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This great Legend Of Zelda trailer was created by Joel Furtado for a game called The Lost Oracle, a sequel to The Wind Waker that doesn’t exist, at least not yet, because Nintendo might decide to do a sequel when they see this great animated short!
Link –via Topless Robot
Link needs a bit of money. Since he can find pieces of the Triforce anywhere, why not sell the one he has? Unfortunately for Link, he’s up against Rick Harrison, the owner of the pawn shop featured on the reality TV show Pawn Stars. Link has many skills. Haggling is not one of them.
-via Nerd Approved
If you’ve ever wondered how the events that take place in all of the Legend of Zelda video games fit together in the history of Hyrule, you need to check out this official timeline.
Part of a new Zelda art book entitled Hyrule Historia, this timeline proves that there is a cohesive plot unfolding in the games, a plot which is following a set path, and which sometimes strays off into the multiverse zone, depending on the outcome of certain scenarios and whether Link is defeated or victorious in his battle against dark forces.
If you’re interested, you can see more of this comprehensive timeline at the link below, as well as a 23 minute long video which shows the art book in all it’s beautifully illustrated glory. It’s good to know that someone can make sense of all that has happened to Link since his early days on the NES!
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In honor of the newest Legend of Zelda game “Skyward Sword”, here’s a video showing the theme song from the original Legend of Zelda game faithfully reproduced with iPads. What makes this video even cooler is the included tutorial which shows how you can learn to play this iconic song for yourself!
–via BuzzFeed
Comments Off This is a really nice performance of the main theme from the video game The Legend of Zelda on a marimba, plus snare drum, cymbals, bells, timpani, and triangle. These guys used no sheet music -it’s all played by ear! -via Buzzfeed
Reactions to this new bundle pack will range from “How much? No thanks…” to “Awesome!”, with lots of mehs in-between. But if you’re still using your Wii for anything other than Netflix, and you enjoyed the previous Legend of Zelda games, then you’ll probably want to check out the new Skyward Sword game bundle, even though it’s set to retail at $70. The collector’s bundle includes a golden Motion Plus Wiimote, game and 25th Anniversary Concert CD, so you can take your new theme music with you wherever you go!
If you have followed through the Legend of Zelda games, you’ve interacted with hundreds of different creatures whether it be sword fighting or milk jug hustling. This genealogy tree by artist Jude Buffum compiles 200 of our favorite characters, showing how the Hyrulean world could have evolved from Deku Tree to Hylian villager.
Previously by Jude Buffum
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The Kiss is the most famous work of Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. Rich Pellegrino was inspired by it and other works of Klimt to depict Link and Zelda in this moving piece entitled Zelda’s Slumber; Dreaming of The Kiss. At the link, you can see it and concept sketches that show Pellegrino working out the concept. Link -via Kotaku | Image used with permission
Comments Off Quickly! A wormhole will only open if the ocarina is played at 88 beats per minute! This ingenious fan film by Grant Duffrin explains and unites the stories of The Legend of Zelda franchise by suggesting that they are all necessary components of a particular timeline. Doc Brown’s mission is to ensure that Link takes the necessary steps to set the chain of events in motion.
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Terry Garrett has been blind since the age of 10, but he can play certain video games exceptionally well by using in-game sounds to figure out his character’s environment. Garrett is especially skilled at the game Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee:
The beep of a blinking bomb, the desperate cry of a friend in need, the pounding of a Mudokon’s hammer: They all provide crucial details that enable Garrett to get through the game’s punishing levels. When he needs orientation, Garrett listens carefully for “sound landmarks” like running water or footsteps shifting from grass to earth. And as he works his way through the side-scrolling puzzler’s world of weird creatures, Garrett pieces the noises together and sees the game’s levels laid out in his mind.[...]
Today, Garrett can beat the entire game, executing every jump and step with near-perfect precision. He’s honed his hearing to the point where he can recognize exactly which sounds refer to each object and act accordingly. He hasn’t memorized every level, but he knows enough about the sound design to beat Oddworld without dying.
“Through Abe’s sounds, I was able to figure out how to navigate the world,” Garrett, now an engineering student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, told Wired.com in an e-mail.
According to its creator, Oddworld wasn’t created with visually-impaired playing in mind. But the role of sound in it makes it well suited for that purpose.
Link | Photo: Oddworld Inhabitants
Previously: Three Men Create 100,000-Keystroke Script So That Blind Gamer Can Complete a Video Game
Link probably goes on so many adventures because he’s trying to avoid long, awkward conversations with his mother. This is one of nine hilarious images by Andrew Bridgman.
Link via Boing Boing
The people at Gamervision.com have really outdone themselves this time. Previously, they’ve brought us parodies of God of War and Super Mario Bros. Now they’ve gone all out and produced a truly convincing presentation of a worn-out VHS copy of The Legend of Zelda…the teen romance from the 1980s.
via Geekologie
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deviantART member Matt McManis created a mosaic of Link from The Legend of Zelda using Skittles. Click on the link to see similar depictions of Mario and characters from Final Fantasy.
Link via Comics Alliance
Comments Off Jordan Verner of Ontario had a dream: he wanted to complete Orcarina of Time, a video game in the Legend of Zelda franchise. But he is blind, which makes playing a video game, let alone completing it, very difficult. Three men who read of his predicament on the Internet responded by writing a complete, keystroke-by-keystroke guide to completing the game.
Link via Geekologie
Maureen Alarid of Off Beat Bride created this invitation for her wedding, featuring Admiral Ackbar’s prudent advice about marriage. Alarid writes:
The wording [on the back] is my favorite part. It reads: ‘[We] request the honor of your presence as two geeks save the princess, resist the dark side and pledge their lives (extra, or otherwise) to each other.’ And we snuck a Hyrulian crest in there too!
Link via Geekologie
Craftster user UpKnitCreek created this Legend of Zelda-inspired Link outfit for a friend’s baby shower. For authenticity, she (he?) even put leather soles on the booties and wrapped the whole thing in a wooden chest that looks like one from the game. More pictures at the link.
Link via Crunch Gear
