Template talk:Zelda series

Creating a new header in this template specifically for the game boy/game boy color/game boy advance games: Yay or Nay?


 * Nay. What would you do with Four Swords? You'd either have to write it twice or get rid of the spinoff heading. I thought maybe a header for games not developed by Nintendo might be useful, but then I realised that would create the same problem. -- Oddity 22:37, 1 Nov 2005 (CST)

Spin-offs
The Four Sword games aren't spin-offs, they're part of the Zelda canon. The only real "spin-off" is the Tingle RPG. --JSC 11:30, 6 September 2006 (PDT)
 * This one is hard to say. The first time we saw Four Swords, it was a bonus multiplayer game.  However, Four Swords Adventure can't really be treated as canon.  The play mechanic, level based system (two levels + dungeon), and the four sword itself, coupled with the non-traditional Zelda leveling system are dramatically different than any other Zelda games before it.  The interesting thing is that since Four Swords Adventure, we have yet to have a Zelda game that will acknowledge or deny the what has happened in any of the Four Swords Games.


 * Interestingly, Wikipedia lists it as a Main Series. I think that if we ever get another Four Swords game that is in the style of either Four Swords games, we can branch it off as something other than a spin-off.--AlphaTwo 20:38, 6 September 2006 (PDT)


 * I'm pretty sure someone high-up in the Zelda team, maybe even Miyamoto, explicitly said "no, the Four Sword games are not some alternate universe, they belong in the main timeline". (Wish I remember which interview I read that in.) Plus, are you forgetting Minish Cap? It's true that those three games (Minish Cap, FSA, and FS) have no *direct* connection to the other games in the timeline, but we do know for certain they're not AU or retconned or anything like that.


 * Besides. Legend of Zelda and Adventures of Link have absolutely no connection to any point in the timeline either. They could just have easily never been canon -- does that make them spin-offs?


 * Either way, I at least wouldn't consider them "spin-offs" in the same way the Tingle RPG is, which fits more of the definition of a spin-off in my mind.


 * Plus, Capcom says no more multiplayer Zelda games from them. So, we won't be getting any more FS games, unless Nintendo decides to revive it for some reason. --JSC 12:36, 7 September 2006 (PDT)