Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 267 i Retro Gamer

My retro gaming has gone nuclear. I’ve got so many modded systems that I struggle to be bothered to play. My N64, GameCube, Dreamcast and now an Xbox 360 – all sitting under my desk gathering dust and resentments (aside from The Typing Of The Dead, one of the more bonkers Japanese titles on the DC). However, I have dived headfirst back into the hobby with the giddiness of a teenager after his first drink. I’ve had my eye on the MiSTer FPGA system for quite a while. I won’t try and describe it because I don’t really know what it is and I’ll get it wrong and you’ll be sat there smugly laughing at me over your Hob Nobs. I will not give you that satisfaction. What I do…

There was one game monopolising the attention of press and public alike this month, and it was Grand Theft Auto IV – the first GTA of the HD era. Anticipation was running high for this game, and it didn’t disappoint, achieving scores of 10/10 from Edge, games™ and X360, 5/5 from 360 and 98% from Play. Add those to the 10/10 scores it received in the exclusive reviews carried by Official PlayStation Magazine and Official Xbox 360 Magazine the previous month, and you have genuinely universal acclaim. “Grand Theft Auto IV is the most prominent landmark on a continuing path to even more vivid worlds, thickly set with drama, humour and story,” games™ enthused, concluding that, “Here and now, in the current state of the art, there is little else you…

DS 2004 ◻ The original model of the DS definitely isn’t the prettiest, but doesn’t have any major disadvantages when it comes to playing games. Battery life is solid and while it has the smallest screens of the range, they’re certainly adequate. Game Boy Advance cartridges fit into their slot nicely too. DS Lite 2006 ◻ With a sleek look inspired by Apple’s devices of the time, the DS Lite is smaller and lighter than its predecessor, with better battery life and brighter screens. Other than smaller shoulder buttons, the only downside is that Game Boy Advance games stick out awkwardly from their shallow cartridge slot. DSi 2008 ◻ This model ditches the Game Boy Advance slot, and adds a faster CPU, more RAM and 256MB internal storage for downloadable…

Few games have been as influential as Wizardry: Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord. Even if you haven’t played it, you will have undoubtedly played games that were inspired by it. Indeed, after discovering the game during a trip to Apple Fest in San Francisco in 1983, Koichi Nakamura and Yuji Horii used Wizardry’s battles as the basis for Dragon Quest, mixing them with the overhead perspective of Ultima. Yuji has even said that Dragon Quest’s ubiquitous Slimes were directly inspired by the slime monsters in Wizardry. Along with Richard Garriott’s Ultima, which was released for the Apple II at almost the same time in 1981, Wizardry has been credited with popularising computer RPGs, bringing them to a wide audience for the first time, and setting the template for others…

Justin Bailey, who until recently was head of publishing at Digital Eclipse, explains that the journey to remaking Wizardry for modern platforms began with Brian Fargo, co-creator of The Bard’s Tale. Brian was able to introduce him to several key players in the Wizardry story, such as the Sirotek brothers, and later on Justin met Robert Woodhead at the Apple II celebration event KansasFest. Robert and Justin then travelled to Japan to meet Jun Suemi, who created the box art for the Japanese version of Wizardry, as well as Benny Matsuyama, who wrote several Wizardry novels (“He’s like Mr Wizardry there,” Justin says). Both were brought on board for the remake project, with Jun supplying new key art and Benny writing the in-game bestiary. Digital Eclipse took the original PASCAL…

What was the first videogame you remember playing, Paul? I remember my friend showing me Space Invaders in the lobby area of my local Tesco. I would have been around nine or ten years old at the time. I didn’t know about coin-ops, so remember peering into it and not knowing what to expect. That was the first game I saw that stood out. The way it looked, sounded, everything – not to mention the strangeness of it being in Tesco. What home computers did you experience while you were growing up? My mate had a Spectrum and an Atari VCS, so I played on those. But it was when the BBC Micro came out that me and my brother came up with a cunning plan to get one between…

