Marin

I have never seen it said to NOT be a sequel: the official artwork is the same as ALTTP, and the prologue is vague but names that Link already a hero if I recall. So it's a sequel...but to which one? I believe Miyamoto's timeline quote around OoT's release said this: " OoT is first, than LoZ/AoL than ALTTP. LA can come anytime after OoT " ( Note that many dispute his quote because the box of ALTTP advertised it starring LoZ/AoL Link and Zelda's ancestors. )

I've never played LA...so my info is second-hand. I believe they came from some theory thread in ZU's timeline theory forum.

So we are in agreement there eh? Unlike with Link x Malon I would actually support Medli x Link...but I think it pales to Link x Tetra. ( have you played PH? It's so lovely and ZeLinky. ) It's not that I refuse to support different pairings than Zelda x Link, I just have to see the connection. ( And I like Marin x Link a great deal for the record, as well as ALTTP Link and Zelda. )

I have never seen it said to NOT be a sequel: the official artwork is the same as ALTTP, and the prologue is vague but names that Link already a hero if I recall. So it's a sequel...but to which one? I believe Miyamoto's timeline quote around OoT's release said this: " OoT is first, than LoZ/AoL than ALTTP. LA can come anytime after OoT " ( Note that many dispute his quote because the box of ALTTP advertised it starring LoZ/AoL Link and Zelda's ancestors. )

I've never played LA...so my info is second-hand. I believe they came from some theory thread in ZU's timeline theory forum.

So we are in agreement there eh? Unlike with Link x Malon I would actually support Medli x Link...but I think it pales to Link x Tetra. ( have you played PH? It's so lovely and ZeLinky. ) It's not that I refuse to support different pairings than Zelda x Link, I just have to see the connection. ( And I like Marin x Link a great deal for the record, as well as ALTTP Link and Zelda. )

But I would think the devs wouldn't have a problem calling it a sequel if it was one. They didn't with Majora's Mask. Of course wasn't Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask when the devs decided to declare some sort of clear continuity to the games?

Link/Medli is more of a "I think they're adorable, what if..." while Link/Zelda is more of "this is the most plausible" as in there is really no question who this Link would choose later. (No I haven't played PH. Unfortunately, I don't have a DS.).

Well, at the point when LA was created there's only two possibilities they could have been thinking of...either post-AoL ( where I think it's safe to say that Link was taken ) or ALTTP, which was ambiguous. OoT was 5 years in the future from when LA was released. Yeah, I suppose so: all the evidence seems to indicate OoT was in development supposed to be the backstory of ALTTP, so I guess that was when a "timeline" came into view. But of course they changed their mind and sent Link back in time at the end, making ALTTP's story not fit with child Link's world ( he's not in the adult timeline to have ALTTP Link as his descendant ) and then WW completely killed it etc. *Sigh* This is exactly why I don't really delve into the timeline debate...they get as serious as we do about shipping and it's sometimes impossible to tell the difference between an Easter Egg ( Link's MM masks in Carlov's shop in WW )and a true timeline reference.

And that's exactly how I view MaLink. "They could be adorable, what if.." where ZeLink seems more plausible based on the ending of OoT/beginning of MM in terms of who he'd choose.
( PH is an okay game: I won a DS/PH in a contest so that was how I got to play it. )