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

* [[Giant Mook]]: Not actually giant, but some of the bosses are normal-sized enemies that you fight while small. {{spoiler|1=The boss of the Deepwood Shrine is a Green ChuChu, and the Temple of Droplets has a Blue ChuChu as a miniboss and an Octorok as the main boss.}}

* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Once Vaati obtains the Light Force he proclaims himself a god. He does it again when he takes on his final form and right before he dies, leading to a [[This Cannot Be!]] declaration.}}

* [[Harmless Freezing]]: You fight the boss of the Temple of Droplets immediately after it is thawed out from being frozen solid. It even partially re-freezes itself as a defensive tactic for part of the battle.

* [[High Altitude Battle]]: The boss in the Temple Of Winds.

* [[Origins Episode]]: The backstory is this for Vaati and the game itself focuses on the origin of the Four Sword, which started out as the Picori Blade.

* [[Pinata Enemy]]: Gold enemies, which are gold [[Palette Swap|palette swaps]] of relatively weak overworld enemies with tons more hit points and more aggressive AI that drop large amounts of money when killed. They appear as a result of certain Kinstone fusions.

** It also seems that "Picori" is the Minish word ''for'' "[[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp|Minish]]"

** [[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.

* [[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.

** At one point in the game, you meet an [[Absent-Minded Professor]] named Dr. Left. As opposed to [[Sim City|Dr. (W)right]], one presumes judging by his hair.

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

* [[Sound Test]]: This is one of the few games in the series to have one. In this one, it's unlocked by getting every figurine and using a phonograph in a house whose entrance is blocked until they're collected.

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

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

* [[Stealth Based Mission]]: At one point, while Vaati has taken control of {{spoiler|or rather, has [[Fake King|cast an illusion to look like]]}} the king, you have to sneak past the guards in order to reach the Elemental Sanctuary.

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

* [[Temple of Doom]]: The Temple of Winds.