Author: Alexandria Weber

As a kid who grew up with the Wii as my main console, Super Mario Galaxy was a large part of my childhood. It was a far more accessible Mario installment in comparison to the more difficult Super Mario 64 and the universe you get to explore had an unparalleled and awe-inspiring wonder that I latched onto quickly. Super Mario Galaxy 2, a game with a similar tone, was also a game I played a lot. Just like Super Mario…

Ever since Super Mario Maker was released in 2015, fans have anticipated what a creativity-based game would look like for the Zelda series. The concept was officially explored in the 2019 remake of Link’s Awakening, where the Camera Shop is replaced by Dampe’s Shack. However, the dungeon creation was limited in that you were only able to rearrange existing dungeon rooms already in the main part of the game. There have been multiple instances of independent developers beating Nintendo to…

Disclaimer: This Daily Debate and the subsequent comment section may contain spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom. Proceed at your own risk. Tears of the Kingdom took the expanse of Breath of the Wild and added even more to explore. Sky islands, caves, and The Depths all give more dimension to a Hyrule we already thought was massive. In addition to various ingredients for meals and elixirs, as well as the infamous Koroks, players can now collect Poes, Lights of…

Disclaimers: The following article contains minor gameplay spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom. The interview that is being covered was conducted via translators and was edited by Polygon staff members for clarity. The abilities in Tears of the Kingdom seem quite silly when you simplify them, with one of them being magic, endless green glue that sticks things together. Ultrahand, however, is one of the many ways in which Tears of the Kingdom excels in promoting the freedom of the player….

Disclaimer: This article contains minor spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom The world of journalism is prone to blizzards of misinformation, and the video game industry is easily susceptible to the cold. When new-sites are hard-pressed for headlines that will get them traction, they are prone to read too much into quotes, not check sources, or report on something only for the reason that another news outlet reported on it. There are many instances of this in the Zelda facet…

Breath of the Wild is a game that boasted freedom in more ways than one, allowing players to navigate an open world, solve puzzles, and learn about Hyrule in their own unique way. The same was true of cooking. Players could experiment with various ingredients they had collected, and learn what would and wouldn’t result in dubious food. The Legend’s Cookbook has celebrated this culinary aspect of the Zelda franchise since their first release in January of 2020. A winning…

Our daily lives consist of nothing short of hectic mania. Between jobs, schoolwork, and personal and economic stressors, fatigue is an instinct that reminds us to take a rest. After all, we can only handle so much at once. Sometimes you need to sit back and play a Zelda game; and sometimes you need to lay down and rest your eyes, letting yourself take calm, relaxing breaths. This new fan album encourages us to do just that. Prescription For Sleep…

Zelda’s Adventure is one of the three infamous Zelda games released for the Phillips CD-i in the 1990s. Most of the time, Zelda fans like me try to forget that these games exist. Sometimes, however, I look into my dreams and vividly remember terrifying circus music, spiders that sound like men, and harps with horizontal strings. Unlike Zelda: The Wand Of Gamelon and Link: The Faces Of Evil, Zelda’s Adventure is a top-down adventure reminiscent of the original Zelda game in…

In the most recent trailer for Tears of the Kingdom, we see multiple characters with differently-colored tear-shaped relics. The most obvious one is the shining yellow tear that Zelda holds, but additionally, Sidon, Tulin, Ganondorf, and the mysterious unnamed woman are all shown have these small walnut-sized artifacts. According to one of the carvings in a previous trailer, there are seven such tears in play. Perhaps they will be distributed amongst the different races of Hyrule like the sages in…

It might take Zelda fans more than a month to decipher all the details given in the latest Tears of the Kingdom trailer and, by then, the game will be released into our impatient hands. Regardless, we still enjoy this insatiable period of theorizing, screen-shotting, debating, and marveling at how fast fan artists are. It’s times like this that the Zelda fanbase surges with passion, creativity, and intellect. We pride ourselves on our eagle-eyes when picking apart what Nintendo has offered…