The Legend of Zelda is one of the most successful video game series of all time. Here, I rank the series from the ‘worst’ (is there a bad Zelda game?) entry to the best entry. I’m obviously excluding the dreadful Phillips CD-i Zelda releases, as the creation rights were licensed to Phillips by Nintendo as…
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The Legend of Zelda: Shades of Time (FanFic) Chapter 9
Lon Lon Ranch Present…. Malon nervously played with her hands as she watched her future husband to be sip hot coffee from a wooden mug as he waited for her father to awake from his seemly eternal slumber. Malon’s cheeks reddened at the realization that Stonard had arrived hours ago, and her father remained deep…
The Rise and Fall of Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPGs)
Before we start, let us make one thing clear: Japanese Role-Playing Games are not dead. The genre never died, its games are everywhere around us in portable machines, mobile phones and in-home consoles. The word ‘demise’ in reference to the JRPG genre is more a description of the genre’s current state in comparison to its…
Nintendo’s Switch is the Biggest Winner of the Pandemic’s Video Game Sales Boom
While the effects of the Pandemic and the subsequent worldwide lockdowns hurt world economies and many industries a few have seen growth, in some cases exponentially. The Video Games Industry had one of the biggest surges in sales ever recorded for a month of March in it history. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sales grew…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Ocarina of Time – The First Person Adventure That Almost Was
Every Thursday the Never Ending Realm will pay homage to older games by discussing tidbits of information that you might not know about the development of some of the most iconic titles in Video Gaming History. In this first installment we travel back in time to the mid 90’s where Nintendo’s EAD was hard at…
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (3DS) Review
“Time is a Valuable Thing…” In the words of the legendary band, Linkin Park, time is truly a valuable thing. Perhaps, truly the most valuable gift of all. Time is always cruel, it never stops “ticking life away” (another LP reference), which makes both N64 Zelda entries special, and dark titles in comparison (Twilight Princess…
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (NS/WiiU) Review
Breath of the Wild if anything else is a sobering reminder that Nintendo still is in the top class of the development industry, and that the rest of the development world has been lucky that Nintendo since 2006 has been producing consoles that are a generation behind the competition thus officially placing its development teams…
The Legend of Zelda: Shades of Time (FanFic) Chapter 8
Image via @glaciie Lon Lon Ranch Present Malon was stirred awake by the sounds of horse hooves and unintelligible chatter out side of her window. The sun was barely making its way out, but she could easily make out the form of three Hylian Knights, one them being her own Marcilus Stonard. She knew Stonard…
The Legend of Zelda: Shades of Time (FanFic) Chapter 7
Image via @pikinipiki Lost Woods Present… Link could feel his head spinning. He had lost a lot of blood, and even under the guidance of Aryl the Lost Woods maze was quite frankly an annoying place to trek. The annoyance was amplified by Link’s moribund condition. “How much further Aryl? I am starting to black…
The Legend of Zelda: Shades of Time (FanFic) Chapter 6
Image via @pikinipiki Hyrule’s Castle Present… Princess Zelda walked through Hyrule Castle’s stony halls with sleepy eyes and a frowned expression. It was barely first light and she had already been summoned by her father for an all important meeting in the council chamber. “So…he didn’t say what this was about?” She asked her attendant…