» MEGA DRIVE » 1991 » T&E SOFT As retro gaming has become increasingly expensive, I’ve had to curtail the amount of spending I do on my hobby. Don’t get me wrong, I still find ways to buy some of the more expensive titles I’d like to play, but I totally understand why so many gamers are now turning to emulation in order to enjoy the games they can’t justify spending hundreds of pounds on. My most expensive purchase of 2024 has been an obscure Mega Drive shoot-’em-up called Undeadline, which started off life on the MSX2 and MSX2+, before being ported to the Sharp X68000 and Sega’s console. It’s a truly superb on-foot shooter with a distinct fantasy theme, brutal difficulty and a gauntlet of hardas-nails bosses to take…

One of the main benefits of creating a unique programming language for the development of Cadaver was the ability to quickly create an expansion of the first game. That came in the guise of Cadaver: The Payoff which was released in 1991. Picking up where the last game left off (and requiring gamers to own the original), this highly rated release gave players another four levels consisting of 250 rooms. While that was smaller than before, it still provided a substantial, rewarding experience. In fact, the game was actually tougher. As well as integrating monsters into a fresh set of puzzles (you could get them to gather gold for you), the game made use of new rooms and even ventured outside into the surrounding village which made it feel a…

METAL SLUG TOUCH IOS, 2009 ◼ Long since delisted, this interesting spin-off of the main series saw you controlling the SV-001 and Slug Flyer through four challenging stages, using only touch controls and tilting your phone for movement. METAL SLUG DEFENCE IOS, ANDROID, STEAM, 2016 ◼ Once you get over your disappointment that it isn’t a conventional Metal Slug game, Defence proves itself to be a solid tower defence offering. It’s free to play as well, which is nice. METAL SLUG: AWAKENING IOS, ANDROID, STEAM ◼ This free-to-play title introduces the ability to team up with two other players and features a number of rogue-like challenges to attempt. It’s currently on its fifth season in China. METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED SWITCH, PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES S/X, 2024…

How did Angel Studios land the job of converting Resident Evil 2 to the Nintendo 64? We had previously done Ken Griffey Jr for the N64, which was the first game that Angel Studios ever released, so we had the technical skills and had learned a lot working on that project. The team was given the option of making a play for porting Resident Evil 2 or working on Spider-Man 64. We looked at both options but felt our small studio wasn’t ready to take on Spider-Man because it required a lot of gameplay and might suffer the same fate as Superman 64 – draw distance! A port felt right as that played to our technical skills with a proven game design. We actually went to Japan to talk to…

OXENFREE THE BACKGROUND Oxenfree is the debut from Night School Studio, founded in 2014 by ex-Telltale Games writer and graphic novelist Adam Hines (The Wolf Among Us, Tales From The Borderlands) and his cousin Sean Krankel, formerly of Disney Interactive. A graphic adventure with (direct-driven) point-and-click-style gameplay and wonderfully organic dialogue interactions, it’s up there alongside the best the genre has to offer. Speaking to Vice in 2015, prior to Oxenfree’s launch, Krankel discussed how he and Hines were inspired by Poltergeist, for its general spookiness and how the Steven Spielberg-penned picture uses communication as a way to generate genuine discomfort. The game’s makers – including lead artist Heather Gross and composer Andrew Rohrmann (aka scntfc) – also took cues from another cinematic classic, Stand By Me, helping to shape…

■ After Radical Entertainment made the deal with Jackie Chan, he visited Futurelight Studios in Santa Monica for two days in the spring of 1998 to contribute to the game. According to Ian, he was accompanied by two key members of his Jackie Chan Stunt Team: Ken Lo and Andy Chang. The two of them first tested on each other if the fight moves the development team had in mind were actually safe to perform. Once that was sorted out, Jackie was put into an elaborate motion-capture suit to record all the moves: punches, kicks, flips, rolls, drunken boxing staggers – everything! Ian has only the best memories of that time, “I’ve kept very few souvenirs of my 30 years in games, but one I have is an autographed CD…

During the era of the DS and Wii, Nintendo didn’t just want to sell games consoles – it wanted to sell the dream that self-improvement could be fun, whether you were exercising your mind in Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training or your body with Wii Sports. The Wii Balance Board was key to the next step of that drive. The board, which takes four AA batteries to connect to the Wii wirelessly, uses four sensors to measure your weight, as well as determining your balance by gauging where your weight is distributed on the board. The Wii Balance Board was initially packaged with the exercise-themed minigame collection Wii Fit, and later with the improved Wii Fit Plus in 2009. Both games were huge hits, resulting in almost 42 million Wii Balance…

