Author: Rod Lloyd

What’s up, Zelda fans?! Are you ready for a little April Fools’ come-early? For this week’s Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest, I’ve got for you a screenshot that I just can’t stop laughing at. I’m serious; like with Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring, there’s a true “Sustained Attentional Loop” happening here. Your gaze just can’t stop bouncing back and forth across the image.   Rod LloydRod Lloyd is the Editor-In-Chief at Zelda Dungeon, overseeing the news and feature content…

During yesterday’s Direct event, Nintendo announced a new method for Switch users to share one’s digital games with other systems. Meant to replicate the “flexibility of physical game cards,” Nintendo’s new “Virtual Game Cards” allow users to “digitally eject and load games from one system to another,” as well as lend games to members of one’s own Nintendo Switch Online Family Group. As the dust settled on the announcement, eagle-eyed fans began to notice a curious citation at the bottom…

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, everyone! How about a Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest to help us get in the mood? I sit here writing this article without a single thread of green clothing on me. All my green clothes are currently sitting in my laundry room. So, rather than go with the obvious green tunic screenshot, I wanted this week’s contest to honor the people like me who will be subject to merciless pinching today because they dared to step outside…

One of Tears of the Kingdom‘s standout features is the Ultrahand ability. Allowing the player build contraptions and vehicles in all shapes and sizes using just about any in-game item they can get their hands on, Ultrahand has been celebrated in the wider gaming landscape as both a novel ingredient in the ever-expanding Zelda formula and a technical marvel given how well it comes together. So much ballyhoo was made about Ultrahand around the time of Tears of the Kingsom‘s…

Happy Monday, Zelda fans! The time seems right for another Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest. Now, before we begin, I have to apologize for not putting a contest out since Valentine’s Week. I was just too busy preparing our sensational Fresh Takes series of editorials the past few weeks — definitely check those articles out if you haven’t yet. But with that project in the rearview, I’m back with another Echoes of Wisdom screenshot for your captioning considerations.   Our Last…

Known for his distinct visual style and artistic approach, Japanese illustrator Katsuya Terada has made significant contributions to the worlds of manga, western comics, film, television, and video games over the course of his 40-year career. In addition to providing artwork for games in the Prince of Persia, Virtua Fight, and Tekken series, the artist is known for his collaborations with Nintendo throughout the 80s and 90s, having contributed various illustrations to Nintendo Power magazine between 1989 and 1995. Notably,…

It’s been a period of self-reflection for the past several days here at Zelda Dungeon, as our writing team has been revisiting and reassessing several Zelda games for a series we call Fresh Takes. Each writer chose a game to back to in order to determine if their initial opinions have held up or if they had grown a newfound appreciation. It’s been a great experience for all of us. Some of the most surprising conclusions I’ve seen reading these…

For the past week, we here at Zelda Dungeon have been running a series of articles called “Fresh Takes.” The aim of this series is to give our writers the opportunity to revisit Zelda games that they may have had a negative opinion on and then see if those writers had a change of heart. The results have been absolutely amazing. We’ve seen some reexamine their positions on games like Skyward Sword and Majora’s Mask, and we’ve seen other go…

Back in 2020, Zelda Dungeon’s staff collectively ranked the Top 50 Dungeons in the Zelda series. Given the nature of such a project, no one person could have been 100% satisfied with the final result. But when all was said and done, we walked away confident that most of the dungeons the Zelda fanbase holds up as the greatest were accounted for on that list. As long as perennial favorites like Ocarina of Time‘s Forest Temple, Twilight Princess‘ Arbiter’s Grounds,…

What is happening, Zelda fans? I hope you’re ready for another exciting edition of Zelda Dungeon’s Caption Contest. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, my social media feeds are already crowded with corny and punny cards, many of them featuring video game characters. Even Nintendo has gotten in on that action. So, with that being the case, it only makes sense that the contest this week offer a heart-filled image just in time for Valentine’s Day. I hope to…