{
  "id": "necro-dancer",
  "title": "Crypt of the NecroDancer / Cadence of Hyrule",
  "description": "Cadence’s connected adventures, from AMPLIFIED and Crypt to Hyrule’s alternate futures and Rift, in one chronology with uncertainty kept visible.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "crypt",
      "label": "Cadence’s shared chronology",
      "note": "AMPLIFIED → Crypt → Cadence’s later adventures. Hyrule’s future and Octavo’s alternative decisions stay on this page as connected paths. Hyrule versus Rift ordering remains an estimate; no numbered age is claimed as official."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "crypt-of-the-necrodancer-amplified",
      "title": "Crypt of the NecroDancer: AMPLIFIED",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "Before the original Crypt story; no calendar date",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2017",
      "description": "Nocturna’s adventure in the Crypt.",
      "note": "Developer explicitly labels this a prequel. Release after the base game does not determine story order.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "crypt"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Prequel",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://braceyourselfgames.com/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/",
      "productName": "Get official DLC",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Get official DLC"
    },
    {
      "id": "crypt-of-the-necrodancer-cadence-melody-and-aria-story-campaigns",
      "title": "Crypt of the NecroDancer — Cadence, Melody and Aria story campaigns",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "After AMPLIFIED; Cadence est. late teens; family memories earlier",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2015",
      "description": "Three linked campaigns reveal Cadence’s family and the NecroDancer’s power.",
      "note": "Cadence’s quest precedes the resolution of Melody and Aria’s campaigns. The childhood-memory evidence supports a late-teen estimate, but 17 or 18 is not an official stated age. Calendar years are unknown.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "crypt",
        "story",
        "cadence-age"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://braceyourselfgames.com/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "crypt-of-the-necrodancer-synchrony",
      "title": "Crypt of the NecroDancer: SYNCHRONY",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "Crypt-era side campaigns; precise relation to the ending unresolved",
      "order": 2.1,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2022 early access; 2024 full release",
      "description": "Chaunter, Suzu and Klarinetta enter the expanded game.",
      "note": "Additional characters share Crypt’s world. Shown adjacent to Crypt as side campaigns; this relative slot does not establish whether every character’s ending follows Aria’s.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "crypt"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://braceyourselfgames.com/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/",
      "productName": "Get official expansion",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Get official expansion"
    },
    {
      "id": "cadence-of-hyrule-crypt-of-the-necrodancer-featuring-the-legend-of-zelda",
      "title": "Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. after Crypt; Hyrule present → possible future",
      "order": 3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019",
      "description": "Cadence, Link and Zelda oppose Octavo’s enchantment.",
      "note": "Cadence and her NecroDancer-family background link the crossover to Crypt. Its place before Rift is provisional: accessible sources did not establish an exact Cadence age or a confirmed interval between those adventures. The future excursion is a time jump within Hyrule, not a separate franchise universe.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "hyrule",
        "edition",
        "cadence-age",
        "future-world"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F86ZDRV",
      "productName": "Cadence of Hyrule — physical Nintendo Switch edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding physical edition includes the DLC packs. Check language / region. Octavo’s Ode is an update; Symphony of the Mask is included DLC, not a separate cartridge.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "cadence-of-hyrule-octavo-s-ode",
      "title": "Cadence of Hyrule: Octavo’s Ode",
      "type": "Game update",
      "date": "Hyrule’s Octavo path; present → alternative future",
      "order": 3.1,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2019-12",
      "description": "Octavo becomes the playable focus of a new storyline.",
      "note": "A connected alternative-decision story: Octavo can encounter his future NecroDancer self. Kept with Cadence’s shared chronology; the outcome does not have to occur after the base campaign’s ending.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "hyrule",
        "future-world"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F86ZDRV",
      "productName": "Cadence of Hyrule — physical Nintendo Switch edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding physical edition includes the DLC packs. Check language / region. Octavo’s Ode is an update; Symphony of the Mask is included DLC, not a separate cartridge.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "cadence-of-hyrule-symphony-of-the-mask",
      "title": "Cadence of Hyrule: Symphony of the Mask",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "Hyrule’s ruined future; after its present-era events",
      "order": 3.2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2020-09",
      "description": "Skull Kid explores an expanded Hyrule with transforming masks.",
      "note": "Skull Kid’s campaign explores Hyrule’s future with Skull Ganon. It belongs beside the base game’s future excursion, with variant outcomes noted rather than a new selector. The time interval and one uniquely canonical ending are not verified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "mask",
        "future-world"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F86ZDRV",
      "productName": "Cadence of Hyrule — physical Nintendo Switch edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding physical edition includes the DLC packs. Check language / region. Octavo’s Ode is an update; Symphony of the Mask is included DLC, not a separate cartridge.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "rift-of-the-necrodancer",
      "title": "Rift of the NecroDancer",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. after Crypt; provisional later-Cadence adventure",
      "order": 4,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Cadence faces creatures emerging through musical rifts.",
      "note": "The developer identifies Cadence as the returning hero pulled into a strange new world. Shared protagonist and history justify the same chronology. Ordering after Hyrule is a working inference, not a verified age gap; it can be revised without inventing a calendar year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "rift",
        "cadence-age"
      ],
      "continuity": "crypt",
      "railLabel": "Story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://braceyourselfgames.com/rift-of-the-necrodancer/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "crypt",
      "title": "Brace Yourself Games: Crypt and all DLC",
      "url": "https://braceyourselfgames.com/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "AMPLIFIED expressly called a prequel; SYNCHRONY, Miku and Shovel Knight packs inventoried."
