In recent years, I’ve largely eschewed a vast majority of the timeline theorization debate. My tours of service when I created and staunchly defended timelines being in a certain ordering were much earlier in my Zelda “career,” so to speak. They started back in 2001 after the release of Majora’s Mask and continued through the…
There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news is that, just a few hours ago, Hyrule Historia was back on sale over at Amazon Japan. The bad news: They were sold out just two hours later.
The concept of Hyrule having languages and alphabets of their own has actually been a staple in the Zelda world for quite some time. A Link to the Past was technically the first game to mention that there were ancient texts that were only legible with a keen eye and a vast intelligence (or just the…
For those Zelda gamers out there who love to think that Nintendo actually does have this rich history behind the land of Hyrule and that all of the games are deeply interconnected, then Hyrule Historia is the gift that keeps on giving. While most of the Japanese Zelda fans will have already probed the vast tome…
For those of you who’ve been playing Skyward Sword, you know that the game poses a lot of interesting questions. In fact, it made me think of a lot more questions than it actually solved for me! And so today, I want to delve into the story of Skyward Sword and ruminate on the backstory…
Well, let’s put everything in perspective right from the get go. Skyward Sword is worth every dollar, pound sterling, or euro that you spend on it. Seriously, unless you’re waiting for it as a Christmas gift or have absolutely no time due to classes or final exams coming up, why are you taking time to…
Yes, we know that Skyward Sword is out, and many of you are scrambling to go through one Zelda game much less a second one, but to all those of you who have to wait until Christmas Day just to play the next Zelda game, perhaps we can tide you over with a different Zelda title…
The 2000s were clearly 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 16 (if you’re just counting the canonical ones). Unfortunately though, jumping into the next decade would not be so dramatic. 2010 was a rebuilding…
The 2000s clearly were a golden age 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 Time: Master Quest and even more still if you count the spinoff games starring Tingle. This has been, as of yet,…
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. Okay, that’s actually somewhat of a lie. But really, when it boils down to it, 1996 was an extremely slow year 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, but ultimately most…
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…
Nineteen ninety-four, 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,…
If there’s a single year that should have been the best year for The Legend of Zelda out of all 25 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…
