A great in-depth look into the Zelda franchise, filled with text, drawing concepts, pictures, and screenshots from all of the games in the franchise leading up to Breath of the Wild (this book is based on the Japanese translation which was published a few months before Breath of the Wild).

A gorgeous addition to the “trilogy”, it is packed with over 300 pages worth of material divided into three primary sections: Historical Records, Database, and Archives.

The first section historical records dives into a history of Hyrule (with a more in-depth timeline on the games than published previously), the characters we love, the lands and realms, the different races, maps, animals, towns and cultures, weapons and monsters.

The second section Database is an alphabetical archive of information (a more true encyclopedic approach) that goes into each town and village by game, items (including how those items change across games), dungeons, and enemies.

The third and final section is the Archives. This section is divided into segments for all of the games prior to Breath of the Wild and provides the plot, world maps, main characters, diagrams of how characters are related to each other, and developmental notes/designs.

This book contains a treasure trove of information and collecting all of it into a beautiful collection.