Article by ZU forum member Jeff All forms of art go through periods of time where one style becomes king, video games being no exception. The era of Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii has been marked by a predominately Western influence on software. Western-preferred attributes of realism, blockbuster production values, grit and…
“In the shadows we regressed, so much so that we soon knew neither anger nor hatred…nor even the faintest bloom of desire. And all of it was the fault of a useless, do-nothing royal family that had resigned itself to this miserable half-existence!” The cliché is that the bigger, badder and scarier the villain, the…
“And here I was thinking Hyrule was empty of men of valor.” Ashei makes that remark midway through the adventure in Twilight Princess, just after the Secret Society has learned of Link and his feats in the struggle to save Hyrule from certain doom. By the end of the journey, Link and many other characters…
