One of the biggest casualties of modern gaming trends is the phasing out of physical instruction manuals. With an increased focus on digital releases and a reliance on online guides, many companies have stopped including physical manuals for their games. Instead of unique instructional booklets, companies are opting for digital manuals that players can open from a game menu. For many longtime video game fans who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, the end of print manuals has been a disappointment, but many fans and artists are filling the void created by the lack of physical manuals.

If you enjoy physical manuals, then you should check out the Etsy shop MBPUK from artist Rowan Fox-Noble. As previously featured on Zelda Dungeon, this Etsy shop sells beautiful professionally printed booklets for Nintendo Switch games. These manuals fit perfectly into Nintendo Switch cases, so if you did not buy them yourself, you might never know they were not official. The most recent addition to this collection is a Skyward Sword HD booklet, which has a beautiful gold cover. The release of this fan-designed guide means buyers on Etsy can now purchase a physical manual for all of the major Nintendo Switch Zelda games.

Overall, the Skyward Sword HD booklet has a total of twenty pages which include sections like:

  • Getting Started
  • Controls
  • Collecting
  • Game Screens
  • Clues for your Quest
  • Characters
  • amiibo
  • Notes

Fox-Noble has done a great job of recreating the stylish, ornate font used in Skyward Sword. The gold cover is extremely eye-catching, and gold is a favored colored for Zelda box arts. The booklet’s cover is almost a direct recreation of the original box art from the Wii era, which I still prefer over the Nintendo Switch cover. The manual from MBPUK looks much more thorough than the manual released with the original Skyward Sword in 2011, which only included a few scant pages (though the manual released with the Wii was written in multiple languages). The inside cover of the new manual includes an illustration of Link on the Crimson Loftwing, which was a piece of key art for the game. The blue backdrop and white clouds really stand out, and it is a fitting image to start the manual with.

What do you think of this fan-made physical manual for Skyward Sword HD? Are there any other Nintendo Switch games you would like to see Rowan Fox-Noble create manuals for? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Source: MBPUK

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