[ALL] is tears of the kingdom the only zelda game where you play as an adult Link??
Yes I know about the heros shade. No I'm not counting him as you don't play as him as an adult, he's an NPC in TP.
Its easy to forget that at least a few years passed between botw and totk since link looks the exact same. The 16/17 year old link is now a 20/21 year old in that game. (Obviously not counting the 100 year slumber) So it makes me wonder if that was the first time where we could ever play as an adult Link in the entire series.
The only 2 Links I'm not 100% sure on is the Zelda 2 link and the alttp/oracle/awakening Link due to the fact that the 2D sprites makes it more difficult to tell and they both went on multiple adventures that could have had years of time between them