Tag: Moblins

In a series like Zelda, with so many foes of every variety — villains, bosses, and regular enemies — it’s no surprise that not all of them are that well fleshed-out. The vast majority of bosses are never elaborated upon, though even as early as A Link to the Past you had a boss with an actual backstory in Blind. The villains, while they often have plenty of story details to their name, can also tend to be very simplistic…

Sorry for the two-week hiatus, but it’s finally time for me to review the Forsaken Fortress. This dungeon is easily The Wind Waker’s most iconic. Dragon Roost Cavern was shown a lot in trailers, but the Forsaken Fortress featured in numerous pieces of the game’s artwork, is home to most of the game’s most significant enemies, and is visited twice due to its great story importance. The Forsaken Fortress is an odd case. While there are a few other dungeons…

Hi Zelda Dungeoners, and welcome back to another Timeshift Thursday feature! I am glad to proclaim I have just started playing through the Wind Waker properly for the first time and I must say I am greatly enjoying it; at least the introduction anyway! The cartoon shading has survived amazingly well over the past 10 years and all credit to Nintendo for planning to give us a HD remake. As we head into this week’s feature, we will be taking…

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,…

Moblins may not generally be considered part of the pantheon of Zelda races, but in many ways, they are one of the first and most important in the entire Zelda series. Of course, there’s the unavoidable fact that most of the Moblins you encounter try to kill you, and as a whole, they bear a striking resemblance to Ganon. Considering the simplicity of The Legend of Zelda’s story, this makes them clearly villains and monsters, as set apart from Link…