Tag: Darksiders

Put down those pitchforks; it’s just time for another weekly ZI Photoshop Contest! You may have been upset by Tuesday’s Daily Debate on so-called “Zelda clones,” but believe me, that truly is a term of absolute endearment. So to honor the games that were inspired by The Legend of Zelda, we’ll be crossing them over with, well, The Legend of Zelda. But before we get there, we need to look at last week’s contest: Free Week!

Outside of the Zelda series, Darksiders is right up there as one of my favorite gaming franchises. It’s fortunate for me as the two franchises have a lot of similarities and the Darksiders developers were huge Zelda fans. It’s clear that while only Darksiders II reached a Nintendo platform, the audiences do have their fair share of overlap. Once such person is freelance artist Jaime Garcia, who has recently put together a model Link, made in the Darksiders universe. It…

Anyone who has played Darksiders has probably noticed the similarities it has to the Zelda games. In fact, many games have been compared to our beloved series (see this slideshow). But developer Vigil Games recently lashed out at the comparisons that people have been making to Darksiders and the Zelda series. In an a recent interview with Haydn Dalton, the lead designer working on Darksiders II, Vigil Games explicitly talks about how they feel about the recent comparisons to their…

Zelda games have consisted of some of the most unique and desirable formulae in video game history. The gameplay is so well put together and addicting that many companies have tried to implement the formula into their own games, while still retaining their own originality. If you have played all the Zelda games and have gotten all the enjoyment you possibly can out of each one, then take a look at this slideshow that Gameranx has put together, which consists…

The Zelda Dungeon Forums are no more. Instead, they have evolved to being the Dungeon Gaming Enterprises forums, a combined forum for Zelda Dungeon, Pokemon Dungeon, and the newly launched Darksiders Dungeon. This also marks the return of forum contests, and boy do we have a good one for you. This month we are giving away a brand new Xbox 360 console with a copy of Darksiders! We also are giving away new Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii games, along…

The last few weeks I’ve been live streaming a playthrough of Darksiders over at our Twitch.TV channel. I knew about the game for years, but having not owned a PS3 or Xbox 360, I never did pick it up for myself. Recently I was contacted by a member of the marketing team for Darksiders II, asking if I could promote the game here at Zelda Dungeon, given its similarities to Zelda. I decided to purchase a PS3 along with a…

With Darksiders II being developed for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii-U, the Director Joe Madureira is hoping that this game will not be compared to Zelda like the previous Darksiders game. Darksiders was heavily compared to most Zelda games due to its dungeon-based gameplay, the items, the story progression, the types collectibles, and much more In the Official Nintendo Magazine’s Darksiders II Wii U preview, they even dubbed the game as “Zelda in hell”. Although Joe is indeed a…

Note: Note the stream is now over. Follow us over at Twitch.TV to get notified whenever we go live. We’ll be streaming more Darksiders throughout the next week or so, while also streaming Zelda titles, old NES titles, and miscellaneous video games. Darksiders released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 way back in January of 2010 and the similarities between Darksiders and the Legend of Zelda could be found in almost every critical review of the title. I never had…

Note: The Live Stream is now over. You can head to our Twitch.TV channel for the after party, but be sure to follow us at Twitch so that you are notified whenever we go live. When the original Darksiders hit shelves in January of 2010, fans and critics alike were immediately drawing the comparisons to both the God of War and Legend of Zelda franchises. The game had many of the dungeon and puzzle aspects of Zelda and it got…

Joe Madureira, the creative director for the Darksiders games, has recently showed interest in working on a Legend of Zelda comic. With Madureira’s past experience as a comic book writer and his expressed enthusiasm for the Zelda series, it seems as it be a great idea for Nintendo to give him the opportunity to start this comic book series. This wouldn’t be the first Nintendo has teamed up with a comic book series. Back in the early 90’s Nintendo had…