Legend of Zelda Thread

Google Play Books was charging only $10 for the Zelda books localized by Dark Horse, like the Hyrule Historia, but now they jacked up the price to $20 unexpectedly without warning. As much as I want that book, I don't wanna pay that much for an EBook.

@northern haste
Dolphin Tetra? Is that a reference to something?

@Phantom Rider
I remember the "stinky pig."

Did the Ocarina of time leaks mention anything about the notorious rumors about certain dungeons and areas?

@09MurphyM
I'm not sure, but they did have early demos of Link fighting a Zelda 2 style Iron Knuckle knight, like in the early E3 demos.

And of course in the final game, Iron Knuckles were redesigned into freakish samurai armered ax murderers. (Which I guess differs them from Darknuts & Tinsuits more.)

@09MurphyM
What nasty rumors?

@Wiimeiser

He said "Notorious" not nasty, he's probably talking about the supposed Light and Ice Temples, I believe one of the producers, Iwata or Miyamoto mentioned once that there were a few cut dungeons in OOT, which led to the rumors of the Light and Ice temples existing

and no I don't believe I'm mixing any statements up with how they said the same thing with the Windwaker having two cut dungeons.

@Littlecabbit
I recall, the remaining assets of the scrapped ice temple bacame the ice cavern mini-dungeon, as well as the ice portion of Ganon's Tower.
Same for possibly the "Light Temple."

@Beau Skunky

That is likely the case yes, I'm not sure I recall any "Light themed" puzzles or anything existing outside of the Spirit temple though, but then I suppose some of those could have been pulled and re-used in said Spirit Temple, a lot of things in the spirit temple were based on reflecting lights, as well as the Mirror shield, I wonder how much of that could have been from the Light Temple originally?

Then again it's been years since I played OOT last, and even then I think I quit a few dungeons in, so I'm probably forgetting many things relating to what was in Ganons Tower :P

I was expecting to be praised for mounting a legendary beast.

I wonder how many people got thrown off or confused about Navi's hint about talking to saria about Zora's domain.

@Background Pony #E810
Did you look at the lore of the Lord of the Mountain?

It says it's a sage that protects a sacred mountain but when you are done riding it. It vanishes and enemies spawn to attack you.

The official Hyrule Historia, Zelda Encyclopedia, and Zelda Art official books are all price-cut on Google Play Books for $10 each. (Half price.)

Should I get the Hyrule Historia? The prevew only has stuff from Skyward Sword mostly, does it cover other games, and such too? (I haven't finished Skyward on WiiU yet, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers for it.)

I have the physical version of the Encyclopedia already.

@Beau Skunky
It covers everything up to skyward sword. Naturally, the big seller of the book is the zelda timeline.

@09MurphyM
Kinda odd it has so much Skyward in the beginning. It seems to be a good book though.

I also heard it has rare art in it, like the official rarely-seen Ocarina of Time Ganon monster art, giving you a better look at his design.

@Beau Skunky
Yeah, there is a lot of concept art for each game featured.

@09MurphyM
Wonder if the art book has that too, it does have all the cool animesque instruction manual art.

I really liked how the old instruction manual illustrations look like a classic anime. (Those were made by animator/Nintendo artist, Yoichi Kotabe, whom I admit was a partial influence on my own art growing up, as I used to copy his Mario/Zelda art as a kid.)

Skyward Sword beginning. Now we have a converged timeline at the end with BoTW and BoTW2.

@igotnopicks
I just hope that they don't forget about the other timelines.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is randomly trending on Twitter. I never did manage to beat that game, I only got as far as the second trip into the first dungeon before giving up.

@Background Pony #FC84
Skyward Sword on Switch is what people on twitter going on about.

A few weeks and I should be able to get all three pieces of the Fierce Deity armor set in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

only this

@igotnopicks
They should bring Wind Waker and Twilight Princess to the Switch too.

@Background Pony #048F
That's on WiiU.

@igotnopicks
I am talking about porting the Wii U version of those those game to the Switch.

@Background Pony #048F
It wouldn't be hard but they would need to replace one item in Windwaker.