There are fans and there are Fans.

Little ‘f’ fans enjoy the ride, dig the scenery and buy a few souveniers. They like what they like for what it is. Read more »

Nothing beats a great story. A truly good story will sweep you up; immerse you in its depths so that you experience the fullness of its twists and turns. You don’t want to leave it, because the world and events that it weaves around you are so compelling that you feel the need to stay and see what’s around that next corner; to find that next revelation, that next detail that fleshes out the fiction and brings it to life. Read more »

It is a bittersweet joy, to finish a Zelda game. A sense of victory, a sense of accomplishment and pride, but tempered by sadness at knowing that it is now over. It has always been so. How many of us are able to just jump straight back to normality after watching those last names go by, hear the final note of the amazing soundtrack, and watch as “The End” shows up on our screen and the music stops? Not I. The end of such an experience deserves more. It deserves a few minutes of reflection. It deserves time to seep into your mind, marking it indelibly with all that is Zelda. Read more »

TWO TWILIGHTS

Pipking: TP has been out for both GC and Wii for a bit now. There are already debates raging all over the internets about which is better. That’ll likely be the new, exciting irritant in the Zelda community for a while – at least until Phantom Hourglass gets everyone rattled about cel-shading again. Read more »

Can you feel it? That palpable sense of excitement, so thick in the air that you can almost reach out and caress it? I can practically taste it everywhere I look. I surround myself by Zelda, and I always have a hand on the lifeblood of the Zelda community, always feel it ebbing and flowing with the news and the release of new games. And right now the collective heart of not only Zelda fans but the gaming community as a whole is racing at breakneck speed. Read more »

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Wii are not amused.

Well, at least I’m not. And I’m sure I’m not alone.

Nintendo’s press blitz finally put an end to months of speculation, hype and fanboy hyperbole. Now we know pretty much everything we’ve wondered about, straight from the horse’s mouth. I take no issue with the price, the launch date (two days after PS3’s monstrosity lumbers into stores), the bundle, the Channels or the VC pricing structure. I dig it. Read more »

Anyone able to recall the time when we first found out that the Wind Waker was going to be cel-shaded? I know I remember the entire event. Back in 2001 when I was a wee-little Mirren of eleven years, I was visiting the Odyssey of Hyrule website, and I came across a news blurb- Read more »

So, Zelda fans, here’s the question: will you use TP on your Wii?

[And thus, much to the general relief of the community, the joke finally died.]

Four months (at minimum) stand between you and the moment you make that decision. Last time I talked about versions – how between handhelds and consoles the franchise was at the risk of spreading thin, loosing cohesion in favour of bigger market penetration. So Nintendo stuck out its tongue at me – do I stick to Zelda as it has been, or do I see what it could be? Read more »

E3 2006 was do or die for Nintendo. After a poor 2005 year with Gamecube, and overall a lackluster impression in this generation with it, people wondered if Nintendo could stay alive in the home-console business any longer. Luckily, they came out swinging. Read more »

To date there have been twelve Zelda games released by Nintendo, with numbers thirteen and fourteen due to drop later this year. Averaged out over its twenty year history, that’s a new Zelda adventure roughly every one-and-a-half years. Read more »

Collect all Blue Chu-Chu Jellies- Check
Complete the Pictograph Challenges- Check
Light the Lighthouse on Windfall- Check
Take out all Big Octos- Check
Find every Great Fairy- Check
Complete the Trading Quest- Check Read more »

Man, I used to be terrified of the dark. Up until I was almost twelve years old, I always had a night-light glowing in my bedroom. If I didn’t, I was pretty much convinced that Nosferatu or some big hairy big-foot was going to leap onto my bed and get me. Blasted monsters movies; I ended up watching so many that they made me go crazy. Read more »

by Max Nichols (lord-of-shadow)

“Good things come to those who wait.” It’s an old saying, a tired saying, a dry, used-up cliché, a boring piece of conventional wisdom. But it is true, and I will now tell you why. Read more »

(I mean no disrespect to any religion or religious person by writing this article. This is all in fun and good interest for our beloved gaming series.)
I can’t say for sure if Nintendo devoted a great deal of time to developing the Zelda universe specifically, or that the amazing amount of culture and information in that world is the result of them simply putting a lot into the gameplay, storyline, and environment. It’s really caught my interest in the last few months of playing the series, and I’ve come to find yet another piece of Zelda that looks so very simple at first, but when delved into, is very deep. Read more »

We’ve been here before.

Remember that, as January fades softly into February and April looms bright and green in the distance, infinitely far when counting the seconds but next door to now if you pull back and look long at the whole year. Most northernly North Americans are currently looking ahead to the Spring, anxious to shake off the frosty weather and see grass grow again. There’s a certain restlessness that comes in the early year; Winter is tired, old, played-out… last year’s dance. I want sunshine and flowers and a blue sky peppered with birds. Read more »