Ambidextrous Link?

[ijdgaf]

You clearly need to play Wind Waker. It clears up (for me) a lot of the confusion about where the timeline went from Ocarina.

Essentially, in the intro to WW, it talks about a hero (we're lead to assume this is the Hero of Time from Ocarina) who saves Hyrule from an evil force. But then, the hero leaves Hyrule and the evil returns. The people expect their hero to arrive, but he never does. And the fate of Hyrule is a mystery.

I'm not going to elaborate further since you haven't played it. But that's enough to make my point.

The end of Ocarina has Link restored to his status as a child. And then he leaves for Termina in Majora's Mask.

And this makes perfect sense with the backstory of Wind Waker. Here, we can assume Link never returns to Hyrule, and when the evil returns Hyrule is SOL.

Now everything I've read states that Twilight Princess takes place between Majora's Mask and Wind Waker. Which makes very little sense to me. How did they manage to squeeze a third hero between them? Which hero does the backstory of Wind Waker speak of? Is the Link of Twilight Princess going to be forgotten somehow? Or was the original hero forgotten? Or what?

As of 31 hours in, there aren't any answers. But there have been *plenty* of nods to Ocarina of Time which lead me to assume the answers are coming. I'm just stumped at the moment is all. I can't accurately assess the strength of the plot because I've been lead to believe the big reveals are yet to come.

Of course, I've spent the past 5 hours searching for heart pieces, fishing, raising money for [censored], and collecting various golden [censored]. None of which have anything at all to do with the main plot.

It's Zelda, through and through. And the side quests are certainly compelling. And fishing freaking ROCKS with the wiimote.

It also doesn't help that I haven't the vaguest idea where the next temple is. Hmmm....