Gadgetory

ever since Nintendo announced the remake of Link's Awakening I've been thinking a lot about The Legend of Zelda franchise it's a series I grew up with and well it's always been popular the last few years have been particularly really great for it thanks in no small part to of course the switch and breadth of the wild so with the classic like Link's Awakening coming back I got to think what's after that if you've played Link's Awakening before you'll know that it's kind of one of the weirder entries in the Zelda franchise in a really good way it's an amazing excellent game so for Nintendo to actually pull all the way back to that title and bring it back and this really honestly I think super cool art style even though I know some people work out more about it it's a really cool move and I think it's also pointing to where this trend with Nintendo where I think we're gonna see as l de game every year at least depending on what you count as a Zelda game I mean let's look at the years so far so in 2017 when the switch first came out we of course got breath of the wild big main entry Zelda title huge lots of substitute great awesome a year after that in Japan and a couple months later in the u.s. we get a port of Hyrule warriors sure that's a crossover with another series and it's not exactly a normal Zelda game but it's still a zelda game and now later this year we're gonna see Link's Awakening 1 a year so far I think you could take a look at what games they've released so far and there's the full history of the Zelda franchise and what they've done I think there's kind of a pattern you can see coming with future releases this year we're getting a remake and next year I'm willing to bet we're gonna see some kind of port what that ports gonna be I don't know because they have plenty of options to choose from they've already ported Twilight Princess and Wind Waker to HD back on the Wii U they could bring those back again Skyward Sword could certainly use a better version and remake and there's of course the n64 classics Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask which were on 3ds but could it get cleaned up even further for the switch this allows the intended to have this really cool flow with the franchise where basically every other year we're having some kind of biggish main entry or at least an interesting take like with the Link's Awakening remake or we just have the return of a classic that we can now play on the go and sure a lot of these games we've all played before but they're good games at having in handheld would be awesome all of my oldest memories in gaming have to do with The Legend of Zelda series I grew up in new Nintendo household my older brother had an NES and while I wasn't exactly good at the game yet I did try playing the original game we never actually had legend as loved to in the house but as I got older and more games started coming out like Link to the Past Ocarina of Time Majora's Mask I started being able to actually you know play through them properly and it's just a series that's always really resonated with me I've done my best to really keep up with most of it I've played all the big main line ones like I mentioned earlier through the n64 and after that going into Wind Waker Twilight Princess Skyward Sword which was a little more rough but then also a lot of the handhelds in fact honestly some of my absolute favorites in the series go to the older Game Boy ones with Link's Awakening again super excited to have a new version of that come out the Oracle games which are so good I actually did skip out on some of the DS titles that are based in Wind Waker I started them and just didn't click for whatever reason but I did go back for link between worlds which is one of the top ones for me I admit I have a bit of a soft spot for the more classical style I really like the 3d adventure stuff that happens ocarina time is a big deal I get it but there's something but that classic top-down feeling where your imagination plays with you a little bit more and I just love it I think there's something really to be said for how the series has kind of done the same concept over and over again but it's done it so well I mean don't go wrong there are different obviously breath Awadh remix things really heavily and there was the leap from the 2d games to the 3d but the very basic core concept has always been the same you start off as that young kid who doesn't really know what he's doing yet you start amassing different items and leveling up getting more hearts exploring and getting stronger until eventually you can destroy the big bad guy and save the princess it's one of the oldest stories not just in gaming but just oldest stories in general but there's something about the way the Zelda franchise is one of the earliest games to do it and just continue to do it so well I admit that part of this is definitely nostalgia I mean again this is one of the oldest franchises to use this formula but they keep doing it right and after how well breadth of the wild just basically bought a breath of fresh air to the entire series I'm just really curious to see where they're gonna take it next it was also just such a huge game during my childhood that it was pretty much impossible to find someone who wasn't a fan of that series in one form or another I mean you whether it was someone who loved Link to the Past while they were younger or were actively playing Ocarina of Time Majora's Mask it was just that game that everyone knew there's a lot of places in Nintendo could take the Zelda franchise in the next couple years and using what we've seen so far as a blueprint I've got a couple of different ideas I think 2020 we're gonna see some kind of port whether that's multiple games from past generations or maybe just a single one probably Skyward Sword especially if they made some light adjustments to make it a little friendlier and not quite overbearing you with tutorials every five seconds but after that is the really interesting question because if you look at how often big mainline titles come out it's usually about five years with how well breath of the wild did they could be trying to rush one a little sooner maybe have one come out in twenty twenty-one but I really doubt it I think we're not seeing another big mainland entry till probably twenty-two so what's in between those well with the games we have so far Zelda's kind of a big franchise and there's a lot of different styles of games within that we've got the big 3d ones we've got the old-school classical top-down ones you have the ones that are kind of genre-bending and one that we haven't seen quite yet on switch that I think would be a perfect fit is a four sword style adventure I mean really think about it the whole point of the switch is that it's a handheld portable it allows you to also easily share controllers with other people and make multiplayer happen anywhere so the concept of four swords where it's just multiple links working together to solve different problems fits really great now given that particular type of Zelda game doesn't have the best history lately because the latest one 3ds wasn't quite as good but if it was given the right love and attention I think a really good one on the switch would be a perfect fit and after that of course would be another mainline Zelda and what is that gonna be like I honestly have no idea breath of the wild was amazing and while I would certainly love to have another game in that same vein I don't necessarily know if that's how they're gonna take it they might want to focus on a more traditional route or do something entirely different all over again because remix thing has certainly worked out in their favor whatever it is though I'm definitely in a plane rolling okay so what are we actually recording oh I didn't know that I thought I didn't know we'd cut or something okay hi guys hey that was a weird awkward long pause