When I was still a teenager, I went with my parents one cold winter day to a bookstore and passed by their never-ending shelves stacked with beautifully decorated book covers and spines. Fiction novels, memoirs, recipe books; the bookstore offered all kinds of books but none of them caught my interest enough to make me…
Our tale begins with Link attending the Picori Festival. Held once every 100 years, the festival commemorates the sealing of an evil force by the Hero of Men, but the hero was not alone. According to Hyrule Historia, the Minish tribe descended from the heavens and gifted the Hylians with the Picori Blade and the…
As he navigates through the underbrush, narrow passages, and dense trees, Link begins to realize that there is more to the Minish Woods than what he first assumes. The beams of light that break through the gaps between the evergreens do little to help reveal any secrets however, so Link’s only option is to randomly…
The Minish Cap already has two names for its unique race of tiny people: the “Minish,” and the “Picori.” The former is their true name, while the latter is a name used by the Hylians. To complicate things further, Nintendo initially had other names in mind for the secretive species. According to page 273 of…
The Minish Cap was one of my favorite Zelda games, and I still have such fond memories of it. The bright, vivid world of Hyrule it portrayed, the colorful cast of characters it introduced, and the enjoyable new mechanic of shrinking to explore new areas all had me captivated! It’s unfortunate that I was never…
The Minish Cap launched in Japan on November 4, 2004. While Game Boy Advance players had already been treated to a port of Zelda classic A Link to the Past, along with the additional multiplayer game Four Swords (which was included on the same cartridge), The Minish Cap was the first all-new, full-fledged Zelda installment…
