Tag: familiar

A Link Between Worlds, as the proclaimed sequel of A Link to the Past, reuses a lot of elements in order to evoke a sense of nostalgia in Zelda fans who played through the 1992 classic. The newest Zelda installment on the 3DS even borrows the entire overworld from A Link to the Past, albeit in both polygonal and stereoscopic 3D this time around. Did Nintendo made the right decision to lift huge chunks of content from A Link Between…

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…

When Nintendo announced that their mission for Zelda Wii U was to rethink the conventions of Zelda, I thought it was a bit odd they only listed two such conventions that they wanted to break away from: “Complete dungeons in a certain order” and “Play by yourself”. Granted, they did say that they started to do this with Skyward Sword (but weren’t able to do everything they wanted), so these are probably going to be included with convention changes found…