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Music Monday: A celebration of the Zelda Franchise

After a bit of a hiatus, Music Monday is back, returning to provide you with some of the best Zelda music out there! With our return and the impending release of Hyrule Warriors in all territories, we’d like to celebrate with some of our favorite Zelda music of all time. Hyrule Warriors has been described as a celebration of the Zelda franchise,…

Link’s attempt at saving Zelda almost came to a tragic end

One of the most exemplary couplings of video game history almost never happened according to the recent revealing of scans from Nintendo’s 1993/1994 Character Reference Guide. These images were shown to IGN recently by Console Wars author Blake J. Harris and were taken from A Link to the Past.  Each image includes a tidbit of trivia about the characters with…

Music Monday: Loneliness and sorrow

Zelda may be fun, but it certainly has its darker moments. Link is constantly ripped away from those he loves. Saying goodbye to Saria, seeing his baby sister get kidnapped, and pretty much the entirety of Majora’s Mask is terribly heartbreaking, but the tragedy is what drives the story and compels Link to begin his adventure. This…

Music Monday: An ode to Father’s Day

Fathers are pivotal individuals in our lives. They help give birth to us, they guide us and provide us wisdom throughout our lives. We are using this Music Monday to celebrate Father’s Day and the influence these wonderful men have made on us throughout our lifespan. I know my own father actually played A Link to…

Find your way around Hyrule using this papercraft diorama

The in-game map of the Light and Dark Worlds from A Link to the Past wasn’t tangible enough for Wuppes, a resident of Luxembourg. His hobby of creating classic video game paper dioramas results in fantastic pieces of wall art. Besides creating these A Link to the Past dioramas, Wuppes has also worked with Super Metroid, Super Mario World,…

A Link to the Past Overworld theme: Country style

Banjo Guy Ollie has put together an incredible arrangement of the Link to the Past overworld theme — with a simple banjo!  What’s so wonderful about this piece is that it captures the simplicity and sense of adventure in the Zelda series, something that some feel has been lacking up until A Link Between Worlds. While some may have…

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