LEGEND OF ZELDA GUIDES, MANUALS, ETC.
Today, let's finish off the books by going over everything non-narrative. This means guides, manuals, how-to-draws, and the like. The most famous of these works is obviously the Hyrule Historia, a big old heavy book that I'm pretty sure was 90% of the weight of the box of books my friend loaned me, and the first of three released for the 25th Anniversary called the Goddess Collection, with Art & Artifacts and Encyclopedia being the other two. Basically, they act as one massive encyclopedia full of behind-the-scenes details on the making of everyone's favorite fantasy game series. The most notable features included Himekawa's short Skyward Sword manga, and an official timeline for all games up to Skyward Sword, not including oddballs like Wand of Gamelon. It's neat.
Next up, we have How to Draw The Legend of Zelda, an art instruction book; History of Zelda Art Collection 1, 2, and 3, exactly what they say on the package; Breath of the Wild Explorer's Guide and Creating a Champion, both released for Breath of the Wild; and Link's Awakening Dreamer Artbook, an artbook released for the complete remake of Link's Awakening. Add on top of that multiple manuals for each of the various games, released by Prima Games and others, as well as collections of sheet music (seeing as Zelda is quite known for its music), and we have quite the library.
And that's it. I think tomorrow, we're going to blaze through the entire library of merchandise. Why wait, right?
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