Majora’s Mask

Phantom Hourglass - Merchandise

The Phantom Hourglass merchandising steamroller is at top speed, so we’ve decided to compile all the stuff we know about (except for the blurry US DS pictured below) onto this handy page. I think I’ve been a bit snarkier than usual when commenting on absolute tat, so enjoy!

Twilight Princess - Packaging
Phantom Hourglass - Packaging

There is, I now see, something seriously wrong with me. I spend an inordinate amount of time scanning, cropping, rotating, fixing, healing, filtering and levelling images of packaging used to sell games to the otherwise unaware. You and I will buy the new Zelda game no matter what the cover looks like. Others are more shallow or ignorant (pick one!), so really, this artwork is for them, and I have no business being so obsessed with getting high quality copies so neatly placed across a page, clearly labelled for the hardcore to do whatever it is they want with them. But I continue cleaning and adjusting, even to our older images - I want to rescan them to get rid of that ghastly (and seriously out of date) watermark, the moire and the low resolution.

Dear Deidre, what the hell is wrong with me? Does anyone else share this obsession or am I on my own?

Ocarina of Time

The Ocarina of Time section has been buffed up all nice and what. More PNGs, more Lightbox, Random Quotes and of course, more coherence.

A small word of warning, though. Restoration updates will crawl for a few weeks for a couple of reasons; one, I’ve just found a job in London and will have to put up with all that ‘finding a home’ malarky, and two, I’ve hit sections that are going to be completely reorganised, remade or even removed. That last one doesn’t take much time but the former two will, so I apologise in advance.

Link’s Awakening

The Link’s Awakening section is now fully updated, with PNGed items, Random Quotes, fixed Maps, Lightboxed galleries, touched-up Packaging, a Statistics page and perhaps most importantly, improved grammar! We so clever.

If you look to your right, you’ll see the new Zelda Elements Interactive login box. It was a lot more impressive in my head. But I’ll be adding buttons to it tomorrow! Lots of buttons. Three, actually. And then you can click them.

The Legend of Zelda - Statistics
The Adventure of Link - Statistics
A Link to the Past - Statistics

As part of this whole ZE Restoration thing, we’re introducing a new statistics page for each of the main games. There’s some of the stuff found on the splash page, but this new format allows us to feature more release date and sales information, as well as a few choice stats about the games themselves.

The Legend of Zelda
The Adventure of Link
A Link to the Past

Regular readers will know that we at Zelda Elements are, for better or worse, perfectionists. I estimate that over the past six years I’ve spent more time refining content and creating new layouts than actually adding pages. Well, I’ve got the itch again, this time donning my grammar-nazi hat, my CSS whacking stick and my image quality… something. Anyway, the purpose of this latest refresh is to update old information, CSS and PNGize content, add the gorgeous Lightbox image gallery, and rewrite pages from my youth that read like the average Sun article.

As I’m doing this in order of filename (original I know), the first three sections to be hit are the first three Zelda games. I found an Adventure of Link boss guide that I never uploaded, which contains one too many geek references but still made me chuckle. Reviews have been updated to cater more for gamers looking to download on the Virtual Console, and there’s other bits and pieces in there, with more to come soon!

Cartoon Series - About the Voice Actors

DarkKnight_DS has sent us some additional information about the woman who played Zelda in the 1980’s cartoon series. It turns out the reason we couldn’t find much information about Cyndy Preston is that her real name is Cynthia. She’s appeared in high-profile dramas and comedies such as X-Files and Two and a Half Men. We’ve also found a profile picture of her, and as DarkKnight rightly points out, she looks not unlike a real-life version of the princess herself.

Alright, time for our first Phantom Hourglass update.  I’ve got the first two bosses for you to absorb the strategy for, and some items.  The items are ones you can have by the time you clear the Temple of Wind, so more will be added later.  The page organization may also change, but that’s neither here nor there.  Enjoy, and stay tuned for more!

Phantom Hourglass: Items
Phantom Hourglass: Boss Guide