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Raising Hope vom Schöpfer von My Name is Earl hat es in dieser Ausgabe Sir Pommes besonders angetan, so sehr, dass er sich ein wenig von Elden Ring loslösen konnte. Ein wenig zumindest, denn es sind wieder ein paar Stunden mehr auf der Uhr und wieder einige Bosse mehr gelegt. Die Frage ist nur, wie lange geht das noch gut? Die musikalische Überraschung diesmal ist Six Feet unter, die Sir Pommes für sich (wieder-)entdeckt hat. Dengeki Gamer hat zwischenzeitlich Zelda Minish Cap im Stream beendet und erzählt ein wenig über sein liebstes 2D Zelda. aHatofMedia wünscht wie immer viel Spaß. Timetable: 0:00:00 Begrüßung 0:01:31 Themen 0:02:27 Elden Ring Update 0:24:57 Raising Hope 0:38:21 Zelda Minish Cap 0:56:29 Six Feet Under 1:22:23 Verabschiedung

I review the latest 2D Zelda game for the Switch!

⁠Support Nintendo Pow Block on Patreon⁠ This week on Nintendo Pow Block, Edward and Corey discuss a fresh new Switch 2 rumor regarding performance modes, Nintendo tracking pirates through Reddit, if 2D Zeldas are here to stay, and more. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to Nintendo Pow Block 4:11 - Looking to 2025 & New Ideas 16:03 - Nintendo's Marketing 25:47 - ⁠Housekeeping & Expansion⁠ 39:06 - Snacktendo 46:03 - What We've Been Playing 1:09:57 - ⁠Patreon Producers⁠ 1:10:27 - ⁠Saudi Public Fund Decreases Stake in Nintendo⁠ 1:14:27 - ⁠Tequila Works Closes Their Doors⁠ 1:25:33 - ⁠Nintendo Uses Reddit to Find Hacker⁠ 1:30:09 - ⁠Switch 2 Performance Mode⁠ 1:36:00 - ⁠Banter of the Week: 2D Zelda Games are Here to Stay⁠ 1:52:34 - ⁠Pak Watch⁠ 1:57:27 - ⁠Question Block⁠ 1:58:50 - ⁠What Franchise Would Be a Good Pixar Film?⁠ 2:12:47 - Thanks for Watching! Check out:Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/UzgESUtN8z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bossrush.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://tee.pub/lic/bossrushnetwork⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Us:Boss Rush Network: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/BossRushNetwork⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nintendo Pow Block: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/PowBlockPodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Edward Varnell: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/ThatRetroCode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Corey Dirrig: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/IamCoreyinHD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thanks for watching or listening to Nintendo Pow Block Podcast, the Nintendo podcast for Boss Rush Media and The Boss Rush Network. If you enjoyed the discussions, hit the subscribe button on YouTube, like the video, and leave a comment. If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, consider leaving us a five star rating and a nice review. You can support Nintendo Pow Block on Patreon at a tier that's right for you. Thanks for watching or listening to Nintendo Pow Block and supporting The Boss Rush Network's independent endeavor. It means more than you know.

Our Echoes of Wisdom journey is drawing to a close, as this week, we recount our experiences in three separate regions and learn what – and who! – is causing the rifts all over Hyrule! We're talking about Eldin Volcano, Faron Wetlands, and Holy Mount Lanayru, discussing all the wonderful new characters we met, the incredible dungeons, some of the best boss fights in 2D Zelda history, and the reveal of the source of the rifts! There's tons happening this week, strap in as we head towards the finish line! There will be spoilers for all three regions in this episode, so proceed with caution!     Download!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

Our Echoes of Wisdom journey is drawing to a close, as this week, we recount our experiences in three separate regions and learn what – and who! – is causing the rifts all over Hyrule! We're talking about Eldin Volcano, Faron Wetlands, and Holy Mount Lanayru, discussing all the wonderful new characters we met, the incredible dungeons, some of the best boss fights in 2D Zelda history, and the reveal of the source of the rifts! There's tons happening this week, strap in as we head towards the finish line! There will be spoilers for all three regions in this episode, so proceed with caution!     Download!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

On this episode of Random Encounter, two first-timers are joining us to chat about two of the year's biggest games!First up, Zek is joined by Zach to rave about Atlus' latest RPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio. Known for the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series, Metaphor offers a brand-new world full of all the things you love about previous Atlus games: close character relationships, incredible world-building, and jaw-dropping UI. It's absolutely in the running for GOTY 2024!But another contender for GOTY is the brand-new entry in the Zelda series, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Paul and Mike are here to talk about it! While it may look like a retro-inspired 2D Zelda game on the surface, this title brings a shockingly novel innovation to the series: Zelda as a playable character. Imagine!Featuring: Jono Logan, Mike Salbato, Paul Skevington, Zach Wilkerson, and Zek Lu; Edited by Jono LoganGet in Touch:RPGFan.comRPGFan ShopEmail us: podcast@rpgfan.comTwitter: @rpgfancomInstagram: @rpgfancomThreads: @rpgfancomFacebook: rpgfancomTwitch: rpgfancomThis Episode's Related Links:Metaphor: ReFantazio ReviewPersona 5 Royal ReviewThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom ReviewThe Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) Review

Pre-order now for *Snow Leopard* pet! This week, we take a look at The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, a great new game where you finally play as Zelda. It's an exercise in finding new and interesting ways to break the game as you stack beds, attach to birds, and send your enemies right back at others in this new take on 2D Zelda. We're also looking at the opening hours of the original Silent Hill 2, right as the remake is starting to hit store shelves. And how about a small tease of what's to come with Metaphor via it's massive, hours-long demo? Plus we rattle through some State of Play highlights. All that and more, and did we mention *Snow Leopard* pet in Diablo 4? Check us out on X and BlueSky @MarkersOnTheMap.

Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I'm Sam Wagers here with John Cummis and Shannon Eno   But RetroLogic isn't just a podcast. It's a community of retro gamers! - We've got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games Tell me one thing that happened this week! Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates   John: On Topic/Retro Rewind + blog   FilmLogic:    RetroGroove: is back!   Star Wars dads   The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here's how we play. I'm going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Shan's list Sam's list John's list Trivia Card   Show Topic 2D Zelda Looks back at what makes 2D Zelda so good and a look at Echoes of Wisdom. Community Couch Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter at @RetrologicGames. You're also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games  

The Plucky Squire is a next-gen take on 2D Zelda games! Plus, we recount some of our favourite gaming memories. 

Ever wondered what the future holds for the gaming industry and how major companies are navigating the latest trends and controversies? Tune in to this episode of the Game Junction Podcast, where we promise a deep dive into the biggest headlines and latest developments in the world of gaming. We'll start with a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Dame Maggie Smith, celebrating her memorable roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, and reflecting on her incredible legacy.Join us as we speculate on the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 and what it could mean for the gaming market, along with the buzz from the Tokyo Game Show. We'll break down the chaos of the PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition pre-orders and the controversy brewing at Ubisoft France, where employees are on the brink of striking over the end of remote work. From the implications of these events on upcoming titles like Assassin's Creed to the broader impact on the industry's financial landscape, we cover it all.Finally, we'll indulge in some nostalgia as we discuss retro gaming consoles, the challenges of playing old games on modern TVs, and the excitement surrounding upcoming game remasters like the Lunar series and a new 2D Zelda game. Whether you're a fan of Pokémon trading, awaiting the nSend a Text Message to The Game Junction Podcast we may read live!NYXI Gaming - NYXI Wizard GameCube Wireless Joy-pad for Nintendo Switch. Use code "gamejunction" for 10% off!PWRUP Grip 2Use code "GameJunction" for 10% off.Stone Age GamerStone Age Gamer continues to add exclusive retro gaming products at low prices.Dubby EnergyGet 10% all your Dubby Energy drink needs using "gamejunction10" and help support Game Junction!Launch Your Own Podcast Now - BuzzsproutStart for FREE with our affiliate link.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showLive on YouTube & Twitch Fridays @ 8 PM EST YouTube Channels @GameJunctionMedia @BrandonHurlesYT @TheJunctionNetwork All Socials: https://linktr.ee/GameJunctionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/GameJunctionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/GameJunctionMediaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@GameJunctionMediaTeespring: https://my-store-dcccac.creator-spring.com/Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/gamejunctionmediaBonfire Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/Game-JunctionDiscord: https://discord.gg/gamejunction

Thanks for tuning into episode 67 of the X Button Gaming podcast! In this episode Joel, Jaiden, James and I talk about the 2d Zelda games! We then take our personal rankings and create definitive ranking of them! Enjoy and let us know how much you agree (or don't) in the comments on Instagram, X, YouTube or Discord! And make sure to let us know which 2d Zelda game is you most, and least favorite!

Logan and Justin have played Echoes of Wisdom, and they fell in love with it! Hear about the game's first dungeon, the funniest uses for echoes, and how it perfectly blends 2D Zelda with BotW/TotK. Plus, they highlight the best games they saw at PAX West, including Romancing Saga, Reggie, Retro Realms: Ash vs the Evil Dead, and Dragon Quest 3. Then, Chris and Logan share their thoughts on the full release of Emio: The Smiling Man – Famicom Detective Club. Follow us on X:  ToadstoolBR | ⁠https://x.com/toadstoolbr ⁠Logan Plant | ⁠https://x.com/loganjplant ⁠Justin Koreis | ⁠https://x.com/koreis ⁠Chris Shriver | ⁠https://x.com/SHRIVES93%E2%81%A0 Join our Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/aaQWzc4mea

After a week off, Logan, Justin, and Chris react to the new Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer and discuss why this game looks bigger than your traditional 2D Zelda. Then, the panel guesses at when we might see Switch 2 launch next year and how Grand Theft Auto 6 could factor into it. Finally, they discuss Aero GPX, the F-Zero spiritual successor that you need to play if you're into futuristic racing games… and should still try even if you're not. Follow us on X:  ToadstoolBR | ⁠https://x.com/toadstoolbr⁠ Logan Plant | ⁠https://x.com/loganjplant⁠ Justin Koreis | ⁠https://x.com/koreis⁠ Chris Shriver | ⁠https://x.com/SHRIVES93⁠ Join our Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/aaQWzc4mea

A brand new trailer for The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom was just released by Nintendo, and OH BOY does it look insane. SO MUCH new information to go over, we'll try to fit it all in the show tonight. Let us know what you're most excited for in the comments! ---------- Episode Sponsor MOBAPAD

One of Nintendo's most iconic IP's; Legend of Zelda is a highlight for many of us here at Press B. How does Link to the Past stack up against Spirit Tracks? Links Awakening vs whatever the heck that 3DS game was? Episode 218, we rank every '2d' gameplay Zelda game.

