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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks Continuing today’s theme of “Superhuman Efforts that Deserve a Standing Ovation”, we now turn our attention to The Legend of Zelda. MaJoRa, a member of the Zelda Fan Game Central community, has rendered all of the overworld from Ocarina of Time in the 2D style of A Link to the Past.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is perhaps the most compelling argument yet for “video-game-as-concert-piece”. As a game, it is a smartly designed interlocking series of puzzles, an ever-more-complex world filled with hidden secrets and challenging combat that unfolds with a uniquely Zelda-y sense of joyous excavation. But as a concert piece… oh, boy.
You know when awesome people use their talents to give you something totally brilliant? This collection of reworked Zelda songs is a bit like that. It’s an initiative by a group of indie game composers to re-imagine some of the greatest tracks in the series. Some of these are very, very good.
Requiring more than 200 pages, 12 hours of work per day for a solid month, and what must have been gallons of printer ink, is this jaw-dropping life-size papercraft Link that the artist Michaela M. completed this week. Yes, she has a template for those with the time and the patience to try to re-create her masterpiece.
The plastic ocarina that Nintendo’s sending around with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is quite the coveted piece of swag. Until we got ours, only French journalists and Australian customers were on the chosen list of recipients. Does the thing actually work? Joel Johnson put it to the test.
Sometimes called the Zeusaphone, a Tesla coil’s musical application is well known and long admired. We’ve heard it with the Super Mario Bros. theme, now admire a high voltage performance of The Legend of Zelda‘s title theme by Tesla Orchestra, a group of coilers from the Case Western Reserve University student and alumni community.
Nintendo has confirmed that the Master Quest, a companion to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that features new dungeons and puzzles, will be a part of the game’s upcoming release for Nintendo 3DS.
