Among the many new innovations in Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule now has a newspaper of record: the Lucky Clover Gazette, the kingdom’s new daily (weekly? hourly? Who knows?) newspaper. Spoiler Warning:This feature discusses certain sidequests, secondary characters, and minor story spoilers from Tears of the Kingdom. Continue reading at your own discretion if you…
There’s lots to appeal to fans in Tears of the Kingdom: the storyline and subplots, the Sky Islands and the Depths, the cooking, and the gossip about certain characters. One of the game’s most talked-about features is the ability to build all kinds of different machines, including flying machines. Zonai Wings, fans, hot air balloons,…
Saving Hyrule from Ganondorf, Calamity Ganon, flooding, and generally going to rack and ruin once every few centuries is a pretty big job. And it’s far too big for one Hylian to accomplish all on his own. Link is the hero in The Legend of Zelda games, but he cannot accomplish his quest – rescuing…
In a previous piece, we talked about what may be the ten easiest Ancient Sheikah Shrines in Breath of the Wild: shrines that are easy enough for the most novice player, and yet interesting enough to keep experienced players entertained as well. Now, we are going to the opposite end of the spectrum. Every Breath…
Breath of the Wild, to date, appears to give us the best look at what a present-day Zelda game would look like.
It is a situation that every Legend of Zelda player will find themselves in, without fail — you’ve taken a heavy beating in a major boss battle, or a bunch of minor enemies have gradually whittled your hearts down to almost nothing. And now, the game is making that annoying beeping sound that tells you…
The Ancient Shrines are some of the most important gameplay elements in Breath of the Wild. There are numerous shrines found throughout Hyrule (120 in total, not counting the DLC shrines), with each of them serving as miniature dungeons full of logic puzzles and the occasional combat trial. They reward the player with Spirit Orbs…
Beware: Read no further unless you want to be frightened within half a heart of your life meter. This is an article about the most dangerous, most terrifying creature in all of Hyrule. The Hinox? Of course not. The Lynel? Not even. Calamity Ganon? Pfft. I speak, of course, of the Cucco. If Hyrule had…
From the moment Link washes up on the shores of Koholint Island, we know that Link’s Awakening is going to be a strange and weird game. The game takes Link and the player into a world of dungeons, caves, dreams, and nightmares, leading up to the final battle atop Mt. Tamaranch. This journey is not…
Spoiler warning: Contains significant spoilers for certain Age of Calamity plot points. If you’ve not played either the game or the demo, you might want to bypass this article for the time being. Stop me if you have heard this story before. A band of heroes, including a princess, a young hero with a magical…
“Open your eyes. Wake up, Link.” These are the first words that Link and the player hear in the opening moments of Breath of the Wild. Breath of the Wild is a game that is many things to many people: an open-world game, a combat game, a reinvented Legend of Zelda game, and so on.…
It was in Breath of the Wild that The Legend of Zelda fans were first introduced to the Divine Beasts: the four gargantuan Calamity-fighting contraptions that functioned as the game’s main dungeons. Built as protectors against Calamity Ganon, the machines turned into monsters after Ganon infiltrated them with four element-based incarnations of himself. It was…
There is certainly no shortage of bosses with giant eyeballs, or just one giant eyeball, like Gohma and the Hinox. What the Zelda games also have, however, is an abundance of bosses who are little more than – or no more than – giant eyeballs.
Why do the Zelda games continue to draw gamers in after 35 years?