» PLAYSTATION » 1995 » SONY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS AMERICA When ESPN first held the Extreme Games event in 1995, the likes of Tony Hawk, Mat Hoffman and Dave Mirra were among the medal winners – names that would later pop up on the covers of PlayStation games. You know what their extreme sports games are like, so it’s easy to assume that a licensed game based on that event would play similarly, maybe in a California Games multi-sport style. You’d be wrong, though. ESPN Extreme Games is a delightfully mid-Nineties racing game with attitude, in the tradition of games like Skitchin’ and Road Rash. The premise is simple. Sixteen participants take part in a road race using various equipment including mountain bikes, rollerblades and street-luge boards. Courses are littered with obstacles,…

<INTRO> HALLOWEEN HAD JUST OCCURRED AT THE TIME OF WRITING – BRINGING LOTS OF NEW HORROR-THEMED GAMES AND MAKING IT APPROPRIATE FOR OUR FEATURE ON MIDNIGHT BREW GAMES. A LEGENDARY DUO IS WORKING HARD TO BRING US A NEW GAME FOR THE SPECTRUM NEXT, AND SHOOT-’EM-UP FANS WILL LOVE THE LOOK OF THE SNES TITLE WE ARE PREVIEWING. WITH THREE HIGH-SCORING AND DIVERSE REVIEWS, IT’S ANOTHER PACKED COLUMN AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE END OF 2024.</INTRO> <MAIN HEADER> ALLAN’S MIDNIGHT MAGIC <INTRO> FROM DISTANT KAZAKHSTAN, SPECTRUM FAN ALLAN TURVEY IS RUNNING HIS HOMEBREW LABEL MIDNIGHT BREW GAMES AND CREATING DAZZLING ARCADE CONVERSIONS </INTRO> <BODY> Allan Turvey’s latest project is a natural evolution for him. “I’ve spent most of my life working freelance and running small businesses, so publishing my own…

Nostalgia is a powerful thing. You know that better than most, because you’re literally holding nostalgia in your hands as you read this, flooding your brain with that sweet, sweet dopamine and serotonin. Retro gaming is all about continuity with yourself, connecting who you were with who you are now. As uncertain as the world can be these days, we all benefit from indulging in something feel-good and familiar from happier, less uncertain, times. So it may seem strange that I’m now going to talk about a brand-new videogame… But wait! Stop screaming! Don’t throw this magazine across the room! Especially don’t do that if you’re reading it on your phone. Because this is a game that’s going to give you the biggest dopamine hit you could imagine, without any…

» ZX SPECTRUM » 1984 » VORTEX SOFTWARE  One of my favourite developers from the 8-bit era was Costa Panayi. His games often reminded me of early Ultimate titles in that they were often very slick looking, very polished and very reminiscent of the arcade games I used to enjoy. Cyclone is Costa’s follow-up to the excellent Tornado Low Level and while it features many similar elements of that earlier game, including impressively smooth scrolling and a distinctive, slightly skewed, slightly overhead perspective, mechanically Cyclone is rather different. Those differences extend far beyond the fact that you’re now piloting a helicopter instead of a jet – the aim of Cyclone is more about retrieval than simple wanton destruction. That’s not to say there’s anything bad about flying across a landscape and…

WIZARDRY II: THE KNIGHT OF DIAMONDS ■ This 1982 sequel is really more of an expansion, and requires players to import characters of at least level 13 from the original game. It features a quest for the Staff Of Gnilda in order to save the besieged city of Llylgamyn. WIZARDRY III: LEGACY OF LLYLGAMYN ■ Released in 1983, Wizardry III once again requires players to import characters from a previous game, although this time they’re cast as descendants of the original characters, since the game is set many years after Wizardry II. WIZARDRY IV: THE RETURN OF WERDNA ■ Wizardry IV was much delayed, eventually releasing in 1987. It’s different from the initial trilogy, since this time the player controls the evil wizard Werdna and must fight against heroes from…

» COMMODORE 64 » 1984 » RON ROSEN I really have a fondness for single screen platformers, and since the style was at its peak in the Eighties, it’s almost inevitable that I’ll end up playing one whenever I break out an 8-bit computer. I think part of it is just because I like to put myself in the shoes of the game designer when I play them. One of my favourite quotes is from the veteran Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater, “Restrictions breed creativity.” I wonder how I would tackle the task of creating interesting and varied challenges within the limitations of a single screen? When it comes to Mr Robot And His Robot Factory, I don’t need to wonder. The game comes with a fully featured level…