The Steam Summer Sale is in full swing, and we've got some things on our wishlists. Nintendo had their June Direct featuring a new 2D Zelda game, and Chris is excited. Finally, the Balatro-likes are coming. Jason may have found yet another new game on-air!   Quern: Undying Thoughts Nintendo Direct Mario & Luigi: Brothership The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Balatro-likes Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers Bingle Bingle

Nintendo just dropped a BOMBSHELL announcement! A brand new 2D Zelda game called The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom was ANNOUNCED at the Nintendo Direct! We're going to dive deep into the trailer and talk about this game in detail. Let us know what you're most excited for in the comments! ---------- BECOME A MEMBER

Send us a Text Message we may read live on the podcast!Welcome back to The Game Junction Podcast Episode 89. Ready to unlock the secrets behind the latest Nintendo Direct announcements? Join us as we rate this stellar showcase and speculate on Nintendo's future. We'll explore why Brandon Hurles gave it a perfect 10 while Mark found it to be a solid 8.5. Discover the wealth of new titles and remasters, from the exciting new Mario Party to the long-awaited Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Even without a new 3D Mario game or hardware updates, this Direct left us buzzing with anticipation for the new 2D Zelda game and its implications for the current console generation.Curious about the strategy behind Nintendo's franchises? We ponder the balance of luck and skill in Mario Party and examine the ever-expanding character roster of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. We'll also dive into the kart racing phenomenon and share insights on upcoming releases like "Fantasia Neo Dimension," which promises to blend classic RPG elements with modern graphics. From nostalgic reflections on beloved franchises to predictions for future titles, there's something here for every Nintendo fan.Our passion for game preservation takes center stage as we discuss the challenges and triumphs of maintaining video game history. We highlight the importance of preserving mobile-exclusive games and rare development cartridges while celebrating the recent announcements of retro game collections and remakes, such as the Valis III collection and the Gex Trilogy. We'll also touch on the frustrations with live service games and the vital role of platforms like archive.org in saving media. Join us as we shaPWRUP Grip 2Use code "GameJunction" for 10% off.Launch Your Own Podcast Now - BuzzsproutStart for FREE with our affiliate link.NYXI Gaming - NYXI Wizard GameCube Wireless Joy-pad for Nintendo Switch. Use code "gamejunction" for 10% off!Stone Age GamerStone Age Gamer continues to add exclusive retro gaming products at low prices.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the Show.Live on YouTube & Twitch every Friday @ 8 PM EST. YouTube Channels: @GameJunctionMedia @BrandonHurlesYT @TheJunctionNetwork All Socials: https://linktr.ee/gamejunctionTeespring: https://my-store-dcccac.creator-spring.com/Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/Game_JunctionBonfire Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/game-junctionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/GameJunctionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamejunctionmediaDiscord: https://discord.gg/gamejunction

Nintendo just dropped a BOMBSHELL announcement! A brand new 2D Zelda game called The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom was ANNOUNCED TODAY at the Nintendo Direct! Also, The long awaited Metroid Prime 4 was ANNOUNCED TODAY at the Nintendo Direct, with a new name! Metroid Prime 4 Beyond! Were you as excited for this as we were? Let us know in the comments below, as well as let us know what you're most excited for! ---------- Find Jeff Here

This month, we cover the June 2024 Nintendo Direct, including Mario & Luigi: Brothership, the new 2D Zelda and Metroid Prime 4! We also recap the annual Xbox Showcase, PlayStation State of Play and Summer Game Fest. On top of all that, we give our impressions on House of the Dragon S2's premiere, the Boys S4 and Star Wars: the Acolyte.

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Echoes of Wisdom was revealed at the Nintendo Direct today... I think that Echoes of Wisdom is an absolute miracle, it's a game that shouldn't exist by all accounts, it's made in the Link's Awakening art style, Zelda is the protagonist and it's the first new original 2D Zelda in around 15 years. But I'm worried, there are some things that are irking me about this game. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw/videos Support my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TriforceTrends Come and join my Discord! https://discord.gg/hQD3ts3 Please follow my Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TriforceTrends Please follow my Insta here: https://www.instagram.com/triforcesocials/ Triforce Trends is mainly about Zelda, but sometimes I cover other Nintendo content too. If you have a different opinion to mine, please drop me a comment on your app, or get in touch on my socials.

The future of the smaller, quainter 2D Zelda games seems to be in question now that there's no dedicated handheld-only console, but never fear! We're keeping the hope alive by detailing things we would want to see from a new top-down 2D adventure! Everything is on the table as we look at things that games like A Link Between Worlds, Tunic, and Blossom Tales did well to get an idea of what we want. A new art style? Must have! An original setting outside of Hyrule? Yes please! Improved combat that utilizes lock-on and quasi-3D targeting? Where do we sign!? A cap on the number of dungeons in the game? That's debatable, but hear us out! We have a ton of different ideas on what the next 2D game could look like, so come and hang out with us and chime in with your own ideas! All this, PLUS some Nintendo Direct, Switch 2, and Xbox talk to get us started! Come spend your holiday Monday with us!   Download!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

The future of the smaller, quainter 2D Zelda games seems to be in question now that there's no dedicated handheld-only console, but never fear! We're keeping the hope alive by detailing things we would want to see from a new top-down 2D adventure! Everything is on the table as we look at things that games like A Link Between Worlds, Tunic, and Blossom Tales did well to get an idea of what we want. A new art style? Must have! An original setting outside of Hyrule? Yes please! Improved combat that utilizes lock-on and quasi-3D targeting? Where do we sign!? A cap on the number of dungeons in the game? That's debatable, but hear us out! We have a ton of different ideas on what the next 2D game could look like, so come and hang out with us and chime in with your own ideas! All this, PLUS some Nintendo Direct, Switch 2, and Xbox talk to get us started! Come spend your holiday Monday with us!   Download!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

Use the Holy Pod to follow the Golden Cast Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we're talking about Tunic, a game styled very much after the classic 2D Zelda titles, but with some other influences that will become apparent as you play through the game. Tunic is a colorful, cute game, with a fox wearing a shirt as a protagonist and bushes that squish and bounce when you cut them down. This seems to be to lure you into a false sense of security because the game itself is actually much more difficult than its aesthetics would lead you to believe. The combat in this game is simple in terms of your actions, but has depth in execution. Regular enemies can pose a threat early on, some much more than others, but the bosses of the game are all tests of your abilities. Beyond that, the game primarily focuses around navigation puzzles and exploration, rewarding the player with upgrades and items they can use to get stronger, make fights easier or open up further paths for traversal. And you can't forget what is essentially the selling feature of the game, the instruction manual. There is a booklet programmed into the game itself that you pick up pages from over the course of your adventure. The book mostly isn't written in a readable language (though it can be deciphered with some dedication), but it gives hints on everything from what you should be doing to how to perform basic actions like the dodge roll, explaining invincibility frames, and what the different parts of the UI mean. Collecting pieces of this manual is a driving force for a lot of reasons, and we'll get into all the things it means for the experience in the episode. We'll also be talking about the accessibility of certain features and how much the average player should be accommodated, the ups and downs of the combat and our experience with the bosses, and Dark Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls. Thank you for listening to the podcast again today! This one was always going to happen eventually, and now that it's done we're left with some complicated feelings, but this game is genuinely incredible in a lot of ways. How did you get along with Tunic? Was the difficulty on par with what you look for in games, or were you taken aback by the level of challenge? Were you able to solve the end game puzzles or did you leave that for the more cryptographically-minded out there? Let us know down in the comments, or over on our Discord (where you can also suggest games for us to play)! Next time, we're going to be talking about Super Mario Wonder, the newest Mario platformer, so we hope you'll join us for that.

We asked YOU the listener for your fan questions last week, and you did not disappoint! We have a whole bevy of topics to cover, including: what hardware and software features do we want from the Switch 2? Who is the greatest Zelda NPC? Does it bother us that Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom seemingly don't care about the Zelda timeline? Speaking of, are we really going to get a ten-year Breath of the Wild 4K/HD port? Do we think there will be any 2D Zelda games coming soon? Is it possible more than one model of the Switch 2 launches? Was Fusing the answer to fan complaints about weapon durability? All this and so much more are discussed this week! Make sure you tune in!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

We asked YOU the listener for your fan questions last week, and you did not disappoint! We have a whole bevy of topics to cover, including: what hardware and software features do we want from the Switch 2? Who is the greatest Zelda NPC? Does it bother us that Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom seemingly don't care about the Zelda timeline? Speaking of, are we really going to get a ten-year Breath of the Wild 4K/HD port? Do we think there will be any 2D Zelda games coming soon? Is it possible more than one model of the Switch 2 launches? Was Fusing the answer to fan complaints about weapon durability? All this and so much more are discussed this week! Make sure you tune in!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

