The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the third installment in the famous series, released on Super Famicom on November 21, 1991, under the name ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース (pronounced "Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce"). It would later be released on Super Nintendo in the USA on April 13, 1992, as well as in Europe on September 24, 1992, almost a year after the Japanese release!
The Japanese title 神々のトライフォース (Kamigami no Triforce) means "The Triforce of Goddesses." The term 神々 alone indicates that the word is plural, but does not specify whether it is masculine or feminine. Consequently, the game has often been mistakenly translated as "The Triforce of the Gods." We will have the opportunity to revisit this common translation mistake among fans on the page dedicated to censorship and differences with the Japanese version.
This installment is not a sequel to the previous two, and is closer to a reboot of the first. Thus, while the action still takes place in the world of Hyrule, various elements, be it gameplay or story elements, is totally different from what we've already seen in the NES episodes. It can be said that the series took a major turn from this episode. If, in 1991, the foundations were already established, ALTTP completely transformed them.
This entire section and most of the non-speedrun pages you'll find in this part of the site were actually already written by me in June 2013, before I myself became a speedrunner of the game, in a very dense topic on the Hooper.fr forum (French only). What you can see here is therefore an update, 10 years later, of this long document, to which I had continued to add content for several years, making it the most complete document on A Link to the Past I have seen in the French-speaking world.
Being a forum post, it was originally meant to fit on a single page, but now having my own website, I am able to completely restructure it into multiple pages to make it more digest. Another thing to note if you browse the original version: many links, and especially images, have expired, because on that forum you cannot upload images, and I therefore had to find them elsewhere on the Internet. With this new version, we will no longer have this problem. Enjoy!
Table of Contents
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Game Overview
Lore Translation
The synopsis of the game, and the foundational text of the lore of the entire Zelda series, taken directly from the Japanese manual and faithfully retranslated by myself, accompanied by an in-depth textual analysis.
Western manuals abound with nonsense and approximations, which is why I am offering you a version as close as possible to the author's original vision from 1991.
Database
Speedrun
Anecdotes
Miscellaneous
Ocarina of Time - a mere 3D remake?
This page will probably not be to everyone's taste, but if OOT is the masterpiece it is today, it is notably because it borrows almost all of its content from its 7-year older sibling, ALTTP.
On this page, I revisit many points of OOT and show their equivalent in ALTTP and how they were adapted in 3D.