I completely and vehemently disagree.
You could say the same thing about Rosalina.
Does it make sense that Rosalina is golfing and racing with Mario and his friends?
Not really. But they excuse it because she's popular.
The overall story is not THAT important to Zelda, at least not so much that they absolutely have to abide by what the previous games said happened.
They could easily just say that Midna has incarnations like Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, Impa, and I'm guessing Tingle? Or maybe in a future game they find a way to fix the Mirror of Twilight. It really doesn't matter.
And more importantly, it doesn't matter to me. I want more Midna, and I want more Ghirahim. And I don't really care whose story has to be retconned to make that happen.
EDIT: Come to think of it, this argument is completely flawed. Tingle has a very specific origin and story in Majora's Mask, yet appears in The Wind Waker and many other games with no explanation.
Tingle isn't a central role in the story of any game (except his own). In Majora's Mask, he's an old man who thinks he's a Kokiri. In every other game?
He's exactly the same. He's still an old man who thinks he's a Kokiri/fairy. In Majora's Mask he's specifically got a father as well, but that's not a huge central thing to his backstory.
Midna is in a special situation. In spinoffs, sure, she could still appear, but its harder to justify her inclusion, unless they create a proper human/hylian version of her to appear in other games (such as games set before the Twilight Realm was created).
And I'm aware that story doesn't matter that much, but you can't compare Mario spinoffs to Zelda ones. All Zelda games are story-based, and they tend to go with a gimmick and justify the story around it, rather than trying to make direct sequels to existing games and the like.
Hyrule Warriors is the first time any Zelda title has even involved major characters from past games barring the main four (minor characters have been recurring characters in the past, though; and yes, Tingle is a minor character in overall Zelda lore, he just has a lot of appearances... in minor roles).
There is no reason not to bring back the Twilight Realm...or Lorule...or Termina....a lot of these alternate worlds contain some very interesting backstories and lore and a lot of fans are very interested to see them return in another game....ESPECIALLY the Twilight Realm and the character Midna...It isn't really a huge problem if sequels and/or prequels are made to extend the storylines or expand upon them...
I imagine a sequal to TP titled 'Return to Twilight' or a prequal that features events that transpire into the story of Twilight Princess ending when Midna first encounters Wolf Link...the thing is there's a lot of potential for what Nintendo already has as opposed to making new stuff all the time, not that I'm complaining....why do you think Hyrule Warriors did so well we not only got to see fan favourites from the Zelda series but we also got to play as them (save for Skull Kid
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I'd love to see these areas appear again. There's just one problem;
They've never done it to date.
They always create new places to explore instead of reusing old ones. Barring one exception and that's Hyrule itself. They reuse the term "Dark World" in Four Swords Adventures, but its nothing like the Dark World of Link to the Past. I'd love for them to have more coherent worlds, but they've never done that to date.
For example, I think it'd be interesting if Termina is actually connected to Lorule.
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