Category: Zelda Fan Content

It wasn’t long after the latest trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that I began searching YouTube in hopes to find that someone had uploaded the new music. Fans were quick to do so, though it seemed like each file still had some remnant of the non-musical sound effects in the trailer. Sure enough, gaming musician Tim de Man was quick to the rescue and wasted no time in pumping out his piano arrangement of the trailer…

Popular Zelda YouTube content creator PointCrow has been working on a multiplayer Breath of the Wild mod for a few years now, allowing friends to play as multiple Links and wreak havoc in the land of Hyrule together. The idea came together after PointCrow offered a $10,000 bounty to anyone who could develop such a mod, with modders Alex Mangue and Sweet answering the challenge. Together with PointCrow, the team has continued to develop the mod, with PointCrow sharing regular…

In its long history, Zelda Reorchestrated made a major impact on the lives of many Zelda fans and music lovers across the world. Launched in September 2021, ZREO: Second Quest has continued to build upon the legacy of Zelda Reorchestrated with several significant releases, including their new album Fair Winds & Following Seas feat. ATLYS. This album is exclusively focused on The Wind Waker, and it features live musical performances from a remote orchestra, along with the talented string quartet…

If you like soft piano music to fall asleep or relax to then composer Andrea Vanzo has an album for you. Gentle Gaming: Zelda for Piano features piano arrangements of popular Zelda titles from Skyward Sword to Ocarina of Time. There are five selections of well-known songs from the Zelda series, and this album is perfect to help bring about the sweetest of dreams. Each selection is iconic from the Zelda series in its own right, but I have to…

March of the Koroks is an event held by the Zelda Creators community that will hopefully remain an annual staple. The event started in 2022, and was one of my favorite fan events of last year (alongside Linktober). If March of the Koroks sounds unfamiliar: it’s a collaborated effort for Zelda fans of all skill levels and artistic mediums to band together to create as many Koroks as possible, and then compile each Korok onto one massive canvas! Earlier today…

For nearly a decade, respected video game arranger and composer Rozen has produced a stellar collection of Zelda fan albums, including 2017’s Sins of Hyrule, 2018’s Children of Termina, and 2022’s Shadows of Hyrule. Now, with so many years under his belt, Rozen — in partnership with Mango Mage Records — is bringing things full circle with a special vinyl release of his very first album Time Once Lost.   Coming for the first time to vinyl, Time Once Lost…

While so much of PAX East was about games, developers, networking, and just having fun, the moment I found most moving was an impromptu conversation I had with Dr. Anthony M. Bean, author of The Psychology of The Legend of Zelda, The Psychology of Final Fantasy, and Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide. I was wandering through the shopping section of PAX East, and I came across a booth run by Geek Therapeutics. I stopped because the philosophy book…

While Zelda news was unfortunately slim at PAX East this year, there were a few bright spots for fans of the franchise. From a speedrun of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening by Game’s Done Quick to a panel talk on the Zelda timeline, there was just enough to keep fans interested while at the convention. One personal highlight was my stop at the Songbird Ocarina booth. The owner of the company has been making ocarinas for over 30 years and the…

For years now, there have been a steady stream of incredible recreations of places and locations in the Zelda universe that make us stop and reexamine just how incredible these memorable spots can be. From incredibly impressive Minecraft builds that appear simple at first, only to discover how detailed and time-consuming they really are, to high-resolution and high-definition billion-pixel remakes that look like real life. The creations are simply astounding, and the people who dedicate their time to making them…

Hoist the sails! ZREO: Second Quest is taking an exciting trip to the Great Sea with a new album focused on The Wind Waker titled Fair Winds & Following Seas feat. ATLYS. This exciting album was developed during the worldwide pandemic, and it features live musical performances from a remote orchestra, along with the talented string quartet ATLYS. The album will include 12 tracks for a total of 52 minutes of music. In advance of the April 7th release of Fair Winds &…