The Korok race has been a staple of the series for many years now, and I’d wager fans are mostly pleased about their inclusion as light-hearted characters that provide some of the less complex and more chill side tasks the games have to offer. We’ve experienced these twice before in both The Wind Waker and …
If you’d asked me what I thought about cooking in a Zelda game back when Twilight Princess launched—when waving a remote at the screen constituted cutting-edge combat and denotations of darkness and grittiness were the hot new thing in adventure games—I would have laughed. But alas, even the game design juggernauts of Nintendo’s famed EAD …
Horses have been a key companion of Link’s ever since his first journey into the 3D realm in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64. They’ve been utilized heavily in every mainline Zelda title since, except Windwaker—and that was only because Hyrule remained underwater! Until Breath of the Wild, Link was bound to …
Zelda games have always been excellent at dealing with extremes: Tentative steps from the isolated ad protective bubble of Kokoriko Villiage into the huge planes of Hyrule Fields in Ocarina of Time; the juxtaposition between Hyrule and Lorule in A Link to the Past; the contrast between the cutesy world of Koholint Island to the …
Sometimes, it’s the most unassuming characters that make the most impact. Marin, the charming musician who accompanies Link on his journey throughout Link’s Awakening, has only appeared as a main character in one title from the Legend of Zelda series. Nevertheless, she’s become one of the most revered characters the franchise has ever seen. Similarly …
I’ve spent a lot of time with open-world games over the years, from my tentative first steps onto the streets of Dubuita in Shenmue to then solidifying my love for the thrill of adventure with The Legend of Zelda series. While Zelda most certainly drove my passion for this sort of gameplay, we’ve seen a …
When someone mentions Princess Zelda, most people familiar with the series will conjure the image of a beautiful young woman decorated in regal clothing — a majestic, stoic figure of great power and compassion. From time to time, however, the developers have toyed around with this convention. We saw Zelda depicted as a nieve young …
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We sure seem to have been waiting for Tears of the Kingdom information for a long time, but thankfully, we have a good idea of the project as a whole at this point. Even though there’s still so much we don’t know about the game, there’s enough to build some semblance of what Nintendo’s brand-new …
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Even to fans of the series, Goddess Hylia may not be a name you’re too familiar with. This isn’t a character as recognizable as Link, Zelda, Impa, and other series mainstays. Nevertheless, she is one of the most important characters in the franchise’s history. In this article, you’ll learn who and what Hylia is, why …
In-game money has been a mainstay in video games since the beginning. Collecting coins for a high score in the original Donkey Kong or Super Mario Bros was added to embellish the game world and create satisfying challenges. As gaming moved on and game worlds became bigger and more complex, so did the importance of …
