Tag: depth

The Legend of Zelda: nearly 30 years of action, adventure, puzzles, mysteries, romance…wait, romance? Yes even this iconic action/adventure series has had its fair share of romance between its silent-yet-smooth operator Link and whichever NPC his current incarnation is interacting with. But while the internet forever debates whether or not Link has the hots for Ilia or Midna, there are a few cannon couples in the franchise that always seem to bring a smile to our faces. These people help…

Last week Djinn wrote about how the state of music in the Zelda series has changed over the many years since its inception, and near the end of the article he spoke briefly of how recently the quality of Zelda music has drastically increased with the orchestrated soundtrack of Skyward Sword. And let me tell you, when I first played Skyward Sword that was the impression I got too: It’s so much higher quality. It would be a mistake in…

This is a question that’s been raised a lot recently in many discussions about Skyward Sword: Which is better, having a lot of enemies or having complex enemies? Skyward Sword obviously took the latter approach, offering very few enemies (I got 29 in a casual count, excluding all alternate versions of the same basic foe, though it would be significantly larger if I were to include them all). Is it best to have a huge variety of foes that do…