Return of Samus was never going to replicate the original Metroid’s scope, so its core design embraces what the Game Boy can uniquely offer...
Your map is a trophy, a proof of your familiarity with Metroid. Your map is a tool you can use to plot out different routes or...
Resident Evil (1996) and Resident Evil (2002) offer completely different survival horror experiences in terms of atmosphere and tension...
The best video games leave us thinking for days on end, but Nier: Automata will stay with you for a lifetime...
Few games utilize the medium as elegantly as Nier, eliciting raw emotion through gameplay at almost every turn...
Nier Replicant is a story about loss that ends with players getting back everything they lost. Ending E is a thrill, but it’ll always exist in...
The original Legend of Zelda lives and dies on a degree of freedom that’s often missing from the rest of the franchise. Link doesn’t need to...
Released simultaneously for the Game Boy Color, Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons marked the first of Capcom’s three forays into The Legend of Zelda...
“It is an endless cycle of life… the changing seasons!” The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages & Oracle of Seasons are very much two halves...
‘Hyrule’ is synonymous with The Legend of Zelda. The series’ most prominent fictional kingdom, it has appeared in eleven main entries over the past thirty-five years, each...
“We named the protagonist Link because he connects people together.” If The Legend of Zelda has one true unifier, it’s Link. The relationship between Link and...
The average Zelda sequel is unique, creative, and emblematic of everything that makes the franchise so engrossing. Then there’s Tri Force Heroes.
Some games are naturally subtler about where they lift their inspiration from than others, but no Zelda is as intimate with their connection to A Link...
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is similar to Majora’s Mask in more ways than one. Both are games that were developed at the end of...
Revisiting The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Few franchises committed to the central premise of the Nintendo DS as intensely as The Legend of Zelda. Where...
“The whole world is expecting the greatest Zelda game ever, isn’t it?” – Satoru Iwata on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Legend tells that the swan...
“Our two development themes for a Zelda on the GBA were 1) to do something no one had done before, and 2) to make something that...
Bundled together with A Link to the Past’s Game Boy Advance re-release, Four Swords was a game few fans ultimately played. The first multiplayer Zelda, Four...
“Zelda is a game that values reality over realism.” Running from 1989 to 2001, Space World was a trade show hosted by Nintendo between the end...
What should have been The Legend of Zelda’s grand foray into multiplayer gaming has become little more than a footnote in the franchise’s history. Developed by...
