Tag: the great sea

Welcome to another edition of Zelda Fanart Spotlight. Today we are looking at Treasure Hunting by Swedish artist Axel, an inspiring digital painting depicting the Hero of Winds and the King of Red Lions from The Wind Waker fishing for treasure. While the composition is simple, the artist does such an amazing job rendering the calm ocean waves that it looks like it came straight from the game. Axel creates a real sense of unity with the excellent color choices;…

Well Zelda Dungeoners, we’re now down to the last few features in the Overworld Themes series. Last week marked the end of the Exploration Overworlds section of this series, so today we’ll be starting on the next set: Transportation Overworlds. In the Zelda series, there are four games with transportation overworlds. These are Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, and Skyward Sword. As I see it, those can be further broken into another two groups; the “free sailors” that let…

Hello, and welcome to another Timeshift Thursday feature where I delve deep sharing some of my all-time favourite areas from the Zelda series! This week, I want to take you back to Nintendo DS’ first ever Zelda title, Phantom Hourglass, which happens to contain a very special island situated in the Great Sea. I may be one of few gamers who actually enjoy Phantom Hourglass’ storyline and gameplay yet it was the first DS game I bought after I picked…

One might have expected a game called Skyward Sword, with a story that started on a floating island, to have a dense and well-developed sky world. The developers opted instead for a pared-down hub, not that dissimilar from Hyrule Field in Ocarina of Time or Termina Field in Majora’s Mask.  Those games’ fields were not particularly deep or involved.  Ocarina of Time’s, specifically, lacked enemies and even secrets were sparse.  In 1998, the joy of riding Epona from one end…

Back in December YouTube user CsGuitar89 released his full length Zelda tribute album. With 18 original covers of Zelda songs from several different games of the series. The album, Hymns of Light and Shadows, is something I think every Zelda fan should own. Whether you’re a fan of soft melodic music, Metal, or anything in between this album has songs everyone can enjoy and with it being free to download, why wouldn’t you check it out? Last week’s video was…