I always liked the anime illustrations in the original NES Zelda manual, and it saddened me to find out these weren’t actually part of a real animated promotion for the game. So I decided to take those illustrations and re-create them as if they were!
Enjoy this long-lost VHS promotion for the Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System!
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Tell a tale around the fire of the Watcher in the woods.
Wander, ponder all the magic captured in his jars and goods.
Why does he run? Why does he hide? Does he keep fear deep down inside?
Or is it that he's simply fonder of the woodlands, deep and wide?
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Hyrule’s always been connected to traveling and magic. Meandering through the strange lands of his home, learning spells lost to time, getting lost within the map-less forests and mountains... it's also hard for the chain to find him when he’s in an explorative mood. What better way to capture that spirit than an ever-wandering, magical cryptid?
I know I made him look kinda like that Wendigo thing but I promise he’s not malicious; he just has an insatiable hunger for sweets, haha. He’s really more of a Bigfoot or Hide-Behind type of Cryptid, and speaking of, yes, I did have Gravity Falls’ amazing background art in mind when working on this. It ended up being a good color study! I listened to so much Gravity Falls music while drawing this, too, especially that official Lo-fi mix, it was so much fun.
Genuine question for people who write fanfiction taking place in the time period of NES The Legend of Zelda or Zelda 2: Adventure of Link (the era of LU Hyrule):
Why is this version of Hyrule in fanfiction so often portrayed as a wasteland? Where did people get the idea that the water is poisoned and wildlife is barely surviving? Is there something I'm missing? Please let me know. (Non-fanfiction writers can answer, too.)
The color palette in those games might be a little odd, but I always thought the land looked beautiful. Lots of green forests and blue bodies of water. Is there somewhere that says the water is poisoned?
I was rereading the manual for LoZ and found this:
They called it "a beautiful and natural world." The paragraph also talks about good-natured people, which brings me to the question about how fanfic writers also seem to portray towns in this world to be hostile, when from what I've seen of gameplay, they are sources of healing and respite, with people just going about their daily lives. I have a feeling the hostile people are written that way because of the "monsters out for his literal blood" thing. But they seem no more or less friendly than NPCs in other eras. A little curt, due to the character limit and weird translation, but helpful.
Here are some more pictures:
Above map source: Daniel Engel
Even the desert has greenery. It's a desert, but not a wasteland.
I always feel weird asking this, as if I'm a desperate YouTuber or something, but I'd appreciate reblogs so I can get a larger variety of responses. My blog is pretty small. ❤️
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