The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Difference between revisions

* [[Back That Light Up]]

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: {{spoiler|Ezlo is revealed to be a Minish sage, whom Vaati cursed to become a talking hat.}}

* [[Big Boo's Haunt]]: Royal Valley.

* [[Blow You Away]]: Strangely, Vaati doesn't do a whole lot of this. So... why did the backstories of ''Four Swords'' and ''Four Swords Adventures'' take such pains to describe him as a ''wind'' mage/sorcerer?

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Two subversions. Getting all the trophies rewards you with a large number of rupees--[[Money for Nothing|but by that point in the game you don't really need them anymore]]. However, you DO get a piece of heart and the sound test. The other example is the "Tingle Statue" for fusing all the Kinstones. The statue and reward themselves are useless, but you get some form of reward for each Kinstone you fuse.

** Played straight, however, by the Mirror Shield. The requirements for it is to complete the Goron sidequest (which, by itself, you get a bottle for completing), fusing a Kinstone with one of the Gorons to wake up Biggoron (which can't be done right away), and...beating the game once.

* [[Bubblegloop Swamp]]: Castor Wilds.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Ezlo, though not as much as [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Navi the Fairy.]]

** [[Averted]] in the original Japanese and the German version, where they talk backwards instead. This reveals that most of the Minish's unreadable dialogue in the beginning of the game is actually... just telling you that [[Captain Obvious|you are human]] and that they don't understand you.

* [[Prequel]]: To ''Four Swords'', explaining the history of the Four Sword and Vaati.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The chest containing all of the monsters in the world, which Vaati frees.

* [[Sequential Boss]]: Taking down Vaati in the end requires you to fight him in three different forms. (Luckily, between two and three, you can duck into a small room in the castle and reload your health.)

** The game is positively ''loaded'' with nods to nearly every previous game in the series via character cameos and familiar leitmotifs. Some sound effects are also directly lifted from ''Link's Awakening''.

** The cobbler tells you that his shoes are being finished while he sleeps. By this point, you're aware of the existence of the Minish, and possibly that they like to make humans happy because it gives them energy, but that they do so in secret (you'd have to talk to a random NPC to learn this.) Furthermore, there's a vase that lets you shrink in the shop, and if you climb up onto the cobbler's desk, you can see a Minish there. Obviously, this is a reference to the tale of the cobbler and the elves.

** Later still, after you can flip stuff (and therefore shrink in several more places in Hyrule Town,) you can get into the rafters of the bar. The forest Minish are visiting there, and remarking about how city life is so exciting, like the tale of the country mouse and the city mouse.

** One of the books in the library is titled "''[[Married to the Mob|Married to the Moblin]]''".

* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: The Temple of Droplets is primarily this, although [[Under the Sea|liquid water]] is abundant as well.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: For some reason, Darknuts are called "Dark Nuts" in this game.

* [[Start of Darkness]]: For Vaati.

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Ezlo's tendency to remind you of absolutely ''everything'' including the fact that [[Captain Obvious|closed doors are shut]].

* [[Taken for Granite]]: Zelda from the first few minutes of the game onward, as well as many of Vaati's other victims later on.

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