Tag: action

The hype is real! We are just days removed from the release of the much anticipated Majora’s Mask 3D and Nintendo is keeping the spirit alive. Today Nintendo of Japan posted on their YouTube page a six minute exhibition of the action elements present in Majora’s Mask 3D. The half video, half commercial is narrated by none other than the mysterious Happy Mask Salesman as he takes us on an adventure with some of the most formidable foes Termina has…

One of the first notable things about Skyward Sword’s overworld — even the developers advertised this — was its dungeon-like design. It was compartmentalized, claustrophobic, and packed with puzzles and action at every turn. There was little room for passivity; the sailing and open fields of past 3D Zelda games gave way to a more frantic but more focused approach. By no means was this approach better, but it fit both the tone and the gameplay choices that pervaded all…

Some people think of Zelda as a puzzle-centric franchise. But that’s not really what Zelda’s about–at least, not exclusively. Anyone who started with one of the first four Zelda games is likely to have a very different idea. The original Legend of Zelda had rudimentary puzzle solving usually involving big questions, like how to access an entire part of the map, rather than Portalesque room puzzles that involved complex block pushing. Puzzles certainly weren’t foreign to the 2D games —…