Al and Micah talk about Little Dragon's Cafe Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:36: What Have We Been Playing 00:34:09: News 00:58:31: Little Dragons Cafe 01:38:47: Outro Links Coral Island Roadmap Traveller’s Rest 0.6 Update Disney Dreamlight Valley Update Disney Dreamlight Valley Roadmap Roots of Pacha Roadmap Solarpunk Kickstarter Circle of Kerzoven Kickstarter Iridium Scythe Tweet Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:01.600] See you next time. [00:31.000 –> 00:37.000] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. My name is Al. [00:37.000 –> 00:39.000] And I’m Micah. [00:39.000 –> 00:45.000] And we’re here today to talk about cottagecore games. Have you been on a podcast since we changed that introduction? [00:45.000 –> 00:47.000] I have not. [00:47.000 –> 00:50.000] There you go then. It’s now Cottagecore Games, not Farming Games. [00:50.000 –> 00:53.000] Okay. Alright. I mean that makes sense. [00:53.000 –> 00:56.000] It does. It does. Once people actually know what the term means. [00:56.000 –> 00:58.000] Yeah. [00:58.000 –> 01:05.000] But yeah it felt like I was too often just saying like it’s not a farming game but we’re going to cover it anyway because it feels like a farming game. [01:05.000 –> 01:07.000] That’s true. You’re right. [01:07.000 –> 01:09.000] And so we’re like why don’t we just say what it actually is. [01:09.000 –> 01:11.000] Yep. That makes sense. [01:11.000 –> 01:15.000] So yeah. Welcome Micah. How you doing? It’s been a while since we’ve had you on the podcast. [01:15.000 –> 01:28.000] I’m doing good. Just busy. Lots of work. So I’m tired a lot but you know it’s plenty of time to wind down. [01:28.000 –> 01:36.000] All my time winding down from work is spent playing games. Can’t complain too much. [01:36.000 –> 01:43.000] That’s good. That’s good. Awesome. Well I’ve got Micah on because I finally bought Little Dragon’s Cafe on the eShop sale. [01:43.000 –> 01:51.000] And I was like let’s schedule an episode to actually talk about it because I think it was like four years ago or something you first mentioned it. [01:51.000 –> 01:54.000] And I was like oh yeah we’ll get to that eventually. [01:54.000 –> 02:00.000] Yeah it was quite a while ago. I think maybe 2019. Maybe even before then. [02:00.000 –> 02:02.000] That’s a whole different world. [02:02.000 –> 02:26.000] It is. It’s a different time. But when you said that you messaged me and said that you bought it and wanted to do an episode about it I was very excited because I was singing that game’s praises for the whole year that I was obsessed with it and I felt like nobody cared. [02:26.000 –> 02:32.000] Yeah. Yeah. It’s just there’s so many games you know. It’s true. Get to them all eventually. Yeah. [02:32.000 –> 02:39.000] Anyway so we’re going to talk about that. Obviously beforehand we’ve got a bunch of news. But first of all Micah what have you been up to? [02:39.000 –> 02:48.000] Zelda. Just Zelda. That’s pretty much it. There is in fact they have released a new Zelda game. [02:48.000 –> 02:57.000] Wow. That’s pretty much. I’ve been playing a little bit of Pokemon Infinite Fusion. I don’t know if you know what that is. What on earth is that? [02:57.000 –> 03:21.000] It is a Pokemon fan game that is essentially Kanto and Johto. But they have DNA splicer items where you can fuse any two Pokemon and there are well beyond Gen 2 Pokemon in the game. [03:21.000 –> 03:39.000] So I think there’s somewhere around like 175,000 combinations you can make. And it’s all like custom sprite work. They have a huge community that’s done like a huge community of like sprite artists and stuff that have done custom sprites. [03:39.000 –> 03:55.000] So that every fusion is like and it’s not just like you know AI generated like combination of two pixel illustration. It’s actual like handmade pixel art for each combo which is pretty incredible. [03:55.000 –> 04:07.000] And it plays really well. It’s like surprisingly well made. But you know it’s just kind of fun to goof around in. I’ve been playing a little bit of that. [04:07.000 –> 04:12.000] Is it a ROM hack or is it like a completely fresh thing? [04:13.000 –> 04:40.000] It’s made in I think it’s Pixel Game Maker Studio. So it’s not like a ROM hack of like Emerald or something like that. It’s very interesting. It’s incredible what like a community of Pokemon fans can do when they’re not like really upset about something. [04:40.000 –> 04:44.000] And instead just like banding together to make something cool. [04:44.000 –> 04:53.000] Yeah. I love this. This is great. This is the sort of thing that like I mean obviously this is I’m surprised it hasn’t been like taken down at any point. [04:53.000 –> 05:02.000] But yeah this is the sort of thing. This is why copyright is stupid. Let people go crazy with this stuff. This is ridiculous fun. I love it. [05:02.000 –> 05:15.000] Yes. 100 percent. Yeah I am a little surprised too. I don’t know though I feel like typically they leave like ROM hacks alone at this point. [05:15.000 –> 05:23.000] Or like quote unquote ROM hacks you know. This isn’t really a ROM hack but who knows. Who knows what goes through the mind of… [05:23.000 –> 05:29.000] Well that’s the thing. You don’t know what they’re actually thinking because like sometimes they don’t touch things and then sometimes they’ll touch the weirdest of things. [05:29.000 –> 05:35.000] You’re like why on earth would you do that. Maybe it’s just not got enough publicity. It looks like it’s been going around since 2015. [05:35.000 –> 05:46.000] Yeah and it just recently has started to like pick up steam a little bit and get a lot more coverage on like YouTube TikTok stuff like that. [05:47.000 –> 05:56.000] Oh my word there’s a poly wag and kanga scan fusion which like it’s not just this is what you mean about like the custom stuff. [05:56.000 –> 06:06.000] Like it’s not just like a blue kanga scan or something but it’s like a poly wag as a kanga scan with a poly wag inside like a bubble stomach. [06:06.000 –> 06:10.000] Like it is amazing. I love it. It’s great. [06:10.000 –> 06:16.000] Yeah it’s really creative and interesting and like the all the sprite work is really well done. [06:16.000 –> 06:33.000] They added even though it’s you know like Kanto and Johto and you know pixel sprites and stuff it’s it’s they added Mimikyu and all of the Mimikyu fusions are just kind of unhinged and I love it. [06:33.000 –> 06:37.000] Oh my word I feel like this is dangerous to know. [06:38.000 –> 06:45.000] It’s pretty fun. It’s a big I will say it’s a big download because the you well there’s two options. [06:45.000 –> 06:50.000] You can either download the game and then have the game download the sprites as it needs them. [06:50.000 –> 06:53.000] Two gigabytes for the the preloaded one. [06:53.000 –> 07:03.000] Yes and then there is there is the preloaded one which has all of the sprites and it installs they like puts it all in the game immediately so that you don’t have to download anything. [07:04.000 –> 07:07.000] I’m definitely not googling how to put this on my Steam Deck. [07:09.000 –> 07:12.000] That’s funny you say that. That’s what I am playing it on so. [07:12.000 –> 07:17.000] Nice. I presume it’s just a Windows build that you just run through the Steam Deck stuff. [07:17.000 –> 07:28.000] It works. This is the thing like I know I don’t know about you I really love the Steam Deck and I think that Valve have done a really good job of integrating the Windows stuff with it as well. [07:28.000 –> 07:34.000] Like the fact that so many games just work out the box just a Windows build just running on Linux is just incredible. [07:34.000 –> 07:50.000] Because like I was I was for a long time a Linux user like that was just it was just a thing that I did right like I didn’t run Windows or Mac for like 15 years like that was just my until I decided you know what life is life is too short. [07:50.000 –> 08:01.000] And yeah games on Linux was just horrific even using something like Wine or whatever to actually run these things because they just never worked well. [08:01.000 –> 08:09.000] Whereas like I’ve run like 10 different completely different Windows games on the Steam Deck with no issues at all which is incredible. [08:09.000 –> 08:21.000] Yeah it’s great. It’s such a night. My brother was just texting me last night asking me what I thought about the Steam Deck and I was sending him paragraphs about how much I like. [08:21.000 –> 08:41.000] Yeah it’s it’s really great that they’ve made it so I mean I’ve never touched Linux before this either so I’ve always been afraid of Linux but it’s it’s so easy to just like it’s literally a power down option like it’s an it’s an option to just switch into the desktop mode. [08:41.000 –> 08:50.000] Yeah. And then just it’s it’s such an easy and accessible thing it’s like really hard to add non-Steam stuff to it. [08:50.000 –> 08:59.000] Yeah I think I think it’s one of these things where like using a switch is still easier right like the way to get it is just 100% easy. [08:59.000 –> 09:11.000] But the customizability like if you are able to do that sort of thing it is it is still so much easier than doing things in any other way. [09:11.000 –> 09:20.000] And if you have any patience for doing custom stuff it’s it’s great and the amount of different stuff you can do is fantastic. [09:20.000 –> 09:31.000] So like I think for the casual person like something like a switch is still going to be better for you but if you have like any customizable bone in your body the Steam Deck is just amazing. [09:31.000 –> 09:43.000] Yeah yeah it’s uh it’s really great. I definitely still you’re right like I primarily am using the Switch but if there’s something that I can’t play on the Switch I move to the Steam Deck for it. [09:43.000 –> 09:52.000] I think I’m at the point where if it’s if it’s on Steam unless it’s cheaper on the Switch I will generally buy on Steam now and play on my Steam Deck. [09:52.000 –> 10:01.000] Not least because it’s actually more it’s more ergonomic to hold like it’s kind of destroyed the Joy-Cons for me. [10:01.000 –> 10:08.000] And especially if I’m getting like Kickstarters and stuff they all come on Steam first so I’m obviously getting the Steam code. [10:08.000 –> 10:13.000] But yeah if it’s if it’s a Switch only game or if it’s cheaper on the Switch then of course I’m getting on the Switch. [10:13.000 –> 10:21.000] I’m not going to say I’m not going to play that right because the Switch is still really fun to play on and you know I wouldn’t not play Zelda just because it’s on the Switch. [10:21.000 –> 10:25.000] Like that’s a really stupid way to do things but you know. [10:25.000 –> 10:36.000] Yeah I yeah it’s I even in the situation that I’m that I’m in where if I if it’s not on the Switch I’m playing it on the Steam Deck and if it’s on the Switch I’m playing it on the Switch. [10:36.000 –> 10:49.000] The amount of things that are on Steam that like like if it’s a you know it’s it’s only on like my console options are Switch PS or PS5 or like Xbox or whatever. [10:49.000 –> 10:57.000] Typically it’s also on Steam so yeah it’s you know it’s nice to be able to move over have everything handheld. [10:57.000 –> 11:01.000] I am not going to lie my PS5 is a Spider-Man console. [11:01.000 –> 11:07.000] That is what that is what I bought it for and that is what is going to remain till the day it dies. [11:07.000 –> 11:10.000] But we’re about to get the Wii U gamepad for it so. [11:10.000 –> 11:15.000] I know well yeah and that’s actually really interesting like it’s obviously going to be stupidly expensive. [11:15.000 –> 11:16.000] Of course. [11:16.000 –> 11:27.000] And it only like streams from your PS5 but personally that’s what I’m looking for right because like getting the power of a PS5 in the palm of my hands to use a Spider-Man quote. [11:27.000 –> 11:35.000] Sorry I watched Spider-Man the other day what can I say. [11:35.000 –> 11:40.000] The new Spider-Man film fantastic very good go watch it. [11:40.000 –> 11:42.000] What was I saying? [11:42.000 –> 11:47.000] Yes being able to play PS5 games without having the TV on that’s that’s what I want. [11:47.000 –> 11:51.000] I don’t actually play games out the house like it’s just not I work from home. [11:51.000 –> 11:56.000] I obviously live from home like if I’m going out it’s because I’m going out to do something. [11:56.000 –> 12:00.000] I’m not going out to do something and then playing games there right come on that’s not what I’m right. [12:00.000 –> 12:05.000] So if I’m playing it’s in my house either in my office when I’m definitely working I’m not playing games. [12:05.000 –> 12:11.000] Or you know in the living room in the evening when the kids are in bed and we want to watch something on the TV. [12:11.000 –> 12:14.000] I don’t want to make my wife watch what I’m playing on the TV. [12:14.000 –> 12:21.000] So the idea of being able to use my PS5 for games that are really good like I’m considering for example getting Sonic Frontiers. [12:21.000 –> 12:28.000] Which is on the Switch but is it really on the Switch like it’s there but it’s not going to run really well. [12:28.000 –> 12:33.000] Like so being able to get the power of the PS5 for that game but still have a handheld. [12:33.000 –> 12:43.000] As someone who bought and played Sonic Frontiers on the Switch I can tell you first hand to hit it on something else. [12:43.000 –> 12:54.000] It’s not great. It’s got that we did whatever we could to get this to run on the Switch kind of feel to it. [12:54.000 –> 13:03.000] Where it’s like everything is really blurry. Everything feels like you know it’s moving in a dream. [13:03.000 –> 13:09.000] The thing is I think that the new Zelda shows you can get games running well on the Switch. [13:09.000 –> 13:13.000] Although it’s not perfect there are obviously still some issues right. There’s still some slowdowns. [13:13.000 –> 13:20.000] But I think it shows that you can given enough time and enough effort and enough money. [13:20.000 –> 13:22.000] You need all those three things. [13:22.000 –> 13:26.000] You can get a game that big running really well on the Switch. [13:26.000 –> 13:32.000] But I mean one thing about Tears of the Kingdom is there’s not actually a lot happening in most of the time. [13:32.000 –> 13:39.000] Like if you look at something like Sonic or you look at something like Pokemon there are lots of things around you all the time. [13:39.000 –> 13:44.000] But actually in Zelda there’s not a huge amount around you all the time. [13:44.000 –> 13:51.000] And like I know that the way that it works technically with like things far away is they’re not modeling things at that point. [13:51.000 –> 13:55.000] They just throw up a few pixels to make it look like there’s something there. [13:55.000 –> 14:04.000] And then you can look through the camera thing. The zoomie magnifying for far away. [14:04.000 –> 14:06.000] The binoculars. [14:06.000 –> 14:09.000] There you go that’s a word. I don’t know what they call it in game but anyway. [14:09.000 –> 14:11.000] Yeah I don’t know what they call it in game. [14:11.000 –> 14:12.000] You know what I mean now that’s fine. [14:12.000 –> 14:14.000] The zoom. The camera zoom feature. [14:14.000 –> 14:17.000] Yeah and then it actually starts modeling things for that small area. [14:17.000 –> 14:24.000] But that doesn’t work for most games because you have more detailed things that you need to be seeing off in the distance. [14:24.000 –> 14:28.000] And they just don’t have a lot of complicated stuff in the distance. [14:28.000 –> 14:32.000] Right there’s like the dragons is probably the most complicated thing you have in the distance. [14:32.000 –> 14:33.000] That’s about it. [14:33.000 –> 14:34.000] Yeah. [14:34.000 –> 14:40.000] You don’t need to model like a bokoblin three miles away. You’re not going to see it. You don’t care about it. [14:40.000 –> 14:41.000] Right. [14:41.000 –> 14:51.000] And I think that like even I really do think that a lot of it comes down to like optimization and how much time is put into optimization and stuff like that. [14:51.000 –> 15:06.000] Like there are even so there are like at the distance that things come into the like field of view or like depth of field for Zelda. [15:06.000 –> 15:17.000] I mean I’ll be honest it’s been very hard for me to and I’m sure that this conversation will be had with other people. [15:17.000 –> 15:24.000] But what I’m saying is I feel like this is probably going to come up during greenhouse so you can cut this out if you want. [15:24.000 –> 15:29.000] But it’s all good. I think we don’t really talk about this sort of stuff in the greenhouse episode. [15:29.000 –> 15:39.000] Okay. It’s been hard to not compare it to Pokemon as a Pokemon fan who has played a lot of Scarlet and Violet and enjoyed it. [15:39.000 –> 15:49.000] It’s been hard to not compare an open world game on the same platform to to that game. [15:49.000 –> 15:58.000] And I do think that a big part of that is just the optimization and maybe how much time there they were given to optimize the game. [15:58.000 –> 16:10.000] Maybe it’s that they brought in Monolith Soft to help with development and Monolith Soft has been with the Xenoblade games and stuff like that. [16:10.000 –> 16:14.000] They’ve done a lot of kind of open world stuff so they’ve got the optimization down. [16:14.000 –> 16:35.000] I don’t know but seeing the way that things like even ten feet away from an NPC and they’re moving at slideshow speed in Pokemon versus you’ve got a whole village of people that are wandering around in Zelda. [16:35.000 –> 16:38.000] It’s a little frustrating. [16:38.000 –> 16:43.000] The only place I’ve really noticed kind of like re-rendering of things is in the depths. [16:43.000 –> 16:51.000] If you’re flying through the depths quite often like the trees will change model when you get closer to them. [16:51.000 –> 17:00.000] That’s the only place I’ve really noticed that and there’s a few places where there’s like high particle physics in the air and that causes a slowdown. [17:00.000 –> 17:03.000] Other than that I’ve not really noticed many issues. [17:03.000 –> 17:12.000] Which is also like for the depths at least pretty impressive because there’s so many particle effects and stuff happening in the depths. [17:12.000 –> 17:16.000] I guess it makes sense that they need to re-render a lot of stuff. [17:16.000 –> 17:25.000] I would always rather graphics pulled down a little bit and it keeps playing well. That’s always my preference. [17:26.000 –> 17:28.000] I agree. [17:28.000 –> 17:47.000] It’s hard to not compare the two I guess and I am sure that a big part of that is how much time they were given to develop this game versus how much time the Pokemon company gave Game Freak to develop Pokemon. [17:47.000 –> 17:53.000] It’s complicated because as a software developer time doesn’t necessarily make things better. [17:53.000 –> 17:59.000] In my experience when you’ve got a team that’s being run by people that make bad decisions. [17:59.000 –> 18:04.000] Developers can’t just do things. Developers can’t just go I’m going to make this better. [18:04.000 –> 18:10.000] You have to do what you’re told and ultimately people make decisions and go this is the priority you’re doing this. [18:10.000 –> 18:19.000] And if they keep making those stupid decisions even if they get an extra five years they’re still going to make the same stupid decisions over and over and over again. [18:19.000 –> 18:26.000] That’s the thing and one of the real problems is when you get more time suddenly they decide oh well we can add more features. [18:26.000 –> 18:31.000] And then you never actually get to the point of improving the things that need improved. [18:31.000 –> 18:34.000] You just end up adding more things that then need to be improved. [18:34.000 –> 18:48.000] I think it just shows that this game from top to bottom is being created by people who actually care and actually know what they’re doing. [18:48.000 –> 18:55.000] There’s not that person at the top telling somebody to do something which then is a bad decision. [18:55.000 –> 19:00.000] Or people at the bottom going I don’t know what I’m doing I’m just going to do things. [19:00.000 –> 19:03.000] Everybody knows what they’re doing and they know how to do it and blah blah blah blah blah. [19:03.000 –> 19:07.000] And where exactly the issues are in different games you’ll never really know. [19:07.000 –> 19:15.000] But yeah it definitely is a problem and how to solve that problem is complicated. [19:15.000 –> 19:21.000] And the problem is that you either end up with fewer games or with games with less stuff. [19:21.000 –> 19:25.000] And I mean I still really liked Scarlet and Violet. [19:25.000 –> 19:27.000] I did too. I absolutely did. [19:27.000 –> 19:32.000] Would you say no to whatever the next game is just to get Scarlet and Violet running slightly better? I don’t know. [19:32.000 –> 19:35.000] Like that’s a really… I don’t want to have to make that decision right? [19:35.000 –> 19:42.000] Yeah. Yeah I guess you know I’m okay with… I don’t know. [19:42.000 –> 19:48.000] I’m okay with whatever like I’m not like super picky about how… [19:48.000 –> 20:01.000] I don’t know what this says about me but I’m not super picky about how a Pokemon game performs as long as the experience of the game is good. [20:01.000 –> 20:03.000] And I felt that with Scarlet and Violet. [20:03.000 –> 20:12.000] But I wouldn’t be opposed to them taking like you know maybe an extra year or two between games instead of one every year. [20:13.000 –> 20:21.000] It just depends really. Obviously I want the game to be better. I want it to look better. I want it to play better. I want it to have better features. [20:21.000 –> 20:25.000] But it’s just not that simple. You can’t just say well that’s fine make it better. [20:25.000 –> 20:28.000] Like that’s not how life works sadly. [20:28.000 –> 20:40.000] And I am also very aware that you know because of the very strict capitalist strategies of the Pokemon company that that’s never going to happen. [20:40.000 –> 20:52.000] And we will always get them on a schedule because there’s you know merch and plushes and all kinds of stuff involved in that decision so. [20:52.000 –> 20:54.000] Anyway so you’re enjoying Zelda? [20:54.000 –> 20:55.000] Yes. [20:57.000 –> 21:03.000] Despite all my inner monologues when I’m seeing something perform really well in Zelda. [21:04.000 –> 21:11.000] Yeah it’s it’s really great. I am fully aware that I’m still in like the honeymoon phase with it. [21:11.000 –> 21:13.000] But it’s been like three weeks. [21:13.000 –> 21:19.000] Yeah and I still like I haven’t beaten the game yet. I am nowhere near that I don’t think. [21:19.000 –> 21:21.000] Well yeah what’s your what’s your current status of things? [21:21.000 –> 21:27.000] I am at the I think I can say this. [21:27.000 –> 21:29.000] I don’t care about spoilers go for it. [21:29.000 –> 21:33.000] I’m at the fourth temple. I am about to start the fourth temple. [21:33.000 –> 21:35.000] That’s fine that’s not a spoiler. [21:35.000 –> 21:40.000] Okay I just I feel like even saying the word temple is. [21:40.000 –> 21:44.000] If someone wants to play Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and they haven’t played it yet. [21:44.000 –> 21:46.000] I mean I guess they couldn’t they might not be able to afford it. [21:46.000 –> 21:54.000] But let’s be honest they know that there are temples right like nobody doesn’t know that at this point if you even slightly care. [21:54.000 –> 22:02.000] Yeah I guess I because there weren’t really temples and in Breath of the Wild they’re sort of