Per week’s value of legends, myths, and spinning cost assaults

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out. I’m certain many are studying this text on a Monday morning with drained eyes from a launch weekend stuffed with exploration and adventures in Hyrule.

As a part of this massive launch, we kicked off one other themed Zelda Week right here at Destructoid. All through the week, our workers and contributors pitched in with tales, opinions, lists, analyses, and extra, all concerning the Zelda franchise. It was a stable week stuffed with articles that they need to be pleased with, and as the person who curated the entire thing, I’m very grateful for his or her contributions.
One in all my largest takeaways, because the week got here collectively, was how expansive Zelda has develop into. It’s not simply Hyperlink happening adventures. We had appears at what a combating sport, or Linkle-centered spin-off, would possibly seem like. Chris Moyse explored the legacy of enjoyable, unusual adverts for the Zelda sequence, as they advanced over time and alongside popular culture. We checked out what place the titular princess has within the sequence, and the way one massive date could have marked a everlasting shift within the sequence’ storytelling.

It was, by all accounts, a superb week. So should you’re recuperating from an extended weekend of taking part in Tears of the Kingdom and nonetheless craving some Zelda to learn, right here’s every little thing we put collectively from the final week of protection.

Each Zelda Week article, 2023 version

• CJ kicks the week off with a take a look at the very best quotes from The Legend of Zelda. Although Hyperlink isn’t (usually) talkative, there’s fairly just a few good ones.
• I, Eric, take one final journey by means of Breath of the Wild‘s Hyrule and its aspect quests, forward of Tears of the Kingdom. After taking part in a superb chunk of Tears, I really feel fairly vindicated in my intestine instincts on which aspect quests would carry some significance within the new sport.
• Chris Penwell ponders what a Zelda combating sport would possibly seem like, carrying a few of that Soulcalibur II legacy ahead within the course of.
• We re-shared CJ’s 30-year quest to beat Zelda II.

• Our workers shared their favourite Zelda dungeons from all through the years, from Snowpeak Ruins to the Nice Deku Tree.
• Holmes explores the comfy city vibes of older Zelda video games, whereas additionally calling for a Hyperlink’s Awakening 2. Let him prepare dinner, I say.
• Cody asks if it’s time for Zelda to be playable in a mainline Zelda sport, which sure, that may be rad.
• Chris Moyse takes us by means of the historical past of Zelda TV adverts. It goes locations.

Nonetheless extra Zelda on the way in which

That’s a wrap for this yr’s Zelda Week, however it’s removed from the top of our Zelda protection. There may be little doubt we’ll maintain following Tears of the Kingdom, seeing what gamers do with it and growing extra takes on it as time goes on.

We could even take a look at performing some extra theme weeks this yr, as there’s definitely no scarcity of massive launches in our future. However to our writers who contributed, and to everybody who clicked by means of and skim, thanks for making Zelda Week 2023 a fantastic one. See y’all in Hyrule.

Eric Van Allen

Senior Information Reporter – Whereas Eric’s been writing about video games since 2014, he is been taking part in them for lots longer. Often discovered grinding RPG battles, digging into an indie gem, or hanging out across the Limsa Aethryte.

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