Tag: Axle the Beast

Welcome back to Z-Talk! This month we have another announcement so listen up at the beginning of he podcast. We have a very large mailbag and a roundtable from Colonel-Majora this time. Sit back and enjoy! Don’t forget to tell us your thoughts on this podcast in the discussion thread, or on Facebook and Twitter! Timestamps: 0:30 – Announcement 3:30 – Hyrule Historia Roundtable Hosted by Colonel-Majora, Guests: Axle the Beast, AnimeBassoon, and Athenian200 20:00 – Din and Rish’s Mailbag…

Happy Halloween! We are back with another Halloween themed podcast for you this month. We have spooky stories, scary adventures, dark discussions and the boss battle you have all been waiting for! Big announcements this month too, Z-Talk is having three contests! Check out the forum thread about the contests for full rules and details. As a reminder, the Christmas Podcast is fast approaching, so if you’d like to get involved and do a segment for the themed podcast, get…

Halloween’s just around the corner, so I thought it was a good time to tackle a certain lovely little article topic: The top examples of “nightmare fuel” in Zelda. While this term can have a broader meaning that applies to anything scary or nightmare-inducing, I’m going with a specific version. In short, I’m covering things that were never meant to be scary, or scary to this degree, but certainly become highly disturbing when you think about them. I suppose you…

Hey everyone and welcome all you podcasters! We have a podcast full of olf favorites for you this month. Be sure to tune in next month for the Halloween podcast as well as some big announcements! We have some twists coming to the podcast. As a reminder, the Halloween and Christmas Podcasts are fast approaching, so if you’d like to get involved and do a segment for one of these themed podcasts, get in touch with Din on Skype or…

Alright, well here we are. Time to review the last of The Minish Cap’s dungeons before the last hurrah in Dark Hyrule Castle. It’s not my favorite dungeon in The Minish Cap — that award still goes to the Temple of Droplets — but it is my second-favorite and it’s also the only wind-themed dungeon in the series that I like. I’m sure you’ve noticed the trend if you’ve been keeping up with my Dungeon Reflections, how I’ve bashed the…

One of the main things I’ve always wanted to see changed about the Zelda series is the level of detail the worlds in its games have. More so than some other adventure games I’ve played, Zelda has a tendency to have areas that feel… like they’re from a video game. I realize there are multiple confusing elements to that statement. The bottom line is that there’s usually two extreme kinds of video game: Arcade, and simulation. Arcade-style games don’t feel…

In my book Zelda’s kind of a series of archetypes. It’s a fantasy world and story that, initially, was really only that. In the first Legend of Zelda game, the series had just been born and its debut wasn’t a plot-focused game in the slightest, so there wasn’t any lore to build off. What the first game built off, instead, were archetypes! Link himself is the best examples of this, as his character is nothing more than an archetype: He’s…

Almost everyone knows how common it is to see new Zelda games include elements that have become staples of the series. Is there a Zelda fan that sees an arachnid or insect boss with a single eye and doesn’t yell “Gohma!”, or someone who doesn’t recognize the labyrinth of identical forks that was first established with the Lost Woods? For some Zelda fans it seems like it’s seeing these throwbacks to earlier games that define Zelda for them. To a…

Gonna be a short review this time, since, well, we’re reviewing The Minish Cap’s sole mini-dungeon: The Royal Crypt. It’s not really a dungeon to be honest; it lacks all of the hallmarks of one, with no Dungeon Map, Compass, Big Key, or main item, and it has no map screen of its own. That said it functions enough like one with the puzzles and collection of keys to advance that some would count it, and I’m including it for…