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Nintendo officially places Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom outside series' established timeline

It's official - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom take place outside the series' establi…

Watch on YouTube"Since 1987, Link has starred in the Legend of Zelda series, taking on monstrous foes across multiple timelines," Nintendo explains, via an image shared by Vooks. It then invites players to "learn more about this hero's journey" in the timeline below, which explicitly sets the series' latest additions in a completely separate timeframe to that of the rest of the games: Interestingly, there's no obvious link between the two latest games, either; whilst the others on the timeline have a line connecting them, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom do not.

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