Today we are continuing our video coverage of Breath of the Wild. Yesterday, we shared my playthrough of the story demo. Today, join me, Joshua Lindquist, as I play through the exploration demo on the show floor at E3 2016. The other demo on the show floor starts off at the beginning of the game and allowed…
Shuhei Yoshida, President of PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios, recently gave his thoughts on the many games he was excited about and looked forward to the release of. While he mentioned obvious games, such as Spider-Man, Farpoint, and God of War, he also showed enthusiasm for Nintendo’s sole E3 demo, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,…
Didn’t get a chance to go to E3 this year and snag your Breath of the Wild commemorative t-shirt and coin? Don’t worry, you can grab yours on eBay! E3 has barely ended and the Zelda swag has already hit the market. That is, if you have a spare $100 or more lying around. The Zelda-themed lanyard…
Interviews with Aonuma keep pouring in, and this time Aonuma talked with GameStop about Breath of the Wild. In this interview, he states that completing a 100% run on this game will be significantly more difficult to achieve than in previous iterations in the series. “In the past, there’s the idea of getting 100 percent,…
It’s all over, Crash Bandicoot has been hunted to extinction and Kratos lies dead with a Master Sword in his chest: Zelda has won E3. The guys over at Brandwatch have been tracking social media activity around the event and have confirmed what we all knew, Breath of the Wild is the most talked about game. And by some…
E3 reaches its third day, and Zelda information is still emerging. Although this time it is not related to Breath of the Wild, but rather to a spin-off game featuring Zelda’s alter ego, Sheik. During an interview with Gamerant, Shigeru Miyamoto talked about a past discussion the Nintendo development team had concerning Sheik as the…
This post may contain spoilers for Breath of the Wild Our own Joshua Lindquist is on the show floor of E3! An expert on all things Zelda in the truest sense, there’s nobody better to play through the Breath of the Wild story demo. So if you’ve been wondering what happens when a Zelda veteran…
Welcome to our very first Throwback Thursday! This is a new weekly column at Zelda Universe where we celebrate yesteryear with our fondest memories of playing Zelda and the lifelong journey we’ve taken as hardcore Nintendo fans. Going forward we’ll be looking at the most incredible moments from Zelda games, but to kick this new feature off, we…
As most of you know, Zelda games are full of text that is translatable into either Japanese or English, and Breath of the Wild is no exception. Zelda fan RagnarokX has taken to translating the western based text found throughout the game’s environment, and the results are both interesting and hilarious. It is always fun to see…
When a livestream goes on for a third of an entire day, it’s pretty likely you’re going to have missed some of it. Fortunately, all of that Breath of the Wild footage from the Treehouse stream is now uploaded to Nintendo’s YouTube channel, and you can find it all compiled here. The entire stream is available in…
Do you guys remember the first trailer for Breath of the Wild that was unveiled back in 2014? Do you remember that large amount of people who thought Link was female due to his pony tail and androgynous looks? Well, all that theorizing and speculation that was going on at that time was what eventually lead…
All in all, I think it’s fair to say the Zelda fanbase is rather hyped for Breath of the Wild, with a hugely enthusiastic general response to the new gameplay features and focus on freedom. Nintendo has committed one highly blasphemous design choice though — prepare yourself for this — Link is right-handed again. I know. Just…
If you’ve been wondering who has been taking charge of Breath of the Wild’s development, you can rest assured that it is being directed by good hands. Hidemaro Fujibayashi, who has been the director for two Zelda games already, namely Skyward Sword and Minish Cap, will be this game’s director. Aonuma has also been revealed…
We’ve all seen the enormous world Zelda‘s newest game has by now, and we’re in awe every time we see it. Reggie Fils Aime has stated that this may in fact be the biggest game Nintendo has ever done, and we won’t argue with that. Not only that, but we’re also given the chance to…
The first thing we listened to as the trailer for Breath of the Wild first played was a mysterious woman’s voice, which was the first time proper voice acting was ever used for the Zelda series. However, the game demo saw no voice acting whatsoever, besides those few seconds when we see Link waking up…