where it was like the Divine Beasts but. [22:02.000 –> 22:09.000] Interestingly I’m not really I don’t really see the difference between like this game’s ones and Breath of the Wild ones. [22:09.000 –> 22:12.000] I’ve only done one so far but it didn’t feel significantly bigger. [22:12.000 –> 22:21.000] No I think it’s just the like the way that it like the puzzles and the way that it it operates more. [22:21.000 –> 22:28.000] It feels like a like a sort of a quote unquote classic Zelda dungeon. [22:29.000 –> 22:43.000] Or like Zelda temple then the Divine Beasts felt where like the there’s something that’s like poisoning or like cursing the like the temple. [22:43.000 –> 22:54.000] And it’s it’s I mean if you played Breath of the Wild you know at this point that like all the boss fights for the Divine Beasts were just like slightly different like iterations. [22:55.000 –> 23:03.000] Interestingly like I do yeah the bosses are definitely more interesting looking but I actually think that the battles are less fun. [23:03.000 –> 23:09.000] Interesting I actually feel like they I don’t know I feel like they feel more like a Zelda boss battles than. [23:09.000 –> 23:10.000] They do. [23:10.000 –> 23:13.000] The Calamity Ganon boss fights felt. [23:13.000 –> 23:17.000] I’ll agree with that they definitely do but they feel less like the game this game. [23:17.000 –> 23:22.000] They feel like less than how Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom work in general. [23:22.000 –> 23:28.000] As boss fights than the Calamity the the the other Ganon one wherever they were. [23:28.000 –> 23:31.000] They were Calamity Ganons I can’t remember what the names of them were. [23:31.000 –> 23:33.000] I don’t know what the I think they were just called. [23:33.000 –> 23:39.000] Those ones felt more in keeping with this the way the game works in general. [23:39.000 –> 23:43.000] I will agree these ones feel more like older Zelda bosses. [23:44.000 –> 23:47.000] But the game doesn’t feel like an older Zelda game. [23:47.000 –> 23:54.000] It feels kind of like shoving an old Zelda style thing into a new Zelda style thing and it doesn’t really fit as well. [23:54.000 –> 24:02.000] I don’t know I disagree because I feel like that is that’s what I was gonna say is that like I know that I’m in the honeymoon period for it still. [24:02.000 –> 24:11.000] But I do feel like this is very quickly becoming one of my favorite Zelda games of all time. [24:11.000 –> 24:15.000] And I feel like it already has far and away beat Breath of the Wild for me. [24:15.000 –> 24:17.000] Oh I’d agree with that 100%. [24:17.000 –> 24:22.000] Because of how much more the game feels like a Zelda game than Breath of the Wild felt. [24:22.000 –> 24:26.000] I don’t think I could go back to Breath of the Wild ever again. [24:26.000 –> 24:28.000] No I don’t think so either. [24:28.000 –> 24:33.000] I think Breath of the Wild was a great setup for this game. [24:33.000 –> 24:38.000] But I think that this is the this is the optimal game. [24:38.000 –> 24:45.000] And I really do feel like there are just the general atmosphere of the game. [24:45.000 –> 24:50.000] A lot of the interactions with NPCs, the way things are designed. [24:50.000 –> 25:00.000] The way that like I don’t know the amount of puzzles and stuff that are like and like side quests that are… [25:00.000 –> 25:07.000] I guess I don’t know I don’t know what it is specifically that makes it feel more like a Zelda game to me than Breath of the Wild felt. [25:07.000 –> 25:11.000] But it’s definitely there. It definitely feels more. [25:11.000 –> 25:16.000] I think some of it too is like music and like sound design and stuff like that. [25:16.000 –> 25:19.000] That gives it more of that that feeling. [25:19.000 –> 25:27.000] Take all of my opinions by the way with the knowledge that Breath of the Wild was my first Zelda game. [25:27.000 –> 25:32.000] And then when I went back and played them all I hated all the 3D Zelda games. [25:32.000 –> 25:36.000] Having said that I only really played two of them. [25:36.000 –> 25:37.000] Which two did you play though? [25:37.000 –> 25:40.000] So I played Ocarina. Did not like Ocarina. [25:40.000 –> 25:43.000] And Skyward Sword. Did not like Skyward Sword. [25:43.000 –> 25:46.000] Skyward Sword is my favorite Zelda game of all time. [25:46.000 –> 25:49.000] Oh really? Interesting. I hate it. I hate everything about it. [25:49.000 –> 25:50.000] I wonder whether I would have liked it. [25:50.000 –> 25:52.000] You played it on the Wii or did you play it on the Switch? [25:52.000 –> 25:56.000] I played it on the Switch. I wonder whether I would have liked it had I played it when it came out. [25:56.000 –> 26:01.000] Part of the problem is that obviously the gaming industry is not what it was. [26:02.000 –> 26:10.000] You can’t go back and imagine how this would have played if it was the best thing when it came out. [26:10.000 –> 26:16.000] But it’s not the best thing. We have better things. Therefore how can I put myself in that? [26:16.000 –> 26:20.000] I struggle with that. It’s why I hated Mario 64. [26:20.000 –> 26:24.000] Would I have enjoyed Mario 64 if I played it when it came out? Probably. [26:24.000 –> 26:29.000] But I did not like it when I played it first time six years ago. [26:29.000 –> 26:33.000] Because it’s just not fun now because there’s so much more fun games. [26:33.000 –> 26:37.000] Was it amazing for when it came out? Maybe. [26:37.000 –> 26:40.000] But that doesn’t make it amazing now. [26:40.000 –> 26:51.000] I definitely think that a lot of my ability to go back and play those games and appreciate them now is heavily tied to my nostalgia for them. [26:51.000 –> 26:57.000] Like how relevant their design is and stuff like that. [26:57.000 –> 27:03.000] They are very dated games. Especially the N64 era stuff. [27:03.000 –> 27:09.000] Great games but very dated and a lot has changed for the better since then. [27:09.000 –> 27:16.000] But I have loved every 2D Zelda game I’ve played. I’ve not finished them but I’ve enjoyed every 2D Zelda game I’ve played. [27:16.000 –> 27:23.000] So I don’t know how much of it is like, oh maybe this is more like the dungeons in the 3D Zelda games. [27:23.000 –> 27:27.000] But it doesn’t feel like a 2D Zelda dungeon either. [27:27.000 –> 27:35.000] With the 2D dungeons you were going through this maze essentially with a bunch of different rooms and trying to get to the end. [27:35.000 –> 27:40.000] I don’t know how the 3D ones were because I didn’t really get through that much of either of those two games. [27:40.000 –> 27:45.000] I just really struggled. I didn’t even get to the first dungeon of each of them. That’s how I struggled with them. [27:45.000 –> 27:53.000] I would say that is absolutely the case. The 3D dungeons are a lot different than the 2D Zelda game dungeons are. [27:53.000 –> 27:58.000] And these feel much more like 3D Zelda dungeons than they do. [27:58.000 –> 28:05.000] That makes much more sense because looking at the dungeons in this game and looking at the Divine Beast in the last one. [28:05.000 –> 28:14.000] They feel much more similar than different. But maybe there’s something I’m missing that I would have seen had I properly played any of the 3D Zeldas. [28:14.000 –> 28:20.000] And the boss fights too feel much more like the boss fights from 3D Zelda dungeon games. [28:20.000 –> 28:24.000] I do think the boss fights feel very similar to 2D Zelda games as well. [28:24.000 –> 28:32.000] It’s about figuring out a pattern for this large creature that obviously you can get damaged by it. [28:32.000 –> 28:36.000] But it’s not necessarily going in and attacking you with a sword. [28:36.000 –> 28:39.000] Hit the eyeball. Always hit the eyeball. [28:39.000 –> 28:47.000] It feels like that but my point about that was personally I don’t enjoy that as much. [28:47.000 –> 28:54.000] I much more enjoyed the Ganon battles because it felt more like the other battles in the game. [28:54.000 –> 29:05.000] I guess I didn’t dislike the Ganon battles. In retrospect now it didn’t feel the same way to me. [29:05.000 –> 29:14.000] It felt like a very good game but it didn’t feel like a Zelda game to me I guess in a lot of those instances. [29:14.000 –> 29:25.000] Which is where this feeling more like a Zelda game and having a lot more things that I’m familiar with for Zelda games feels more exciting to me. [29:25.000 –> 29:31.000] That that’s happening and that they’ve made those designed decisions and stuff. [29:31.000 –> 29:36.000] As someone who is a long time Zelda fan and has played every Zelda game. [29:36.000 –> 29:41.000] I think a lot of it is down to that. I didn’t play any Zelda games before this one. [29:41.000 –> 29:56.000] I bought Breath of the Wild on Switch release day because I pre-ordered a Switch but the games that I pre-ordered were Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart and 1-2 Switch. [29:56.000 –> 30:04.000] None of them came out for at least a month after the Switch came out so I was like I don’t have any games for this console that I just bought. [30:04.000 –> 30:09.000] So I wandered into a game shop and went have you got any copies of that Zelda game? I hear it’s good. [30:09.000 –> 30:14.000] They were like we’ve got one copy so I bought that one copy of Breath of the Wild. [30:14.000 –> 30:17.000] Are you saying 1-2 Switch didn’t hold you over until… [30:17.000 –> 30:23.000] Well it wasn’t out initially. It didn’t come out till April and the Switch came out in March. [30:23.000 –> 30:30.000] So yeah I had to buy this game that I’d never played any of the series called Zelda. [30:30.000 –> 30:34.000] And it turned out to be very good and one of my favourite games of all time. [30:34.000 –> 30:38.000] It’s such a funny… I’m obviously not the only person. [30:38.000 –> 30:43.000] More people bought Breath of the Wild than bought all of the other Zelda games combined. [30:43.000 –> 30:47.000] So this would have been a lot of people’s first Zelda game. [30:47.000 –> 30:53.000] It’s probably a reason why we’ll never get a Zelda game not like Breath of the Wild or at least not building on top of that idea ever again. [30:53.000 –> 30:56.000] We’ll probably get some 2D ones but they’ll never sell as well. [30:56.000 –> 31:02.000] Because there’s just a whole different group of people who this is Zelda to them. [31:02.000 –> 31:05.000] Nothing else is Zelda to them. [31:05.000 –> 31:09.000] Anyway this is a game about cottagecore games. This is a podcast about cottagecore games. [31:09.000 –> 31:12.000] Well I mean you can build a house and… [31:12.000 –> 31:17.000] My god the house building is so good! I can’t even… [31:17.000 –> 31:21.000] See when I first came onto that someone was like oh you can build a house and I was like oh that’s funny. [31:21.000 –> 31:24.000] It’s going to be like the last one. Whatever. [31:24.000 –> 31:26.000] And I went and I was like oh my word this is amazing. [31:26.000 –> 31:33.000] I have spent a good 10 hours building my house over the last 3 weeks. [31:33.000 –> 31:35.000] I’m not even kidding. [31:35.000 –> 31:40.000] My only gripe is that it maxes at like 15 blocks. [31:40.000 –> 31:47.000] Which I hope that maybe in the inevitable DLC or whatever they add new rooms. [31:47.000 –> 31:53.000] Or the ability to add more rooms. Something like that. [31:53.000 –> 31:55.000] I love it so much. [31:55.000 –> 31:57.000] I know it’s great. I love it too. [31:57.000 –> 32:06.000] I built everything inside the house that I really loved and I wanted to add the garden and the moat or whatever. [32:07.000 –> 32:15.000] The pond outside but I ran out of space. I ran out of space. I hit all 15 of my house blocks. [32:15.000 –> 32:20.000] There’s one other thing that annoys me about the house and this is literally it. [32:20.000 –> 32:27.000] The pond, it spawns fish. The garden, you cannot farm in. You can’t farm in the garden. [32:27.000 –> 32:28.000] Oh really? [32:28.000 –> 32:31.000] It’s just there. It just looks like a garden. [32:31.000 –> 32:40.000] I don’t understand why you gave me this pond that I can grow fish in and you gave me this garden that I can’t grow anything in. [32:40.000 –> 32:43.000] Why would you do that to me? Why would you make this so good? [32:43.000 –> 32:52.000] You would make this house building amazing and addictive and great and you’d give me a fish pond but you can’t let me grow something in the garden. [32:52.000 –> 32:55.000] It doesn’t even need to be massively complex. [32:55.000 –> 32:58.000] You don’t need to go oh well you can grow carrots and blah blah blah. [32:58.000 –> 33:06.000] Just let me grow the trees. The fire tree and the zappy tree. Just let me grow those. Let me plant one and it grows. [33:06.000 –> 33:11.000] I’m not asking for everything in the world to be possible to grow. [33:11.000 –> 33:15.000] Just those little trees that you can grow with the fruit. Let me do those. [33:15.000 –> 33:21.000] Just make it simple. Just three plots. You can just grow three things and that’s it. [33:21.000 –> 33:28.000] And I can grow my little fire fruit plant. Let me grow my fire fruit plant. That’s all I want. [33:28.000 –> 33:35.000] I actually didn’t know that because I ran out of blocks. I wasn’t able to put my garden in but that’s interesting. [33:35.000 –> 33:37.000] Well it’s a good thing you didn’t waste it. [33:37.000 –> 33:47.000] I don’t necessarily understand that. Maybe they were just like adding a farming element is something that we’ll do in DLC. [33:47.000 –> 33:53.000] That’s fine. If you make me pay for it I will pay for it but tell me it’s coming. Tell me it’s coming. I want to know it’s coming. [33:53.000 –> 34:01.000] I will wait for it and I will pay for it. I will pay like 30 quid for a farming addition to this game. 100% I will do that. [34:01.000 –> 34:09.000] And Zelda can wait. I’ve got farming to do. I’ve got a house to build. I’ve got farming to do. [34:09.000 –> 34:11.000] Shall we talk about some news? [34:11.000 –> 34:13.000] Let’s do it. [34:13.000 –> 34:19.000] So before we get into the new news I wanted to ask Mike if you have any thoughts on the marvellous games that were announced last week. [34:19.000 –> 34:23.000] Because we talked about them on the podcast last week, me and Johnny. [34:23.000 –> 34:29.000] But obviously you quite often have a lot of opinions on Story of Seasons and Rune Factory. [34:29.000 –> 34:41.000] The fact that they were mostly just announced without a lot to go off of. I’m very excited. [34:41.000 –> 34:49.000] But I don’t know what I’m looking forward to because there’s not a lot to go off of. [34:49.000 –> 34:57.000] Obviously I’m going to probably buy and play whatever they put out for Story of Seasons and Rune Factory. [34:57.000 –> 35:05.000] I am really excited at the prospect of a multiplayer Story of Seasons game. I am curious to see what that’s going to look like. [35:05.000 –> 35:07.000] Me too. [35:07.000 –> 35:11.000] But I am excited at that idea. [35:11.000 –> 35:15.000] What I said in the podcast last week was I have no idea what to expect from it. [35:15.000 –> 35:23.000] But the fact that they’re making it as a separate game means they obviously have an idea that is radical enough that it’s different from a standard Story of Seasons game. [35:23.000 –> 35:29.000] That they feel it needs to be another game and that I’m excited by in and of itself. [35:29.000 –> 35:35.000] And maybe that they don’t trust it enough to make it the mainline game. [35:35.000 –> 35:37.000] That’s possible but maybe… [35:37.000 –> 35:49.000] I feel like maybe it’s just they know their audience and they know that there’s a possibility that people who want to play their single player, you know, the standard Story of Seasons experience. [35:49.000 –> 35:55.000] I don’t necessarily want a multiplayer experience as well and it kind of gives the option between different games. [35:55.000 –> 35:57.000] And I think that’s fine. [35:57.000 –> 35:59.000] Yeah. Give me both. I want both. [35:59.000 –> 36:05.000] Yeah. I’m perfectly fine with that too. [36:05.000 –> 36:12.000] Otherwise, standard Story of Seasons experience. I’ve always been on board for that so I’m of course excited about that. [36:12.000 –> 36:17.000] I did see… what is that? Project Magia? [36:17.000 –> 36:19.000] Project Magia? [36:19.000 –> 36:21.000] The Rune Factory one? [36:21.000 –> 36:29.000] No, not the Rune Factory one. It’s the other… it’s like some RPG that they’re working on but it’s designed by the… [36:29.000 –> 36:33.000] I didn’t pay attention to anything that wasn’t specifically Story of Seasons or Rune Factory. Come on. [36:33.000 –> 36:41.000] But they had that and then they had the Project Life is RPG which… whatever those words mean together. [36:41.000 –> 36:45.000] Just I hate everything about that. [36:45.000 –> 36:55.000] But it kind of… it makes me wonder what of that is going to feel like Fantasy Life which was a fantastic game. [36:55.000 –> 37:09.000] Incredible game. Life Simulator. Again, if you haven’t played… every opportunity for that game to come up on this podcast, I will tell you to play it. [37:09.000 –> 37:13.000] Because it’s great. And there’s a new one coming out. [37:13.000 –> 37:22.000] But I’m curious to see how much that interacts with that style of game. If this is Marvelous’ take on Fantasy Life. [37:22.000 –> 37:24.000] Yeah. Maybe. [37:24.000 –> 37:30.000] But, you know, Rune Factory is Rune Factory. It’s going to probably be like Rune Factory. [37:30.000 –> 37:41.000] I think 5 made some really great moves and it still felt very… still felt kind of in its infancy for what they were trying to do. [37:42.000 –> 37:46.000] Shifting from previous Rune Factory games to 5. So hopefully… [37:46.000 –> 37:48.000] Well it was such a big step. [37:48.000 –> 37:49.000] It really was. [37:49.000 –> 37:58.000] It was so drastic. It felt like going from Pokemon Black and White to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. It was such a huge difference. There was no in-between steps. [37:58.000 –> 38:09.000] Yeah. Yep. It’s really hard not to look at Rune Factory Project Dragon and not see Tears of the Kingdom. [38:09.000 –> 38:14.000] But I know that that’s not how games work and that this was in development for a long time. [38:14.000 –> 38:16.000] Yeah. [38:16.000 –> 38:19.000] This is the one we got most information about out of those 4 games. [38:19.000 –> 38:26.000] Yes. Probably because they were like, we need to show this now so that people don’t think that we were just… [38:26.000 –> 38:33.000] And I need to ride my dragons. Right? Like, I love this. I want to ride a dragon. Give me it. [38:33.000 –> 38:37.000] It looks great. The dragons kind of look like a never-ending story. [38:37.000 –> 38:39.000] Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That’s funny. [38:39.000 –> 38:41.000] It’s kind of neat. [38:41.000 –> 38:43.000] Let’s go. [38:43.000 –> 38:45.000] Yeah, let’s go. [38:45.000 –> 39:02.000] But it looks like they’re… That’s kind of what I was getting at. It looks like they’re making those steps to bridge from 5 to 6 in Project Dragon to make it more what they wanted 5 to be and more what it felt like 5 should have been. [39:02.000 –> 39:10.000] Interesting. The other thing is, I’ve not written this in the show notes, but have we talked about the new Harvest Moon game? What are your thoughts about that? [39:11.000 –> 39:14.000] You know, I’m going to be honest with you, I forgot that there was a new Harvest Moon game. [39:14.000 –> 39:16.000] You’ve not seen the screenshots? [39:16.000 –> 39:19.000] Is it the Winds of Anthos? [39:19.000 –> 39:21.000] It is the Winds of Anthos. [39:21.000 –> 39:23.000] I have not seen the new screenshots. [39:23.000 –> 39:26.000] Oh my word. Let me get some screenshots for you. [39:26.000 –> 39:29.000] I think after the One World experience… [39:29.000 –> 39:31.000] Oh, let me tell you. Right? [39:31.000 –> 39:35.000] Okay, first of all, do not pretend like you didn’t enjoy that game. [39:35.000 –> 39:37.000] I played a lot of it. [39:37.000 –> 39:44.000] It was a bad game, but I remember both of us saying that it was an enjoyable bad game. [39:44.000 –> 39:52.000] Yeah, it was. And I played far more of it than I would play another game that I actually really didn’t like. [39:52.000 –> 39:58.000] Yeah, played more of it than you really should. But I sent you a tweet with some screenshots in it. [39:58.000 –> 39:59.000] Okay. [39:59.000 –> 40:01.000] Yeah, exactly. [40:01.000 –> 40:11.000] You know, screenshots are tricky, right? Because those same things could be in motion and be shocking to look at. [40:11.000 –> 40:17.000] But so far, so good. I’m a little more impressed than I guess I would have expected myself to be. [40:17.000 –> 40:23.000] Yeah. I mean, let’s not forget that the most exciting thing we got about One World was the initial concept art. [40:23.000 –> 40:27.000] The first time we got a screenshot, it was not good. [40:27.000 –> 40:31.000] So even getting good looking screenshots is an improvement. [40:31.000 –> 40:38.000] I do see that there are the romance music notes in the dialogue box. [40:38.000 –> 40:41.000] Well, come on, they can’t go too far away from things, right? [40:41.000 –> 40:48.000] There still are romanceable… Were there romanceable characters in One World? [40:48.000 –> 40:51.000] Yeah, it’s just neither of us bothered because we didn’t enjoy the characters. [40:51.000 –> 40:55.000] Okay. That feels more accurate. [40:55.000 –> 41:01.000] Yeah, it looks interesting. Do we have any info on release date or anything? [41:01.000 –> 41:05.000] Yes, so it’s coming out at the end of September. I think it was 26th of September or something. [41:05.000 –> 41:07.000] Oh, that’s soon. [41:07.000 –> 41:11.000] It is soon. They did say summer though, which that is not summer. [41:11.000 –> 41:19.000] But anyway, the interesting thing about this one is it’s continuing with the concept of the movable farm, the expando farm from One World. [41:20.000 –> 41:28.000] So you can still move your farm around the world and it sounds like it’s a bigger world than One World, which is a very confusing sentence to say. [41:28.000 –> 41:33.000] And I don’t know about you, but the expando farm was the best thing about that game? [41:33.000 –> 41:36.000] Yeah, yes. I think that it was too. [41:36.000 –> 41:39.000] I can tweet with an incredible screenshot as well. Go look at that. [41:39.000 –> 41:44.000] Tell me this doesn’t look good. Tell me this doesn’t. [41:44.000 –> 41:46.000] It does look good. It does look really good. [41:46.000 –> 41:51.000] So as you say, it could still be terrible. The actual gameplay could be horrific. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But… [41:51.000 –> 41:53.000] Oh, we got a mini map. [41:53.000 –> 41:56.000] I am encouraged by this. I am very encouraged. [41:56.000 –> 42:06.000] Yeah, I am too. I’m a little stressed about the idea that it’s coming out in September and we’ve only got like five screenshots total so far. [42:06.000 –> 42:12.000] But I’m not going to hold that against them. We’ll see how it goes. [42:13.000 –> 42:19.000] I do see that there is a Sleeping Cow plush as part of the collector’s box. [42:19.000 –> 42:21.000] Possibly the best plush they’ve done. [42:21.000 –> 42:31.000] Yes. And definitely much cuter, I think, personally than the recent Story of Seasons plushes as well. [42:31.000 –> 42:35.000] Oh, there are some more screenshots than just those few. [42:35.000 –> 42:38.000] Here’s one of them interacting with a polar bear. [42:38.000 –> 42:43.000] Yeah, there’s a few more. We don’t have any video or actual gameplay. There’s a few more scree

