I got my Hyrule Historia today! This thing is really, really amazing. I have to admit, I was made a little nervous when I heard there was actually going to be a book in the US about the whole Zelda storyline. For them to say, "Look here: This is how it it, this is gospel, and if you had anything else in mind since you were in kindergarten, screw you, this is it!"
That was completely not the case. The approach Nintendo takes in the book is like they're just trying to piece together the legend as best they know how, and they preface it all by saying, "You know what? This could be entirely wrong. It could change entirely. Actually, yeah, whatever. Think whatever you want. Here's one way it could have all gone down. And, honestly, it's not all that important. Have fun playing a video game." It's so genius! They frame nearly everthing with a "Could it be that...?" or "Some say..." or "It's thought...", things like that, like they point out the Timeshift stones in SS and the material of the Ocarina look similar and say, "Could they be made out of the same thing?" Nothing is set in stone. It makes the whole series just feel that much more epic, like it really is this amazing legend going on that Nintendo is trying to figure out. And they take nothing away from fans that may have toiled for years, filling the story in, in their own ways. One of the biggest reasons I'm a Nintendo fan is they way they treat their fans. They know what we want, they try to please us all, and they truly just want us to enjoy their games and appreciate us playing them.
Or: "Lulz, we dunno."
Historia certainly supports my positon of Nintendo loving their fans. Story aside, the artwork they share...wow. They have notes and pictures of pretty much everything (I was going fast and only noted one thing missing: the super hot magic armor; I didn't see it, but I'm not certain it's not in there). It's amazing to see their thought processes for each game and how much attention and love they put into what they're doing. And (fantaffx will maybe appreciate this), reading the manga was a lot of fun! The drawings were really beautiful, and it was an interesting story, which I shan't spoil. I'll share this, though (sorry my scanner isn't hooked up at the moment, so I just took a snapshot:)
Dude...what...
...dude. Holy abs, Batman.
I'm sure the guys enjoyed that. Strangely, this is what stood out to me the most...*ahem*. I was going to take more pictures, but I didn't wanna spoil it.
Also, as some of you may know, I'm a shopping addict.
From top to bottom, left to right: Zelda bag, three freakin Zelda wallets (Why? Because they were there, and I had Hot Topic coupons), plushie Kirby (!!!), Adventure Time socks (I was wearing the LSP ones lol), I FINALLY got a gold remote, a shield and master sword necklace (the sword is actually sharp to be used as a letter-opener), a Lumpy Space Princess lanyard that says "Don't lumping yell at me", a sleepy Finn, and my custom-made iPhone case, with the lanyard I added (I edited the gold into the picture and had someone make it is all lol).
I nearly forgot about my Finn earrings, cos I was wearing them lol.
Pardon the reflection of the TV. I've been having the worst time trying to decide what posters to frame. Obviously, Pit was an easy choice. I got three variations of the two unframed pictures at the bottom (the other is Link on his loftwing, but I friggin' hate flying the loftwing--the seller threw it in as a bonus though). I only had one frame to fit, so I elected to frame the one on the left, so I still have to get a frame for the one on the right. I got the 25th Anniversary Zelda set from Nintendo, as well as the Platinum set. The Zelda poster in the Platinum set was basically the same as one of the ones in the Anniversary set. I have the one from the anniversary set of all the characters still rolled up (I dunno, I didn't particularly wanna look at good ol' Groose all the time, or sad Zelda lol--still a beautiful poster), so I framed the one of just Ghirahim, Link, and Fi. Then I saw this all gold one of just Link and Fi, and wound up with three posters of Link in the same pose. I happened to like the one of just Link and Fi. I dunno, I just like it the best...just Link and his peace-maker...heh.
So, that is all I have for now. I just wanted anyone that is one the fence about Historia (which I know probably isn't that many of you) or those that just wanted to hear a little about it to get some info. I'll do the answers to my question blog ASAP (feel free to continue to comment if you want, here) . I'm also still going through pictures to try and find one specific one to go with my game collection blog, because, like, it makes a huge difference (not really, I just want to use it).
If anyone else got Historia or is going to, I'd love to hear what you thought about it!