Category: The Zelda Cast

With the dust settling with the Switch 2 announcement, we finally get to all of your listener questions, and boy oh boy, did you guys come through! So much actually that we had to break up the episode into two parts! This week, we’re tackling questions like: do we think we’ll play as the Ancient Hero Aspect in Age of Imprisonment? What do we think of the Zelda movie’s release date? Is Tears of the Kingdom’s Imprisoning War the same…

Andy and Al are back at it after a crazy week of news updates regarding tariffs, Switch 2 pre-orders, and misinformation about game prices, to only name a few things! We catch everybody up on the latest happenings, and then finally jump into the Age of Imprisonment trailer to dissect who we might be playing as, what details we can discern from the footage, and if we believe Nintendo that this time, the Hyrule Warriors story will be canonical or…

Strap in, because there’s a lot to talk about this week. Just a few short days after the Switch 2 Direct, the real world geopolitical landscape took center stage to create a perfect storm surrounding Nintendo’s latest console, the price of its games, the delay in pre-orders, and fan outrage – towards both Nintendo and the government. We try and unpack a crazy past coupe of days to make sense of everything, give our feelings and opinions, and offer some…

WOW! Today was the day that Nintendo fans have been waiting for: The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, and boy what a show we got! After months of anticipation since the January 18th reveal of the console and a lower key Switch 1 Direct last week to briefly tide us over, Nintendo finally delivered the megaton of Switch 2 information that we’ve been craving. Among the key announcement were the price and release date, Mario Kart World, Hyrule Warriors: Age of…

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally discussing one of the greatest games of all time in a more in-depth manor: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past! We’re Definitively Ranking the game, assigning scores to each of the ten key categories that define a great Zelda game: the world, the art style, the gameplay, the pacing, the story, the music, the enemies and bosses, the dungeons, the items, and the side content. We pay our…

We’re getting closer to the launch of the Switch 2 and to fill the time, we are taking your questions this week! We asked you guys for your fan questions, and you delivered in a big way. We’re covering a whole variety of topics, including: what changes to the Tears of the Kingdom’s Depths would have made them more engaging? What item from a 3D game would work well in a 2D game and vice versa? Would we be interested…

For the seventh year now, Musical March Madness returns! As the name implies, this is Zelda Dungeon’s take on the traditional March Madness bracket, with our favorite Zelda songs taking the place of college basketball teams competing in 64-song single elimination tournament until there’s only one left! This week, we’re joined by the flounder of Zelda Dungeon himself, Mases Hagopian, to go over each matchup and pick our favorites until there is only one left! Come along for the ride…

We’re back, and with the end of the Switch’s life coming this year, we thought it would be a nice time to reflect back on the console that has been with us for our entire run on the Zelda Cast. We talk about our top favorite games from the console, which feature a who’s who of familiar favorites and a few smaller entries that snuck in as well. Super Mario, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Stardew Valley, and more all show up,…

Andy returns after the smashing success that was the Omega Metroid Marathon! We get together to discuss a few different topics, including our Marathon experiences, reviewing the ZD Social Media Team’s Top 10 favorite dungeon list – which included some big surprises – and how their list differed from ours, and answering some Daily Debates regarding music, Nintendo’s IP’s, Switch 2 features, and more! Come hang out with us as we have a light and breezy episode!   Download! Support…

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…