Category: Reviews
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Zelda Majora’s Mask – A World That Ends Again and Again
The clock is always ticking in Termina. Every moment you spend here, the world edges closer to its end. The sky burns red, the music trembles, and above it all hangs the moon — not distant or abstract, but impossibly close, grinning down with hollow eyes. It doesn’t drift lazily like a celestial body should.…
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The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening — The Strangest and Most Beautiful Zelda Ever Made
When The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening released on the Game Boy in 1993, it shouldn’t have worked. Here was a Zelda game stripped of all the series’ hallmarks — no Princess Zelda, no Hyrule, no Ganon — and confined to a tiny monochrome handheld screen. Yet against all odds, it became one of the…
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The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom Review
Echoes of Wisdom is the latest mainline game in the Legend of Zelda series, with one big difference, this time we play as Zelda. Everything you’d expect from a top down Zelda game is here including Dungeons, boss fights, puzzles, interesting characters to meet and Hyrule to explore. However it’s Nintendo’s blend of the past…
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Link’s Awakening review
Originally released in 1993 and started as a side project to port A Link To The Past to Nintendo’s new console, the Game Boy, Link’s Awakening has been through many iterations from original, Game Boy Color and a Nintendo Switch Remake in 2019. Link’s Awakening has been recently added to Nintendo Switch Online, so now…
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past review
When people talk about ‘The Best Games Ever Made’, The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past is never far away from that conversation. I played through this game when it first came out, and I’ve now gone back to it in 2022 to see if it holds up. I’m happy to report it’s…
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link review
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a divisive Legend of Zelda entry. It’s very different from other entries with its side-scrolling action and RPG mechanics, plus the controversial lives system. It has more in common with Metroid and Castlevania than it does with other Legend of Zelda games, but there’s something about it I…
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Legend of Zelda review
The Legend of Zelda, originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986 is where the story of Link, Zelda, The Triforce, Ganon, and Hyrule all began. The graphics and audio may look and sound and little dated, but what jumps out at me playing through this is how current the game feels. I can…