The Legend of Zelda

A Whole Month’s Worth of Sweet Zelda T-Shirts

It’s the veritable motherlode of humorous pop culture-themed Zelda shirts. The guy behind all the art is New Jersey-based illustrator Blair J. Campbell. He came up with something called “Octoroktober,” challenging himself to do one Legend of Zelda-inspired shirt design on each day in the month of October. The results are pretty awesome. Like the…

Why The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Still Matters

One of the most frequent criticisms lobbed at the Zelda series is that it’s always just the same game, over and over again – that people who love it were indoctrinated as children and are incapable of seeing it for what it is. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I have heard this not…

Zelda And F-Zero Come To Mario Kart 8 Next Week

As part of the latest Nintendo Direct, Nintendo just announced that Mario Kart 8‘s world-colliding DLC is coming out next week. It’s coming out on November 13, specifically. It includes Link, Tanooki Mario, and Cat Peach as playable characters and eight new levels, including ones based on F-Zero and classic Mario Karts It’ll run you…

Link Is So Damn Happy Riding His New Skyward Sword Statue

First 4 Figures’ newly-announced Link on the Crimson Loftwing statue is a two-foot-tall tribute to the joy of taking to the skies in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Just try not to make eye contact. The first in a series of new statues based on the 2011 Wii game, Link on the Crimson Loftwing…

Watch An Artist Bring Twilight Princess‘ Midna To Watercolor Life

One of The Legend of Zelda‘s most enigmatic figures, the impish Midna has captured the imaginations of countless artists in the early eight years since its release. Watch as watercolor artistAdam Scythegives us his interpretation. A good piece of art is a wonderful thing, but being privy to the process adds so much depth to…

If Dreamworks Made A Zelda Animation

I can totally imagine this scene: a seagull—voiced by Morgan Freeman—gives life-changing advices to a computer-animated Link from Wind Waker or from any of the Zelda games. Illustrator Cassio Yoshiyaki drew something similar to this idea with Link and Zelda from The Wind Waker, and both of them look realy great Toon Link by Cassio…

Dark Souls‘ Dodge Roll Would Get You Killed In Real Life

Think the dodge roll, a video game avoidance maneuver popularized by everything from Dark Souls to Legend of Zelda, is the height of armed combat, a stroke of tactical genius? This swordsman says you’re very, very wrong. Now, a comparison. Video game: Real life: Yeaaaaah. Turns out that it doesn’t take much effort to turn…

Fans Are Remaking Ocarina Of Time (In 2D)

We’ve seen people make static maps, sure, but this is something else entirely. This is an attempt to bring the entire game of Ocarina of Time from the 3D world of the N64 to the 2D world of the SNES (or, well, the PC). It’s nothing if not ambitious. There’s a day/night cycle, a downgraded…

It’s Dangerous To Go Alone. Eat This.

The menu at Fountain City Coffee in Columbus, Georgia is the beginning of an epic breakfast adventure. Brought to light by Kumanoki on Reddit, this listing of purchasable breakfast goods begs the question — should we sacrifice readability and potentially alienate non-game-savvy customers for the sake of a The Legend of Zelda reference? The answer…

Super Smash Bros Characters Sure Have Changed Over The Years

We’ve talked a bunch about Super Smash Bros‘ new characters, but what about the classics? Mario, Link, Samus, and pretty much every other major character in Nintendo history? Turns out they’ve changed since Super Smash Bros Brawl/Melee in ways both big and small. (That rhymed. I apologize.) These two videos demonstrate the tweaks and alterations…

Hyrule Warriors Characters Are Awesome In 2D

They are so colorful and detailed. Artist AbyssWolf put together a fantastic piece with all the playable characters of Hyrule Warriors to celebrate the game’s upcoming release. The top pic only has seven of them, here’s everyone below. Impa and Ganondorf are my two favorites: Hyrule Warriors [DeviantART] To contact the author of thispost, write…

The Rise And Fall Of Nintendo… As A Rock Band

Link as a European EDM legend. Wario’s dumb laugh. Mario’s sex tape and drug addiction. Skater Mega Man. Bowser’s tiny puppy. Peach’s pop career. The band going viral. Rolling Shell Magazine. Yoshi gets an island. Yoshi gets an island. This video is perfect. I’m not often prone to straight out gushing, but this video re-imagining…

Zelda Cosplay Moonlights As Music Video

This is actually a music video, for Taylor Davis’ rendition of Ocarina of Time’s Kokiri Forest theme. Both the video, and the role-playing, are fantastic.

What Video Game Characters Do When You’re Not Controlling Them

Yeah, video game characters are great when they’re hopping, bopping, and shooting everything in sight, but the best reveal themselves when they’re standing still. No, not like that, you pervert and also me after I wrote that sentence. Idle animations. I’m talking about idle animations. The above video contains some great ones, although I wish…

104 Ways To Die In The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

Not content to kill Link in 104 ways inOcarina of Time, YouTuber MasterOfHyrulereturns for another round of senseless deaths, this time in the simply to-die-for Majora’s Mask. I found death so prevalent in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask that I never actually finished the game. Well, it was a combination of the death and…

The Wii U is set to have quite a 2015, if the delay bug doesn’t bite. Nintendo of America tweeted a general release schedule for the Wii U’s next year, and it includes everything from Star Fox to Zelda to crazy Miyamoto projects like Project Guard and Project Giant Robot. What do you think?

Hyrule Warriors is Far More Dynasty Warriors than Zelda

While the plot, setting, and characters may all be of Zelda lineage, make no mistake, when it comes to gameplay, this is a Dynasty Warriors game through and through. Good – Dynamic Battles In the game’s story mode, each battle begins with a simple main objective—usually something along the lines of killing the main enemy…

The History of Zelda as Told by Commercials

Everybody remember the Zelda rap? Well then, get ready for a drive down nostalgia lane where we are going to look at the history of the Zelda main series as told by its TV commercials. And while this is not all the Zelda commercials by any means, these peeks into the past, showing how the…

Watch Us Play Hyrule Warriors

Hyrule Warriors, the new game that crosses the world of Zelda with that of Dynasty Warriors, is already out in Japan. So join us as we talk a bit about what it is and how it plays. Hyrule Warriors was released on August 14, 2014, in Japan for the Nintendo Wii U. It will be…

How To Make Old Games Feel New Again

As a young lad my gaming library was pretty limited, so I needed to find ways to make those games last. You can only play a game so many times before you’ve explored every nook and cranny of it, and once that happened it was time to get creative. (Top photo courtesy of Retro Game…