Tag: mature

The apparent age groups targeted by each Zelda game seems to vary quite a bit throughout the series. Some are clearly meant for older people, while others take on a much more cheery and childish tone. While the latter style appears prodominant in the series, is it about time to up the maturity level and have a game meant only for older teens and adults? Or, should things stay as they are, and continue with the “E For Everyone” maturity…

In her now-classic analysis of digital media, Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet H. Murray laments that video game narrative is based on a win/lose dichotomy and that this only allows for somewhat simple stories because all of them would need to have happy endings. Of course, this book was written in 1997, and we have gone quite a long ways since then on creating sad endings even if you win the game, or games that have very dramatic and tragic narratives even though you end up winning, like Majora’s Mask.

In fact, many people consider that game to be the saddest, most tragic one in the Zelda franchise, given how many people die, how many lives are torn apart, and some extremely moving yet disturbing scenes that are sure to put a tear in our eyes—remember when Cremia let her sister get drunk so that she didn’t have to live through the fall of the moon? But in this article, I will argue there is a Zelda game which is way, way worse than that. Link’s Awakening is, in my opinion, the saddest, most profound game in the whole saga.

Well dang, guys! E3’s less than a week away. Only a few days really! Another video, sort of related. This one doesn’t actually specifically talk about Zelda Wii, but rather some things that have been suggested for the Zelda series that a lot of people have been talking about. Some of them have talked about them in Zelda Wii (as is inevitable when discussing future ideas). It seemed appropriate for me to go over them. Some of these are ideas…

Do you think Zelda Wii and the Legend of Zelda series in general needs to take a shift in the mature direction? The folks over at Gaming Gauge think not and actually prefer the roots of what the Zelda series is all about. In a very short article, the author points out the darkness of Majora’s Mask and how Twilight Princess seemed to be a shift for the series in a darker direction. However, the author then points how the…

Hey guys! Well, not long now until E3. A little under two weeks! Soon I’m sure we’ll get some much needed confirmation on our theories and desires for Zelda Wii, as well as some pleasant surprises. But until then I thought I’d make a video to go over the big pool of rumors posted here on Zelda Dungeon over the last few months. The rumors I cover in the video come from three main news posts: Zelda Wii Information Leaked…

Hey there guys! Mailbag time! Got a bunch of questions, most of them discussing points from various games in the series, including the upcoming Zelda Wii. Here are the questions and their timestamps: (00:06) – What do you think of Link being older in Zelda Wii? (02:17) – Shouldn’t there only be one timeline after the events of Ocarina of Time? (03:40) – What do you think of the idea of the Temple of the Ocean King/Tower of Spirits in…