Tag: Villain

Some of you may not be aware, but I’ve been asking for Zelda games to truly abandon Ganondorf for some time. For the most part, the Zelda series lately has obliged. We got Ghirahim and Demise in 2011 and Yuga in 2013. Before that we got Malladus in Spirit Tracks and Bellum in Phantom Hourglass. Heck, I could argue even Zant fits this mold despite Ganondorf jacking the final role. Individually there is a lot to like about these villains, and heck, it’s not even a new thing in the series trends. As an example, Majora’s Mask and Skull Kid along with Nightmare. This has been a regular occurring theme for the series to feature one-off villains.

I think in this trending, if Nintendo was listening to my plea about Ganondorf, that they took it the wrong way. One-off villains are fine time to time, but it’s becoming a bit too much. If you want to create a truly memorable villain you need to have them stay relevant outside of one particular game.

Before Skyward Sword, when Nintendo first showed us the fabulous Ghirahim, I wrote an article analyzing him and proposing possibilities as to who he might be. Now that we’ve had a similar reveal for A Link Between Worlds, I thought I’d do the same for the new villain. Maybe I’m making an assumption calling him the villain, but I can’t see any way he’s not! Aside from his obviously-villainous creepy face, this character’s key trait is that he looks like…

Well hey there, guys! Mailbag #89 is here. Before jumping into the questions I address something relating to the marathon last week, as well as correct myself on one of last week’s questions. As for the actual mailbag, this week we’ve got 14 questions, nice variety but with some particular attention on Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask and Skyward Sword. Enjoy, and be sure to tell me your thoughts in the comments. You can watch it here or check out…

New mailbag, Curiosity Shop #073. This time there’s a whopping 15 questions. Most of them are about Skyward Sword as usual, but there’s a handful that differ and cover broader questions, and there’s also a lot of extra purely opinion-based stuff at the beginning. Enjoy! Video embed after the jump. Questions and timestamps: (00:08) – Do you think Majora will be in Skyward Sword? (00:14) – Do you think Skyward Sword will replace your favorite game of the series? (00:48)…

Once again this week, there has been a lot of stimulating discussion revolving around the forums. With the coming of E3 there have been new users popping up left and right and tons of unique topics showing themselves all over the forums. We’ve hit our record number of posts during E3, so it’s only natural that there were an influx of absolutely wonderful posts. The topic of discussion for this week is the Most Effective Villain from the series. To…

Amongst all this jazz we’ve been hearing about the game – things like graphics, story and Wii Motion Plus – I managed to hear some talk about the Skyward Sword enemies. Enemies are an important aspect to the game, especially if you consider the new combat with the Motion Plus controls, and the focus on it. Furthermore, besides the gigantic scorpion, we have also not heard much talk about the game’s bosses. Then there’s the main villain. So this article…

So here it is, guys, the last Curiosity Shop before E3! Next week’s going to be one hell of a party, expect some big things! Until then, I’ll try to keep you satiated with some discussion videos. The questions and their timestamps are: (00:30) – You said you wanted less dungeons, but what if the dungeons were done well? (01:15) – What do you think is the hardest game in the series? (02:18) – Do you think Midna will be…

Our friends over at Legend of Zelda.com have recently put out a short article discussing whether or not Ganon is too evil to be an effective villain. The article highlights Ganondorfs appearance in Ocarina of Time, while also briefly touching on his pig form in other Zelda titles. Here is a short excerpt from the article that was posted. In OoT, Ganondorf seemed to only have two motives, to get the Triforce and rule Hyrule. The way he tried to…