Zelda Megathread

[Nickakyoin]

I'm also 90% sure to skip the next Hyrule Warriors on TOTK. After Age of Calamity I don't trust the KOEI Tecmo guys.

 

[Turbo Kid]

You're aware that Link is a kid in like 90% of the series right? Also you become an adult after 1/3rd of the game.


I'm not sure what you mean by "serious" because Zelda II felt similar to Zelda 1.

As for the stories I'd even argue that ALTTP and LA's respective plots had some seriousness in.


Yeah, Castlevania itself had several art styles through its existence.


I forgot which but aren't there guides?

Have you done FS, FSA and TFH? Those are my remaining top down entries.

No, he is not a kid in 90% of the games. He is 10 in the original game. However, In Zelda II we know he is 16 because that has been documented. He is almost a full grown adult. He is also 16 in Twilight Princess. In most games he is at least a teenager and in his late teens in many of them. In Ocarina of Time he is 9 years old. The game does everything in its power to make it clear you are playing as a child. He looks like a kid and he sounds like a kid. It's one of the things I find annoying about Ocarina of Time.

Zelda II feels darker than the first game (you even fight a dark version of yourself as the final boss) and is infamously more challenging as well. Zelda II was a game for big boys. Oh, and there's also the ladies in red which everyone just assumed were prostitutes whether that was the intent or not.

 

[Tonberry]

I always preferred Link being a kid. Makes it feel more whimsical to me, and I’ve always appreciated Zelda being more whimsical and fairy-tale coded than just straight up safe high fantasy.

As far as artstyles go, Zelda has almost always had a somewhat contemporary style, it’s just that they’ve almost always had really really good artist and art direction to make stuff look and feel hand crafted and unique.