At the height of PlayStation, around the time of Tekken 3, Final Fantasy VIII and Omega Boost, Sony would invite a small group of European journalists to Tokyo Game Show and a week-long publisher tour. This included visits to Namco, Square Enix, Team Ninja and Sony HQ among others. “It was relentless during the day: back-to-back round table interviews with the world’s most famous development teams,” remembers Paul. “We did also have time to explore the city, however, which meant visits to the major arcades and the Akihabara shopping district, hunting rarities among the new releases. I learned so much and made some lifelong friendships.”…

Cadaver was a challenge. It was difficult, it took a long time to complete and it felt like plunging into the unknown at times – and that was just for the developers. For when The Bitmap Brothers created this acclaimed action adventure game, the industry’s self-professed “rock stars” was effectively finding its feet in a genre it had never attempted to craft before. The fact it pulled it off to the same high standard as its other titles was testament to the abundance of talent and skill which ran throughout the company’s small team. “We just wanted to make the game,” says Mike Montgomery, one of the developer’s three cofounders. “We’d worked on two arcade-type titles, the scrolling shooter Xenon and the futuristic sports game Speedball, but we didn’t want to…

If you want to get stuck into Cadaver today, you can do so legitimately without having to hunt around for an original copy. You will find the Amiga version of the game on The Bitmap Brothers Collection 2 for the Evercade handheld and home consoles alongside Cadaver: The Payoff which means you will have the full set of levels available to you. Since it’s a compilation of Bitmap goodies, you get to play Gods, Magic Pockets, The Chaos Engine 2 and Z as well. Cadaver is also built into THE A500 Mini – the tiny console recreation of the Amiga 500 computer. In this case, you won’t get the expansion pack but that wouldn’t stop you downloading it onto a FAT32-formatted USB stick and running it from there. Finally, if…

JADE COCOON: STORY OF THE TAMAMAYU ■ DEVELOPER: GENKI ■ YEAR: 1998 ■ Pokémon was one of the smash hits of the mid-Nineties, with millions taking on the challenge of catching 151 diverse critters. Of course, being a Nintendo exclusive, owners of other platforms missed out on the fun – but that’s where games like Jade Cocoon come in. Just like the Pokémon games, it’s an RPG in which you fight a variety of monsters that you can catch and deploy in battle, but it’s far from being a direct clone. For a start, there’s a very different plot. Where the story of Pokémon emphasises personal glory, Jade Cocoon tasks you with saving your community, where many villagers have fallen into a magical sleep following a demon attack. As the Cocoon…

» System: Switch (tested), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X » Buy it for: £19.99 » Buy it from: Online Once upon a time the latest set of Irem collections would have come in a single package, rather than being spread across five separate releases. The second volume is now here and while it features some fun games it still feels rather lacking. The biggest issue of course is that you’re only getting three standalone games, GunForce I and II and Air Duel, a solid vertical shmup. Yes there are regional variants and the SNES version of GunForce but they add little to the overall package. The emulation is of a good quality and there’s a raft of extras and options, but it can’t hide the fact that this…

This month’s collector isn’t entirely sure of his first gaming experience, but knows that it was in the early Eighties. “I can’t remember if it was Chuckie Egg on the Acorn Electron, Hyper Sports at the arcade at Lyme Regis while on holiday, Asteroids in the off-licence in South London or playing Smurf round a friend’s house on his ColecoVision,” Duncan admits. However, his collecting habit is much more easily traced. “I’m one of those people that didn’t have all the latest consoles when I was a kid, so as soon as I started working around 1992 I would buy everything I ever wanted from car boot sales and charity shops – long before prices went sky-high and you could buy games for a couple of quid.” The result is…

» XBOX 360 » 2008 » FUN LABS The Cabela’s series began in the late-Nineties and, like any long-running franchise, went through a number of changes over the years. Initially debuting on the PC in 1998, games began appearing on consoles from 2001 with the release of Cabela’s Big Game Hunter: Ultimate Challenge for Sony’s PlayStation. While it has never been a mainstream series in the UK, its popularity stateside meant games were released as recently as 2018 and while most of its titles have never been hailed as critical darlings, their very nature means they’ve often been discussed in UK gaming magazines over the years. My own experience with the series came when I reviewed Cabela’s African Safari for one of Imagine’s Xbox magazines, and I’m pretty sure I…

