With the upcoming remake of Link's Awakening for the Nintendo Switch they've added a nice detail to Kanalet Castle. If you look closely, you can actually spot banners with a bell emblem on the castle walls:
On first glance this might simply be the Sea Lily's Bell, the Instrument of the Sirens that you get from the following dungeon, but both might actually be a reference to The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls, the GameBoy game that the original Link's Awakening was based on.
Prince Richard is actually even a guest character from the game, where the music in his villa is the game's overworld theme. The frogs inside his house are another reference, since he gets transformed into one and they are a part of the title, much like the bell.
The bell emblem even made me realize for the first time that the Sea Lily's Bell in itself always has been another reference to that game, because it's probably not a coincidence that they've chosen a bell out of all instruments as a reward for the dungeon that follows the quest around Prince Richard and Kanalet Castle.
(It might even be the reason why this particular instrument was chosen as Marin's weapon in Hyrule Warriors.)
On first glance this might simply be the Sea Lily's Bell, the Instrument of the Sirens that you get from the following dungeon, but both might actually be a reference to The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls, the GameBoy game that the original Link's Awakening was based on.
Prince Richard is actually even a guest character from the game, where the music in his villa is the game's overworld theme. The frogs inside his house are another reference, since he gets transformed into one and they are a part of the title, much like the bell.
The bell emblem even made me realize for the first time that the Sea Lily's Bell in itself always has been another reference to that game, because it's probably not a coincidence that they've chosen a bell out of all instruments as a reward for the dungeon that follows the quest around Prince Richard and Kanalet Castle.
(It might even be the reason why this particular instrument was chosen as Marin's weapon in Hyrule Warriors.)
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