Category: Skyward Sword

During Echoes of Wisdom‘s finale, Null obtains the Triforce of Power before being defeated at the hands of Link and Zelda. While such a conflict isn’t anything new to the Zelda series, it is curious that Null took up the role of villain this time around, especially with the Triforce in play. Traditionally, Ganon has been the only villain to obtain the Triforce of Power. This is because after being defeated in Skyward Sword, Demise cursed the trio, ensuring that his hatred…

Graphic designer Oscar Bown, the person responsible for compiling An Unendorsed Anthology of Club Nintendo, follows up their previous project with a new book: An Unendorsed Anthology of My Nintendo. This digital-exclusive book is available now as a standalone .pdf, as well as part of a digital bundle of both Unendorsed Nintendo Anthologies. Bown was kind enough to provide Zelda Dungeon with a review copy of the book, which is over 600 pages long and highlights rewards from every region…

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…

My history with Skyward Sword has been one full of its ups and downs through the years. I ended up disliking a lot about the game when I finished it in 2011, but not for the same reasons as most people. I’ve always felt that the motion controls were perfectly fine; my problems with the game came from how linear it was, how undeveloped the Sky was, and how some character arcs didn’t ever reach their full potential. Despite those…

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…

It’s hard to believe that over 13 years have passed since I first played The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Having become disillusioned with Nintendo’s family-friendly image as my teenage edge turned me towards what I thought were more mature games, I hoped that Skyward Sword would be a return to form for Nintendo. The beautifully orchestrated trailers, the promise of 1:1 motion-controlled sword combat, and the onslaught of near-perfect reviews convinced me that this was the game that would…

Time has a way of testing our likes and dislikes. As we grow older, we become too old to really enjoy wooden blocks the way we used to or be able to stand the movie that we once insisted be replayed over and over again. The same in conversely true of things growing on us. A once-picky aversion to broccoli can turn to a newfound love for the vegetable in adulthood. Like Sheik says in Ocarina of Time: “Time passes,…

My youth consisted a lot of several things, which will surely date myself: my Microsoft Zune full of J-pop and emo music, Neopets, and Windows Movie Maker. For some reason, this era of my internet use inspired me to create anime music videos (AMVs). For those not in the know, these are fan-made videos where you downloaded cutscenes or episodes from your favorite media and edited any song you wanted over top of them. These were particularly big in the…

Alasyn is joined this week by The Zelda Cast producer Cal, and ZD YouTube extraordinaire Corey Richmond, and we decided that it was time to bring “Guess That Zelda Location” back from the grave!  A spin-off on the classic “Guess That Zelda Character”, this is Al’s favorite game to play whenever Andy is away. So join in on the fun as we try to guess each other’s Zelda locations in 16 questions or less! Download! Support The Zelda Cast on…

As the main protagonist, Link has always had abilities designed to make saving Hyrule easier, and when I say abilities, I mean anything other than a weapon. These abilities come in many forms, whether the skill is learnt like the Bomb Rune, an item acquired such as Clawshots, or an accessory like the Korok Mask. These abilities have evolved as the Legend of Zelda franchise has progressed. The early Zelda games offered basic items like the Handy Glove in The…