We're back, fresh from the barren, content-less Dark World, and we're starting this season with a bang! This week we warp into the 2D Zelda that perfected the formula, and we're joined by our favorite Zelda Enthusiast, Danielle Radford! Some would say this is one of the greatest games ever made. Some would say this game is still being imitated to this very day. Some might even say this game remains a blast to play. But none of those people are Michael Swaim! Yeah. He goes pretty hard this episode. So pick up your hookshot, zip over the gap and join us for the new season of 1Upsmanship!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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**Get Each Episode One Week Early on Patreon!** This week, Corey, Stephanie, and LeRon are joined by Celia Schilling, the Marketing Director of Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight, Cyber Shadow, Mina the Hollower) to talk about her career, what she does at the studio, the importance of indie games and Shovel Knight, 2D Zelda games, and more. Follow Corey: Twitter  |  InstagramFollow LeRon: Twitter  |  Instagram  |  TwitchFollow Stephanie: Twitter | Instagram Today's Guest:Celia Schilling: ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Yacht Club Games⁠ Follow us on Social Media:Twitter | Discord | Instagram | Twitch | YouTube | Facebook Group | Facebook Thank you for listening to The Boss Rush Podcast, the Flagship Show of Boss Rush Media and The Boss Rush Network. You can catch the show on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, and other podcast apps as well as our website every Monday morning. Remember to like, subscribe, share, rate, and review us wherever you consume the show. Thanks for building something better together with us. Be You. Be More. Play Games. Be Better.

