2.1 Discover the whereabouts of the Kakariko elder 2.2 Visit Sahasrahla 2.3 Enter the Eastern Palace 2.4 Locate the Map 2.5 Obtain the Compass 2.6 Collect the Big Key 2.7 Grab the Bow and Arrows 2.8 Head upstairs to the boss’ lair 2.9 Defeat the Armos Knights 2.1 Discover the whereabouts of the Kakariko…
1.1 Sneak into Hyrule Castle 1.2 Enter the castle dungeons 1.3 Obtain the boomerang 1.4 Rescue Princess Zelda 1.5 Use the secret passage 1.6 Traverse the sewers to Sanctuary 1.1Sneak into Hyrule Castle Before leaving Link’s House, make sure to open the treasure chest to retrieve the Lantern as it’ll prove very handy in parts of…
A new era of The Legend of Zelda is upon us! And with that comes widespread speculation about the details of the game, the secrets of its plot, and its placement within the entire universe of Hyrule. So many details have been unveiled about Breath of the Wild this week—indeed, we’ve seen six hours of live coverage by Nintendo’s Treehouse…
In a 2009 interview, Eiji Aonuma didn’t hold back. “If you play Ocarina of Time nowadays, you notice that it’s not that good,” he opined very candidly. “Sometimes it doesn’t move as fast as it should, graphics aren’t as beautiful as they should be; there are some confusing parts…. Any present Zelda is technically superior.”…
2014 was one of Zelda’s off years. With the Zelda adventure games taking just a little bit longer to make in the current generation, it’s the third year this decade without Zelda proper on either console or handheld. But that’s not to say that nothing Zelda-related happened this year. In fact, since the Year of…
The year 2013, in my opinion, was the high point of the current decade for Zelda. While the legacy of the 2010s is still being written, the 1990s and 2000s are tough decades to beat considering they solidified the Zelda experience and then converted it into an annual franchise. This decade has seen a few…
We’re 25 years into the 30 Years in 30 Days series, so naturally 2011 marks the silver anniversary for Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. A lot happened this year. That honestly should be no surprise to anyone. Nintendo has celebrated anniversaries in the past, but I think it’s safe to say that what they did for…
The 2000s were an exciting decade for the Zelda series. More than half of the Zelda games in existence were released in that decade — a total of 10 out of the current 18 (if you’re just counting the canonical ones), and every year but one had one. Unfortunately though, the 2010s isn’t looking to replicate…
The 2000s clearly was an amazing decade for Zelda games in comparison to the ‘80s and ‘90s before it. In the 2000s alone, nine Zelda games were released, ten if you count Ocarina of Tim: Master Quest and even more still if you count the spin-off games starring Tingle. This has been, as of yet, the definitive…
2007 was just downwind of Twilight Princess’ debut on both the Nintendo Wii and its older cousin the GameCube, but that didn’t stop the Zelda steamroller from barreling through the year at full strength, for there were several Zelda games still awaiting us down the pike. And for those gamers who were pining for the older…
Nothing happened in 1996. Okay, that’s actually somewhat of a lie. But really, when it boils down to it, 1996 was an extremely slow year for Zelda for both Japan and the rest of the world. Admittedly, there are a few footnotes to be found in the margins of the Book of Mudora for the year,…
What can one say about 1995? Still in the midst of the long Zelda drought with several years to go, and this time even America and Europe wouldn’t get the benefit of crappy Zelda games on the CD-i to tide us over. I’m not honestly sure if that’s better or worse really, but it certainly would…
1994, at least for gamers outside of Japan, was the beginning of what would be the longest drought of Zelda games so far in the history of the entire franchise. Even worse is the fact that, unlike the three-and-a-half-year gap between The Adventure of Link and its SNES successor A Link to the Past, the…
If there’s a single year that should have been the best year for The Legend of Zelda out of all 30 of them so far, it should have been 1993. After having received the joy of A Link to the Past and after several years of Zelda cartoons and comics, the last thing that anyone…
I’ve seen my share of games across the ages. My first gaming experience was back around 1985 when my parents purchased our very first computer, the Macintosh 512K. And from that moment, I was hooked. I then quickly progressed to the Atari 2600, the Apple IIe, the NES, and eventually to a computer where you…
