Zelda: The Minish Cap’s Impossible Sidequest - An Obscure Easter Egg?

Thanks for watching! Sorry if I sound a bit off at parts, I was sick! Also 5:28, Ages* not Seasons 😤

Devs: Miyamoto, we're having trouble porting an NES game Miyamoto: .... I want you to make 3 games.

This drove me nuts as a kid, i tried for hours to figure out how to build the third house

It makes me happy to see that my old mockup of the third Oracle house is put to good use. Thanks for the reference and nice job with the video!

I've always had this theory that Minish Cap IS the third elusive Oracle game, but with changes to plot and gameplay mechanics for obvious reasons. If Farore was the Oracle of Secrets in the original idea for Mystical Seed of Courage, then shrinking down and uncovering secrets around the world could fit with the season changing and time travelling of the other games. Heck, maybe the book that she`s always carrying would be the item that allowed Link to shrink! Those glowing blue runes Ezlo uses in the final game would come from its pages. Vaati possesses a humanoid form and a monstrous form much like Veran and Onox.

Just wait until they remake the oracles, maybe they'll finally make the third one

According to TCRF there aren't any missing assets relating to that third quest, so that also lends credence to the idea that it was omitted on purpose, especially considering how many random unused assets were left in.

Minish Cap is my favorite Zelda game. I hope they eventually have a remake and fix this quest. Would be nice if they remade the Oracle games too and finally made the third game.

"I'm sure I could build a new place here if I could just get rid of these cats" Translation: I'm sure I could make a third oracle game if I could just get rid of these limitations.

THIS QUEST HAS COST ME SO MANY HOURS OF JUST RUNNING AROUND LIKE A HEADLESS CHICKEN

You know what’d be neat? Oracle remakes where the two games are combined. You know what’d be neater? The above, but with the addition of Oracle of Secrets.

Capcom did try to make it up for Farore! If you decide to give her a house, she'll make a charm that gives you both Nayru's and Din's charm's abilities in one! In the end, it's the better/most strategic option to give her a home, even though the game encourages you to get them for the first two :) I think it's a pretty neat detail Edit: ok ok I wasn't aware of the lowered strength that farore's charm has, but to be fair, they don't really make it clear in game, especially for younger me who thought she tricked the system lmao

having played through The Minish Cap several times, I always assumed I was just lacking something, missing something, or perhaps doing something in the wrong order locking me out of completing the quest. Believing that I was simply too bad at the game to complete an unaided 100% walkthrough hurt less than knowing there's this one part of a trio destined to never exist. Which, in turn, is making the optimist in me feel a lot of hope for a complete trilogy of Oracle games in a remade set for Switch.

Minish Cap is the least talked about, most underrated zelda game

Cruelest joke of all, Farore is that sibling who ends up being the butt of every joke. Hopefully that's rectified in the future some how, even if it's a new Oracle game. :)

Capcom: Zelda 1 is to hard to remake so instead let's make 2 games that span 16 dungeons, time travel, changing seasons, connected story to get a big ending... Yep, this is easier.

Yay! some Minish cap love! Im glad its getting some attention cause I find it gets over looked by many

Oh yeah, that whole quest is entirely poking fun at how the Oracle games never got a representative game for Farore.

poor Farore is also the only Oracle without a Spirit in Ultimate :(

The line being removed about removing the cats suggests to me that they had originally intended to include the house. However, that doesn't preclude them later deciding to leave it out as a reference.