    },
    {
      "id": "rift",
      "title": "Brace Yourself Games: Rift of the NecroDancer",
      "url": "https://braceyourselfgames.com/rift-of-the-necrodancer/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "hyrule",
      "title": "Nintendo: Cadence of Hyrule and Octavo’s Ode",
      "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Cadence-of-Hyrule-Crypt-of-the-NecroDancer-Featuring-The-Legend-of-Zelda-1533129.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "mask",
      "title": "Nintendo: Symphony of the Mask",
      "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/products/cadence-of-hyrule-symphony-of-the-mask-70050000022294-switch/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "story",
      "title": "Crypt campaign story / family relationships",
      "url": "https://crypt-of-the-necrodancer.fandom.com/wiki/Story",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Used only for campaign / memory structure; calendar dates remain unknown."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition",
      "title": "Cadence physical edition: retailer-link cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.switchscores.com/games/2569/cadence-of-hyrule",
      "kind": "Retail link cross-check",
      "note": "Amazon B08F86ZDRV identified as corresponding physical Switch edition. Contents checked against Nintendo."
    },
    {
      "id": "cadence-age",
      "title": "Cadence: documented age uncertainty / childhood evidence",
      "url": "https://crypt-of-the-necrodancer.fandom.com/wiki/Cadence",
      "kind": "Secondary character reference",
      "note": "No confirmed numeric age; the often-repeated 17–18 is an estimate based on childhood memories. This does not prove a specific gap between Hyrule and Rift."
    },
    {
      "id": "future-world",
      "title": "Cadence of Hyrule: Future World and in-game dialogue",
      "url": "https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Future_World",
      "kind": "Secondary with game-dialogue references",
      "note": "Base story, Octavo’s future NecroDancer outcome, and Symphony’s Skull Ganon world are connected through Hyrule’s future. Their branch outcomes should not be read as one mandatory ending."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Hatsune Miku and Shovel Knight character DLC",
      "type": "Licensed character packs",
      "status": "No separate story verified",
      "note": "Both official Crypt packs are inventoried. A character reskin / moveset alone is not a newly dated narrative.",
      "sources": [
        "crypt"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Hyrule Character Pack, Melody Pack; Rift music packs",
      "type": "DLC",
      "status": "Gameplay / music editions",
      "note": "Music and selectable characters without a verified separate story are recorded here rather than invented as sequels.",
      "sources": [
        "hyrule",
        "rift"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Novels, comics, audio dramas and shorts",
      "type": "Coverage check",
      "status": "No separately published licensed fiction verified",
      "note": "Soundtracks, trailers and fan comics do not establish additional narrative works. This statement is a verification result, not proof that no obscure tie-in exists.",
      "sources": [
        "crypt",
        "hyrule",
        "rift"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-07",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "All three original story campaigns, the explicit AMPLIFIED prequel, SYNCHRONY and Rift checked.",
      "Hyrule base story, Octavo’s Ode and Symphony of the Mask included; character / music packs accounted for separately.",
      "No Zelda calendar position, year or cross-world sequel order invented.",
      "Pre-build table reviewed for duplicate titles, continuity conflicts, unsupported release-year dates and product / collection mismatches. Open coverage and inaccessible interiors remain listed.",
      "Three unnecessary selectors merged into one Cadence chronology. Octavo’s Ode and Symphony remain connected paths; unverified numeric ages are not presented as official."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Complete campaign / DLC cutscene inspection needed for generation-level and Hyrule scenario relationships.",
      "Rift / Crypt continuity bridge and possible character-pack narrative additions remain open."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}