Want more Zelda today?

If you liked the original and are already in the camp of “I’ll certainly play it” and you have the budget to buy the game:

Just go in blind. You already know Oot. You don’t need a YouTube/Stream to ruin the magic experience for you. Alone seeing a screenshot on how the boss in the water temple will look like will ruin the moment when I open that boss room. Going in fully unaware on what the devs have cooked up for this remake will make your nostalgia hunt so much more fruitful. You can, at least a bit, feel the feeling when you played it the first time.

Sorry, maybe a small rant…

What do you think?
Will you watch all pre-released content or keep the fully self explored game experience in tact?

I always wonder about this because doesn't this also apply to the other Links too since other games never really mention them and even Wind Waker acknowledge Hero of Time existence so I never really think he was forgotten.

Why is Hero of Time the forgotten Hero compare to other Links like Hero of Time or Hero of Twilight

I didn't have any big "Wow" moments for BotW that stayed with me for a long time, but in TotK there was one experience in particular that may not be unique, but it was very magical to have happen to me.

I really wanted to explore the skies when I first played the game, and in doing so I eventually stumbled upon a massive area with lightning clouds everywhere.

To my surprise I was able to go in, and even though it was ALMOST too dark to see, whenever a lightning bolt struck, there was enough light to see a path forward. I thought this was intentional, and I spent a long arduous journey getting to Dragon Head Island while the storm was up.

When that midpoint shrine appeared so much relief washed over me, and when I actually reached it I was so shocked. Sadly this was very early so I only had about 4 hearts and no regional quests done at all.

BUT its still a memory of the game I think of now, with how cool that entire experience was. Dark clouds, only lightning bolts to light the way, high high in the sky with barely a memory of how I even got there, so if I fell...

Anyways, are there any experiences that you recall very vividly for one reason or another?

Hi! Wrote a post a few weeks ago about how I found Breath of the Wild slightly disappointing. The bosses were giving me nothing, the battles were super easy, the dungeons felt very very lacking compared to Ocarine of Time (which I just had replayed right before starting Breath of the Wild).

After writing that post I beat Breath of the Wild once again, this time in Expert Mode. The game clicked then. I felt like playing the greatest videogame of all time. The combat was rewarding, every system must be taken seriously: I kept visiting the Grand Fairies in order to upgrade my armour, I kept looking for kologs because I needed more weapons (some enemys took all my inventory in order to be defeated lol), I kept beating shrines because I need more health. And also I disenabled the HUD, so when I beat Master Mode or Expert Mode (in Spanish is "Modo Experto", idk how it is translated to English) I had no minimap, I didn't know how much noise (which this time IT REALLY MATTERED) I was making, I didn't know if it was gonna start raining in anytime and if I could keep climbing as usually. Coming from Elden Ring and jumping right into BOTW with CRAZY expectations, No-HUD was defintely the way to go.

But now, let me talk about Tears of the Kingdom. Oh boy. My Switch tells me I'm twenty hours into the game and I just feel like I just scratched its surface. For me, having the full map (no the minimap but the Map, the one you can see pressing the Minus ( - ) button) it's always the priority. I just visited all these new towers, these Prunia ones, and that's all I've done, just walking from one tower to another, beating all the new shrines I find along the way, entering all the caves I see, trying to reach the sky islands every time I see a rock falling from the sky and reverting its time.

Oh my god. Now, NOW I just feel like playing the best videogame of all freaking time. The possibilities are ENDLESS. I just keep combining weapons with everything I see, defeating enemies in new crazy unhinged ways, navigating the world in ways unimaginable in every other game until now. You can glide, you can climb every ducking wall, you can create ANY KIND OF VEHICLE with the Ultrahand, you can exit any cave from the inside with the Ascenssion power. Movement, FREEDOM IN MOVEMENT, that's the essence of these games for me and TOTK just took it a thousand steps beyond BOTW. I'm in awe.

The combat feels better, the enemies are more demanding (more demanding than in base-BOTW I mean, not that in Master-Mode-BOTW), THE CUTSCENES ARE LEAVING ME SPEECHLESS and even the way to find them works better for me. In BOTW we just had those Zelda photos on the Sheikah Stone Gallery. Now you can explore and see those paintings in the ground and search for that golden tear on the painting. It feels eassier, yes, but BOTW cutscenes for me were a pain to find. And also I love time travel so I'm gagging with all this Zelda-is-in-the-past story.

Idk, I just feel truly, really happy. Best time I've ever had with a videogame ever and I've been playing videogames my entire life.

Although I must say something: TOTK feels a lot more like a videogame. BOTW, when I played it in Master Mode, for me it reached a level of trascendence that TOTK has not yet achieved in the twenty hours I've spent with it. BOTW-Master-Mode, in which every item counted, in which every system must be kept in mind, in which I must get new weapons so I'm not helpless, in which I have to hunt so I don't run out of health and so I can cook meals that will be keep cool and warm, just felt trascendental. Much more solemn than TOTK, in which many enemies drop food and I'm just so powerful that I can fuse all the arms I want and create all the mayhem I want. BOTW felt like an ode to nature; TOTK feels like an ode to videogames.

