True.

I’ve been recently playing Tunic. It almost mirrors my experience except that i didn’t have a manual at all. Tunic uses weird language with random english words, i only had a small dictionary for zelda 2 that would accomplish just that.

Just googled the Zelda 2 manual. I can see where the Tunic inspiration comes from https://i.imgur.com/OzVTVkK.png

https://archive.org/details/Zelda-II-The-Adventure-of-Link-Manual-NES-US-1988