Piloting the Divine Beasts in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is the ultimate power trip. If Hyrule Warriors is all about Link and friends laying waste to hundreds of enemies on the battlefield, then piloting the Divine Beasts and easily stomping upon, blasting, and ultimately lasering thousands of enemies easily takes that experience to a…
If you’ve played the demo of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, you’ve already gotten some hands-on time with three of the game’s playable characters: Link, Impa, and Zelda. These three characters all handle very differently, so it’s worthwhile getting a bit of practice with each! While you can go into each map and button-mash your…
Return to Lynna City Once you leave the Spirit’s Grave, you’ll need to return to Lynna City, which will serve as the main hub for most of your travel throughout the game. Once you head north, you’ll likely encounter Maple for the first time. If you haven’t met her yet, she’s the witch’s assistant that…
Return to Lynna Village With the Harp of Ages now in your possession, what better time to put it to use? Head upstairs and then out of Nayru’s house in order to run into your first Time Portal sigil. Play the Harp’s melody, and the portal will be activated. Step into it, and you’ll be…
Find the Map As you enter the Spirit’s Grave, you should first head towards the right. Through the door, you’ll find a bunch of red Zols. After you hit these with your sword, they will each separate into two Gels, which will hinder your movement. Once you defeat all three Zols, push the central block…
Meet Nayru, Oracle of Ages The game starts off with no music, and you have no items. There’s also not really any choice about where to go. To start simply head north. As you do so, you’ll eventually hear screams from further up the road. When you go to investigate, you’ll see a trio of…
Obtain the Map Before going anywhere in this dungeon, you’ll want to equip your Shield. If you don’t have it, your Shovel will have to do, though it will be slightly trickier work to use it. Once you’ve got those equipped, go ahead and proceed north. Immediately after heading north, you’ll be completely gang-rushed by…
What are Seashells good for? No matter which version of Link’s Awakening you play, you will find these mysterious Secret Seashells hidden all over Koholint Isle. Later in the game, as you explore Ukuku Prairie as you try to enter the third dungeon, you’ll find the equally mysterious Seashell Mansion, just outside of Kanalet Castle.…
I loved Link’s Awakening back on the Game Boy. It’s consistently been one of my favorite Zelda games. Even though it’s original game was hardly a graphical marvel, having only two-bit, black-on-green graphics and only a 160×144-pixel display, it was the first Zelda title to pull deep lore and evocative story out of the games’…
Yoshi’s Crafted World is a curious game. I mean; it’s a standard Mario (or technically Yoshi) game, so you kind of know what you’re getting into. It starts out as being your standard side-scrolling platformer with the major quirk being that the world is “made” of common everyday materials you’d find at your local craft store.…
Last week, in a tiny hidden bar typical of Melbourne’s inner east, Nintendo gave us hands-on time with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Nintendo Australia had hoped to get us in front of a newer build of the game (we would have loved to try King K. Rool and Simon Belmont!); however, the build was identical to…
Nintendo Australia and Nintendo of Europe want to see you get crazy creative with Nintendo Labo, and they’re putting up an epic contest with some unique collector’s items up for those willing to create cardboard art. Nintendo Labo, if you haven’t heard, currently has two kits (with a third on the way) providing you with perforated…
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a game that you might have missed. Even if you didn’t skip over the Wii U console generation, it could have easily fallen to the wayside amongst more popular entries such as Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U before it or Splatoon…
E3 2018 may be over, but the hype that Nintendo generated for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate remains. Nintendo demoed the game for Smash fans in two different “modes”: For Glory and For Fun. In the more casual “For Fun” mode, four players would be matched up to play together for four rounds; this allowed players to…
Spoiler alert: It’s because the CD-i Zelda games aren’t very good. In theory, I could just end this article there and be done with it. After all, in the words of the great Shigeru Miyamoto, “A bad game is bad forever.” On the flip side of the argument, however, Spanish philosopher George Santayana told us…
