Bruh what? All the games I listed have in game references to each other or were referenced as a prequel in their marketing at the time. This isn’t me or Nintendo pulling something out of our ass. Nintendo is gameplay first that’s true but they do think about story and timeline

Directly referencing the hero of time. Twilight princess is really the first game that causes serious timeline fuckery and Nintendo didn’t even wanna make that game. They made it because at the time people hated windwaker. Skyward sword has no direct connections fair enough but is an obvious origin

So if there was never a timeline order at all, explain why The legend of Zelda leads into A sequel, A link to the past is a prequel to those games, with OOT being a prequel to ALTTP. Majoras Mask is obviously a sequel to OOT. Both windwaker and twilight princess take place after OOT with WW 1/2

This is not true. There’s a clear and obvious connection between all of the Zelda games before twilight princess. Even that game has an obvious connection to OOT. Really the only mainline games that don’t have an obvious connection to another game is BOTW and TOTK which are their own thing