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Tag: Legend of Zelda

Forms in Light
A screencap from Tears of the Kingdom shows a snowy landscape with rolling hills leading to tall mountains in the distance.

Cartography of the Cold

By Justin Reeve • January 19th, 2026

Pack warm because Tabantha Tundra in particular is hostile to outsiders, and even most newcomers.

Forms in Light
A beautiful, sunlit meadow in the woods.

Whispers of the Grove

By Justin Reeve • December 17th, 2025

The forest in Japanese culture is more than just a landscape, having long been seen as a threshold between the realms of the human and the divine.

Forms in Light
Two members of the Yiga Clan crouch menacingly in this screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Strangers on the Road

By Justin Reeve • November 12th, 2025

They’ll suddenly turn on you mid-conversation, revealing themselves to be a secret assassin in disguise, dedicated to your demise.

Forms in Light
Link stands before the gate to Tarrey Town in a screenshot from Breath of the Wild.

Ruins in Reverse

By Justin Reeve • October 15th, 2025

Tarrey Town shows that rebuilding is possible, and that collective labor can carve out spaces of resilience in the shadow of catastrophe.

Forms in Light
Several stone ruins stand in a sun-drenched Hyrule Field in a screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Living Legends Trapped in Time

By Justin Reeve • April 18th, 2025

In Tears of the Kingdom, the ruins of the Zonai are not just forgotten relics but active agents in the story of Hyrule.

Eyeing Elsewhere
A screenshot of Link striding across a grassy field in Tears of the Kingdom, several distinctive ruins and towers looming in the distance.

On Play in Tears of the Kingdom

By Phillip Russell • July 26th, 2023

In Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo has found a captivating approach to its play design by allowing players to approach challenges in a seemingly infinite number of ways.

The Heavy Pour
A line drawing of a girl in cutoff jean shorts and sneakers hanging upside down from a large tree branch. She is beaming.

Extra Lives

By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2022

I can hunch over Electronic Gaming Monthly in the magazine aisle and pretend to be another angsty videogame geek. Everyone knows those are boys.

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Picking Fruit in Hyrule: Playing Breath of the Wild Like It’s Animal Crossing

By Alyssa Wejebe • February 21st, 2020

If you’re sick of emptying your pockets to Tom Nook and microtransactions, another Nintendo mainstay may be exactly what you’re looking for.

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Ghost in the Machine

By Harry Mackin • September 24th, 2019

Both the psychological thriller Personal Shopper and Breath of the Wild explore what happens when we allow technology to shape us.

Checkpoint

SMASH

By Corey Milne • August 7th, 2019

In Corey’s mind, Nintendo is only second to Disney when it comes to pure brand power. And he has the nostalgia to prove it.

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