When most fans think of the genre of The Legend of Zelda games, they think: “Adventure”. They expect to crawl though dungeons while solving puzzles and searching for treasure. There should also be deadly foes to face off against and a boss at the end of each dungeon. Of course, the player has to control Link as well; he’s the protagonist! What would a Zelda game be without all of that?
It would be Hyrule Warriors…
Ubisoft Montreal’s Jean Guesdon, Brand Content Manager of the Assassin’s Creed series, was in a interview with EDGE about the development of the latest series installment, Black Flag. In the interview, EDGE mentioned how much they loved sailing and exploring in The Wind Waker, and when asked how it helped to “inform Black Flag’s design”, Guesdon gave an interesting response. Read the full quote after the jump.
Video game physics- you have to love it. Discovered by everyone and exploited by speed runners. And sometimes the same sort of “trick” works across different games in a series, or even different franchises and developers completely. “The descent” is a particularly common one, but the mechanics of any game with explosions can be particularly fun to explore, and let’s not even get started on what interesting situations can arise when objects clip into each other. But without waiting any longer, hit…
As some of you probably know, Ubisoft’s latest entry in the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise was formally announced this past weekend. The new game, titled Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, features a privateer/pirate main character who sails the waters of the Caribbean Sea. Along his way, this Captain Kenway will be exploring numerous islands across these wide open seas. How does this pertain to Zelda, you ask? Well, our sister site GenGAME has a good idea of just how much…
All Games Beta recently blogged a picture of an especially spectacular make-believe crossover title named “Hylian Creed”. The likeness of Ezio Auditore da Firenze of the Assassin’s Creed franchise and Link from The Legend of Zelda are blended together to create a figure of total bad-assery. Etchings reminiscent of Twilight Princess can be seen in the top and bottom corners of the cover art. Additionally, you can see the faded figures of Ganondorf and Zelda beside Link, though it seems…
