Tag: Blood Moon Week

Happy Blood Moon Week, everyone! In case you missed it: in honor of the real-life blood moon taking place this Wednesday, we will be celebrating the Zelda series’ biggest and best baddies all week long! On top of that, some of this week’s festivities will be focused on the Blood Moon itself, as well as other strange cosmic phenomena. But for me, this week is just an excuse to make random references to one of my favorite games right now:…

Game designers often find inspiration in all sorts of different things. Shigeru Miyamoto notoriously found the idea for the original Legend of Zelda in remembering exploring nature in his youth, and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask found much of its identity in its incredibly tight production cycle. While we are prone to view elements of fantasy at their face value as vivid designs of imagination, it is well known among fantasy writers that near everything has some origin in…

*This article contains spoilers for Age of Calamity‘s playable characters!* When Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was announced, I expected its roster to be significantly narrower in scope than that of its predecessor. I figured we’d play as only a few characters beyond Link, Zelda, and the Champions, given how the game was touted as an honest-to-goodness Breath of the Wild prequel. Fortunately — from a gameplay perspective, at least — Age of Calamity ended up being just as bombastic…

The Blood Moon rises once again. That is to say, it will rise once again. On May 26th, a “Super Flower Blood Moon” will be visible from most of the mainland United States, Hawaii, Oceania, eastern Asia and Antarctica. And we all know what that means. Villains and enemies, new and old, will be returning from the grave! But fear not; Zelda Dungeon has you covered. In celebration of the upcoming lunar eclipse, from 5/23 to 5/30, we wanted to…