As great as PC gaming is, playing older games can sometimes feel like a bit of a chore. GOG has been dedicated to making older games not only accessible for modern gamers to buy and enjoy, but also to try to make them as easy to use as possible and that’s where its new initiative the GOG Preservation Program comes into play. “This is our next step in game preservation, made possible by over a decade of experience in the field – whether technological, legal, or business-related,” explains Marcin Paczynski, GOG’s senior business development manager. Marcin tells us that GOG has over 2,000 classic titles in its catalogue and that while other publishers maintain their own libraries, they’re rarely as extensive and often focus on newer titles, especially since compatibility…

The latest entrant in the retro-gaming market has some interesting pedigree, as ModRetro was founded by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. Its first product is the Chromatic, an FPGA-based recreation of the Game Boy Color that is compatible with not only the console’s original software, but a line of new cartridge releases and re-releases from ModRetro. We caught up with ModRetro’s head of game development, Chris Beach, to find out more about the project before its imminent arrival. How did the Chromatic project start off, Chris? I’m not sure whether you’re aware, but ModRetro actually started as an online forum for modders around ten years ago. Our founder is very passionate about the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, so their idea was to give gamers the most authentic experience…

We’re going to pose a question to you all, and we want you to answer it honestly. If someone had told you in 2004 that Nintendo was about to abandon the Game Boy, would you have believed them? While each of Nintendo’s home consoles to that point had sold less than its predecessor, the Game Boy family of consoles had been the company’s golden goose, a reliable set of earners and a brand that had become synonymous with handheld gaming as a whole over its 15-year history. So of course Nintendo wouldn’t do that, it would be a ludicrous thing to do. However, history tells us that while it took a while, that’s exactly what Nintendo did – and it was all thanks to the Nintendo DS. The Nintendo DS…

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THE BLACK ONYX ■ Released in 1984 and created by Henk Rogers (who would go on to play a key role in the story of Tetris), The Black Onyx is credited with helping to popularise RPGs in Japan. The first-person view is straight out of Wizardry, although the game itself is much simpler. THE BARD’S TALE ■ The Bard’s Tale, released in 1985 for the Apple II and ported to the Commodore 64 the following year, borrows heavily from Wizardry’s playbook, but this immensely popular title expands on the concept with excellent colour graphics and sound. DRAGON QUEST ■ Launched in 1986, Dragon Quest borrows from both Ultima and Wizardry: the latter’s influence can be particularly seen in the random, first-person battles. Yuji Horii has said the idea of levelling…

As well as demanding lateral thought, Cadaver also requires patience and a great willingness to explore. If you’re to successfully guide the game’s bounty hunter through the castle and defeat the Necromancer then you need to look for clues in everything you see and that includes in the patterns on the walls and on the floors. In some cases, you even have to be alert to the position of the exits or you’ll find yourself endlessly wandering looking for a way forward and that’s because this is a game which requires you to experiment in order to get your bearings. It means checking every barrel, every chest and more just in case it throws up something important, although, as you’ll discover, you’ll also find items that are superfluous to your…

Taking a classic videogame series in a new direction is always a tricky task and developers don’t always succeed. While Super Mario Kart proved that Nintendo’s plumber could easily make the jump from platforming to racing, Castlevania Judgment simply highlighted that the Castlevania fanbase wasn’t quite ready for a one-on-one fighter. Metal Slug Tactics, an isometric tactical RPG from Leikir Studios seems like a baffling sidestep for the popular run-and-gun series, but it’s not quite as bold a change of direction as you might think. After all, strategy-based titles like Metal Slug Touch and Metal Slug Defence have proven the series has legs outside its run-and-gun roots, so in many ways Metal Slug Tactics feels like a natural evolution. Albeit an evolution that’s taken a while to arrive. “We started talking…

