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Tingle’s Maps: Rolling Ridge

Welcome to the second installment of my new article series: “Areas That Annoy Me in the Oracle Games”. Look, I love these games. I think that the secret system is so great and so well-thought-out that it hurts me that more games don’t do it. (Come on, Pokémon; you insist on selling me two versions…

Yuga’s Art Gallery: One wacky hourglass

Look, Phantom Hourglass gets a lot of hate for literally no reason. I will argue until the day I die that Phantom Hourglass is an incredible, completely flawless game. Seriously, it’s flawless. Except for the Ocean King segments, and the controls, and — well, a few other things. Look, I understand the criticisms, I just…

Tingle’s Maps: Crescent Island

Remember Oracle of Ages? It was so cool! You could travel back and forth through time with a harp, which is cooler than an ocarina and you know it. You got cool animal companions which includes a kangaroo with boxing gloves, because this is a bonkers universe where anything can happen. You could link up…

Yuga’s Art Gallery: Escape!

A Link to the Past has one of the most moody and atmospheric openings in all of Zelda, save for Majora’s Mask. It’s raining and you’re all alone in an empty house after waking from troubled dreams. You follow your uncle, only to find him stuck at the bottom of a hole, seemingly dying. It’s…

Tingle’s Maps: Goponga Swamp

Link’s Awakening DX was the first Zelda game that I actually played. I had maybe dabbled with a few before, notably The Legend of Zelda even though I didn’t know what was going on, but Link’s Awakening DX was my first Zelda. I have so many fond memories of this game from when I was…

Yuga’s Art Gallery: Ferocious beast

I’ve only played Twilight Princess once. I played it on my old GameCube in my freshman year of college. Basically, I had to rush through it because I set a goal to finish it before the end of the school year…and I started in April. So, I don’t really remember a whole lot from the…

Tingle’s Maps: Minish Hyrule Town

I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that I love The Minish Cap. In the year that I have been with Zelda Universe, I’ve written three articles about this amazing game and, today, I’m going to make it four. In my last two installments, I talked about The Minish Cap’s Hyrule Town Square and…

Yuga’s Art Gallery: Too cute for words

My original draft of this article was literally just “HOW CUTE IS THIS?” over and over again, but my editors said that, while accurate, I actually need to write something about the piece. So, here’s my second draft. We are all fans of cute things. Whether they be Koroks or kittens, adorable animals and creatures…

Yuga’s Art Gallery: Hylian Winter

Winter is officially upon us. The temperatures are below freezing and scarves and mittens are taken from their hidey holes to keep us warm. It’s the only time of year where it becomes an ice level outside your door. I love it. The snow, the cold, the smell of a subzero wind, it’s all amazing.…

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