Hey guys! It’s two days until Christmas! In today’s edition, we discuss the possibility and wishes of The Legend of Zelda games ported to the Wii U. When the Wii U was revealed at E3 2011, we were introduced to the what the next-gen Nintendo console would be capable of and we had a look at how…
Hey Guys! It’s five days (or four, depending on where you live) until Christmas! In today’s edition, we discuss the Guides in Zelda. Twenty five years and many games later, we have had many different companions tell us what to do and how to do it. Some play an integral part in the story, while…
Co-authored by Jonah and Joshua 2003 was a hugely important year for the Zelda series. It was the release year of one of the most popular Zelda games ever, The Wind Waker, as well as the release of the Legend of Zelda: Collector’s Edition and a two game bonus disc which included Ocarina of Time:…
Ah, 2001. It was a tumultuous year, and a watershed moment for the Zelda franchise and the game industry. It saw the release of not one, but two Zelda games – two Zelda games developed by Capcom, with Nintendo’s blessing. It was a year that polarized and divided the Zelda fanbase more than any other,…
by Hylian Dan In this five-part article series for The Missing Link, renowned Zelda theorist Hylian Dan discusses The Wind Waker‘s deepest themes and philosophical connections. Read the entire article below. Contents Introduction PART ONE: Leaving Paradise Introduction The Islander and the Sailor The Longing of the Heart Immovable Objects Escaping the Cage PART TWO: Growing Wings…
By Dan Merrill, aka Hylian Dan Contents Introduction The first Zelda game I ever played was Link’s Awakening. I wasn’t very good at it. When I finally beat the game after a few years, the death count that showed up next to my file was pretty high. I decided to play the game again, this…
Immortal Childhood By Hylian Dan Contents Introduction Home, Sweet Home… Good-bye, Great Deku Tree Transformation The Playground Mortal Life The Child’s Wrath The Guardian Tree The Seeds of the Future Immortal Childhood Introduction Restless souls wander where they don’t belong… —Ocarina of Time As Link roams across the mysterious Koholint Island, a ghost begins to…
Zora. What comes to mind when you hear the word? The blue colored Zoras you see in Ocarina of Time, or the tan-greyish Zoras you see in Twilight Princess? No matter what type of Zora you picture, the Zoras are a race with a large history as well as a race that has evolved throughout…
A user on Reddit thought it was a good idea to take an eight-year-old game and recreate it using better graphics. It wasn’t an obscure game that needed it, it was The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. You know, the game we all thought was going to look realistic and we got super cel-shading…
[youtube]-VicnihrwqE[/youtube] You like Zelda music, yes? And you’ve probably got about three minutes to spare sometime today, right? If so, then do yourself a favor and use those three minutes to watch this video from TheDelRay, a YouTube user who specializes in doing video game music covers with his various guitars and synth sets. He’s…
This is just a taste of a wonderful artist who goes by the name Ag+. He published it just in time for LoZ’s 25th anniversary, and boy is it a worthy present! Try and imagine this: the image is so large that you have to hit the jump to see it, and even then you’ll…
That Shigeru Miyamoto is a genius is common knowledge. It was no surprise that GameSpy billed him as the most influential person in gaming. Yet what many people don’t realize is that of all the Zelda games, The Wind Waker has turned out to be the most accurate reflection of Miyamoto’s mind. A Bold Assertion…
The world knew nothing of the boy without a fairy. And yet, as The Wind Waker put its, he came as if from nowhere, and shook the foundations of the world, conquering the darkness. But “after battling evil and saving Hyrule,” he “crept away from the land that had made him a legend.” And so,…
It’s inevitable. Someone will pop into a random Wind Waker-related thread in a forum and comment, “I hate the graphics.” And then, before the thread moves on, someone else will retort, “You haven’t even played it yet! Can’t you look past the graphics? It’s all about the gameplay. Gameplay is more important than graphics.” The…
Jim Unwin, famous for his graphic design for Little Big Planet, created a piece of art called “Link, Chicken, Monster” featuring… well, exactly that. Using an adaptation of the Wind Waker style, the piece of art depicts a very modern looking Link with presumedly a Cucco beside him, and behind both appears to be a…
