6 Video Game Fan Theories The Studios Actually Confirmed

6. Zelda: Twilight Princess Is A Sequel To Majora's Mask

For several years, Zelda: Majora's Mask was viewed as the black sheep in the family, a dark departure for the series which stands alone, outside of the mainline continuity as a glorified side quest of sorts.

This all changed when Twilight Princess arrived on Wii in 2006 as eagle-eyed players spotted subtle references to the N64 title. The layout of two games' maps are uncannily similar, but the biggest piece of connective tissue concerns the Twili.

There's a reference to the villainous race being banished to a "shadow realm" in Twilight Princess, and the fans were convinced this meant they were exiled to Majora's Mask's doomed world, Termina, which would make the Wii release it sequel of sorts.

Nintendo endorsed the connection between the games when it published the book Hyrule Historia, which came complete with an official Zelda timeline. The diagram placed Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess beside one another in the same reality, which essentially makes Termina the equivalent of Dark World in A Link to the Past.

Confirmation that Majora's Mask is connected to Twilight Princess confirms what many fans suspected all along: the N64 game is much more than a non-canon spinoff.