Category: Skyward Sword

As we encroach on Tears of the Kingdom’s first anniversary, there is no better time to celebrate its monumental wins than now. After winning IGN’s Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure Game at The Game Awards and D.I.C.E., Link and Zelda should be flying higher than the Great Sky Island. Tears also received BAFTA nominations and Game Informer recognition as a top game of the year. This isn’t even an exhaustive list, but it’s time to add another medal to…

Update: Pre-orders for the Blood Moon Rising fan zine have been extended to March 31st, according to the project’s X account. The extension comes as the project’s final stretch goal was unlocked this past Thursday. John LortieJohn’s been a Zelda fan since he was seven years old (which was a good few decades ago). He loves the last three months of the year, analog media, his family, and Tolkien. His favorite Zelda game is Breath of the Wild and his favorite game is Night in the…

Because we are coming up on almost a year since Tears of the Kingdom‘s release (can you believe it?), I’ve been pondering how well this direct sequel to Breath of the Wild continued the original story and enriched that version of Hyrule. I, for one, loved the continuity elements between the two games and enjoyed seeing how familiar settings were changed over a few years (how NPCs had grown up, etc). Tears of the Kingdom is a rarity in the…

With the release of each new Zelda game, there typically comes a gimmick. A Gimmick is a gameplay element that is designed to make the game unique or interesting, and that is typically referenced in advertising. Although the word “gimmick” carries unfavorable connotations, they aren’t all bad. Tears of the Kingdom gave us Ultrahand and sky islands, A Link Between Worlds featured wall-merging, and Twilight Princess made Link a wolf. These gimmicks prevent older Zelda titles from being made obsolete by…

The Zelda series is full of vibrant starting areas that make you feel right at home. From the lush Kokiri Forest in Ocarina of Time to the majestic islands of Skyloft in Skyward Sword, there are plenty of places I would pack my bags for and visit in a heartbeat. There are, however, a few in-game starter locales that don’t quite make my bucket list. Hyrule in A Link Between Worlds/A Link to the Past, for instance, doesn’t quite hit…

Tracking the release of Zelda titles is an exercise that can help explore and analyze development trends in the series. Looking at the data, the time gaps between 3D console Zelda games has been growing over the past fifteen to twenty years. The growing time gap between 3D Zelda games is first noticeable in the five year gap between Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Up to that point, the longest gap between 3D Zelda titles in North America was roughly…

With Mario, Donkey Kong, and now Animal Crossing receiving official LEGO sets, many Zelda fans (myself included) are likely wondering the same thing: where are the Zelda LEGO sets? With how popular LEGO builds are and how well Tears of the Kingdom has been received since its release last year, creating Zelda-themed LEGOs seems like a no-brainer! While there hasn’t been an official announcement that any such set is in development, there have been rumors circulating around a potential Deku Tree…

From the early days of using the magic Flute to reveal secrets in The Legend of Zelda, to swinging your Wii Remote around to play the Harp in Skyward Sword, it’s pretty evident that music has played a pivotal role in the Zelda franchise since the beginning. With such a key part of this franchise being its instruments, it’s safe to say that it was a huge surprise to have them removed with the release of Breath of the Wild. While the…

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Producer and musician Helynt is no stranger to Zelda music, having released such high-profile Zelda fan albums as 2020’s Legend of Synthwave and 2022’s Zelda’s Memories. And his new album, Legend of Chillwave, features tracks from an array of Zelda titles, ranging from Link’s Awakening to Tears of the Kingdom, and is dripping with 1980s vibes. Legend of Chillwave debuted on record label GameChops’ YouTube channel earlier this month. The whole album’s a retrofuture experience. From Helynt’s hazy, dreamy arrangements and production, to…