Tag: Dark World

Zelda director, Eiji Aonuma, has confirmed in an interview with CNET that the Dark World previously experienced in A Link to the Past will indeed be making a reappearance for the game’s sequel, Zelda 3DS. Because Zelda 3DS will be placed in the same overworld as A Link to the Past, many fans wondered whether the Light and Dark worlds would make a long-awaited return. As a game-defining mechanism, this is exciting news and should come as a delight to…

Today’s Zelda Fanart Spotlight is on deviantART artist Karnella‘s A Link to the Past fanart “Enter the Dark World“. This fanart shows what happens before Link reaches Agahnim to try and stop him from sacrificing Princess Zelda in order to open the seal to the Dark World. He’s forcing her onto the alter using a large knife to threaten her to do so. Once she is on the alter it will allow him perform the spell that will cause her…

Good morning (or afternoon, evening, whenever you happen to read this) Zelda Dungeoners! It’s that time of the week again; Friday morning has come, and that means another Flute Boy’s Meadow! This week, I’d like to take a quick break from my series on Overworld Themes in order to give special attention to the game everyone’s talking about: Zelda 3DS, AKA A Link to the Past II, AKA “Nintendo is making my childhood very happy this Christmas.” Thanks to the…

The land of Hyrule has always been a very diverse realm with a large variety of peoples and monsters living throughout. A very common aspect of the Zelda series is there being a clear distinction between a friendly NPCs that will talk to Link and cannot be attacked, and unfriendly enemy NPCs, which almost never speak and only exist as opponents to be defeated. This does not account for everyone, as there are the occasional exceptions on both sides. Nonetheless,…

Sorry about postponing the Great Bay Temple review, but in the meantime I wanted to briefly talk about the first visit (or first couple) to the Dark World in A Link to the Past. I played Ocarina of Time before I played A Link to the Past, but I ended up beating the older game first, so I had very few — if any — expectations of the series at that time. It was a very fun game to me,…

Since I started participating in the Zelda community in 2004, a common criticism I’ve heard against Ocarina of Time–and it does usually take on the tone of criticism–is that it is A Link to the Past in 3D. In my experience, it’s generally older fans making this claim, but regardless, it’s been there for a while now. However pervasive this particular claim is, it does lend itself to some discussion about how Zelda games transitioned into 3D, and where the…

Going all the way back to the very first Legend of Zelda in 1985, Link always seems to get caught between multiple worlds. From the underworld labyrinths hidden beneath Hyrule, the concept quickly expanded into a completely separate world apart from Hyrule in A Link to the Past and continued ever since. Sometimes, the separate world Link visited would be an altered version of Hyrule as seen with the Dark World, or it could be a completely separate environment such…

Hey guys. ON TIME AGAIN. WHAT IS THIS? It’s me being competent for the first time in a while! Managed to answer a lot of questions this time, too, with a total of 13. Questions are pretty nicely divided amongst the games, and most of them are fairly broad and not game-specific. You can watch the video here or check out the embed after the jump. Enjoy! Questions and timestamps: (00:19) – What form does your heart reflect while in…

There are endless fan covers of Zelda music on YouTube alone, and a good portion of them show off the awesome talent of the creator. Mart0zz and his friends have arranged another cover on the marimba (with other assorted instruments), this one being the Dark World music from A Link to the Past. The fruit on the marimba and the forest setting in the background give it a nice touch, even if I doubt that they’re in an actual forest….