-death-y. Especially considering what seven years of Ganondorf did in OoT.

Ganon's been stuck inside a barrier surrounding the castle for the past century

[SOLDIER First]

But the theory states that, um, Ganondorf used the Triforce to restore Hyrule, and if he can restore an entire country from the ocean, I'm reasonably certain he can get past a little barrier.

[Furtuka]

Oh missed the theory discussion. Eh personally I'm leaning torwards the decline timeline. It's the only one where we really see Ganondorf being called Ganon and being in his pig form treated as the norm, and this game being full of callbacks to the first two Zeldas and their feel and the state of Hyrule make the most sense.

[Frumple]

Honestly for a Ganondorf-ruled Hyrule it looks amazingly... non-dark-and-dreary-and-full-of-death-y. Especially considering what seven years of Ganondorf did in OoT.

Ganon's been stuck inside a barrier surrounding the castle for the past century

... also, uh. At least what I saw it... did look pretty dreary. Colorful (but kinda' muted, too),  but a lot of what you see is some variation of broken or badly degraded. Dunno what the towns will look like, but the wilderness and ruins and whatnot look very much "after the end". Art style honestly looks like about the thematically darkest a zelda game's really indulged in, even TP or dark world stuff, to me.

[SOLDIER First]

Broken and badly degraded doesn't mean dreary. I don't mean everything's all rainbows and smiles, but (for a theoretical Ganondorf!Hyrule) there's a dissonant lack of people being murdered or turned into ghosts, especially considering, again, what happened the last time Ganondorf ruled Hyrule.

[Furtuka]

Speaking of Ganon, have a gif of the cutscene where he's glimpsed, with an added visual aid.

[SOLDIER First]

Huh. He looks a little miffed.

[JumpingJack]

I was under the impression that BofW was probably an offshoot of Wind Waker, given the existence of the Koroks. Granted, they could always appear in some other timeline, given some need for flight.

Speaking of Ganon, have a gif of the cutscene where he's glimpsed, with an added visual aid.

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Been trying to find a good gif of that for awhile. Awesome. Them tusks, yo.

[Egan_BW]

"Calamity Ganon" makes me think of a double-decline timeline for the billions of times I died playing Zelda 2. Return of Ganon is made out to be a suitably apocalyptic scenario in that. Doesn't explain Koroks though.

[TheBronzePickle]

If I had to put my bet in, Breath of the Wild is going to be a convergence of timelines. It's already shown off several things that are unique to certain separate timelines, plus there's the fact that the map is supposedly a convergence of several, if not all, of the maps of previous Zelda games.

Maybe the goddesses came back and were like '...shit, guys, I think we screwed this one up' and then stitched everything back together in the vain hope that the Chosen One might be able to fix things once and for all this time.

[SOLDIER First]

but... my train adventure... ;-;

[Putnam]

"Calamity Ganon" makes me think of a double-decline timeline for the billions of times I died playing Zelda 2. Return of Ganon is made out to be a suitably apocalyptic scenario in that. Doesn't explain Koroks though.

Oh shit. Link's been asleep for a hundred years. This might be the same Link as in Zelda 1 and 2.

But that's some "hey wouldn't it be cool" shit

[Egan_BW]

hey
would not that be cool