Category: Breath of the Wild

One of the most interesting announcements from the Nintendo Switch 2 presentation and subsequent Nintendo Treehouse: Live coverage were the details about Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games. Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games are games that were previously available on the original Nintendo Switch that will receive visual improvements, frame rate improvements, new features, or additional game modes on Nintendo Switch 2. If a customer already owns a game that is available as a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition game (physically or…

Update: There was no official announcement from Nintendo. However, retailers, including GameStop and Walmart, have begun increasing the prices for all amiibo releasing alongside the Switch 2. The new Tears of the Kingdom amiibo have increased $10 each, from $19.99 USD to $29.99 USD. Original: North American pre-orders for the Switch 2 have been in flux since Nintendo decided to delay the initial date due to tariffs in the United States. Today, Nintendo announced the new date. The Switch 2 will be…

To say the Nintendo Direct for the Switch 2 delivered in more ways than one is putting it mildly. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are getting Switch 2 Editions that’ll make the titles run smoother than ever before, an unexpected new chapter in the Hyrule Warriors series is happening in the form of Age of Imprisonment, and The Wind Waker is finally coming to a Switch system via the introduction of select GameCube games on the recently renamed Nintendo Classics platform…

One piece of exciting news for Zelda fans from the recent Nintendo Direct was the announcement of GameCube games coming to the Switch 2 as part of Nintendo Classics (formerly Nintendo Switch Online). The Wind Waker was featured as one of the games in the initial batch; however, no other Zelda games were mentioned. Zelda made five appearances on the GameCube including the aforementioned Wind Waker. Will we see the other four? Twilight Princess is by far the most well-known…

In the wake of the April 2nd Switch 2 Direct, the internet has been (to put it lightly) hyper-reactive to anything related to the new console. News, speculation, and misinformation have been swirling, so much so that many find it difficult to distinguish between what is true and what’s pure fiction. Today, we’re going to tackle some of the biggest concerns being expressed in posts and comments to see what’s really going on. Let’s start by addressing why there is…

Zelda games are full of references to one another. Many of the references are by name. It’s hard to go five minutes in Breath of the Wild without stumbling on a location named after a previous title: Koholit Rock is likely a reference to Link’s Awakening‘s Koholint Island, Gorko Tunnel shares its name with Skyward Sword‘s traveling Goron, and Horon Lagoon references Oracle of Seasons‘s Horon Village. Eldin, Faron, and Lanayru are named after the golden goddesses Din, Farore, and…

As someone who has been playing Zelda games for as long as I can remember, all I know is that back in my Ocarina of Time days on the Nintendo 64, staying alive just seemed much more… difficult. The same goes for The Wind Waker, Majora’s Mask, Twilight Princess, and the large number of 2D and top-down titles. In Zelda, there are usually plenty of hearts to go around to recover health, but once you snatch them out of broken…

After the announcement that Tears of the Kingdom would reuse Breath of the Wild‘s overworld, an immediate concern for many fans was if Tears could make another trip to that iteration of Hyrule worthwhile. What could be done to keep that world feeling fresh and exciting? What new gameplay elements could possibly be entertaining enough to justify revisiting a world that fans had already scoured inside and out? The answer to those questions mostly came in the form of Ultrahand, an ability…

It’s no surprise that we here at Zelda Dungeon love our Zelda spin-off games. While there are plenty of games adjacent to our beloved franchise that we can currently enjoy, the opportunity for more games with a Zelda skin on them feels endless. With The Minish Cap celebrating its 20th birthday last year, I have been thinking about the kinds of ways we could see our friendly, little elf-like folks in a new game, and maybe in a new light. Then,…

Despite the crowded nature of today’s video game landscape, I still make sure to revisit some of my favorites throughout any given year. That said, the longer the game, the more difficult it can be to find the time for another full playthrough. Persona 5 Royal, for instance, is among my top five favorite titles; but considering its 150-hour runtime, I have completed it only twice since its release in 2020. Similarly, Tears of the Kingdom is still recent enough,…