Theyre still celebrating and promoting the Mario anniversary. They'll do a big Zelda thing later this year.
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Today is The Legend of Zelda's 35th Anniversary
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Oh right! Mario's thing ends at the end of March, right? And then there's Pokemon's 25th.
I don't understand why video game fans are so insistent that game companies should care about a game anniversary. Maybe if it was the 50th anniversary or something I suppose.
Yup! Ends March 31st, when Nintendo snaps its fingers and all of your mario games and merchandise disappears
It's more that Nintendo have demonstrably acknowledged/celebrated Mario's 35th and Zelda is their other major franchise. If it wasn't for that, I'd agree that 35 is a fairly arbitrary number.
Nintendo be like "friendship ended with The Legend of Zelda, now Part Time UFO is my best friend"
Wanted to make sure I had a tribute ready, one of my "drop whatever you're doing and play this" series
My question is are they gonna change the 25th anniversary line in Skyward Sword HD to say 35th anniversary 🤔
This reminds me of the 25th anniversary concert disc—is that a sort of the rerelease too?
Well, really, the only reason is because I want to know what products they're going to use this anniversary as an excuse to push. I enjoy buying video games.
Some art I'd done in the last year. Reposted for the Anniversary
I can't think of a franchise more impactful to me.
I can't think of a franchise more impactful to me.
Honestly, I think they're waiting until Mario's Anniversary ends next month.
As for Zelda, it's my favorite video game franchise and is a huge reason why I'm the person I am today.
I got introduced to the series at an early age. I was born in 82 and I received the original Zelda as a Christmas present in 1988, when I was 6 years old. I'll never forget opening that present and seeing this
My mind was blown when I put the game in my NES and started exploring. I'll never forget the excitement I had when I found level 1 in the tree.
The reason why I said this game was instrumental to who I am is because it was my first time seeing something fantasy related (specifically High Fantasy). Fantasy has become my favorite genre and Zelda was a huge reason why. That interest led to books like The Chronicles of Prydain, Dragonlance, and The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, and ultimately movies like Legend and Willow.
What's even better is that I've been able to share my love of Zelda with my son. I'll never forget watching one of the Breath of the Wild E3 trailers and him looking at me and saying "I can't wait to play that" when he was 5 (he just turned 10 back in December).
The Legend of Zelda is the only game franchise that gets me to stop in my tracks whenever Nintendo announces anything related to it, and it'll be my favorite franchise until the day I die.
I can't believe it's been 35 years and I'm looking forward to whatever else Nintendo comes up with in the series.
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It's funny because Luigi hurls Samus into space literally 2 seconds before that shot in the source video.
I get it that they're waiting for the end of Mario's celebration to announce their plans, but i thought that at least they were going to tweet something today, remembering the date and everything. They did it with Fire Emblem's anniversary day, AFAIK. Ignoring it is a bit strange.
I had to do something to celebrate, I'm pretty sure Zelda is my favorite franchise? It's the only one with no stinkers in it (besides the three games no one at Nintendo even touched).
Really hoping this year is gonna be big (also Skyward Sword is great)
Really hoping this year is gonna be big (also Skyward Sword is great)
Amusing , even the packag said "invaluable"... the guide/map where always meant to be used for the game, people that played/replayed the game without always said it was to obtuse and cryptic.. and it was, because it was an incomplete game.Honestly, I think they're waiting until Mario's Anniversary ends next month.
As for Zelda, it's my favorite video game franchise and is a huge reason why I'm the person I am today.
I got introduced to the series at an early age. I was born in 82 and I received the original Zelda as a Christmas present in 1988, when I was 6 years old. I'll never forget opening that present and seeing this
My mind was blown when I put the game in my NES and started exploring. I'll never forget the excitement I had when I found level 1 in the tree.
The reason why I said this game was instrumental to who I am is because it was my first time seeing something fantasy related (specifically High Fantasy). Fantasy has become my favorite genre and Zelda was a huge reason why. That interest led to books like The Chronicles of Prydain, Dragonlance, and The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, and ultimately movies like Legend and Willow.
What's even better is that I've been able to share my love of Zelda with my son. I'll never forget watching one of the Breath of the Wild E3 trailers and him looking at me and saying "I can't wait to play that" when he was 5 (he just turned 10 back in December).
The Legend of Zelda is the only game franchise that gets me to stop in my tracks whenever Nintendo announces anything related to it, and it'll be my favorite franchise until the day I die.
I can't believe it's been 35 years and I'm looking forward to whatever else Nintendo comes up with in the series.
I was fantasy interested in my youth, but mostly left that interest behind, im more scifi/ff 7/8 style fantasy (how is that called?) interested...but zelda stays dear to my heart. on the other hand... if is so far removed from what i currently associate with fantasy (mainy: the 15th derivative of LotR)
I just did Eventide in BotW for the first time in honour of the anniversary. I hadn't really avoided doing it, just hadn't gotten around to it, and I've played this game for hours across both Wii U and Switch. Really amazing how there are still new things to discover after all that. Just coming back into the world and exploring aimlessly is also always such an enjoyable experience. I really hope the sequel can be this special or even more. Wind Waker is really the only other game to capture that feeling of wonder and exploration for me, so I hope the rumours of it coming to Switch are true.
That's Luigi. The green is the obvious give away.happy birthday, zelda
Minish Cap might be the best looking Zelda game relative its platform and time of release. I forgot how beautiful it's sprite work and environments are
Every companion > MidnaBest series, even if the past decade has been an overall miss for me.
King of Red Lions > Midna
I think with the (pocket) monster Pokemon is they pushed the Zelda anniversary towards April. Unless they don't want to celebrate the Zelda anniversary and focus on Metroid and Donkey Kong instead :P
And the Game & Watch.Edit: Forgot to include my Game Boy copy of Link's Awakening...
Weird that you have all these games and miss both versions of MM.Happy 35th anniversary!
Don't know, maybe Samus from Metroid can explain better.
I won't be able to stomach this in HD.
Don't know, maybe Samus from Metroid can explain better.
I won't be able to stomach this in HD.
it's pretty alright. Citra with texture mod applied:
the artstyle is charmful, if they touch up some of the modelling, it would look lovely in full hd.
I played it on the GameCube Collector's Edition disc. I always meant to get it on N64, but we missed out on pre-orders or something and didn't end up getting it, for some reason. Probably didn't help that we were addicted to Dreamcast at the time, and that my parents were in the middle of a divorce. I was tempted to buy it a few years later ehen I saw a complete copy at GameStop, but I was a few bucks short, I think.
I might get it someday on N64 and/or 3DS. I only got Ocarina of Time 3D because it was $5. I don't own many 3DS games...my hands cramp up playing it, so I'm rarely tempted to play anything on it.
I also used to have A Link Between Worlds, and Wind Waker HD and Hyrule Warriors on Wii U, but one of my siblings took them when they moved out a few months ago.
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