The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: Difference between revisions

* [[Colour-Coded Timestop]]: Grayscale.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Yet another [[Zelda Manga]] has been made, this time about this game.

* [[Cosmetic Award]]: Beedle's "Complimentary Card," which sounds like it can be exchanged for a free item. When you redeem it, {{spoiler|he compliments you.}}

* [[Demonic Possession]]: Used on {{spoiler|Linebeck in the end of the game}}.

* [[Earn Your Fun]]: The shooting gallery, Maze Island, and the "training" with the captain of the Prince of Red Lions.

** The {{spoiler|Phantom Sword}}, which sure would have come in handy a lot sooner than you're able to get it.

** Then there's {{spoiler|Ciela's ability to create Time Spheres, which give Link the ability to freeze time}}.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: The second Sea Chart. Who would have known that you're supposed to {{spoiler|''close the DS'' to put the marking on it?}}

* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: When Linebeck refuses to enter the Ghost Ship Ciela refers to him as a "cucco." Cuccos are [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|chickens]] in all but name and ferocity.

* [[Identical Stranger]]: Zauz the blacksmith bears an extraordinary resemblance to Ganondorf.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: The adolescent Link and the adult Linebeck. Eventually.

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: The Hero's New Clothes, making a return appearance (so to speak) from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]].'' Allegedly they can only be seen by very honest people.

** Generally played straight, but there's a hilarious subversion towards the end. After Zauz forges the {{spoiler|blade of the Phantom Sword}}, he tells Link to take it back to Oshus, who can finish the job. When you meet Oshus, he asks Link to take out the Phantom Hourglass. For no reason whatsoever, Link decides to (unnecessarily) go through his typical [[Item Get]] motions. However, Oshus, apparently not in the mood, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|grabs the hourglass from Link mid-motion, leaving Link with his hand in the air and...nothing in it!]]

** Also parodied at the beginning when Link does this while not being able to stand straight from Linebeck shaking him too hard, accompanied by a wonky version of the [[Item Get]] sound effect.

** And parodied before that when Link opens up a chest and finds...nothing in it.

* [[It's Probably Nothing]]: The Phantoms take the fact that this kid that they chase always vanishes into thin air a bit ''too'' lightly. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that they are relatively mindless, presumably undead [[Mook|mooks]].

* [[Kid Hero]]: Link is still not beyond the age of thirteen in this game.

* [[Point of No Return]]: Once you finish crossing the bridge leading to the final boss it collapses, leaving you stuck on the other side of the room. Ciela tells you that this is it; there's no turning back. Then a warp path to the beginning of the dungeon appears, [[Subverted Trope|subverting]] it.

* [[Precocious Crush]]: An odd one. After defeating the [[Ghost Ship]], if Link returns to Molida Island, he'll encounter a girl near the dock who wasn't there on his previous visit. She swoons over her mental image of the hero who defeated the [[Ghost Ship]] and gives Link a treasure map to give to the hero, who she seems to think is much older than him.

** Also, in a more subtle example, three of the four sections of the map feature areas where rocks are arranged in a formation of three, and an island is hidden near each of them.

* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Played straight ''and'' subverted with the [[Obviously Evil]] Cubus Sisters on the Ghost Ship. Played straight when one of them {{spoiler|tries to lure you into opening a booby-trapped treasure chest}}; subverted when another {{spoiler|warns you not to shoot the Reapling guards in the back lest you piss them off - it turns out that it's the only way of stunning them, making it ''much'' easier to slip past}}.

* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: The Ocean King.

** The game is [[Book Ends|bookended]] with ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|Link's Awakening]]'' references: it begins with Link on a ship caught in a storm and ending up washed ashore on an island, and ends with {{spoiler|Link meeting a whale-like creature who returns him to his own world where his adventures seemed to be [[All Just a Dream]]}}.

** There seem to be at least a few thematic shout-outs to ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]'', as well, such as Link freeing trapped guardian spirits (the Ocean King and his helpers/the Four Giants), an emphasis on time limits (the Hourglass/the three-day cycle), a bad guy with tentacles and big, yellow eyes who seems more like a destructive force of nature than a thinking, plotting villain (Bellum/Majora), a yellow fairy companion with a bit of an attitude (Ciela/Tatl)...

* [[Tutorial Failure]]: The game tells you to "draw little circles at the edge of a screen" to perform a roll. In reality, the technique is more like wiggling at the edge of the screen — drawing circles will just make Link flail around with his sword.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: Goron Amber, Ruto Crown, Regal Ring, Pink Coral, Pearl Necklace, Dark Pearl Necklace, Zora Scale, and Helmaroc Plume. Interestingly, their value and rarity varies greatly from game to game, so what may be common and cheap in one game can be extremely hard to find and worth a lot in another. This also applies to extra ship parts as well.

** While you're sailing, a flock of seagulls will gather behind you. You can shoot them.

* [[Warp Whistle]]/[[Warp Zone]]: A variation -- writing symbols on a blank slate [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|summons golden frogs who use cyclones to transport the ship to various parts of the ocean]].

** Doubles as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|its predecessor, which also had a frog who summoned cyclones for your ship.]]

{{quote|'''Linebeck:''' "Hey, good for you! Taking a break from saving the world! Class act!"}}

** [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Linebeck's original (and increasingly subverted) reason for going with Link at all is to make money and plunder stuff.