**Support The Show on Patreon** This week, Ed and Corey are joined by Todd Oxtra from Secret Friends Unite to discuss if Nintendo's next console will actually take the next step technologically, Detective Pikachu 2 and the Super Mario Bros. Movie, the next 2D Zelda, and more. Follow our Hosts: Edward Varnell: Twitter | Instagram Corey Dirrig: Twitter | Instagram Guest: Todd Oxtra: Twitter | Secret Friends Unite Contact the Show: Email: NintendoPowBlock@gmail.com Twitter: @PowBlockPodcast Follow Nintendo Pow Block on Social Media: Twitter | Discord | Instagram | Twitch | YouTube Thank you for listening and/or watching Nintendo Pow Block. You can find the show on YouTube and your podcast service of choice every Wednesday morning. Remember if you're watching on YouTube to subscribe the channel. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave us a review and five star rating. Remember to also check out Expansion Pass and The Direct Recap Show. See you next week on Nintendo Pow Block! Be You. Be More. Play Games. Be Better. Nintendo Pow Block Podcast. https://www.bossrushmedia.com/

Denne uges episode af N-cast er en special-episode hvor Niklas, Anne og Mark kigger tilbage på og fejrer The Legend of Zelda-serien samt kårer deres yndlingsaspekter ved serien. Hvilket spil er deres yndlings 2D Zelda? Hvilket er deres yndlings 3D Zelda? Hvilken karakter kan de bedste lide? Yndlings musik? Og meget mere!

During the Christmas holidays in 2017 I bought and played one of my favourite games on Switch, Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King. It was a charming action adventure game that filled the lack of a 2D Zelda title on Switch perfectly. Today Castle Pixel's sequel has landed on the eShop, Blossom Tales ll: The Minotaur Prince! I'm excited to welcome Castle Pixel's own Miguel & Tyler to the house and discuss their new game! The doors are open! REACH OUT! https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/podcast/www.twitter.com/idrewby (@iDrewby on Twitter) https://twitter.com/TheHouseOfMario (@TheHouseOfMario on Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/TheHouseOfMario/ (The House of Mario's Facebook page) https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/podcast/drew@thehouseofmario.com (eMail) LISTEN TO MY OTHER PODCASTS! https://drewstory.captivate.fm/listen (A Drew Story (A Conversational Interview Podcast)) https://crackinfurphys.captivate.fm/listen (Crackin' Furphys (Crackin' lies among true stories)) https://thehouseofmario.captivate.fm/listen (The House of Mario (A Nintendo Podcast)) SUPPORT MY CONTENT! Gain access to Secret Recordings & get your name in the credits all while helping me achieve my goal of making 1 working day a week free to create podcasts! https://www.patreon.com/iDrewby (Patreon.com/idrewby) WANNA START A PODCAST? Captivate. FM is the hosting platform I use for all my podcasts! With simple yet powerful tools, an in-built marketing suite and plenty of tips to better your show, I believe this is the best podcast hosting platform on the internet! https://www.captivate.fm/signup?ref=drewagnew (Use our Affilate link for a 1 week free trial and if you sign up you help support the show!) INVITE TO OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY! Join the community to chat with awesome people like Mettadox, Ash, Luke, Jamie, Sam, Deejaayy, Delfino and others! https://discord.gg/ggnde9S (Invitation to The House of Mario discord community)

During the Christmas holidays in 2017 I bought and played one of my favourite games on Switch, Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King. It was a charming action adventure game that filled the lack of a 2D Zelda title on Switch perfectly. Today Castle Pixel's sequel has landed on the eShop, Blossom Tales ll: The Minotaur Prince! I'm excited to welcome Castle Pixel's own Miguel & Tyler to the house and discuss their new game! The doors are open! REACH OUT! https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/podcast/www.twitter.com/idrewby (@iDrewby on Twitter) https://twitter.com/TheHouseOfMario (@TheHouseOfMario on Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/TheHouseOfMario/ (The House of Mario's Facebook page) https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/podcast/drew@thehouseofmario.com (eMail) LISTEN TO MY OTHER PODCASTS! https://drewstory.captivate.fm/listen (A Drew Story (A Conversational Interview Podcast)) https://crackinfurphys.captivate.fm/listen (Crackin' Furphys (Crackin' lies among true stories)) https://thehouseofmario.captivate.fm/listen (The House of Mario (A Nintendo Podcast)) SUPPORT MY CONTENT! Gain access to Secret Recordings & get your name in the credits all while helping me achieve my goal of making 1 working day a week free to create podcasts! https://www.patreon.com/iDrewby (Patreon.com/idrewby) WANNA START A PODCAST? Captivate. FM is the hosting platform I use for all my podcasts! With simple yet powerful tools, an in-built marketing suite and plenty of tips to better your show, I believe this is the best podcast hosting platform on the internet! https://www.captivate.fm/signup?ref=drewagnew (Use our Affilate link for a 1 week free trial and if you sign up you help support the show!) INVITE TO OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY! Join the community to chat with awesome people like Mettadox, Ash, Luke, Jamie, Sam, Deejaayy, Delfino and others! https://discord.gg/ggnde9S (Invitation to The House of Mario discord community)

*Special thanks to Playtonic Friends for the review code!* This week we are review-discussing Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince on Nintendo Switch! This action-adventure indie title brings back nostalgic memories for us of classic 2D Zelda titles, but does it do enough on its own to stand out? Take a listen, and stick around to the end to hear about Marcus's adventures in Seoul! Purchase Blossom Tales II here: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/blossom-tales-ii-the-minotaur-prince-switch/ Most of the music in this episode is from Blossom Tales and Blossom Tales II and was composed by Visager AKA Josie Brechner. You can check out their other work here! https://visager.bandcamp.com/ If you want your comments read on the show, you can message us at LevelWithUsPodcast [at] gmail [dot] com! You can also reach us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LvlWithUs -- Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:12 - Main Discussion 7:39 - ⭒Star Pieces 8:51 - Quick Jabs 12:23 - Who's the Fake Fan? 18:23 - Final Thoughts 18:46 - Marcus's Trip 23:53 - Outro

This week Shea is off,,, so there's no one to stop Rich and Josh from going on and on about old Zelda games. We discuss the 2D Zelda games and rank them in a top ten list. After that we talk about what we've been playing this week: Stacklands and Stray.Enjoy the show!

