Tag: Minish Cap Week

It’s no surprise that we here at Zelda Dungeon love our Zelda spin-off games. While there are plenty of games adjacent to our beloved franchise that we can currently enjoy, the opportunity for more games with a Zelda skin on them feels endless. With The Minish Cap celebrating its 20th birthday last year, I have been thinking about the kinds of ways we could see our friendly, little elf-like folks in a new game, and maybe in a new light. Then,…

The Kinstone mechanic is one of the most singular gimmicks in the Zelda franchise, melding the quiet frustrations of randomness with a desire to treasure-hunt. The first time I played The Minish Cap, I remember feeling so enthralled by the novelty that it made me eager to talk to every NPC (more than I am already inclined to). As you can see in our deep-dive about the Kinstone function, it succeeded in encouraging players to interact with  NPCs. Unlike other some other…

The Minish Cap’s Wind Tribe’s existence didn’t begin in the sky. Its people lived on the land before turning their sights skyward to protect the Wind Element. Those same folks then left Hyrule to live in the clouds high above the kingdom.  The Wind Tribe isn’t Zelda’s only sky-dwelling group, nor is it the first in the series’ timeline. It was, however, the first one to make an appearance in a Zelda game. I was awestruck when I played The…

I’ve mentioned before in past articles that I am an avid reader. And having just come down off an eight-book-series high-note, I needed something to bridge the gap between hobbies, because I was not ready to start reading something new. With reading off the table for a bit, I knew that I wanted to dive into a Zelda game that had been in my backlog for quite some time. It just so happened that, a while back, our writing team…

Remakes are all the rage these days when it comes to popular video games, and Zelda has already seen its fair share. We have had rereleases of major titles like The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess in high definition (complete with some extra perks). And Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were given a fresh coat of paint and released again for the Nintendo 3DS. The most shocking remake to me, though, was the complete remake of Link’s Awakening, which…

Great things can come from small places. And there’s no better proof of that than The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. This beloved classic first released on the Game Boy Advance in Japan on November 4th, 2004, before coming to Europe on November 12th, 2004 and North America on January 10th, 2005. That’s right — The Minish Cap is now 20 years old. Do you feel old yet? The Minish Cap is in many ways the perfect Zelda game. The art style is gorgeous, the…