Tag: Link’s Shadow

Dark Link is one of Link’s most famous recurring foes, having appeared in six different Zelda games, with his similar-yet-different doppelganger, Shadow Link, appearing in a further two games. This means that some version of Dark Link has appeared, roughly, in every second Zelda game. So why are his roles in each game so small? Dark Link is Link’s opposite: everything that Link is, Dark Link isn’t. I believe that this could make for a very personal and beautiful storyline…

Amateur filmmaking group CorridorDigital recently posted an amazingly well-crafted short fan-film on their YouTube channel. Check out Link’s Shadow after the jump, but be warned, there’s some intense violence and those with weak constitutions may want to reconsider.

It’s interesting to talk about the size of the bosses in the Zelda series, and I wrote about this before in another article, where I talked how the bosses in Zelda had stagnated in terms of concept and design. All the bosses at the time seemed to be titanically huge, follow a tired, predictable formula, and were ironically extremely easy to beat despite their intimidating size. Skyward Sword seems to have begun to reverse that trend a bit, but I’ll…