If you play Majora’s Mask under regular conditions, in the manner it was meant to be played, there’s already no shortage of horror themes throughout the game. It’s widely regarded as the most sinister title in the Zelda series, from its overarching doomsday plot to the expressions of grief, sadness, and hopelessness among its vast cast of characters.…
Of all the handheld Zelda titles, the Oracle games are undoubtedly my favorites. I have lovely memories of sitting in the back of my parents’ car trying to figure out that infernal fetch quest on Crescent Island in Oracle of Ages, as well as spending a lot of time trying to get Maple to finally drop that…
Back when I first played The Wind Waker, I never really thought about the Hylian text littered across the game. Obviously, I thought it looked cool, but at the time, I don’t think I knew that the text I was seeing was all part of a fully realized language. Yet you see it scrawled across all…
For those who have dabbled in the world of Animal Crossing, there has always been an abundance of references to other Nintendo games, including The Legend of Zelda. From items to clothes, various iconic pieces from Zelda can be found throughout the animal villages, and we’re here to discuss some of these hidden treasures! These…
The Legend of Zelda has always had a few fun costume changes featured in select titles, but none of them — not even Breath of the Wild — can compare to the wide variety found in Tri Force Heroes. Princess Zelda’s Study is a series where we examine the history of The Legend of Zelda…
For the most part, Link and the residents of Hyrule seem very good at maintaining a healthy calcium intake in the Zelda series. It’s no wonder everyone in this universe loves to drink milk: Chateau Romani has an inebriating effect in Majora’s Mask, and Ordon Goat Milk in Twilight Princess produced the cheese necessary to upgrade Yeto’s soup to…
I’m still having a hard time processing the idea of a direct celebrity cameo in a Legend of Zelda game. There have been plenty of references to video game characters littered around the series — Link’s Awakening alone features characters from Super Mario, Kirby and SimCity. But never — as far as I can personally recall — has anyone been pulled…
After playing both Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, I immediately saw a connection between Malon and Ilia. I was much fonder of Malon as she didn’t yell at Link for riding his horse to save people, but petty bitterness aside, I would never have guessed that originally Ilia may have had more of a connection…
In its early days, The Legend of Zelda would use many recycled elements from the Super Mario Bros series. This is most apparent in Link’s Awakening, with Chain Chomps, Piranha Plants, Shy Guys, and more. Even before that, however, The Legend of Zelda borrowed a certain element from the plumber brothers that would remain within the series, and…
There are many tenuous challenges we have to overcome in our childhood: tying shoes, doing homework, eating vegetables. For Ocarina of Time’s 9-year-old Link, he had to venture inside The Great Deku Tree to defeat the deadly parasite within, defeat fire-breathing reptilian monsters to save the Goron race from extinction, and rescue a princess from the…
When Breath of the Wild launched last year, it broke a long-running, established custom in the Zelda franchise by letting its characters speak. Prior to the landmark title, there had been no voiced dialogue in the entire canonical series of games. To claim that mainline Zelda games had never used voice actors in their 30-year history preceding Breath of the…
The section of The Wind Waker where the player pursues the finding of Nayru’s Pearl — the third and final Goddess Pearl — is one of my personal highlights of the game. Dark clouds and furious storms reign above Link upon his arrival to Greatfish Isle, contrasting with the game’s earlier precedent of sunny skies and cheery…
Hyrule Warriors is a spin-off Zelda title which truly gives tribute to its mainline predecessors. Thus far, we’ve explored references to both Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, and we now finish off the Hyrule Warriors trinity today with Skyward Sword. At the point of Hyrule Warriors‘ original release, Skyward Sword was the latest Zelda…
When I’m thinking of ideas of what to write about next in our columns, one thing I try to do in search of inspiration is keep track of days of celebration or national awareness. You’ll find that there are a lot of fun and obscure ones out there when you actively look for them, which…
Hyrule Warriors is like a love song to us Zelda fans, with all of its references from titles throughout the years all in one game. In my last article, we covered some of the Easter eggs from Ocarina of Time, and so today we move on to the Twilight Realm as we explore Hyrule Warriors‘ references to…
