There have been a number of non-canonical entries in Zelda media over the years. These are products that, while they may sport “The Legend of Zelda” brand, don’t have a place in the official timeline. These include the infamous CD-i games, the hack-and-slash spin-off Hyrule Warriors, the 1989 animated series, and of course, Akira Himekawa’s excellent manga series.…
If you have followed our homepage for at least a couple of years, you may have, at some point, read Zelda- or Nintendo-related news from our former reporter, Douglas Forrester. Since we bid him farewell, Doug’s been a busy boy, creating and releasing music with his band, Someone In A Tree. So, you could say there’s a…
Following a successful summer stream in support of Doctors Without Borders this year, the kindhearted folks at Let’s-A-Game are back again, playing games for an insane amount of time for a great cause. The upcoming fifth livestream, “Let’s-A-Game for Relief”, will raise money for Direct Relief from December 21, 8am EST to December 26, 8am EST. They…
Link’s Awakening is such a weird and wonderful game, and it’s hard to imagine it any other way. A driving force of the game’s mysterious plot is the Wind Fish’s Egg, which fits in perfectly into the strange land of Koholint Island. It compels the player into a story unlike any other Zelda title before (or indeed…
Last year, we featured some spectacular Zelda-themed propaganda prints from Fernando “Fro” Reza. These posters pulled familiar concepts from various games of The Legend of Zelda series and recontextualized them with political messages, akin to those seen in propaganda art from the WWI and WWII eras. It seems Fro has been heavily inspired by the latest installment, Breath of the…
When fans of Ocarina of Time recall the scariest moment of the game, it’s usually the first encounter with ReDeads. It’s a haunting memory and for good reason, but there’s also something to be said about the Wolfos. Having consumed endless hours of playtime of Ocarina of Time in the last 20 years, it’s easy to forget how fearsome…
Last week, I dug up an interview with Zelda producer Shigeru Miyamoto which dated all the way back to 1997, a year before Ocarina of Time’s release. The translation of the interview, held by Japanese publication Famimaga 64, is still available on IGN. I love finding old articles like these, and I’m so grateful to see some…
Following the release of a particular Marvel movie that got a ton of people talking, we’re no longer unaccustomed to the horror of seeing our favorite heroes fade away (in the literal sense). Despite this, I’m still struggling to come to grips with the concept of Link and his childhood friends from Ocarina of Time disappearing…
20 years. It’s hard to believe. Ocarina of Time first released in Japan on November 21, 1998. It launched in other territories shortly afterward and changed the gaming industry forever. It’s the game that still, to this day, sits atop Metacritic’s Best Video Games of All Time list at the number one spot, making it the most…
If you play Majora’s Mask under regular conditions, in the manner it was meant to be played, there’s already no shortage of horror themes throughout the game. It’s widely regarded as the most sinister title in the Zelda series, from its overarching doomsday plot to the expressions of grief, sadness, and hopelessness among its vast cast of characters.…
Back when I first played The Wind Waker, I never really thought about the Hylian text littered across the game. Obviously, I thought it looked cool, but at the time, I don’t think I knew that the text I was seeing was all part of a fully realized language. Yet you see it scrawled across all…
The Lost Woods is a recurring place in Zelda games and one that any fan will recognize as a staple of the series. Even in the games in which it doesn’t appear, there are close variations, such as Link’s Awakening’s Mysterious Woods or Majora’s Mask’s Woods of Mystery. There’s a reason that this magical woodland theme keeps returning,…
For the most part, Link and the residents of Hyrule seem very good at maintaining a healthy calcium intake in the Zelda series. It’s no wonder everyone in this universe loves to drink milk: Chateau Romani has an inebriating effect in Majora’s Mask, and Ordon Goat Milk in Twilight Princess produced the cheese necessary to upgrade Yeto’s soup to…
Hello readers! For those of you who’ve been following our home page content, you may have noticed that we’ve really made a push with our weekly columns in the last year. Recently we introduced Princess Zelda’s Study and Tingle’s Maps, which brings our total to five unique columns. The team has been hard at work…
Skyloft as a whole is a very pleasant, colorful place I often found myself wishing to visit in real life while playing Skyward Sword. It’s not without its dangers, however — much of Link’s airborne abode is overrun with monsters as soon as the sun goes down, as a result of Batreaux’s curse. Chuchus run amok,…
