Tag: Zelda Races

One of my personal favorite things about Zelda is how it (mostly) foregoes standard fantasy races; there are no dwarves, elves, or orcs to be found here, folks. Instead, the good folks at Nintendo thought up a number of new and unique peoples to populate their worlds with. In today’s ZD Top, we had our staff list their five favorites. As always, feel free to leave a comment below with your own list.

Ready for an entirely new take on the Zelda series? In this stunning fan-made game titled, Hyrule: Total War, players are introduced to real time strategy within the Zelda universe where you can build your own kingdom, command characters and races, level up, and even choose the fate of Hyrule. Although Hyrule: Total War is a mod for Medieval 2: Total War, implementing Hyrule and all of its races and characters from past to present, makes it all the more…

It’s hard to think of a race–save maybe the Hylians and Twili–who are more prominently featured in a single game than the Minish. These diminutive, mouselike, easily underestimated creatures are pitched as explanations for a number of things that never really had to be explained. I don’t think most gamers questioned how rupees ended up in bushes or jars, or exactly what was going on in Hyrule at a microscopic level. But the Minish bring a new depth to the…