Get ready to rumble, because this week the gang are talking a little Smash and a little Zelda, and specifically, what the best stages to play on are. Is Temple still the favorite and what makes it such an elite stage? Are Bridge of Eldin and Gerudo Valley just a little too boring to be great? Is N64's Hyrule Castle "Zelda" enough? Was Breath of the Wild's representation in Smash Ultimate below average? Why dies 2D Zelda get no love at all in the fighting series? And what stages would we have picked if we were in charge of making those decisions? All this, PLUS some followup from last weeks Breath of the Wild 2 delay. You won't wanna miss this episode!   Follow The Champions' Cast! Twitter Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord   Pledge to Receive the Spiteri Show! Patreon   Subscribe to The Champions' Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM   Grab The Champions' Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store  

Get ready to rumble, because this week the gang are talking a little Smash and a little Zelda, and specifically, what the best stages to play on are. Is Temple still the favorite and what makes it such an elite stage? Are Bridge of Eldin and Gerudo Valley just a little too boring to be great? Is N64's Hyrule Castle "Zelda" enough? Was Breath of the Wild's representation in Smash Ultimate below average? Why dies 2D Zelda get no love at all in the fighting series? And what stages would we have picked if we were in charge of making those decisions? All this, PLUS some followup from last weeks Breath of the Wild 2 delay. You won't wanna miss this episode!   Follow The Champions' Cast! Twitter Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord   Pledge to Receive the Spiteri Show! Patreon   Subscribe to The Champions' Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM   Grab The Champions' Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store  

Max Nichols joins us for a brand new conversation about why Matt hates 2D Zelda so much!

Dave is joined by both of the hosts of the List Off! podcast to discuss Acid Nerve's 2021 indie darling, Death's Door. Death's Door was a surprise hit in 2021, bursting on the scene with a great art direction and soundtrack, and paying homage to 2D Zelda games of the past. But was it all as cool as a crow wielding a bright red lightsaber? Listen in to find out! TIMESTAMPS: Intro 0:00, Death's Door 12:39, Spoiler Section 1:18:18 Click here for everything List Off! (https://linktr.ee/ListOffPodcast) Tales from the Backlog: Join the Discord! (https://discord.gg/V3ZHz3vYQR) Social Media: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/talesfromthebacklog/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/tftblpod) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TalesfromtheBacklog/) Cover art by Jack Allen- find him at https://www.instagram.com/jackallencaricatures/ and his other pages (https://linktr.ee/JackAllenCaricatures)

Chicory is a wholesome, polished, deceptively simple game that has an emotionally resonant story, and gives the 2D Zelda format a welcome splash of fresh paint.  Also discussed: Death's Door and The Wild At Heart come to Switch, A Short Hike comes to Playstation, and some first impressions of Guardians of the Galaxy. Links to some things mentioned: Death's Door (full review episode): https://anchor.fm/gaminginthewild/episodes/66-Deaths-Door-e157750/a-a688ttj Kerlsburgers plays A Short Hike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPEeE57EJ_Y If you enjoy the show, you can come say hi on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch - find the links at http://gaminginthewild.com. If you'd like to support the show on Patreon, you can do so from $1 per month and get exclusive episodes, sale recommendations, and an invite to the show's Discord community – go to http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild for that. You can also support the show via Ko-Fi if that's your preferred creator platform: http://ko-fi.com/gaminginthewild. And as always, thanks for listening!

This week, the next generation of the NXpress Nintendo Podcast turns one year old! A whole year has passed since Cameron Daxon, Marc Kaliroff, and Campbell Gill first took the reins of NXpress, so this episode starts out with a fitting birthday bash. Once the champagne runs out, Cameron starts the show in earnest and shares his impressions of the Zelda Game & Watch device, a charming novelty that provides an endearing way to play some of the greatest games ever made. Before long, the discussion shifts to a broader celebration of the Zelda franchise, including Marc's regular progress reports through Ocarina of Time on N64 Online, the differences between 3D and 2D Zelda games, and Campbell's relentless enthusiasm for Skyward Sword. Marc puts the focus on an all-time classic in the next segment with a review of Bioware's iconic Stars Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. You don't even have to be a Star Wars fan to enjoy this inventive RPG: with an engaging plot, brilliant musical score, and a compelling combat system, this roleplaying adventure holds up even today, nearly 20 years since its first release. Closing out the show, Campbell spotlights WayForward's delightful remaster of A Boy and His Blob, an endearing little game that first released back on the Wii but finds a perfect home in this Switch port. You can listen to our show on YouTube |  Stitcher | iTunes |  Podbean | Spotify | Listen Notes | iHeartRadio | Player FM | Amazon Audible   Playlist: LFXIV – NXpress Intro 00:41 – Opening Topic: Zelda Game & Watch Impressions “Song of Storms” – Zelda & Chill 30:30 – Talking Point: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Review “Zelda's Lullaby” – Zelda & Chill II 46:07 – Indie Spotlight: A Boy and His Blob “Outset Island” – Zelda & Chill II

We continue our deep diving video game discussion but hone on one franchise in particular! Zelda. Zelda! Zelda! Zelda! Each of us rank our top 3 games in the franchise and discuss why we think Zach's top 3 picks are so divisive. Things get dicey when Chang describes his troubled relationship with Majora's Mask, Zach explains about why he prefers 2D Zelda significantly and what went wrong with Ocarina Of Time. As always, the outro music is very good. https://howdyriceball.itch.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc https://www.instagram.com/backtogoodpodcast/?hl=en

About: Journey through The Legend of Zelda with these songs from 2D Zelda games, ordered in such a way that is reminiscent of experiencing a traditional Legend of Zelda story from beginning to end. > [Music by K. Kondo, M. Adachi, K. Sada, M. Hamano, K. Ishikawa, K. Totaka, T. Minegishi, M. Tominaga, A. Ohta, A. Nakatsuka, R. Nagamatsu, M. Takano, K. Nagata] > 00:00 - Intro [The Legend of Zelda] > 01:28 - Intro (Maku Tree) [Oracle of A/S] > 01:39 - Main Theme [Link's Awakening] > 02:09 - File Select [Spirit Tracks] > 03:01 - Prologue [Spirit Tracks] > 04:25 - Secrets Of The Oracles [Oracle of A/S] > 04:52 - Village [Zelda II] > 07:03 - House [FS Adventures] > 08:28 - Overworld (Unarmed) [Link's Awakening] > 09:41 - Angler's Tunnel Revealed [Link's Awakening 2019] > 09:50 - Sanctuary Dungeon [A Link to the Past] > 12:25 - Battle Theme 2 [Zelda II] > 13:27 - The Wise Owl [Link's Awakening 2019] > 14:30 - Overworld [The Legend of Zelda] > 15:46 - Hyrule Castle [Spirit Tracks] > 17:23 - Woodlands (Normal) [Tri Force Heroes] > 18:52 - Level 1 (Tail Cave) [Link's Awakening 2019] > 20:57 - Boss BGM [A Link to the Past] > 21:25 - Palace Clear [Zelda II] > 21:30 - Overworld Adventure [Spirit Tracks] > 24:51 - Hyrule Town [The Minish Cap] > 26:14 - Indoors Melody [Phantom Hourglass] > 27:33 - Cave [Link's Awakening] > 28:06 - Zora Village [Oracle of Ages] > 28:58 - Song of Light (Short) [Spirit Tracks] > 29:02 - Discovery Fanfare [Phantom Hourglass] > 29:06 - Level 6 (Mermaid's Cave) [Oracle of Ages] > 30:10 - Versus Bellum [Phantom Hourglass] > 32:12 - Dungeon Complete [Oracle of A/S] > 32:20 - Overworld (Past) [Oracle of Ages] > 33:27 - Byrne Awakens [Spirit Tracks] > 36:27 - Master Sword Demo [A Link to the Past] > 36:41 - Lake Hylia [FS Adventures] > 38:44 - Lynna Village [Oracle of Ages] > 39:38 - Scaling Death Mountain [A Link Between Worlds] > 41:53 - Song of Healing (Short) [Spirit Tracks] > 41:56 - Sky Realm [Tri Force Heroes] > 43:42 - Level 4 (Skull Dungeon) [Oracle of Ages] > 44:59 - Ganon's Message [A Link to the Past] > 45:34 - Skeldritch [Spirit Tracks] > 47:16 - Element Obtained [The Minish Cap] > 47:25 - Nayru's Song [Oracle of Ages] > 47:54 - Full Moon Cello [Link's Awakening 2019] > 48:05 - Dark World [A Link to the Past] > 50:15 - Level 8 (Turtle Rock) [Link's Awakening 2019] > 51:40 - Enter Ganon [A Link Between Worlds] > 52:48 - Battle With Ganon [A Link to the Past] > 54:04 - Battle With Nightmare [Link's Awakening] > 55:37 - Final Battle ~ Malladus (with Duet) [Spirit Tracks] > 01:00:51 - Triforce Chamber [A Link to the Past] > 01:01:50 - Credits [Link's Awakening 2019] > www.pixelbeatpod.com > pixelbeatpod@icloud.com > 

Triforce Trends is mainly about Zelda, but sometimes I cover other Nintendo content too. If you have a different opinion to mine, please drop me a comment on your app, or get in touch on my socials. Hello everyone and welcome back to the channel, today I'll be looking at every single 2d game in the zelda seies and I'll be discussing whether or not I think each one should get a remake next, shouldn't, or if they're deserving of a remake at all since we all just wanna play these old 2d games but with some new graphics, so strap in as I talk about the remake-ability of every 2d legend of zelda game. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw/videos Support my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TriforceTrends Come and join my Discord! https://discord.gg/hQD3ts3 Please follow my Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TriforceTrends Please follow my Insta here: https://www.instagram.com/triforcesocials/

Into the dungeon! This fantastic roguelike builds on the legacy of 2D Zelda to make something new and special. See the video version of this episode here! Social Media: See everything TroytlePower related by visiting this page! Follow the show on Twitter at @TPPTPPTPwTP or follow Troytle directly at @TroytlePower! Support the show, hear episodes early, get bonus content, and even request specific episodes by checking out the Patreon Page! Check out The Power Play-Throughs Podcast on Youtube for video versions of some episodes! We Can Make This Work Probably Network: Follow the We Can Make This Work Probably Network to keep up with this show and discover our many other podcasts! The place for those with questionable taste! Join the Probably Work Discord! ProbablyWork.com Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @ProbablyWork Email: ProbablyWorkPod@gmail.com Geek to Geek Media Follow Geek to Geek Media to join our community in geeking out about the things we love. Join our Slack or Discord! GeekToGeekMedia.com Twitter, Instagram: @GeekToGeekMedia Patreon Digital Magazine

