>Hyrule Historia and Art & Artifacts covered the history, art and culture of the first 30 years of The Legend of Zelda. The Legend of Zelda Encylopdia covers everything else. It’s a 320-page volume filled with explanations and descriptions of everything from items and potion to relationships between characters. It’s filled with maps, illustrations and screencaps. It’s even got an exclusive interview with series producer Eiji Aonuma.
Isn't Encyclopedia the one that retcons half of Historia and turns Majora's Mask into a dream?
Isaac Russell
Reminder that this book retcons Termina to be a metaphor for Skull Kid's depression, even in the Jap version
Camden Morris
Yes
Brayden Taylor
yes. But official is official. Aonuma gives it validity.
Ethan Flores
autism.
this is as bad as reading Warcraft novels
Camden Gutierrez
>No new art >Still no breath of the wild artbook
Meh, pass
Josiah Foster
Ah, just boring shit nobody cares about like the Historia.
I got my Art book, that's all I wanted.
Grayson Wood
Shit. Doesn't it also separate LttP/LA/Oracles Link into different Links?
Christopher Bailey
Hyrule Historia is the only book in videogame history to have memeworthy anecdotes and infographs. That timeline that came from the Hyrule Historia is the sole material of every Zelda timeline shitposter's ammunition.
Connor James
Guess what? Encyclopedia changes that timeline and has one of it's own.
Nicholas Morgan
>the only book in video game history to have memeworthy material
What about Movie Blob's book? Or the FF9 strategy guide?
Luke Green
Wish I downloaded Historia instead of buying it. Over half the book was Shitward Sword garbage and they barely gave more than a page to games like Zelda II or the GB/GBC games.
Tyler Lee
kill yourself
Juan Gutierrez
He's not wrong though.
Joseph Flores
YES!
Oliver King
>Rock
Ethan Parker
...
Adam Moore
Majoras Mask is a dream now?
wew e w
Jason Thompson
ALttP and LA have the same Link. The new book states that the Oracle games have a different Link and that both games take place after LA but before ALBW
Easton Campbell
Yeah, rocks fall in Zelda 1 when you explore areas near Death Mountain. They'd do a similar thing in LttP.
Brayden Butler
The zelda mythos and time line will never not be retarded
Brody Watson
I am aware
What I'm trying to figure is why someone felt the need to illustrate a rock
Connor Anderson
>fedora's mask is retconned
top kek
Mason Lopez
masters of doom as well
Hunter Torres
>How is this surprising to anyone? That's the only explanation for Termina being the way it is.
Sebastian Wright
How can they feel okay with publishing these books as part of a set of sorts if two of them contradict each other?
Caleb Anderson
And what's wrong with it being a dream? Link's Awakening was nothing more than a dream, didn't make it any less real (or if you got 100% completion, made it real).
Austin Wilson
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Carson Rodriguez
Back then they described and gave pictures for virtually every enemy in the instruction manuals.
Carson Ross
>itt people thinking their furry fanfic has more clout than official books
Lol
Landon Walker
>Encyclopedia changes that timeline and has one of it's own.
Oh great. Now what is the new retcon? I kind of liked the three timeline split theory.
Ethan Powell
this face just gets more and more deflated every time i see it.
Isaiah Hill
>Taking Zelda´s franchise story as a whole Why are they trying to disrespect it´s own son this hard?
Owen Gomez
It makes sense but it also kind of cheapens MM. Its now officially not part of the timeline because it’s only a dream game. Just OoT Link dropping some acid and imagining all of MM.
Jaxon Allen
And again, what's wrong with it being a dream? Link's Awakening shows that even dreams are deadly, and under certain circumstances, can even become real.
Lucas Collins
Because it has the most interesting story and setting of any Zelda game, and now it didn't happen.
Oliver Rodriguez
>mfw that one artbook you'll never get because it's too rare/expensive now
David Murphy
It just feels like a kick in the balls. Like when we find out Big Boss in MGSV is not really THE Big Boss, just someone pretending to be him. It just feels like a slap in the face of fans.
I might be exaggerating here, and I’m not really upset about this, but it just how it feels to me.
Dylan Wilson
But it did happen. Just because it was a dream does not change the fact that Link experienced and remembered it, and he saved someone. Isn't that enough?
Leo Brooks
Sounds better than the art one. Sweet.
Luke Jackson
A dev trying to add canon outside of the game does not count. It's like rewriting history. These books are really wonderful given all the art and stuff, but anything else should be taken with a grain of salt.
It's like Harry Potter. Years after it was finished, rowling decided "ehh dumbledor was actually gay". Well sorry, if it wasn't in the book, it's not canon. Same with her trying to change Hermione to black (although in the book it actually describes her as white).
Really don't take these things too seriously. Art is to be interpreted to the viewer
Dominic King
>and he saved someone. Isn't that enough?
He didn’t really save anyone though, since it was a dream.
I guess Tatl is a fake companion now, too. Never existed.
Oliver Flores
>you can't generate faces in your dreams >your Subconscious can only manifest faces you've seen!!!
Noah Wood
He saved Skull Kid from the mask as well as cured him of his depression. It might not mean much to the world at large, but to Skull Kid, Link saved him when no one else could, which is really all that matters to someone like Link.
Lincoln Long
in a dream. Therefore, he saved no one and skull kid is still depressed.
Jose Williams
Maybe we shouldn't take all this timeline stuff too seriously.
Lucas Davis
Even if you somehow didn't think Link can cured him of his depression after delving deep into his mind and fixing everything, you still have to agree that at the very least, he saved Skull Kid from the mask and purged the mask of its evilness, saving anyone else in the future who will have contact with it.
Blake Rivera
I can only see info on this release date from Kotaku but they don't provide a source. Anyone find anything?
How do they get such high quality scans of that old art? Did they have them stored somewhere since the 80s?
Owen Rodriguez
They're more than likely touched up
Jacob Nguyen
Only thing it changes is putting the Oracle games after Link's Awakening. It fixes a gaping error on Capcom's part where in the Oracle games, Zelda acts like she's meeting Link for the first time, which wouldn't make since if it was the same Link from A Link to the Past.
Only thing it changes is putting the Oracle games after Link's Awakening.
It fixes a gaping error on Capcom's part where in the Oracle games, Zelda acts like she's meeting Link for the first time, which wouldn't make sense if it was the same Link from A Link to the Past.
Jeremiah King
Now i have a big urge to sell my Hyrule Historia copy. Only my brother gave it to me for my birthday so i feel uneasy about it.
Anthony James
I think all the coffee table books are going to look real nice together. I'm excited for Master Works, the fourth one, to come out so I can put them all together on a shelf.