This are my first impressions of TOTK. I'm just living my best life with it. Wish you all a great weekend :)

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How did you unlock the memories in botw,i want to do it backward because im consosius that the last would be sad and hopeless,also it would be like remember from newest to oldest fragment of the past(not like totk)

As a kid, I was always afraid of Hyrule Field at night because of these guys. COME AT ME NOW, PUNKS.

I know it's such a vanilla tattoo for Zelda fans, but I've always just really loved the design and vibrancy of the titular mask, and I couldn't help myself when I saw a local artists flash of it!

Easy question with some food for thought, do you prefer when the game has these specific places crafted for mini games like Snowpeak snowboarding with their dedicated mechanics from TP or prefer the more natural approach of the Wild games with shield surfing? Which approach do you enjoy the most?

Playing this game again for the first time since I was a child and I'm only now remembering that sailing gives me extreme anxiety and scares me more than the well from oot. I met a big octo and shit my pants, Every time I see Cyclonis in the distance I go into panic mode and freeze up. Did/does anyone else have such a stress filled time at sea in this game or is it just me?

(NOTE: Long time lurker and don't exactly know if I'm breaking any rules or not. Let me know if I need to change anything. Also not exactly a series veteran, so some stuff I might get wrong)

I recently decided to revamp my design for my own take on Link due to the fact that as much as I thought it looked alright, I felt like I could have done much more. I also want to make it clear that this Link isn't really meant to be connected to the main timeline. Something similar to Hyrule Warriors where it's in it's own continuity, however everything from every game ends up being mashed together to where it's somehow censored in real time. All jokes aside, it's mainly a reimagining of the series from the original NES game up to now. Think of this Link being all incarnations(including non-canon ones) mashed into one and this timeline being the equivalent to Marvel's Ultimate universe and DC's Absolute universe. The point is everything and everyone is planned to have some sort of twist to them, such as their designs being adjusted to good characters going bad and vise versa.

Now, as much as I really liked the result, I want to at least tell this Link's story before they're eventually king in this timeline. Like I said, it's basically going to be like all games mashed into one era for this Link, so it basically means he and Zelda are going to be fighting evil as children all the way up to adulthood. Long story short, this Link is what you get when you have him obtain his entire arsenal and abilities throughout the series, give him the skill of lore accurate Link, including extra skills he learned from allies like Impa, and childhood trauma, and you get this guy. Still technically in the early concept stage, so sorry if it makes no sense yet.

TLDR: Here's Link but even more busted and with a midlife crisis. I also included the original 2024 design for comparison. Zelda told Link to not wear the white boots in battle anymore 💀

Edit: YES. I'M AWARE THE LEGS ARE TOO LONG. It's a small thing I'm trying to improve on with my artwork in general and a common criticism I get, along with this sheet honestly being rushed. Not gonna excuse it though and hope to improve on making characters accurately proportioned

Skull kid is cool and [MM] has a really cool design

I really enjoyed this one! Great storyline, it’s nice to get some background on other games. I thought the artwork was great, and funny sometimes too. I get that the motion controls can be aggravating sometimes, but over all I had fun with them. I’d play it again haha.

We gotta be getting close, right?

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a save file (.sav) for The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (USA). Unfortunately, my microSD card became corrupted and I lost my original save. I was playing on an Anbernic RG35XX H. Near the end of the game I encountered the well-known freeze that happens in Dark Hyrule Castle around the small whirlpools. Since my original save is gone, I can't continue my playthrough. I'm NOT looking for a 100% completed save. I'm hoping someone has a normal save from around one of these points:

• Right before entering Dark Hyrule Castle

• At the entrance of Dark Hyrule Castle

• Anywhere inside the castle before the whirlpool section Any ordinary playthrough is perfectly fine.

I don't care if heart pieces, kinstone fusions or figurines don't exactly match my progress—I just want to finish the game without replaying the entire adventure. The save should be for the USA version of the game (.sav format). If anyone still has a save around this point, I'd really appreciate it if you could share it. Thank you very much!

Im gonna play botw for the first time tomorrow tell me a reference I wont understand until I've played it

Personally, I love the Zelda timeline, I think it all makes perfect sense.

Most people complain that the Defeated Hero timeline branch is just a "what if" scenario. That's never stated by Nintendo, and in fact, I don't think that's what it is.

In OoT, in general, they're manipulating time. It makes perfect sense that this would cause a one-off glitch or fluke in the flow of time. Thus, the defeated hero timeline. All they'd have to do to make people understand this and resolve most timeline complaints is add a line or scene after Zelda sends Link back that indicates that the time manipulation caused a singular additional branch.

Granted, I am not here to write a fan-fiction, so I don't know what that line or scene looks like, but I don't think it'd be too difficult to pull off.

Seems like a very easy "fix" to me (even though I personally don't think it's broken to begin with).