A Legend of Zelda fan by the name of Andrew, who recently attended the Boston Comic-Con in the United States, got quite the surprise when Zelda's voice actor – Patricia Summersett – signed his Switch copy of Breath of the Wild in Hylian.
In case you're wondering, it translates to "Open Your Eyes..." according to Patricia. It's the phrase you hear the Princess say to Link at the very start of Breath of the Wild when he wakes up. Andrew further explained how Patricia did this for everyone in the line and mentioned how impressed he was with her dedication to the role. It's probably because she is also a fan of this series.
Back in 2017, we had the pleasure of speaking to Patricia and asking her how exactly she went about giving one of the most iconic princesses in video game history a voice.
The Canadian-American actor also told us how she was fortunate enough to grow up with the Zelda series in her life and revealed what it was like landing such a big role. If you're interested to find out more about her, read our interview.
And below is the actual scene from the game, courtesy of the YouTube channel Nintendo Cafe:
Have you had any of your own video games signed? Leave a comment below.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Nice touch. Impressive dedication to a role.
I think she spelled the second word wrong
Come on, this isn't really news. >.<
Can't wait to have her sign my copy when she comes to Syracuse in November 😁 she seems so awesome
She's an awesome person. Hope she voices Zelda again in the BOTW sequel, would really be weird without her
I didn't like Zelda's voice at all, so overacted. This is news, really?
@cryptologous not wrong, seems to be based on the twilight princess version
Neat
Apparently that wasn't enough for NL, so here are some additional words that that really shouldn't be read as they are not going to add anything of value and simple waste a few moments of your time.
I think it’s a classy touch by the actress - it’s kind of her to add that extra touch for fans.
Unlike the boo-birds hovering around here criticizing NL because this is “not news.”
Not every article is an announcement of a new Direst! They even prefaced the article with RANDOM. Sheesh.
More to the point - I didn’t know Hylian had an official lexicon! I wonder if it’s just the alphabet transposed, or if it’s own legitimate language like Tolkein’s Elvish or Star Trek’s Klingon?
Very cool. I'd love to meet her at a con someday.
@Teksetter Yeah, I know but if they're going to make articles for every autograph they see, I have friends with Miyamoto's, a much more important person in Nintendo.
She did a similar thing on my Master Sword statue at MCM a year or two ago. She writes it pretty fluently, and she's a super nice lady I adored her in BotW so it was very cool to get to meet her.
At least he didn’t get Link’s voice actor. All he would have written is “Hoh... Ha... Hu-yAAAHH... Nooh... Gurr-urrgh!”
It's not a single case, I've seen it at least twice on reddit
@BlueOcean Considering this is the only article about an autograph this month (and indeed for quite a long time) one can hardly accuse NL of making "articles for every autograph they see".
It's amazing how people manage to get bitter over nothing.
@BlueOcean As far as I see it, this is an article about appreciating the smaller things in life. Which I find to be a good thing. Besides, it's not very often you find voice actors having this extra bit of dedication to their role, so I do think that is noteworthy, whether you find it newsworthy or not.
@kopaka “Andrew further explained how Patricia did this for everyone in the line and mentioned how impressed he was with her dedication to the role.” It’s in the article....
@Draxa not what I meant. She signed stuff with "Open your eyes" in Hylian for months, this time — is not the first case of it.
The fact that Patricia has some resemblance to BOTW Zelda makes me wonder if they cast her as the voice actor before the character design was finalized.
@Wesbert Chill. I am not bitter dude, just commenting on the comments section. There is a huge difference.
@Yosher Good, glad that you enjoyed this article and for the record it doesn't bother me so I don't get your reply, I just asked if this is news so relax LOL. I also appreciate that she is nice with fans and I am not saying that she is not kind but I don't like her work as voice actress. She overacts sooo much. The best voice actor in Breath of the Wild is Sean Chiplock.
A very nice gesture from a very nice person. Nothing to be whining about, Negative Nancy's. Not every article has to be about something that only you like...
@Liam_Doolan Ah, yes. Candian-American actresses...
Famous all over the world for their voice-acting skills.
I play the majority of my games in English (for study). The games with anime style with english sub and japanese dub (Xenoblade, Fire Emblem...). But played BOTW in Spanish dub (my native tongue) as an exception just for how good the voice acting is, Zelda is one of the bests.
@cryptologous The last letter?
@Emperor-Palpsy don't forget the "eeyuh" and "ohwah!"
It looks like English, but someone's strange take on calligraphy.
@BlueOcean
agreeeeeeeed
Anyways nope l never got my games signed because idc about that stuff.
7/10 good news sorta
Dang would love to get an autograph but not on that game case . I like to keep my stuff as pristine as possible.
@Mr_Persona Thanks.
@San_D The autograph takes one quarter of the cover, literally.
I’ve never had a game signed, though I have a signed copy of Pink Lemonade, Closure In Moscow’s second LP (and one of the best albums of the 21st century, if I may), and I was really in awe when I saw Christopher, the vocalist, had drawn a Triforce next to his name 😄
She's really cute.
Didn't like her interpretation at first, but it really grew on me as I heard it. Super cool she memorized Hylian like that.
What a new (it's still cool tho)
She's amazing. It's not her fault the story of BOTW was rubbish. Hopefully they do a better job with the sequel.
Person involved with Zelda game does cool thing for fans.
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That’s neat. She did a really excellent job as Zelda.
I met her and Jamie the voice of prince sidon at galaxy con in Raleigh last month. They both were very nice. She did this for a few people and wrote other things too. Super cool people. Her agent too!
@BlueOcean Same, Zelda's voice was over-acted, Mipha's voice was under-acted. Urbosa was pure gold though.
@Rohanrocks88 @Ravenmaster I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one. She sounds ridiculous and trembling in every single sentence, it distracted every single time so I couldn't focus on what she was saying. I never imagined Zelda talking like that. In Ocarina of Time she seems serene, curious and strong-willed.
“Open your eyes, lovely Alex.”
@BlueOcean I'd agree that Revali is the best acted, with Daruk a close second.
@Mycroft ''What is at all wrong or negative with this story? That's rhetorical btw. Cheer. Up. You. Edge. Lords.'' 😄 welcome to the internet of whiners that live their lives on social media, and are the same when they're not on social media....for all of 10mins 😆. Remember!? my opinion is right and everyone else wrong!😄.Nice thing for her to do though
@Matthew010
@Branovices exactly
I like how people are complaining about a VA signing autographs in a fictional language devised for the game, when half the VAs out there have never heard of vidya games and have to "study the role" like it's Hamlet without any idea what it's even about.
"The Canadian-American"
I would simply used the word "American" by itself to describe any citizen of a certain country named Canada since the country itself could be considered an "American" country.
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