Zelda: The Minish Cap – Trapped Behind the Ambassador Wall
A few years ago, Nintendo debuted its new handheld baby, the Nintendo 3DS. On launch day, the 3DS came out at a price of $250, but then shortly after had a $80 price drop to combat low sales figures. To compensate those who bought it at the original price, Nintendo gave away free “ambassador” Virtual Console games, half of which were from the Game Boy Advance. They also said that these GBA games would be ambassador exclusives, and thus would not come to the eShop. Ever. As in “no Mother 3 for the West” ever. One of those games was The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, a main series Zelda game (and if you’re into timelining, the second earliest of all). From what I remember of the original launch, it was pretty popular. It also gave us Vaati’s backstory, showing us that the nasty monster first seen in The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords used to be human. Now, one of the perks of the ambassador program was that