Tag: Locations

A Link to the Past is widely regarded as one of the Zelda series’ finest entries, and its game world is one of the primary reasons why. It’s beautiful and its compact, which ensures that there is something hidden in every nook and cranny. Anyone who’s played the game knows the map by heart, and everyone who does certainly has a long list of their favorite locations.

Scary settings are not at all new to Zelda, and there tends to be a dungeon or area with a spooky theme in the majority of Zelda games these days. But, at least from what I can see, most scary locations in the series tend to gravitate toward the same idea: Underground structures or graveyards that are infested with the undead. Usually these areas are based on pretty basic horror tropes, which is fine, but Zelda tends to be at…

Hyrule is a land of fantasy where the outright improbable is allowed to flourish in medieval glory: the result of the boundless creativity of a group of Japanese game designers. The Legend of Zelda franchise has produced some fantastic venues over the past twenty-six years due to its fictional setting, giving it great flexibility in the way of level design. From the multitude of scattered islands across the Great Sea in The Wind Waker to the civilization above the clouds…