Hyrule Warriors

Link mistakes her for zelda because they're supposed to look alike, it's not really up for debate.

Case in point: Zelda (oracle games) and Marin (LA) share the sprite design, just with a crown added for zelda. I don't know how much more direct they could be with "these people look alike!"

Zelda:

Marin:


Also pretty sure that Skyward swords zelda/link were supposed to love each other and end up makin' babies, but in most of the other cases it would be just downright weird (and a princess would probably never be allowed to marry some random commoner anyway, no matter just how green his tunic is).

Actually, we can't really take the Oracle games into account because they were made afterward (not to mention, the inconsistencies where Link hadn't met Zelda). As far as release dates go, A Link to the Past was the only prequel to Link's Awakening. That said, in the official art, Marin was a redhead, while Zelda had always been blonde.

[img]http://zs.ffshrine.org/album/link's-awakening/art/scene-characters.jpg[/img]


Then again, for all we know, there could've been two Zeldas in the Oracles continuum, with all of the time travel/warping.