Tag: Darksiders II

If you’ve been reading Zelda Dungeon for the past few days, you’ll know that Alex at GenGAME has been playing through Darksiders II, which Mases has labeled as “the best Zelda game since Majora’s Mask.” And now that Alex has finished his play through, he seems to agree with that sentiment. All of the details are in his review, so hit the jump to read!

Earlier this month, Alex over at GenGAME got his hands on a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Darksi- I mean, just Darksiders II. If you don’t know already, this THQ/Vigil created title is heavily inspired by the Zelda series, and Mases has even called it “The best Zelda game since Majora’s Mask.” And like any great game, Darksiders II pulls the good parts out of Zelda and makes plenty of improvements that perhaps the Big N could learn from. Hit the jump to read Alex’s analysis!

When Darksiders released back in January of 2010 it immediately got compared to the Legend of Zelda series. Let’s face it: Darksiders is a dungeon-crawling game with an open overworld. It has an inventory of unique items, including one that greatly resembles a boomerang and another that is pretty much a Hookshot. Toss in the fact that you ride along on your horse and at one point in the game you have to go around and forge a legendary blade…

In a recent interview over at Inc Gamers, Darksiders II game director Marvin Donald spoke about the development of the game, some of the new features, as well as the comparisons to the Legend of Zelda series. The Zelda and Darksiders comparisons have been there ever since before the first Darksiders ever released and there is a lot of validity to them. There are a lot of similar aspects in the two franchises. Personally, if I was making a game…