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Originally Posted by Mr Sensitive
I know exactly what you mean. I'm also still trying to understand the Legend of Zelda timeline.
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I was pondering about that earlier. This is what I've come up with.
Ocarina of Time is the first one. The creators pretty much said that this takes place before all the other Zelda games, LTTP, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess all directly reference the events of this game.
There's a lot of things that makes it confusing to sort the timeline out, one is the fact the events in Ocarina have triggered two alternate timelines. Yeah, that's right, there's actually two timelines in the Zelda universe, no wonder it's so confusing.
The first one starts from when Link is still a child in OOT, in this one Ganon has been properly defeated and sealed away forever (or so we thought), Majoras Mask is part of this timeline as it's set right after the events of OOT, with Link still in his child form. Twilight Princess is also a part of this timeline.
The other timeline starts from when Link is an adult in OOT, in this one, Hyrule is still the way Ganon left it. Eventually Hyrule is flooded, becoming the great sea as seen in Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass. Now if you remember, in Wind Waker one of your subquests was to plant trees throughout the world, the purpose of which is that over time these will become massive deku trees that will drawn out the great sea.
IMO the next game in the second timeline is Minish Cap followed by the Four Swords games, there are cutscenes that show these games being set on a small island in a vast ocean, so it's easy to make the connection to Wind Waker for that reason alone. Also, from these games onward, Ganondorf is always in his beastly Ganon form, which is a cursed result of him using the triforce of power. FSA explains the origins of Ganon's trident, which he never had in the previous games in the timeline, it also proves that this game takes place before LTTP.
Link's Awakening is considered a direct followup to LTTP, and I'm compelled to believe that the Oracle games feature the same link as LTTP as the artwork depicts him with a very similar design as that of LTTP, and once again they feature Ganon, with his trusty trident.
We know that LOZ and Zelda II are set after Ocarina and LTTP. So that leads me to believe that the first two Zelda games are also the last two in the second timeline, funny how that works.
So in short.
Timeline 1:
Ocarina of Time
Majoras Mask
Twilight Princess
Timeline 2:
Ocarina of Time
Wind Waker
Phantom Hourglass
Minish Cap
Four Swords and Four Swords Adventure
LTTP
Link's Awakening
Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages
Legend of Zelda
Zelda II
I don't quite know where Spirit Tracks will place in the timeline but Wikipedia states that it takes place 100 years after Phantom Hourglass.
So yeah, I hope you found this helpful. I'm the greatest source of useless knowledge on this forum.