{"id":17603,"date":"2018-04-02T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17603"},"modified":"2018-03-15T06:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T06:15:03","slug":"the-legend-of-zelda-art-and-artifacts-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/the-legend-of-zelda-art-and-artifacts-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Zelda: Art and Artifacts (Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I got this book about a year ago and just never got around to writing about it until now.\u00a0 Just too many games to review and such!\u00a0 Anyway, it\u2019s a book of official art from the Zelda series and makes a nice companion to the Hyrule Historia<\/strong><\/a> book that came out earlier.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d just take a quick look at it with you all.<\/p>\n

So first, here is a bigger shot of the book.\u00a0 It\u2019s a HUGE hardcover book, maybe even thicker than the Hyrule Historia one!\u00a0 And it only costs 25 bucks on Amazon, which isn\u2019t bad at all.<\/p>\n

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The majority of the book is split into two sections.\u00a0 The first has pictures and art found in each of the instruction booklets for each of the games in the series, from the first NES Zelda all the way up to Tri-Force Heroes.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to take pictures of every single one of these games, so I\u2019ll just pick ones from my favorite game in the series: Link\u2019s Awakening.<\/p>\n

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The next big portion of the book has art of the characters in each game, as well as drawing of the items in each entry, too.\u00a0 Again, here\u2019s a shot of one of the pages from Link\u2019s Awakening.\u00a0 What\u2019s your favorite Zelda game?\u00a0 Let me know in the comments section.<\/p>\n

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The final few pages have box art and logos, pixel art from the 8 and 16-bit games, and a bonus gallery with various art, like Link riding his motorcycle from Mario Kart 8.\u00a0 There are a couple of pages of art from Breath of the Wild, but I think this book came out around the same time as the game, so I guess they didn\u2019t want to spoil much.\u00a0 And finally is a few pages with an interview with some of the artists.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s a pretty neat book for Zelda fans.\u00a0 I think later this year they\u2019re making a Zelda Encyclopedia book or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got this book about a year ago and just never got around to writing about it until now.\u00a0 Just too many games to review and such!\u00a0 Anyway, it\u2019s a book of official art from the Zelda series and makes a nice companion to the Hyrule Historia book that came out earlier.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17605,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions\/17605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}