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Merry Christmas from Zelda Universe

Christmastime has finally arrived, and that means it’s a time for friends, family, cheer, and of course presents! And what better a gift to unwrap this year than your potential copy of Spirit Tracks? If you are one of the many gamers who received Spirit Tracks as a Christmas present, our Spirit Tracks section contains…

Ho ho ho! A Wintertime ZU Cometh

What, couldn’t believe that Christmas was tomorrow already? That, somehow, Zelda Universe had overlooked that your area might be a frosted wonderland by now? Well, it looks like those frozen blizzards have finally made their way straight from the Snow Realm of New Hyrule to the Zelda Temple here at Zelda Universe. Once again we’ve…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Updated: Temple Visit #3

Zelda Universe’s Spirit Tracks walkthrough has received yet another daily update – it now covers all the way to the end of the third visit to the Tower of Spirits. Starting tomorrow, we’ll begin to build up the next section of the walkthrough: The Ocean Realm. Make sure to come back every day, as the…

Listen Up: Another Mailbag

That’s right. It only took me a week to get you another lovely audio mailbag to enjoy. There were a lot of interesting thoughtful questions this week you guys gave me to answer. Debates that have been going on for many years regarding Zelda 2, love interests for Link, and what is the most difficult…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Update: A Tale of Two Dungeons

Zelda Universe’s Spirit Tracks walkthrough has been updated once again! It now covers up to the end of the second dungeon, the Snow Temple, including the boss battle with Fraaz. In addition, our Spirit Tracks boss guide has been updated with new information about Fraaz! In addition, Cody is still running around adding imagery to…

Mailbag for the Ear?

Do my ears deceive me?  Are the answers to my mailbag questions in audio form?  That’s right, my friends.  In an attempt to leap into the 21st century, the ZU mailbag has gone audio. I was given the idea by Cody to do a video mailbag.  Since I don’t have video, I decided audio.  The…

Eiji Aonuma Reflects on Spirit Tracks

Wonder what goes through a producer’s mind as he prepares yet another installment of gaming’s greatest series? How about something like this: Apparently, Zelda’s spirit form was designed to avoid having to deal with her skirt hindering her movement as a real character, and controlling the Phantoms was inspired by Phantom Hourglass’s multiplayer mode. 1up…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Update: Making Steem

Have you been following along with development of ZU’s Spirit Tracks walkthrough? It’s updated every day with a new section – and now it’s been updated to cover everything up to the beginning of the second dungeon, the Snow Temple. Our favorite webmaster, Cody, is also beginning to go through the walkthrough to add helpful…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Update: Anouki Edition

Our Spirit Tracks walkthrough has been updated with the next part of the Snow Realm section, detailing Rabbitland and the Anouki Village. I deeply apologize for the lack of walkthrough updates over the last few days; I had final exams to prepare for. However, I’m now on winter break, so the walkthrough should develop at…

Spirit Tracks European Version Differences

Usually, the translations of Zelda games remain fairly consistent between the US and European versions, but this time, it seems that some Spirit Tracks characters and towns have been given different names for the European release. One example is that a character which the US version named Byrne has been given the name Staven in…

3 New Japanese Spirit Tracks Commercials

Most Zelda games are released in Japan first before the English versions are released, but this was not the case for the release of Spirit Tracks. In an interesting break from tradition, Japan will not be getting the game until the 23rd (three weeks after the US release), so they have only just recently launched…

Spirit Tracks Released

It is now December 7th, and thousands upon thousands of Zelda fans across America should today be receiving the copies of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks that they ordered. Australians and Europeans will unfortunately have to wait just a little bit longer – the 10th for Australia and the 11th for Europe. We have…

Roundtable: It’s the Final Countdown!

Roundtable: It’s the Final Countdown! A part of The Missing Link series of articles Crab Helmet: So, this is it. Within less than one day, Spirit Tracks will be released to the world. As a Zelda community, we’ve received probably the vast majority of the information we are going to receive prior to the release,…

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