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One of our sister sites, GenGAME, has recently published an article that explores Nintendo’s apparent obsession with making Zelda games that have not so popular art styles. With The Wind Waker HD being released for the Wii U soon, Alex Plant at GenGAME wonders why in the world Nintendo would even go close to the cel-shaded Toon Link again, considering the controversy of The Wind Waker when it first released. Hit the jump to see what’s in store!

Even well before it was officially announced, it was no secret that a new Zelda game was in the works for the Nintendo 3DS. After all, what Nintendo system would be complete without an original Zelda title? Little under a month ago, what the community took to calling A Link to the Past 2 was revealed in a Nintendo Direct presentation to be a direct sequel to 1991’s SNES classic A Link To The Past. Immediately following this announcement, of course,…

Alex Plant at GenGame recently published an article on the upcoming Zelda title for the Wii U and Twilight Princess. As the article points out, Twilight Princess was seen as a return to form after the departure that Wind Waker was, and the Wii U title has the potential to be the same thing after the experimentation of Skyward Sword. Hit the jump for the article and some thoughts on it.

Our friend and ally, GenGAME writer Alex Plant, once again shares with us yet another Zelda game containing five features that he thinks Nintendo should consider keeping for the upcoming Wii U title. This time for his third installment he covers Majora’s Mask, a game that often evokes a love/hate response from many Zelda fans. It’s true, Majora’s Mask is not known for being a grand epic adventure in Hyrule but instead a more personal, character developing, endless three-day journey…

Many people consider Ocarina of Time to be not only the best game of the Zelda franchise, but also the best game of all time! With the announcement of a new Zelda game to be released on the Wii U comes high expectations and pressure to find out which direction Nintendo plans to go next. GenGAME writer, Alex Plant, goes into greater detail about features from the Zelda franchise that belong in the new Wii U title by covering games…

As some of you probably know, Ubisoft’s latest entry in the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise was formally announced this past weekend. The new game, titled Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, features a privateer/pirate main character who sails the waters of the Caribbean Sea. Along his way, this Captain Kenway will be exploring numerous islands across these wide open seas. How does this pertain to Zelda, you ask? Well, our sister site GenGAME has a good idea of just how much…

Our sister website GenGAME is live streaming the Wind Waker! This is part of a series of streams that will take place over the course of the next couple of Sunday evenings. It’s not just a regular Wind Waker playthrough. This is a 100% playthrough, including all Treasure Charts, Sunken Treasure, Optional Items, Heart Pieces, and the massive Nintendo Gallery. The stream is embedded right here within this post. However, you can also check out the live stream over at…

In every video game development process, hundreds of ideas are thrown around. Many are developed further and from those a select few make it into the final game. The Wind Waker was certainly no exception; entire dungeons were removed from the game in the process. In light of the recent announcement of The Wind Waker for Wii U, the folks at our sister site GenGAME have already gotten their thinking caps on to talk about what Nintendo could do with…

Games do not need HD graphics to look good. A statement sometimes resented in the gaming community, but games such as The Wind Waker and Skyward Sword have shown gamers that a game can indeed look beautiful without the need for HD graphics. That being said however, it is still undeniable that HD graphics do improve upon the look of games substantially and eliminates the slight out-of-focus look associated with standard-resolution graphics, which are now often considered sub-standard. Our sister…

One of the most extraordinary things about the Zelda fanbase is the controversy over the art style of the games. The Zelda series is probably one of the most, or even the most, varying in this department of all video game series, and though we can often expect a different style in the next game, we can’t always be so sure of what exactly that style will be. So GenGAME is curious as to what you want, and they’ve setup…