Itoi Cameo in Old Game Boy Game

Just because the person’s name who told you about this is Artemis makes it 39482934820x better.

But in all seriousness, that’s an interesting find.

I remember coming across that game from the fact that it has Totaka’s Song in it.

But this is pretty darn cool of a reference to sneak in.

Itoi was a gold miner? Quick, someone send him a copy of Minecraft…

I noticed that while playing the game myself. Great humour in that game, too.

Haha wow! Now I’m going to play this game…

Awesome. Such a great game, too!

this game reminds me so much of Links Awakening,
characters from this game even cameo in it

How interesting. I just started playing this game three days ago, I’ll look out for this easter egg. :]

Awesome. I remember reading about the gold mining thing as well.

Oh yeah also I heard about this game before because of Link’s Awakening. I should try it out sometime.

Thanks for telling us about that project, which I was totally unaware of. Gonna give it a try (this game is selling at crazy prices from what I’ve seen, mostly due to its similarity to its ties to Link’s Awakening I guess)

Link’s Awakening actually runs on For the Frog the Bell Tolls engine. And there is more: Eight intruments of the Sirens (with the main song – Ballad of the Wind Fish) is like Eight Melodies, Koholint Island is like Magicant, and the Wind Fish itself is like the Dark Dragon.

Gah! I actually played this game 2 days ago, and remember this line. But I didn’t make the connection ><

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A while ago I bought this game from eBay just because I heard it was similar to Link’s Awakening, and even if I can’t really read anything, I think it’s a great game!

I didn’t know about the fan translation… Hmm.

Are the save frogs from MOTHER 3 a reference to the title of this game?

No, the frogs in this game and the Save Frogs in MOTHER 3 are unrelated, unless Itoi wanted to put a rather obscure reference in there.

The title is a reference to the game’s plot.

Spoilers ahead:
In the Sablé Prince and Prince Richard’s race to win the heart of Princess Tirasumu, they eventually discover that many of the residents of the Sablé Kingdom were cursed and transformed into frogs to be fed to the giant snake (forgot its name *_*). The
Prince of Sablé (after being cursed by a witch from a poisonous apple and turning into a frog) gains the ability to transform between a frog (so he can jump higher, eat bug enemies, talk with other frogs) and a human at will after paying a huge sum of money to the witch for a potion, so going into water makes him a frog, and eating another apple (although making him faint) or dying turns him back into a human. Prince Richard can also transform between a frog and a human at will, but unlike Richard the Prince of Sablé learns how to transform into a snake by eating snake eggs, which lets him go under gaps, easily defeat some enemies or turn them into blocks.

The other cursed residents must wait until winter when the kingdom’s bell tolls to turn back into humans.

Yeah, i heard of this game because characters from this game cameo in Link’s Awakening and also Wario Land 4.
Also, there is a trailer for Animal Crossing 3D and in one part, the character in it is wearing Ness’s shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eso2Sj0S6u0
Skip to 0:54 to see it.

Not only Ness’s shirt, but also Link’s clothes.

stop erasing my comments!

actually, he is wearing claus clothes

I played this over the last few days and really enjoyed it. There’s a good sense of progression and a couple of trickyish puzzles I enjoyed figuring out. I was surprised by how hands-off the combat system was but it still worked somehow. Good sense of humour too.

Hm, I had never heard of this game before, but seeing now that it runs the engine that Link’s Awakening was built on, I’m gonna have to play it. Awesome! LA was one of my favorite GB games!

I actually helped translate/edit this, and had changed the line to something like “I write copy, but now I’m digging to the center of the Earth. I’m bound to find a gold mine!”

It ended up for whatever reason not ending up in the released version of the patch that the main coder put out, but he’ll always be Itoi to me! The sprite even looks like him…