>>37573336The manual was part of the game, yes, as games then needed them to convey things the limited nature of games at the time couldn't properly convey-- how to play, story elements, enemy names and what the tiny 8x8 sprites were trying to convey. By your logic, Mario should look like this instead of the artwork based version he is. Or maybe OoT 3D would have been more faithful if the characters were low polygon just like the N64 version.
