He outright explained how it worked about the time when TWW was out, and explained it again in 2006 after TP came out; Aonuma didn't just mention it for a sentence and move on to something else. How would he do that if he doesn't know anything about the lore?
I'm not saying he doesn't konw
anything. You have to know at least large swatchs to be in his position. My point is he doesn't know everything and is not in charge of creating said story.
The official JAPANESE site has it, so that in itself is a big statement.
Which was written by...?
Does that mean that the programmer doesn't know what the sounds/music for the game sounds like? No. Common sense dictates that someone who is heavily involved with the game would know the sounds/music, as sound is a major part of any game, pretty much, especially a series like Zelda known for its soundtracks.
They'd probably know some of the major tunes, but they may not know, say, the sound that the current iteration of Tingle makes upon talking to him. Nor would they know exactly what was going on in said department at the time. They'd be involved, and they'd know some, but there would be far better people to ask.
[QUOTE}The only proof that you posted earlier was about Zant's Neck snap thing, which doesn't mean that the doesn't know the order of the games[especially since beyond Zant mocking Ganon and, any deeper meaning is ambiguous), and him being humble about someone knowing more about Zelda lore, which doesn't mean much considering the fact that humility is a big part of Japanese culture.[/QUOTE]
He knows the order of the games in his mind; but just because he himself believes that to be the order does not necessarily make it the only possible correct order.
Sad but true.
All media with over arcing timelines have plotholes at some point, and you don't see people pointing and saying ''the timeline is wrong''. It's ridiculous that Zelda is treated differently.
I can accept plotholes alot easier than going against official statements.
Also...
It's pretty clear to me. I see nothing wrong with the way I told that story. It makes perfect sense; Einstein created the theory of relativity, which is one of his known accomplishments, so it's a good ''lure'' to get people interested in learning more. I can't think of a better way of telling it.
And with this your metaphor is moving away from your initial point. There's a slim chance that the Triforce being in Hyrule at one point was a "lure". What's alluring about that fact? What would get people in the real world interested about the Triforce being in Hyrule? If you wanted a lure, there's a million more interesting things to say. Say where it came from. Say what it does. But they instead chose to say it was in Hyrule. In the case of your Einstein story, it works fine, because that is something that would interest a great number of people; but I don't feel like that same logic carries over to the case in ALBW.
How about I use some more direct words from Aonuma?
When we start to work on a new Zelda, we of course think about all this timeline stuff. Nintendo has a lot of IPs today. And Shigeru Miyamoto asks that we do our best to keep the timeline coherent. So we do it. But honestly, when we start to think of a new Zelda, respecting the timeline is a constraint for us. We would like to be free to imagine whatever we want without having to worry about the timeline. Being able to create while still keeping Zelda's essence, and bring new things to the table. Except now when we think of a new idea, we have to wonder "OK, but where does it fit in the timeline ?" and it instantly becomes very complicated ! And sometimes, we can't do these new ideas because it wouldn't fit in the timeline ! So, for the creative teams, it's an hindrance. Yeah, we published a timeline in a book but among our staff, we would like to be able to stop thinking about it... What's funny is to see the fans debate where BoTW fits in the timeline. But history has been written by historians that have been able to establish an order of events. Except no one is really sure everything happened in this exact order ! Anyways, when it comes to the Zelda timeline, I'm of the opinion that it's for the players to debate, and to imagine themselves the order of events !
This comes from an interview with Siphano, a French YouTuber, posted in August 2017. I'll link the video here:
https://youtu.be/I_zixSwJkeY
Admittedly, I can't speak or read French. So I'm relying on a third party translator translating it into English. Said translation can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/truezelda/comments/6rtbh7/aonuma_on_how_they_view_the_timeline_when_making/
The comments don't seem to be questioning the translation, and it's usually a very detail-focused subreddit, so I'm inclined to trust it.
Let's go over the words Aonuma said in that interview one more time,namely this line:
Anyways, when it comes to the Zelda timeline, I'm of the opinion that it's for the players to debate, and to imagine themselves the order of events !
If you say what Aonuma says is true - that if he were to say that OoT could be replaced by an episode of Seinfeld and you'd accept it as canon - then you should listen to these words too.
Anouma is annoyed by the timeline. It holds the games - and his ideas - back. He'd like to forget about it while making his games.
And, more importantly, he would rather that
we determine the order of events for ourselves. Not him, not Dark Horse Comics, us. The players. The fans. You. Me. Firece_Deity. It's up to us to decide how we think the games should go.
So if you want to continue believing in the HH timeline? Be my guest. But this should prove, going by your own logic, that those books are simply one way to view the franchise, and not the only way.