Category: Breath of the Wild

Since the Super Smash Bros. series started back in 1999 on the N64, The Legend of Zelda has been an integral part of the games. In the subsequent installments on every Nintendo console generation since then (plus the 3DS handheld), additions of various forms paying tribute to The Legend of Zelda saga have been integrated to widen and deepen the experience of fans. Super Smash Bros. Melee for the GameCube saw the inclusion of three more fighters with the combo…

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Four Swords manga and Four Swords games. The multiplayer Zelda games are less story-rich than their solo-campaign counterparts. Some would argue that the original Four Swords contained barely a story at all. Instead, the game put all of its Rupees in the gameplay Wallet. Four Swords Adventures went many steps further, but was it enough?  Akira Himekawa, the pen name for the writing and illustrating duo for the Zelda mangas, faced this challenge…

As we encroach on Tears of the Kingdom’s first anniversary, there is no better time to celebrate its monumental wins than now. After winning IGN’s Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure Game at The Game Awards and D.I.C.E., Link and Zelda should be flying higher than the Great Sky Island. Tears also received BAFTA nominations and Game Informer recognition as a top game of the year. This isn’t even an exhaustive list, but it’s time to add another medal to…

Lookout Landing has one of the more charming tracks in Tears of the Kingdom with its staccato piano chords and trilling whistles. Its whimsy combined with a somewhat militaristic quality has so much potential for creatively constructed covers, especially as the last few Zelda titles experimented with using more types of instruments. Nick Zhang is a talented woodwind musician who created a delightfully faithful cover of the music heard at Lookout Landing. It sounds so on-point and natural it could…

Barring several exceptions, I am a completionist. Collect-athons have been my jam since my first experience with Spyro the Dragon’s gems, eggs, and orbs. This desire translated into my Zelda experience, spending countless hours tracking down Heart Pieces, masks, and yes, even Korok Seeds and Minish Cap’s figurines. I regret the latter the most, even more than Korok Seeds. In Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, the Zelda series introduced its first strictly-defined completion percentage feature, visible…

Because we are coming up on almost a year since Tears of the Kingdom‘s release (can you believe it?), I’ve been pondering how well this direct sequel to Breath of the Wild continued the original story and enriched that version of Hyrule. I, for one, loved the continuity elements between the two games and enjoyed seeing how familiar settings were changed over a few years (how NPCs had grown up, etc). Tears of the Kingdom is a rarity in the…

The Zelda series is full of vibrant starting areas that make you feel right at home. From the lush Kokiri Forest in Ocarina of Time to the majestic islands of Skyloft in Skyward Sword, there are plenty of places I would pack my bags for and visit in a heartbeat. There are, however, a few in-game starter locales that don’t quite make my bucket list. Hyrule in A Link Between Worlds/A Link to the Past, for instance, doesn’t quite hit…

Tracking the release of Zelda titles is an exercise that can help explore and analyze development trends in the series. Looking at the data, the time gaps between 3D console Zelda games has been growing over the past fifteen to twenty years. The growing time gap between 3D Zelda games is first noticeable in the five year gap between Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Up to that point, the longest gap between 3D Zelda titles in North America was roughly…

With Mario, Donkey Kong, and now Animal Crossing receiving official LEGO sets, many Zelda fans (myself included) are likely wondering the same thing: where are the Zelda LEGO sets? With how popular LEGO builds are and how well Tears of the Kingdom has been received since its release last year, creating Zelda-themed LEGOs seems like a no-brainer! While there hasn’t been an official announcement that any such set is in development, there have been rumors circulating around a potential Deku Tree…