Category: Editorials

Recently, Nintendo dropped another huge surprise on its gaming community, releasing Pac-Man 99 without warning shortly after the end of Super Mario Bros. 35. The Pac-Man game helps to fill the void in what is becoming a regular genre for the Nintendo Online community. The battle royale style elimination genre has been around, but featuring retro arcade games is certainly a welcome and popular twist. Nintendo certainly raised some eyebrows when the company applied the genre to the classic NES hit Super Mario…

The Wind Waker is one of the most beloved games in the Zelda series. The stirring music, gorgeous art style, and timeless story have been lauded by fans and critics across the world. However, despite the game’s immense popularity, The Wind Waker has never received a true successor. While Phantom Hourglass directly continued the story of Link and Tetra, the technological limits of the DS resulted in a game that was quite different from its forebearer. For one, the sailing,…

Easter is almost upon us, Zelda fans! During normal times, the holiday would typically mean an Easter Egg hunt or two, but, of course, these aren’t normal times. Luckily, your pals at Zelda Dungeon have decided to host an Easter Egg hunt, of sorts, of our own this year! In true Breath of the Wild fashion, we’re hosting a special Korok Seed Hunt in honor of the Easter holiday. We’ve hidden 45 Korok Seeds in random articles from throughout Zelda…

Many of us have lofty aspirations of building a monument to the video games we love, or bringing a system from our childhood to life, but to be able to actually do it is an accomplishment few can claim. Anthony Perez made that dream come true recently and built a custom arcade cabinet themed after the Legend of Zelda series! The cabinet is truly spectacular and captured my attention from the moment I saw it, and I believe you, the reader,…

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is one of my favorite video games ever. Not just one of my favorite Zelda games either – one of my favorite games ever, period. Skyward Sword represents the tried and true Zelda formula operating at its peak; the pastel visuals looked incredible to me; the sweeping narrative and characters were unlike anything we had seen in Zelda before; the dungeons, the music, the extras, all of it; I absolutely loved Skyward Sword. Oh…

Whether you love or hate the official Zelda timeline, now that it exists, there is no going back. While fans can certainly choose to disregard it, I decided to embrace it. Both iterations of the timeline, and the books in which they were released, hold a plethora of interesting lore that I agree with. But in some cases, the timeline contains egregious errors. The biggest culprit of making pointless changes to the lore comes from the Zelda Encyclopedia with its…

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons are remarkable achievements when you think about it. So much was going against these games, and yet the final product is something that has stood the test of time. Everybody knows the story; originally, the pitch was for Capcom to make a bunch of different games for Nintendo’s Game Boy Color, including a remake of the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. After some tinkering to the plan,…

  The Beginning of the Seasons Sometime in the early part of 2001, I went to see a movie with my dad in the theaters. For the life of me, I cannot remember the movie we saw but I remember the trailers… well, one of them at least. To me, it was 30 of the greatest seconds ever experienced in a movie theater. It was the TV spot trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of…

In this series to celebrate the games’ 20th anniversary, ZD writers Emi Curtis, Hannah Rogers, and Andrew Millard take on The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. Emi is brand new to the game, Hannah is an experienced pro, and Andrew is returning to complete the game after almost two decades. This week is our final discussion, picking up at the Ancient Tomb. Thank you to everyone who has followed along! Andrew – Hi, everyone! Welcome to our wrap up!…

When you say the name Hayao Miyazaki, many people will likely think of Studio Ghibli; and when you say the name Nintendo, many people will likely think of The Legend of Zelda. Studio Ghibli has a lot of legendary animated movies under its belt — from My Neighbor Totoro to Spirited Away —  but today we’re going to discuss Kiki’s Delivery Service and the magical comparisons that can be made between that 1989 classic and The Legend of Zelda. One of the…