Zelda or more precisely The Legend of Zelda is a video game license that is undoubtedly in the Pantheon of video games! The first episode of the saga was released in 1986 on NES and since that year, many episodes have followed one another for the greatest pleasure of players around the world.
But if you're a true fan, you probably know that these episodes don't follow one another chronologically... in fact, it's even a little more complicated than that!
While the story takes place in Hyrule over millennia, the main characters (Link and Zelda) are not actually the same throughout the series. They are reincarnated descendants who appear when they are needed… convenient!
And if that's not confusing enough for you, you also have to consider that the events that happened in Ocarina of Time (Link going back 7 years in time to defeat Ganondorf) split the series' timeline into three timelines, all branching out with the events of Breath of the Wild.
For my part, it's been a long time since I stopped trying to understand... besides, I'm a bad student, because I've only really played Zelda on Gameboy and recently Zelda Breath of the Wild on Switch...
So, if you are a little lost in the history of Zelda, this infographic in English tries to restore the chronology of the games of the saga! I let you discover!
