The Legend of Zelda Fan Art Envisions Minish Cap Sequel

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Many people rank The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap as one of the series' finest entries, though it has unfortunately not seen much support by Nintendo since its original release. There is hope within the community that the game might join the handful of other The Legend of Zelda Switch games, and one fan shows just what a sequel might look like.

After developing the seminal pair of original Game Boy titles, The Legend of Zelda: The Oracle of Ages and The Oracle of Seasons, Capcom went on to release The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance. This title was a combination of familiar top-down Zelda mechanics while introducing a variety of new ones that to this day haven't been seen since. The titular Minish Cap allowed Link to shrink to the size of the Minish, a species of intelligent creatures that Hylians thought no longer exist because of their miniscule size.

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Twitter user Sermella has shared gorgeous fan art of a The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap 2 on the Switch. In Sermella's imagining of a sequel, The Minish Cap would ditch its 2D roots and return in a new 3D adventure, with Toon Link standing within a Minish village, surrounded by towering flora and fauna, a house made out of a boot, and a fence looming in the distance. Not only does the fan art convey what the in-game world would look like, Sermella provides a look at the game's minimalist HUD, reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake from a few years ago.

Another one of the images in Sermella's post compares their illustration to a screenshot of the original game, helping highlight the transition form 2D to 3D. While The Minish Cap's