Welcome to Dad's Gaming Corner! A podcast of conversations between dads and their kids about video games, movies, and everything in between. Be sure to listen and subscribe and leave us a quick review if you can.Nintendo is taking Zelda HD with their latest release, "The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD." Join us we discuss the big changes made over its original release and listen to our thoughts concerning older 3D and 2D Zelda games in a post Breath of the Wild world. Join us next time on Discord as we record the show to give your own comments and questions. Stay safe out there and game on!Be sure to listen to the end of the show for "Indie Corner" where we will be reviewing Indie Games that are currently on sale and definitely worth your consideration, and check out "Tabletop Gaming" where we will be bringing you one of our family favorite "analog" games.We now have our own dedicated Discord server for the show! Come and join us on Discord to chat about the show, your opinions, and share your own mom or dad story!Games and articles discussed on the show:The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HDThe Legend of Zelda: Link's AwakeningHelp finding Zelda amiibo & Joy-ConBe sure to enter our second Dad's Gaming Corner Giveaway!Answer the question: Do the characters in Looney Tunes have a speech impediment?Best Screen Protectors for Nintendo SwitchTechMatte Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Nintendo SwitchTechMatte Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch LiteBest MicroSDXC Cards for Nintendo Switch128GB256GB400GB1TBBest Bluetooth Audio Adapters for Nintendo SwitchGENKI Bluetooth AdapterHomeSpot Bluetooth AdapterBest Gaming Grips for Nintendo SwitchSatisfye Pro Gaming Grip Elite BundleSkull & Co. Dockable Protective Case with Replaceable GripsBest Power Accessories for Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch AC Adapter OEMAnker USB C PowerCore Essential 20000 PDListen each week to the different and unique views, thoughts, and opinions of a middle-age dad and his kids as they dive into today's culture when gaming has never been bigger and movies from Marvel and Star Wars rule the cinematic universe.Be sure to follow and connect with us!Twitter @DadsGCFacebook.com/DadsGamingCornerJoin us on Discord!Or drop us a line at: heydad@dadsgamingcorner.comYou can support us at Patreon, and we give you our heartfelt thanks in advance!All music used was produced by J+1 which you can find at SoundCloud.Thank you for listening!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/DadsGamingCorner)

Welcome to Dad's Gaming Corner! A podcast of conversations between dads and their kids about video games, movies, and everything in between. Be sure to listen and subscribe and leave us a quick review if you can.We present to you the, "Greatest Indie Hits Vol. 2" On today's show we highlight some of our favorite indie games we think you should give a try. Caleb and Micah join the show as we discuss everything from Arcades, 2D Zelda, and more! Stay safe out there and game on!Be sure to listen to the end of the show for "Indie Corner" where we will be reviewing Indie Games that are definitely worth your consideration.We now have our own dedicated Discord server for the show! Come and join us on Discord to chat about the show, your opinions, and share your own mom or dad story!Games and articles discussed on the show:Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! (M)Strange Brigade (T)Boomerang X (E 10+)Castle Crashers Remastered (T)Kingdom: New Lands (E 10+)Hollow Knight (E 10+)Aragami: Shadow Edition (M)Enter our second "Dad's Gaming Corner Giveaway!"Answer the question: Do the characters in Looney Tunes have a speech impediment?Best Screen Protectors for Nintendo SwitchTechMatte Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Nintendo SwitchTechMatte Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch LiteBest MicroSDXC Cards for Nintendo Switch128GB256GB400GB1TBBest Bluetooth Audio Adapters for Nintendo SwitchGENKI Bluetooth AdapterHomeSpot Bluetooth AdapterBest Gaming Grips for Nintendo SwitchSatisfye Pro Gaming Grip Elite BundleSkull & Co. Dockable Protective Case with Replaceable GripsBest Power Accessories for Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch AC Adapter OEMAnker USB C PowerCore Essential 20000 PDListen each week to the different and unique views, thoughts, and opinions of a middle-age dad and his kids as they dive into today's culture when gaming has never been bigger and movies from Marvel and Star Wars rule the cinematic universe.Be sure to follow and connect with us!Twitter @DadsGCFacebook.com/DadsGamingCornerJoin us on Discord!Or drop us a line at: heydad@dadsgamingcorner.comYou can support us at Patreon, and we give you our heartfelt thanks in advance!All music used was produced by J+1 which you can find at SoundCloud.Thank you for listening!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/DadsGamingCorner)

The hosts talk in length their opinions on the future of The Legend of Zelda, whether we'll get 2D Zelda games or even linear gameplay like in the olden days, or will we only see massive open world like the current game? We also discuss a 10,000 reward for finding a bug & celebrate the Gameboy Advance's Birthday!  

Happy Birthday to The Legend of Zelda! Mike and Matt celebrate the 35th Anniversary with a 2-Part Retrospective. The first part focuses on the 2D Zelda games. Please follow us on Instagram @halloffamepod or email us at thehalloffamepod@gmail.com

Triforce Trends is mainly about Zelda, but sometimes I cover other Nintendo content too. If you have a different opinion to mine, please drop me a comment on your app, or get in touch on my socials. Hello everyone and welcome back to the channel, today I'm going to be talking about which 2D Zelda game could come over to the switch, to do that I'll be going over a list of 5 2D games that I think will come over, talking about why it's likely and not likely. Please follow my Insta here: https://www.instagram.com/triforcesocials/ If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw/videos

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on one of the highest-rated games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. We of course first situate the game in time, but especially start the discussion by talking about how ground-breaking and revolutionary it felt at the time. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Through meeting Princess Zelda Podcast breakdown: 0:50 Ocarina 1:01:05 Break 1:01:40 Feedback Issues covered: a man without a fairy, the antithesis of our last game, not being sure where we stopped, a surprising discovery, "I'm Mr. Rhythm," 1998 in games, release days in stores, seeing the character in 3rd person, a large team for time, the 64DD expansion, a mind-blowing impact, amazingly well-received, the revelatory step to 3D in this game, two giant cratering events in the year, approach of a Mario vs a Zelda in terms of problem space, cinematic choices, artful cinematics in-engine, stepping into the world and all the world-building, Nintendo and finding ways to present innovation, introducing a controller with Super Mario 64, creating characters that represent a mechanic, Navi & Lakitu & Wii Fit Trainer, helping people surmount the 3D barrier, the Fairy Navigation System, having to find the sword, near-perfection, a sense of ease and trust, being led to the places where you need to go, changing the world in ways that recontextualize the space, the timer of fire, one of the best introductory dungeons of all time, knowing you're doing the right thing, a weird choice with the Lost Woods, the quality of the moment of waking up, animation to show quality, getting a lot out of limited facial expressivity, using cinematic language to establish emotional tenors, texture changes to convey ageing, limited tools in 3D, music interactions, leading up to a boss, presenting you with a 3D way of thinking of past/2D Zelda dungeon construction, wondering how they iterated on the level design, why it's hard to talk about our more recent games, discussing some other weird differences in play between our games of Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, an unanswered question about VtM. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Vampire the Masquerade, Nintendo 64, Troy Mashburn (obliquely), Starfighter (series), Full Throttle 2, Jake Stephens, Wind Waker, GameCube, Wii, Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, Thief, Grim Fandango, Banjo Kazooie, Xbox One, Crash Bandicoot, PlayStation, Xenogears, Suikoden II, Resident Evil 2, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate, Unreal, Starcraft, Starsiege: Tribes, Falcon 4.0, Rogue Squadron, Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aounuma, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Link to the Past, Koji Kondo, Mario 64, Link's Awakening, GameBoy, LucasArts, Shadows of the Empire, Wayne Cline, Hal Barwood, Tim Schafer, Psychonauts, Jon Knowles, Forza (series), Bill Tiller, SCUMM, Breath of the Wild, Wii Sports, Monkey Island (obliquely), Twilight Princess, Bethesda Game Studios, Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy (series), Kingdom Hearts (series), Blarg42, nambulous, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers. Next time: Through Death Mountain Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub, instagram:timlongojr DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome once again to this week's episode of the Tombstone Podcast! This episode we continue our series on The Legend of Zelda with Devin's favorite: A Link to the Past. This game is regarded as the pinnacle of 2D Zelda games so how about we talk about its strengths and weaknesses. I hope everyone is staying safe and indoors. We're all working from home or taking off work so I hope you can do the same. Remember to wash your hands and social distance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tombstone-podcast/support

Sometimes, despite all your best efforts, you fail. This week, Rob has the misfortune of sharing with us the sad tale of the Krummetses. A humble bread/pastry (breastry? Pastread?) born of misunderstandings and faulty equipment. Luckily, Patrick has had a little more luck with The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, one of the weirder 2D Zelda games, finally dropping on Switch this week. Austin and Cado have been playing (surprise surprise) two new roguelike deckbuilders, Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale and Sign of the Sojourner, and Rob is still finding new surprises in Control. We regret to inform you: Cado will not be acquiring a destiny shirt this year.Discussed: Link's Awakening, Control, Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale, Sign of the Sojourner, Borderlands III, Mutazione, Kind Words, Destiny 2 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn released for 3DS, the top 30 downloaded eShop games for February, 2D Zelda rumors, Pokemon GO making a ton of money, EA decides to forgo their E3 presentation, and Mar10 day is this weekend. Time Stamps - 00:01:09 - Top 30 eShop Switch Games 00:05:19 - Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn 00:08:42 - 2D Zelda Rumors 00:13:20 - Pokemon GO 00:19:21 - EA no E3 00:23:55 - Mar10 Day You can contact me in the following ways: Email - heartcontainerspodcast@gmail.com Personal Twitter: @romefawaz

I suppose a boy like you has much to learn about podcasting, Welcome back to NOCLIP! Today we’re going tackle one of our oldest requests and talk about The Minish Cap. The Minish Cap is an odd Zelda game that was developed by Capcom for the Game Boy Advanced, but despite this, stays true to the elements of 2D Zelda games that make them work as well as they do. Whether this is a good or bad thing is going to come down pretty strongly to if you are the kind of person who loves Zelda’s tropes and mechanics. Regardless, Minish Cap’s absolutely has its strengths, and whether it’s aesthetic choices or dungeon design, the game surpasses expectations for a non-Nintendo developed entry in the series, and in some elements surpasses some first-party offerings. We’re going to talk about repetition in Zelda games, uses and variability of items, and the weird bed that had the potential to go so wrong. Thanks for tuning in! Next episode is going to be an exciting one for us, as we celebrate the end of more than a decade of waiting by talking about Kingdom Hearts 3! That episode will release in a few weeks, but in case you’re a little rusty on what Sora and pals have been up to in the interim, keep an eye on the feed for a bonus episode in which Chad gets educated on the story so far. Well, either educated or put into a coma, we’ll find out soon enough.

Today, my friend Cam and I take on the first debate of the podcast. 2D Zelda? Or 3D Zelda? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quik-e-nogg-gaming/support

Also featured: Why can't Zelda save herself ever, our favorite Dark Horse Zelda books, the future of 2D Zelda, mobile gaming, and so much more!

Also featured: Why can't Zelda save herself ever, our favorite Dark Horse Zelda books, the future of 2D Zelda, mobile gaming, and so much more!

UPDATE: Correct audio is posted! Sorry for those who downloaded and got a bum track! The right one is here now! Andy and Taylor are joined by Rob Maher, lead developer of the awesome indie title Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, a 2D Zelda inspired adventure, to chat game development, Zelda, and future games!

UPDATE: Correct audio is posted! Sorry for those who downloaded and got a bum track! The right one is here now! Andy and Taylor are joined by Rob Maher, lead developer of the awesome indie title Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, a 2D Zelda inspired adventure, to chat game development, Zelda, and future games!

In this episode, we conclude the discussion of 2D Zelda games with Link Between Worlds and Tri Force Heroes!

In this episode, we continue the discussion of 2D Zelda games, focusing on the majority of the handhelds, including Link's Awakening, Oracles of Ages and Season, Phantom Hourglass, and Spirit Tracks!

In this episode, we continue the discussion of 2D Zelda games, talking about Minish Cap, Four Swords, and Four Swords Adventures!

In this episode, we discuss 2D Zelda games, starting with The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: Link's Adventure, and Link to the Past!

In Episode 48, we talk about the Johto update to Pokémon Go, Nintendo stating that a 2D Zelda on Switch is possible, the leak of the Switch UI, and the PS4 Pro's Boost Mode! Major Topics include: 1)What's our favorite snack while gaming? 2)What difficulty in games do we select? 3)How important is it to match a reviewer to the game?