I’m still having a hard time processing the idea of a direct celebrity cameo in a Legend of Zelda game. There have been plenty of references to video game characters littered around the series — Link’s Awakening alone features characters from Super Mario, Kirby and SimCity. But never — as far as I can personally recall — has anyone been pulled…
Thinking back to the beaches I’ve ventured through in most video games, most of my memories range from pleasant to joyful. Rolling watermelons on Super Mario Sunshine’s Gelato Beach, soaring across the skies of Banjo-Kazooie’s Treasure Trove Cove, speeding across Sonic Adventure’s Emerald Coast and hanging with friends on Kingdom Hearts’ Destiny Islands. As we all know, of course, Majora’s Mask isn’t “most video games”.…
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai hit us all with some impressive numbers during the Nintendo Direct today, including a whopping total of 103 stages. Astoundingly, there are also 900 tracks in the game, which add up to 28 hours of music if played continuously without loops. This of course means that more Zelda music has…
There are many tenuous challenges we have to overcome in our childhood: tying shoes, doing homework, eating vegetables. For Ocarina of Time’s 9-year-old Link, he had to venture inside The Great Deku Tree to defeat the deadly parasite within, defeat fire-breathing reptilian monsters to save the Goron race from extinction, and rescue a princess from the…
Devolver Digital has announced on Twitter that adorable adventure game Minit will be launching on Nintendo Switch on August 9. The game puts you in control of a character who has been cursed with endless lives that only last for one minute. Players must make use of the restricted time to explore, find items and make…
When Breath of the Wild launched last year, it broke a long-running, established custom in the Zelda franchise by letting its characters speak. Prior to the landmark title, there had been no voiced dialogue in the entire canonical series of games. To claim that mainline Zelda games had never used voice actors in their 30-year history preceding Breath of the…
The section of The Wind Waker where the player pursues the finding of Nayru’s Pearl — the third and final Goddess Pearl — is one of my personal highlights of the game. Dark clouds and furious storms reign above Link upon his arrival to Greatfish Isle, contrasting with the game’s earlier precedent of sunny skies and cheery…
With a world as huge and dense as Hyrule in Breath of the Wild, the task of finding every quest, item and challenge is overwhelming to say the least. There’s no way to see and do everything without at least a nudge in the right direction from time to time, but then sifting through walkthroughs to…
Zelda has been covered extensively by the fact-finding blog/video series Did You Know Gaming? over the years, leaving no patch of grass uncut and no breakable pots intact in their search for fascinating trivia. With a world as huge and exciting as the one Breath of the Wild offers, however, a new episode was inevitable —…
When I’m thinking of ideas of what to write about next in our columns, one thing I try to do in search of inspiration is keep track of days of celebration or national awareness. You’ll find that there are a lot of fun and obscure ones out there when you actively look for them, which…
Last night I found a very welcome surprise nestled in my inbox: a new, free track from the talented Taylor Davis! Taylor is a versed violinist, notable for her covers of video game and anime themes (though more recently she has also released some impressive albums comprising exclusively of original music). For her latest release,…
It’s all about those small details! I’ve really enjoyed soaking in all the minor yet fascinating visual and gameplay tweaks from Treehouse Live’s demonstrations of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, laid out by series director Masahiro Sakarai. In the first segment, I came across one such detail that Zelda fans in particular will appreciate. At the 15:24 mark,…
Details continue to emerge on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, thanks to the Treehouse Live footage following yesterday’s Direct presentation. With series director Masahiro Sakurai present for the first segment, earlier we reported on his decision to put stage select before character select in the new title. He follows that up with new details on one-on-one…
After yesterday’s incredible Direct presentation, Nintendo Treehouse staffers sat down with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai, who shed some more light on the gameplay. In a gameplay demonstration of series newcomer Ridley, Sakurai touched on a significant change for versus mode. Players will now select the stage before selecting their characters, vice versa to what…
Wow, that was intense! Dedicating half of their Nintendo Direct and much of the Treehouse Live time to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo aren’t shy about showing off the upcoming Switch exclusive. It’s no wonder, considering the rich amount of details still pouring out about the game. In case you missed anything, below you’ll find all…
