Tag: Manual

Wait, I thought it was Beedle who owned a sailing shop in Phantom Hourglass. And in the UK and North American versions of the Zelda games that feature this young merchant, his name is Beedle. However in the releases in the other parts of Europe and Japan, his name is actually Terry! Of course, at some point this rift in names had to cause a problem. And in Phantom Hourglass just the mistake occurred! Many gamers probably wouldn’t find where this mistake…

There’s a saying that “You can’t please everyone.” Yet this is often the challenge game designers face in the process of creating a game: to release a game that appeals to a wide variety of players, from young to old, from new gamers to veterans. When it came time to begin designing Ocarina of Time, it’s not hard to imagine that there were many challenges in transitioning the game play from 2D to 3D. One advantage, however, is easy to…

The A Link to the Past Story page has been completely overhauled and now includes some detailed text and several fancy images. Among all the Zelda games, A Link to the Past was one of the only ones to have such an elaborate backstory found only in the game’s manual. We’ve nearly replicated the backstory pages from the manual, as well as the game’s introduction followed by a full summary of the in-game storyline, with several illustrations. The A Link…