Category: What If?

In the aftermath of the Demon King Ganondorf’s death, Hyrule is plunged into tension and uncertainty with the reemergence of the long-thought-to-be-extinct Gerudo clan. Link, Polemarchos of the Knights of Hyrule, must fight to defend his kinsmen and his Queen from malevolent forces when an ancient evil is reawakened deep in the heart of Ikana. This is the plot summary of Malevalentia, an ongoing speculative sequel to Nintendo’s overlooked title, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I have been cultivating…

Magic: The Gathering is one of the most popular games in the world. The long-running table-top card game, which started in 1993, has a huge global community that show out for every new expansion and product launch. One of the beauties of MTG lies is the game’s flexibility. With almost thirty years worth of cards, players can build decks based around any number of ideas and themes. This makes deck-making a manifestation of a player’s personality, playstyles, and interests. Players…

It’s funny to think about how perfectly certain things had to happen over the course of history to get us all to where we are today. Random occurrences, wild coincidences, and strange encounters; all these things make up the ingredients of life. Zooming in a bit more, it’s funny how a particular set of circumstances led to me a site about a video game franchise I loved, made me want to apply, and eventually start writing about the series I…

It’s funny to think about how perfectly certain things had to happen over the course of history to get us all to where we are today. Random occurrences, wild coincidences, and strange encounters; all these things make up the ingredients of life. Zooming in a bit more, it’s funny how a particular set of circumstances led to me a site about a video game franchise I loved, made me want to apply, and eventually start writing about the series I…

Imagine if certain things had turned out differently in the history of Zelda, if just a couple changes had been made in the “real world timeline”, how different the Zelda series might look today? It’s kind of a mindbend, thinking about how history might look completely different, so this week, the gang goes full bore into the thought experiment to speculate and hypothesize what would have happened if certain things had been different over the years. What if Skyward Sword’s…