Standing in the crowd before the expo halls open, you can feel the anticipation. It’s contagious, and its hard not to get as equally stoked when waiting to enter PAX. The wait is certainly worth it. With so many games to play, it’s hard to be disappointed in PAX Prime 2015. And yet, as soon …
I remember playing The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition on my 3DS back in 2011 and simultaneously texting some friends eagerly looking for a time to get together so we could tackle the game together as it was truly meant to be played. I remember even more vividly my disappointment when I saw that …
The first game I ever remember playing retains the endorsement I’ve always given it for containing my favorite musical piece from any video game, even after the twenty or so years since I first heard it. I am referring to “The Ballad of the Wind Fish” from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, originally exclusive …
On Friday, February 6, The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article claiming that Nintendo and Netflix were working together to produce a live-action Legend of Zelda TV series. The source of the news, listed only as “a person familiar with the matter,” claims that the show will follow the familiar premise of a young boy, …
One of gaming’s best known and most popular franchises may be emerging into a new realm in the coming years. As reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Netflix is currently eyeing The Legend of Zelda series for a live action adaptation. Though details remain scarce, a few facts have emerged at this early stage. First …
A world destined for ruin lives out its final days as the face of simultaneous malevolence and indifference plummets from the sky. A lost hero is obligated to save a foreign land based on sheer morality and the will to reunite with a good friend. Three days remain before the end of the world, time and time again.
How does the Ocarina of Time from the Legend of Zelda really work? YouTube channel #mashed has released the following animated video that takes a look at the impossible science behind the Ocarina of Time from the 1998 hit video game of the ongoing Legend of Zelda series. For the unfamiliar, The Legend of Zelda: …
This is Part 3 of my list of 33 games I’ve played, that I decided to share and comment on for fun, since I turned 33 on the 16th. There is so much to say that I’ve had to break this down into a few blogs. Here’s a link to Part 1 in case you …
Last night at the Game Awards, Reggie Fils-Aime delivered a show-stopper of an announcement, revealing that the new Legend of Zelda title was coming along a lot quicker than initially expected. From there, he deferred to Eiji Aonuma and Shigeru Miyamoto who engaged in banter about the game while letting details slip about a new Star Fox title and the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask remake for the 3DS.
Masahiro Sakurai, best known as the creator of Super Smash Bros, took to Miiverse today to announce the reveal of the next new fighter in the Smash Bros roster. Scheduled for Monday, July 14, at 7 AM, the unveiling will be live-streamed on the game’s official website rather than in a Nintendo Direct video or by any other means. Who could this approaching challenger be? According to Sakurai, the development team is “nearing the bottom of the stash of new challenger videos that we’ve made…” so who else do we have to look forward to? In proper fanboy fashion, here are some of my best guesses, desired improbable possibilities, and wild wishes for the next Smash challenger.
E3 was earlier this month and one of the things I enjoyed most about the expo was getting a better look at Nintendo’s upcoming Hyrule Warriors. The combo of the Dynasty Warriors series with one of the Big N’s oldest and best franchises, The Legend of Zelda, seems to be as winning a combo as Pokemon and Nobunaga’s Ambition (Pokemon Conquest.) If …
There are an endless myriad of games that have faced the mighty wand of censorship over the years. There’s Final Fantasy VI‘s attempted suicide scene, the blood turned magically into “sweat” in the SNES version of a not-so-Mortal Kombat, the Muslim inspired music and symbology of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, and, …
I still remember when I was a wee lad…back in the NES days, there were a great lot of games to be played and it was my goal to play them all. Each week I would travel to Mr. Video where I would check and see what new grey cartridge might satiate my appetite for the next few days. While I did indeed spend a lot of time playing that little 8 bit box, particularly the Mega Man and Super Mario Bros series’, it wasn’t until NES’s big brother came along that I was really hooked on gaming.
My first outings with videogames were memorable but far from profound. Most Argentine children of my generation grew up with the Family Game, a cheap Nintendo emulator made in China. With it, I jumped through Super Mario Brothers and Antarctic Adventure, which motivated my attachment to the medium but never fascinated me. Even when I graduated to the Super Nintendo, a legal one, I still considered videogames to be one among several fun activities, like sports or trading cards. In 1997, though, one title would teach me that there were unexpected feelings to experience through videogames.
Zelda fans that have been hesitant to jump on the Wii U bandwagon may feel compelled to snap up the console as the heralded release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker quickly approaches. Coupled with an unexpected price drop and a bundle that includes a 32 gig system and a code for a …
10- Amnesia What’s scarier than waking up and not knowing where you are? How about not knowing where you are, who you are, and what’s trying to kill you? Welcome to Amnesia, in which you find yourself trapped in a dark castle without your memories while creatures slink about in the dark.Unlike most games, which …