Category: Zelda Fan Content

We’re in that period of downtime between Zelda games. Echoes of Wisdom released last year and Nintendo has yet to announce what’s coming next for the franchise. While we’ll have Zelda on the Switch 2 eventually, the soonest we’d likely find out anything about the series on the Switch’s successor would be April’s Switch 2 Direct. If you’re eager to get back to exploring Hyrule, we have something to tide you over until Nintendo tells us what’s next. Let us…

Representing each main source of power throughout the land of Hyrule, the Secret Stones from Tears of the Kingdom are what drove the key parts of the story. And while these Secret Stone necklaces from creator Adrian Guevara of Aegis Printing on Etsy will not give you that same kind of power, they’ll certainly look nice hanging around your neck. Made using a combination of resin, 3D printing, and suede, these Secret Stone necklaces are well detailed, with the Zonai…

While Echoes of Wisdom has generally received praise for its creativity and freedom, one element of the game has been a point of criticism for many fans and journalists: the game’s menu system for selecting echoes. While Nintendo did include a few options for filtering through or reordering echoes (“Last Used,” “Most Used,” “Last Learned,” “Cost,” and “Type”), using a variety of the 127 available echoes can mean spending a significant amount of time scrolling through the long horizontal list…

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, now might be a good time to think about getting your significant other something nice. Check out what the artisan Etsy shop WongFFKey has to offer, as they have a unique kind of Zelda-themed product. Also known as the “Artisan Keycap Factory,” WongFFKey specializes in all manner of pop culture-themed keycaps for those looking to spice up their mechanical keyboard at home. Specializing in the use of resin to help bring the majority…

Video games have seen a slow infiltration into the academic world, yet they are still ever-so-often dismissed as gluttonous, mindless, or even the cause for violent behavior in youth. Fitting video games into ludology (the academic study of games in general) has become increasingly justifiable in recent times, however, as music, stories, and memes from a variety of video games have found their way into popular culture and the modern lexicon, making their impact on the world hard to continue…

A group of Zelda fans recently created an anime-style intro for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for an animation class and posted it as the debut video on the YouTube channel Project RGB. With the distinct style that anime intros have become known for, this video is a showcase of popular characters and locations from Breath of the Wild, backed by an upbeat track from Japanese pop duo YOASOBI. A few depictions of Skyward Sword, as well as the appearance…

In response to the devastating wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, California in recent weeks, both the Zelda-based charity group Zeldathon and the Florida-based video game music coalition Ongaku Overdrive are showing their support by throwing a charity concert stream on Twitch to help raise money for relief funds. Dubbed “Fairy Fountain: Hearts for LA,” this online concert will be raising money for LA Wildfire Relief and will feature performances from FamilyJules, Lacey Johnson, Steven Strums, and more. Ongaku Overdrive gave…

Retro Game Books is back with a new volume of its Video Game Maps book series. Video Game Maps: SNES – Volume 2 is comprised of artists’ depictions of maps from over 65 Super Nintendo Entertainment System games culled from guides, posters, manuals, magazines, and other SNES-era sources. The Zelda series’ own A Link to the Past is featured in this volume, along with some lesser-known artwork and historical tidbits related to the game (contributed and fact checked in part…

Do you think your Switch is due for a makeover? If so, check out Nerdforge’s amazing video in which Norwegian duo Martina and Hansi turn an ordinary Switch into a 3D Hyrule Castle! The process starts off with the highly talented Martina painting a Hyrulesque landscape onto a surface and attaching it to the side of the Switch. Then the crafting fun begins: firstly, Martina uses extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam to create the shape of Hyrule Castle. The next step…

Did you know that The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening originally started life as a passion project by a small group of Nintendo developers — which included Director Takeshi Tezuka and Programmer Kazuaki Morita — to try and port the Super Nintendo hit A Link to the Past over to the Game Boy? As the project took shape and eventually became blessed by Nintendo’s management to be an official game, it evolved away from a straight de-make of A Link to…