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collinmcnulty • today at 6:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I do not want to rain on your parade, but I find attempts to impose a coherent timeline on Zelda miss the opportunity to engage with it as a legend, a story told over and over with certain essential parts but many changing interpretations. How our very familiarity with the story creates the opportunity for surprise. There are so many fictional worlds with sprawling lore, and so few that engage with the retelling of stories and myths like Zelda does.


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atomicnumber3 • today at 6:30 PM

I agree, but Nintendo greatly damaged opposition efforts to timelining by... endorsing one. In an artbook, of all places.

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