PLAYSTATION ◼ Building on the original, technically and thematically, the sequel is the classic Resident Evil experience. The ports improved the visuals and introduced some extras, making this difficult to recommend in retrospect, but the original is still a nostalgic blast, wobbly polygons and all. NINTENDO 64 ◼ And the award for the most ambitious port goes to… this marvel of optimisation that delivers the true Resident Evil 2 experience on a cartridge system – and even adds features such as the EX Files which explore series lore. Downgraded backgrounds and FMVs are an acceptable concession. PC ◼ The PC release features all of the extra content from the PS1 DualShock version and adds a new Data Gallery which is a library of cutscenes, artwork and other assets. Crucially, it…

» AUTO DESTRUCT ■ DEVELOPER: NEUROSTONE ■ YEAR: 1998 ■ Rather than the free-for-all combat of Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8, Auto Destruct has you taking on an evil cult that killed your wife and daughter across a variety of solo missions. It’s not a graphically impressive game, but the variety of missions and small yet open city map show Neurostone experimenting in the kind of design areas that eventually resulted in games like Driver. » HEBEREKE’S POPOITTO ■ DEVELOPER: SUCCESS ■ YEAR: 1995 ■ This falling block puzzle game from the very early days of the PlayStation is the closest thing the console has to Dr Mario, with the primary difference being that your target blocks will move about as you drop blocks. It’s not a bad puzzle game,…

For decades, the name Jackie Chan has been synonymous not only with top-notch action, but also with an extra dose of slapstick. So it’s no surprise that the name has appeared on a number of game boxes over the last 40 years already (see the Rumble In The Box panel for more on that) – but none bigger than Jackie Chan Stuntmaster. According to the game’s original developer Ian Verchere, Stuntmaster was planned as a Jackie Chan game from the very beginning, “I’ve always been a huge fan of Jackie’s films, and there are scenes from Armor Of God II: Operation Condor that could easily have been taken directly from Super Mario 64 levels. The pitch for me was simple: replace the Italian plumber with the most famous action movie…

WALL JUMPING ■ Jackie can run up most walls. Either to jump off and reach other platforms, or to backflip and attack nearby enemies. KICKING STUFF AROUND ■ From time to time, there will be massive rolls or bins in the area, just waiting for you to kick them in the direction of oncoming opponents. See them fall like bowling pins! USING GADGETS ■ As in most of his films, Stuntmaster allows Jackie to pick-up all sorts of everyday objects and use them as weapons. Every now and then these things even give him new attacks! DRUNKEN BOXING ■ Jackie popularised drunken boxing in films such as Drunken Master. In Stuntmaster, he occasionally finds a bottle of booze to drink from, which makes him wobble around and unleash unpredictable attacks.…

» System: Switch » Buy it for: £11.99 » Buy it from: Online This collection brings together eight titles including Summer Games, World Games, California Games and slightly more surprisingly, Championship Wrestling. Epyx always did make great multi-sports games and they do hold up well, with the number of events represented giving some sense of variety. Fans of specific versions should note that all eight games are the Commodore 64 versions, but the emulation is solid and you get a few display options, including CRT distortion. You also get save states and 3D game boxes to look at, but otherwise the presentation is minimal. Still, it’s hard to grumble given the cost per game here. >> Score 77%…

THE COVER STAR NINTENDO DS The popular handheld is abundant and easy to afford – we’ve seen boxed DS and DS Lite units go for as little as £20, and the DSi for £25. The DSi XL is a bit more pricey, starting at £40 for a complete boxed unit. As usual, expect to pay more based on colour and condition, especially if you want a special edition variant of the console. WIZARDRY: PROVING GROUNDS OF THE MAD OVERLORD A complete original Apple II copy of this influential dungeon crawler will set you back £70-170, depending on condition. Other versions tend to be cheaper and more abundant. SUPERFROG If you want to get Team17’s heroic hopper, original big box Amiga floppy disk copies have recently sold for £70-80. The CD32…

01 » Zelda has Ganon cornered, and she’s making one heck of a threat. “Come along nicely now, or I’ll ram this pointy thing right where the sun doesn’t shine.” The villain is appropriately terrified. 02 » But it was a ruse! Whipping out a giant gold chain, she wraps up the tyrant with ease. It’s a good job that she’s friends with Mr T, who gave her the chain for protecting his bins from local kids. 03 » With the magical wand now no longer needed as a threat, Zelda uses it to transport Ganon into an enchanted tome. “Well, that closes the book on that case then,” she says to nobody. 04 » Arriving home at the palace, Zelda decides that her little quip might work better with an audience.…