Tag: Zant

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was a fantastic game, filled with epic battles, an enormous world, and a…horribly flawed storyline. Each week we’ll be looking at one of these flaws to determine what went wrong and why, as well as to discuss ideas of how the tale could have been rewritten to fix these problems and strengthen the story as a whole. …Preferably without drastically departing from the original storyline of the game, but I make no promises.

One of the most memorable and freakiest scenes of Twilight Princess, if not of the Zelda series as a whole, comes after you’ve at last rid Hyrule in its entirety of the Twilight. Upon meeting with Lanayru, you’re treated to a tale of ancient times, when evil ran rampant in its pursuit of the sacred power of the Triforce. This story gave me chills the first time I saw it, and continued to do so even after I paused the game to go watch the scene on YouTube a couple dozen times (I was a timeline theorist! DON’T JUDGE ME).

(Editor’s note: TOO LATE)

Looking back on it, though, I do have one major complaint related to this scene. I have nothing bad to say about the Legend! Nothing at all! I thought that thing was brilliant! But…I do have a problem with the expectations that it raised and, unfortunately, never lived up to.

Okay, this one’s a bit weird for me to review. The Palace of Twilight is the second to last dungeon of Twilight Princess, and like the true final dungeon, it’s a bit shorter and less impressive than you’d think; both of the game’s final dungeons dial it down a bit and are on the shorter, more straightforward side. On paper this is a lame move and normally it would be something I’d criticize the dungeon for more than I do,…

The Zelda series is one that prides itself on whimsical and fantastical ideas, so it should be no surprise that there are plenty of weird characters. Among those characters, however, are ones that are less than comforting. Three months ago I wrote another character list detailing what I believed to be the most annoying characters in the Zelda series. This list is in exactly the same style, except we’re going with the most disturbing. A couple of characters were brought…

[news post contributed by Michael P.] Zant, the main protagonist for most of Twilight Princess, has found his way into the real world. Knives and all, Julianna Martinez dressed up in a remarkably good cosplay of the villainous Zant–a costume which she made entirely on her own–the most remarkable features being the accuracy of the cosplay and the she portrays his calmness in the photo. Coloring her face a pale shade of white and using dark lipstick to match Zant’s…

Hey guys, so this is a first for my videos! I’m doing a video response to Cody of Zelda Universe‘s channel. He did a video called “Zelda Villains”, discussing the villains of the Zelda series, particularly what I think the most evil and most developed villains are, although I also threw in my favorite villain. You can view the video after the jump.

Once again this week, there has been a lot of stimulating discussion revolving around the forums. With the coming of E3 there have been new users popping up left and right and tons of unique topics showing themselves all over the forums. We’ve hit our record number of posts during E3, so it’s only natural that there were an influx of absolutely wonderful posts. The topic of discussion for this week is the Most Effective Villain from the series. To…

So this video is about things I liked about Twilight Princess. Yes, finally! For all the times I’ve complained about the game and nitpicked it, they really are only nitpickings. The overall game is still excellent, way above the grade of most video games. I’ve only been holding it to ridiculous “Zelda standards”. So this video is dedicated to what I loved about Twilight Princess, and it’s one hell of a list. From the introduction of the game to the…

Hello guys, got a video discussion for you! It’s basically about Twilight Princess’ Ganondorf, how he was introduced to the plot, and more importantly what I think they should have done differently. More specifically, I go over this while keeping things roughly the same: Zant being the badguy and then bringing out Ganondorf at the end. So it’s not as much of me complaining about Twilight Princess than usual… I think. This one is something of a follow-up to the…

Hey guys! So this video discussion is all about Ganon. Specifically problems with him in some of the games. As I mention in the video, this is not a video of complaints about Ganon himself, but rather how he is treated and implemented in the stories and events of the games themselves. This video (and this will likely become common for discussion videos) is shorter than is typical for me and hopefully a little extra fun. I think this is…