The oft-maligned (with good reason) Phillips CD-i Zelda games are a bad dream Nintendo would like to forget. What was originally meant to be an agreement between Nintendo and Phillips to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo morphed instead into an agreement to license out some specific Nintendo characters, Link and Zelda being two.…
Fan Art… Thursday? Well, not quite. At risk of stepping on Eternal Legend’s toes, I found some fan art that was just too good to not post about. You see, The Adventure of Link inexplicably holds a place in my heart. Well, not inexplicable. I’ll explain. Despite all its flaws, The Adventure of Link was…
It’s Wednesday, and that means (starting today) it’s “This Week in Zelda News” on our YouTube channel! If you’re more of the watching-a-YouTube-video type rather than a read-a-bunch-of-words type, you can catch up on the past week’s Zelda news in our all new YouTube video. This edition covers the Skyward Sword Hylian font being cracked…
Retro working on a new, unannounced Zelda title? Not likely–at least not with the available facts. The rumor originated over at NeoGaf yesterday as some fans noticed some interesting posts from Retro Studios employee Eric Kozlowski. The new Retro employee was added to staff back in June as an artist, who in August posted about…
I can’t say that I blame Ganon, that certainly drives me crazy as well. Dorkly Bits is at it again in short order with another amusing spoof of our beloved franchise. To watch the humorous video of Link finding Ganon’s weakness, hit the jump.
Now that you have that fancy special edition Zelda 3DS, should you need a Hyrulian case to carry it in you’re in luck. Improvisations By Tepe–a small boutique made popular by its “geek leather”– is willing to custom make you such a case, hand-cutting, hand-tooling, and hand-dying it for around $40. Be sure to visit…
Over the weekend yet another fascinating page of Hyrule Historia was translated by GlitterBerri and her team–an afterword in which Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma reminds fans of something that he (and creator Shigeru Miyamoto) has said many times now: Zelda games are built on game mechanics first and a story is added after the fact to fit…
For a lot of modern gamers the first (or second, depending on how you look at it) generation games are a bit difficult to get into. Due to extreme limitations both graphically and design-wise and the sheer newness of the medium, the older games left a lot of solving up to the player.
Hyrule Historia is turning out to be a treasure trove of confirmations. Thanks to this amazing book and the fans translating it into English, we have yet another long-debated piece of Hyrule triva confirmed to be fact: Keapora Gaebora, the owl seen in Ocarina of Time, is in fact the Light Sage Rauru.
We at Zelda Universe have been so grateful to the fans scanning and translating pages from Hyrule Historia, providing us everything from the official timeline to confirming Ocarina of Time Link in Twilight Princess. However, we would love hold a translation of this beautiful book in our own hands. What can you do to help…
The Japanese-only manga prequel to Skyward Sword is getting a fan translation by GlitterBerri, known for her recent translation of the infamous official Zelda timeline from Hyrule Historia. She’s been hard at work translating the fantastic new manga. Want a taste?
Since early screenshots were released showing this brand new form of Hylian, Zelda fans have been hard at work translating it. Hyrule Historia says that the alphabet was “too ancient to translate” but clearly they underestimated Zelda Universe forum member Sarinilli who was able to crack the code via some small text found in the…
In recent years Nintendo has developed a trend using a major installment in the Zelda series as a jumping off point for a sequel utilizing the predecessor’s art style. To save time and costs, Majora’s Mask utilized everything from the engine to the graphics and even characters for its direct sequel. Similarly, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks…
After experiencing the timeless, simple beauty of the art design for The Wind Waker, have you wished you could play either Ocarina of Time or Majora’s Mask in a cel-shaded style? Well thanks to the arduous efforts of one awesome fan, you can. Djipi has been hard at work for quite some time now and…
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