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[the-return-of-yagamimi]

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[luxiiien]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZELDA!!!!

[daeyumi]

The first beginning 🌅🗡️

Happy 38th anniversary to my favorite series of all time. 💛 Here’s to many more years of adventure~

[sanzako]

My contribution to the Hero of Hyrule's 40th Birthday AO3 collection organized by @not-freyja.

I have seen a lot of people reluctant to try the NES games and believe me, I get it. But I think those games are also very often misunderstood. They don't ask the player to be the wisest or the strongest, just to try, and try, and try again. That's all you need to eventually defeat Ganon.

In a sense I think this Link is the purest embodiment of the Hero of Courage, not only because of his in-game adventures, but because he also asks you, the player, to be very courageous.

Happy 40th anniversary to this amazing franchise!!

[skysbelow]

Little Links :3

The Links in order: Original NES Link, NES Link but red, NES Link but blue, NES Link but violet, Shadow NES Link, A Link to the Past NES Link, and Minish Cap NES Link

Made using Piskel

You can use them for whatever, but please give credit to me

(yes I do know about that one mistake on AlttP Link it bothers me too I will fix it when I have time)

[cata613]

Link in The Legend Of Zelda (1986) Manual

[kotelok16-multifandom]

She is my favourite Zelda 🤲💕

[phantasmeels]

Early divergence of Zelda art styles

Zelda fans who have been around a long time are quite aware of the backlash-fueled divide of art styles between Zelda games starting with Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. This seemed to change with Skyward Sword, from which (most) mainline games featured a fusion of Twilight Princess's character proportions and Wind Waker's textures and coloration. Did you know though that even back as far as A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, there emerged two different trends of illustrating the series, with either a cartoon/anime-esque aesthetic or a more dark and detailed aesthetic?

Outsourced art for the official game manuals and promotions (specific artist(s) unclear, please inform me if you know):

Illustrations by Katsuya Terada for the Link to the Past and Link's Awakening official Nintendo Player's Guides:

While the original official art and illustrations for the first four Zelda games are oozing with that charm resting somewhere between classic Disney and Miyazaki, I absolutely LOVE Katsuya Terada's old school, gritty dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery approach. It really makes me think of the art trend progression we would later see from Ocarina of Time to Majora's Mask to Twilight Princess.