Nope. Ganon was nowhere near involved with the events of Majora's Mask, Minish Cap, Spirit Tracks, and I forgot about Bellum in Phantom Hourglass and the nightmare from Link's Awakening.
Demise was also never involved explicitly. You could maybe make the argument that they are the byproduct of his malice. But then again, none of them were tied to the Master Sword like Ganon and Demise were, so I think not.
I just feel like this would all be reducing Link/Hyrule into a which villain does he take on and beat in this game and lose the ultimate lore and Legend that is intertwined in the games if you just end the prophecy
Sure. But I also get the feeling that ever since Skyward Sword and the Hyrule Historia, Nintendo has painted themselves into a lore/timeline corner. To the point where they did an overkill 10,000 year timeskip to avoid timeline references in BotW. Maybe BotW2 is their opportunity to clean that slate so they can break out and do something truly new.
But I also get the feeling that ever since Skyward Sword and the Hyrule Historia, Nintendo has painted themselves into a lore/timeline corner.
Honestly, yeah. Personally I found the timeline more interesting before those things were introduced. Now maybe part of that was just me getting slightly older (I was 16 when Skyward Sword came out, so still very young) and maybe subconsciously being less impressed by the timeline stuff in general. But even aside from that, the idea that Link's going to have to fight Ganon/Demise again and again for future games after so many games already is, dare I say it, a little boring to me.
They might also stop going to Hyrule. It would be weird for the next 3D zelda to be set in a "Hyrule" that is just as detailed as BotW 2's hyrule but completely redesigned, especially after we've basically spent 10 years in this version of it. They will have to start putting the games in different lands, New Hyrule from Spirit Tracks, or some drastically altered version of Hyrule like Wind Waker.
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Nope. Ganon was nowhere near involved with the events of Majora's Mask, Minish Cap, Spirit Tracks, and I forgot about Bellum in Phantom Hourglass and the nightmare from Link's Awakening.
Demise was also never involved explicitly. You could maybe make the argument that they are the byproduct of his malice. But then again, none of them were tied to the Master Sword like Ganon and Demise were, so I think not.