Category: Daily Debate

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…

Spoiler Warning: The article below contains minor spoilers for the first couple hours of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It is possible the comment section could contain spoilers in both pictures and words. Please click at your own risk. Six years is a long time to wait for a new Zelda game, and if there’s anything Zelda fans love to do, it’s speculate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as many theories as there were on Tears…

Weapon durability has been a key topic of discussion for both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. While Skyward Sword introduced some durability and degradation with its shields, Breath of the Wild took the idea of breakable items to an entirely new level. In the 2017 game, every sword, shield, and bow would break after a certain amount of use. Breakable weapons were a point of contention for many fans who did not like losing the powerful…

Spoiler Warning: The article below contains minor spoilers for the first couple hours of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It is possible the comment section could contain spoilers in both pictures and words. Please click at your own risk. If there was a phrase I’d use to describe Tears of the Kingdom, it’s “déjà vu”. Despite the development team’s best efforts, there is sure a lot of Tears of the Kingdom that calls back to the opening…

Ten years ago, Nintendo started selling amiibo. These collectible statuettes of Nintendo characters from a wide variety of games don’t just sit on the shelf.  Scanning the amiibo with the NFC reader on the Wii U, 3DS, or Switch will result in extra goodies in the game.  Nintendo made the Smash Bros. series of amiibo first and featured Twilight Princess style Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf, along with Toon Link, Young Link, and Sheik. Since then, Nintendo has made 20 other Zelda-based…

Spoiler Warning: The article below contains minor spoilers for some returning and new enemies in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. If you’re like me you’ve probably explored a good chunk of Hyrule ,above and below, over the last handful of days. In previous footage we got a brief glimpse of how some of the returning enemies have changes in appearances, but what about the new enemies? We caught a glimpse of a flaming Gleeok and a Boss…

Spoiler Warning: The article below contains minor spoilers for some of the side quests in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It is possible the comment section could contain spoilers in both pictures and words. Please click at your own risk. For as groundbreaking as Breath of the Wild was for open-world games, there were a few aspects of its design that – even by 2017’s standards — felt uncharacteristically run-of-the-mill. Specifically, in subsequent playthroughs of the game,…

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been out for a couple weeks now, and players are discovering many of the game’s surprises. But there’s at least one unforeseen change that has left some players a little frustrated. The Wolf Link amiibo no longer grants players access to the legendary canine companion. Instead, it merely offers a collection of meat, which we can assume was “hunted” by our wolf friend…I think. True, the nature of gameplay in Tears of the…

Some of my favorite memories playing Breath of the Wild involved riding my horse into some unexplored region of Hyrule at night, letting the familiar notes of the Zelda main theme accompany my journey. There was something just so immersive about trekking across secluded hills and valleys with only my trusty steed to keep me company. But in the years since Breath of the Wild, I’ve found that quite a few players opted to ignore horseback riding altogether and instead…

Ok, let’s talk Tears of the Kingdom some more. So many of us thought going into release that the game had some amazing potential, and all of our excitement built just as surely as the saxophone in the final trailer. Now that we have had some time to play it, we all have a bit more of a feel for it: how it plays, every new ability, even some (or all) story elements. Essentially, we know what this game is about….