Tag: Author: Thomas Jacobs

When it comes to stories set in a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, soon or later you’ll run into dragons. Either in the flesh or just referenced, there is something primordial, something alluring to large serpentine monsters. Many cultures who have had contact of some kind with scaled creatures from snakes to crocodiles have eventually developed a large and mighty variant of it: from the Chinese Dong Fang Qing Long (The Azure Dragon of the East), the Iranian Zahhak (known as…

It’s the holiday season, and we all know that part of the season is caroling. Some people stick to the classics, others try and write their own while yet others translate the classics into something fitting their interests. YouTube channel Really Freakin’ Clever, known for its tongue-in-cheek series 64 Things Wrong with Ocarina of Time has changed the classic 12 Days of Christmas to fit Majora’s Mask. What 12 things can your true love give you in Termina? Watch the…

Just over a month ago, Game Theory took its first look at how Majora’s Mask and the many masks therein have been influenced by African culture. As it turned out there were quite a few parallels with how masks are used by the many different peoples in Africa. For the second video, Gaijin Goombah takes a look at a number of masks that have to do with interacting with others: the difficult to obtain Couple’s Mask, the masks that allow…

Few things are held as absolutes among the Zelda fanbase. Ask any number of fans which game in the series is their favorite and you get many different answers: Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past, Wind Waker and the original all have their fans. But if you were to ask the fans’ opinion on Skyward Sword, they will explode. Some will say it is the worst thing in the series since the CD-i games, some will tell you…

Being nearly thirty years old, The Legend of Zelda has a massive amount of development time gone into its many games. While some of these ideas have been developed into core aspects of the series some are merely artefacts left in the code, animations that never got used or ideas that were used in the beta but were never used in the final product. Did You Know Gaming once again takes a look at the series and uncovers a fair…

PeanutButterGamer continues Zelda Month with the second part of his video on The Wand of Gamelon! Having bitten off more than he could chew, he had to split up the video to be able to release the first part in time. We previous reported on part one, and now you can watch the second part right after the jump.

Over the course of his adventures Link has used many different kinds of weapons and items to help him defeat evil. Swords, bows, boomerangs, bombs: you name it.  A Link to the Past introduced a new item to both aid in Link’s mobility while serving as a weapon: the Hookshot. The Hookshot has gone through various different iterations to do different things. Today Game Theory takes a look at that last iteration of the item and does the math: what…

Zelda Month continues with PeanutButterGamer tackling the infamous second part of the Unholy Triforce: The Wand of Gamelon! After beating The Faces of Evil in last year’s Zelda Month the brave but foolish PuhBuhGuh travels to the cursed island of Gamelon to do battle with Ganon and his minions and save Link and King Harkinian. This game marks the first in two occations where Zelda is the main playable character with the other being in Zelda’s Adventure, the third part…

Between the time when turtles first kidnapped princesses and the rise of the blue hedgehog, there was an aged undreamed of. And onto this, Link, destined to wear the Triforce of Courage upon his sword-wielding hand. It was them, BIC Entertainment, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let them make them a cartoon showing the days of the adventures of Link! In the dark years of the late 80’s and early 90’s it was very common to make…

If your knowledge of Ocarina of Time goes beyond what is shown inside of the game itself you likely know that Ocarina of Time has a large number of glitches, exploits and other unintended tricks in it. With the advent and subsequent mastery of emulation technology people have found ways to force certain glitches onto the game. With the start of November the YouTube personality PeanutButterGamer enters his fourth Zelda Month in which he makes all kinds of videos dedicated…