Author: David Nystrom

It could be argued that the pinnacle of multiplayer gaming came in the mid-to-late 1990s when split-screen was the thing: You and your three best friends hooking up to an Nintendo 64 and popping in your copy of GoldenEye or Mario Kart 64. As the years have passed, online multiplayer has taken the front stage as the world of gaming has grown. And yet, there’s still something special about that shared screen experience when you can find it. Thanks to…

The world of Ocarina of Time is probably one of the most well-known iterations of Hyrule in the entire Zelda franchise. Its locations are ingrained in series history as some of the most memorable and unforgettable places, from the winding road up Death Mountain to Goron City, to Kakariko Village and the connecting graveyard, to the Kokiri Forest and Lost Woods, to the Temple of Time, to Zora’s Domain, just  to name a few. Hearing those names of places surely…

When it comes to parenting and the Zelda franchise, there are a lot of places the worlds overlap. From handing the controller over for the first time to watching their excitement at defeating Ganon. From seeing them excited to dress up as their favorite character for Halloween to drawing a picture of Link and wanting it hung up on the wall. Zelda and kids just go together in a lot of great ways. This latest item from Bumkins is featured…

Iconic main themes are some of the most memorable pieces of music that our ears are ever graced with hearing. Largely, this is because they’re, well, iconic. The Legend of Zelda is no exception to this fact. While each game in the series may have its own individual title track, when it comes to the franchise, there’s only one main theme. Admittedly, the number of covers and takes on the main theme is nigh uncountable, but so many of them…

As far as iconic moments go, Ocarina of Time has some of the best, from Link leaving the Kokiri Forest, to meeting Princess Zelda for the first time, and to, of course, pulling the Master Sword. Those are only a few, but, of course, just about every temple in the game comes with some memorable moments also. And a conversation about the temples in Ocarina of Time wouldn’t be complete without some discussion about the Water Temple. Love it or…

||  Part Fifty-Seven  ||  Part Fifty-Nine  || Part Fifty-Eight Osmond and Fado didn’t say much to one another as they made their way back through the mountains and toward Kingdom Bay. Rutela’s passing provided more questions than they could have imagined. Why did Adok try to kill her? Who was she referring to? What do Huron and Erie have to do with all this? The questions circled endlessly through Osmond’s head that night as they camped out. Fado, for his…

|| Part Fifty-Six || Part Fifty-Eight || Part Fifty-Seven The cold rain that had been pouring was still coming down. As Fado and Osmond emerged from a small doorway into the temple sanctuary, they took in the scenario that was there to greet them. The offertory basin was unlit, but fresh kindling had been stacked. The rain was falling all around but only beginning to creep in on the edges of the platform. The green ceiling was held up by…

||  Part Fifty-Five  ||  Part Fifty-Seven  || Part Fifty-Six “It sure is nasty out there,” Huron said as he entered the tent and brushed off the small layer of snow that had built up on his shoulders. “Yes, my lord,” one of the soldiers said, drawing a line across a map on one of the five tables. “Any word from the first detachment? Are things still well near the Gerudo Gate?” “No word, sir. I imagine this storm though has slowed…

Through all of the iterations of Link and Zelda, we’ve only had a few instances in which they share a more friendly and personal bond. There is the version from Skyward Sword of course, where it can be argued that they’re more than friends, but there is also the version in Breath of the Wild. In this latest pairing of the two, we have only a few snippets of their lives, but it’s apparent that they came to respect and…

||  Part Fifty-Four  ||  Part Fifty-Six  || Part Fifty-Five The Crenel Pass was a valley in the mountains that connected the Crenel Mountain Peak to the Black Cliffs along the coast of the Dinraal Sea. Most of the valley existed because it was once a quarry for stone in the rebuilding but also the construction of Kingdom Bay. However, part of the pass was already there before the Hylians began to mine it. According to legends, Crenel Peak was once home…