Phantom Hourglass introduced a lot more characters that roam the seas alongisde Link, especially compared to how many there were in The Wind Waker. Often, the Great Sea of The Wind Waker felt like a frontier that Link alone was attempting to confront, which was interesting in its own right, but there’s a different kind…
I was browsing online one day, reading about everyone’s favorite shop keeper in the Zelda series, Beedle, when I came across a face I hadn’t seen for many, many years. Or, well, the golden helmet he wears hides most of his features, but you get what I’m saying. I definitely recognized him and I recall…
The Trading Quests are somewhat of a tradition for the classic entries into the Zelda series, starting from as early as Link’s Awakening and being a part of almost every game up until the most recent proper Trading Sequence in Phantom Hourglass. Usually, these sequences will begin with a random and seemingly insignificant item, such…
Nintendo has recently released a new Zelda original soundtrack album on the Nintendo Music app, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Spanning 80 tracks, there is about an hour and a half worth of music from the first DS game in the Zelda series. Taking place after The Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass continued Link’s adventure…
When the fate of Hyrule hangs in the balance, nothing is more valuable than good allies. ‘Good’ can mean many things: Powerful, resourceful, reliable. It doesn’t always mean enthusiastic. While some of Link’s companions join the fight simply because it is the right thing to do, others have…varying priorities. Though thrown together by circumstance, these…
The World of the Ocean King in Phantom Hourglass is filled with all kinds of creatures, some of which are well known to veterans of Hyrule, and some of which have hardly been seen outside of these seas. While travelling throughout the many islands of the Ocean King’s waters, Link will eventually encounter the Old…
Phantom Hourglass is my third favorite Zelda game, with The Minish Cap and The Wind Waker in second and first place. As a Zelda collector, I of course want items from my favorite games the most. Some of the merchandise that came with Phantom Hourglass can be difficult to find today if you’re a collector…
Core to many games is the idea of weakness and resistance. Be it the type charts of Pokémon, the Lance beats Sword beats Axe of Fire Emblem, the targeted weak/strong/null of various Persona, or something similar, many hobbyist gamers have interacted with the idea that water beats fire. Across the Zelda franchise, there have been…
Lo-fi musician Caspian has released a sequel album to his Zelda cover project, Hyrule Lofi. The tracklist for part 2 has even more selections than the first installment had, with some of the new tracks being Linebeck’s Theme, Lost Woods, Lanayru Desert, and several original themes from Tears of the Kingdom, which wasn’t yet released…
Say what you will about Zelda’s first entry on the DS, Phantom Hourglass does have the distinct pleasure of introducing us to the most rapscallion of the series’ companions: Captain Linebeck. Channeling his best Jack Sparrow impression and mixing it with a pinch of Han Solo’s only-in-it-for-the-money attitude, Linebeck quickly became a fan favorite. The…
Bellum is one of the freakiest final bosses in all of the Zelda series. We don’t know much about it, but its design alone raises a lot of questions. It has five tentacles with an eye pattern at the end of each, but its only real eye somehow rests within its mouth. That seems bizarre…
Almost any Zelda fan can recognize the most iconic races, from the rockin’ Gorons to the elegant Zora. Some may even be able to identify more obscure (but still important) races, like the Picori who forged the Four Sword in The Minish Cap, or the cute forest-penguin Kikwi from Skyward Sword. But of all the…
Nowadays, I would argue that the DS-era installments of the Legend of Zelda franchise are criminally underappreciated — most of all Phantom Hourglass — but if you had asked me about it many years ago, I would have been singing a much different tune. As a child, the two-screen puzzles that required me to keep…
Welcome back to ZUCast! Now back and ready for a new format filled with discussions, banter, and plenty of opinions. We’re happy to have you along with us. With this setup we’re going to dive into themes and topics that will look at the Zelda franchise in new and interesting angles; creating a forum for…
Link’s companions come in all shapes and sizes and have different skills and functions, but if I had to pick my favorite type of companion, it would be the ones who aid Link in temples. Instead of providing information about enemies you already targeted before or pointing out obvious clues, these companions have special abilities…
