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Not a good time to be into videogames and not be an English speaker:

This is so dystopia and grim:

Plot of every zelda is that an evil called ganon comes back and it's up to a chosen hero to save Hyrule. That's it every time. The setting and characters change and sometimes there's adventures after the events of a main game but they rarely differ from that monomyth although Nintendo has a lot of fun with the settings and mechanics.

There was a published timeline but it's a load of arse and I feel Nintendo only released it to give the turbo nerds something to argue over and don't seem to take it seriously. Since they brought it out we must have had 4 origins of the master sword games.

Not really really fair on Zelda. CoD is essentially the same game framework with a story and location change. Zelda on the other hand usually reinvents itself with each game and while it uses the same monomyth framework, it manages to craft a decent story around it while making locations and characters extremely memorable. I mean other than graphics there's very little difference in CoD since Modern Warfare. Zelda on the other hand has gone through some wild iterations that completely changed the format. Every so often we get safe games. TotK wasn't different enough from BotW and there was a while where a lot of the 3D zelda's felt like a remake of Ocarina but you can hardly call Zelda stale when you look at the variety and gameplay that's offered by each game. Some like Majora's Mask feel very different from anything else and might just be the first time loop game, while the first Zelda, Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time represent monumental shifts in game design.

On the other hand each zelda usually takes a long time to come out whereas EA are on a yearly cycle with CoD.

And if you want to get academic, it's a monomyth that's been around since at least Gilgamesh or even before it. There's a load of stories that use the same formula and it's such a crowd please that we see it return time and again.