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- nintendo@lemmy.world
- legendofzelda@lemmy.world
Known in Japan as The Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda. The main title was dropped in the US to make the name shorter and some claim it was to avoid confusion with the upcoming Squaresoft Final Fantasy game, which would debut a year later.
The Legend of Zelda was inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto’s explorations as a boy in the surrounding areas of his home in Sonobe, Japan. One of his most memorable experiences was finding a cave entrance in the middle of the woods. After some hesitation, he entered the cave and explored its depths with the aid of a lantern.
The story and setting were developed by Takashi Tezuka. He drew inspirations from fantasy books such The Lord of the Rings. The legend of the Triforce was written with inspirations from the battles of medieval Europe. The Master Sword was introduced as their version of Excalibur in A Link to the Past, which is regarded as reminiscent to the legend of King Arthur. Princess Zelda was named after American novelist, socialite and painter Zelda Fitzgerald. Tezuka modeled Link’s appearance after the eponymous character of Walt Disney’s Peter Pan.
What is your favorite Zelda memory?
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Playing Breath of the Wild helped me process depression.
There is something very serene about BotW. I was recently looking into some mods to see if I can get back into the game.
Its so interesting to me that the theme was arranged in one night.
It’s amazing how many things happened so quickly, like the goldeneye multiplayer being a thing created over the weekend before launching or something.
Link to the Past was so cool when it came out and such an upgrade. It’s still my favorite zelda game (and it has a randomizer and great community!). I didn’t play OOT until sometime in my 20s and hated how clunky it was; I still prefer the non-3d zeldas.
For us in the west, lttp seemed like such a huge upgrade, because very few people here saw any of the evolution steps inbetween like Neutopia. It’s a really fascinating to discover the things we missed in that era.
Now release Twilight Princess on the Switch
Pictures you can hear.
I bought this game on layaway at the local small department store and rode my bike a few miles every week from my house to the store to make the payments for it. That story makes me feel 100 years old.
My brothers and I went to a neighborhood friend’s house every day after school for months because he had an NES and this game!
It is dangerous to go alone!
Do they pronounce it “Zeruda” over there in Japan?
They do, because the Japanese table of phonemes is very limited compared to English.
But they will typically deemphasis the ru by making it quick and attached to ze.
“ZEru DA”
Yeah but their R sound sits between an R and an L sounds. They don’t have a separate L and R sound. Hence when they transliterate foreign words they use ラリルレロ both for L and R sounds. It’s why Japanese mix up their Rs and Ls when they talk or write a foreign language like English or Spanish. It’s much harder for them to hear the difference since they didn’t grow up hearing L and R as separate sounds. But also the way they learn foreign languages doesn’t help either. Since they use their kana system to learn pronunciations.
But non native Japanese speakers also have a hard time pronouncing the R the Japanese way. It’s like a rolling R but only a single tap to the palate.
So, there’s a fun fact about that related to the Zelda series. You know how the Hylian language kind of sneaks out in enemy names? Like, Stal- is a prefix meaning skeletal, -fos is a suffix meaning warrior, so a stalfos is a skeletal warrior? And a lizalfos is a lizard warrior? A stalchild is a skeletal child. -orm or -arm means worm creature, like Moldorm.
Well, in the games prior to the N64, geld- meant desert or sand. The geldarm is a sand worm creature, the geldman is a sand man like enemy from Link to the Past. Then in Ocarina of Time there’s a race of women from the desert called Gerudo. Hmm.
What is the -o suffix used for?
Just the end of the syllable because you can’t end a syllable with a consonant. For t/d, the vowel used “by default” is o. If they wanted to say gold, they’d write gorudo. Geldman is gerudoman (because n is the only consonant that exists as a standalone).
Nothing I’m conscious of, though a lot of the names of races or peoples end in an oh or ah sound. Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Shiekah,
Basically. The R sound isn’t the same as English’s R so it’s a bit misleading in romaji, but basically yes.
I like how Zelda inspired The Binding of Issac, which laid the groundwork for so many amazing modern games
Crossposting a typo is so funny. Ok, so I know proofreading is old-fashioned, but even in a title?
Mistakes happen mate. Not everyone can be as perfect as you.
These things used to be funny and irk me a little, but everyone is on their phone and dealing with life, your mind read it the right way, who really cares.
I actually did proofread a few times. By now I think I’ve had to admit to myself that I may have mild dyslexia, and should see about getting diagnosed. I usually have to read through something multiple times, and even then, typos will remain. I do appreciate you pointing it out though! I’ve updated the title.
