Linktober was something that I have seen floating around the internet every year, but I’d never fully explored it to its fullest extent until this year’s collaboration between our DeviantArt gallery and the Linktober team. In our raffle event, so many pieces of artwork were submitted for this special Zelda art celebration — seeing all…
Werewolves are one of the all-time classic monsters. Their struggle to retain some semblance of humanity as their body and mind transforms and compels them to commit horrific acts is a concept that has gripped the minds of society for centuries. As important but not often as focused on are the victims of the werewolf.…
Today is both the 20th anniversary of Majora’s Mask’s release in the United States and the start of Zelda Universe’s weeklong celebration for Halloween. This being the case, it seemed like the perfect time to take a look back at this beautiful handmade Majora’s Mask that our News team shared with us earlier in the…
At first glance, Tove Jansson’s Moomin may look like innocent childrens’ books with its cute, rounded characters, but if one takes time to take a closer look, they’ll see that there is still a darkness present in the stories. Many of the characters in Moomin have something melancholic over them, and perhaps that is something…
There is no doubt in my mind that the 80s produced some of the world’s most iconic entertainment media, which has grown in culture as the years pass. It was a decade where movie posters were an art form, full of inventiveness and creativity that left audiences flooding to the cinema and producing a future…
Dreams are home to many things. They hold beautiful things that leave your heart aching upon awakening, but they also hold dark and dreadful things that send your heartbeat racing as you shoot up in bed, trying to remind yourself that it’s all just a figment left behind in dreamland. Because of Link’s Awakening, there…
The Golden Goddesses — Din, Nayru, and Farore — frequently recur throughout the Zelda series. Like most mythical deities, their appearances are left up to the interpretation of mortals, so they usually appear in various forms. They are drawn in tapestries in A Link to the Past, described through stories in Ocarina of Time, and…
A mysterious creature known as the Lord of the Mountain, plants growing wild on the ground, and Link’s face illuminated by cool lights coming from — vending machines? I can easily picture Link hanging out with the Lord of the Mountain, but I had never imagined them together in front of vending machines. Yet, it…
Majora’s Mask is a pretty depressing game. It’s great, but it really grabs at your heartstrings and twists until every vein and artery pops with feelings. Nowhere is this shroud of fear felt more than in Snowhead. As you enter the region, it feels as if nature itself is clawing at you. Wolfos pop up…
When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was to make things out of clay. I at first would make whatever random things came to mind, those usually being random sculpts of animals. Years later though, after finding a new obsession in video games, I realized that my older obsession paired beautifully with my…
Link and Zelda each go through transformations in The Wind Waker, both physically and personally. Link must leave his simple life of an islander behind to rescue his sister, and eventually become the hero and save Hyrule. Likewise, to fulfill her destiny as the holder of the Triforce of Wisdom, Zelda must emerge as Princess…
Earlier this month, Reddit user Artinusz showed off his new Zelda-themed sleeve tattoo, featuring Princess Zelda from Breath of the Wild in an anime-inspired style. She is portrayed reaching out to an upside-down Triforce, which is present with three hearts at the wrist. The artist did an excellent job transferring the likeness of Princess Zelda…
When Nintendo showed the first trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword at E3 2010, it placed a lot of emphasis on the one-to-one implementation of motion controls for combat and item usage. That was the game’s hook after all, and while that was cool, it wasn’t the thing that got my mind racing.…
Some people might try to point out that Toon Link never made an appearance on the Nintendo 64. Some people might be annoying and trying to spoil what is a beautiful example of “Please, God, let me have this.” I’ve never given it much thought, but the design of the N64 does offer modders a…
When Link emerged from the Shrine of Resurrection, he was greeted by an entirely different Hyrule from the one he left behind. As did Zelda when she materialized from Hyrule Castle after spending 100 years suppressing Ganon’s power. And yet, it was still a Hyrule in which their journeys and experiences of the world’s wonders…
