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Tag Archives: a link to the past
How We Lost the Forest
I’d been thinking about the Lost Woods in the Zelda series, probably largely because Beth recently played A Link Between Worlds. Since it’s a handheld game, I wasn’t able to watch her play it, which is something I miss doing. … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Characters, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, John R. Neill, Language, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mario, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link between worlds, a link to the past, alice's adventures in wonderland, back woods, bafflewood, dragon quest v, dragon quest xi, enchanted forest, faerie lea, fairies, final fantasy vi, forest maze, forest of illusion, forest of maze, forever forest, ghosts, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, kokiri forest, legends of localization, lost woods, master sword, mayoi no mori, maze woods, mazes, neverglade, ocarina of time, paper mario, paper mario: sticker star, phantom forest, phantom train, poes, professor wogglebug, puzzles, quinces, reptites, skull kid, stalfos, super mario rpg, super mario world, the legend of zelda, the lost king of oz, the runaway in oz, through the looking-glass, tickington, wario land ii
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Worm Your Way
Looking into mythology and fiction involving giant worms is a little tricky because it seems like a lot of early societies thought worms and snakes were variations on the same thing. I guess they didn’t want to investigate all that … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Science, Television, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link to the past, al gore, alien, annelids, arrakis, asclepius, beetlejuice, beowulf, carl linnaeus, dragons, dune, earthworms, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy X, frank herbert, glurmo, gobi desert, gogo, graboids, indus river, indus worm, john schoenherr, lambton worm, link, moldorms, mongolian death worm, moon worms, neitherworld, olgoi-khorkhoi, orcs, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, sandworms, saturn, skolex, slurm, slurm queen, sockburn worm, the battle of the five armies, the hobbit, tim burton, tremors, turanga leela, were-worms, worms, wormulon, wyrms, xenomorphs, zone eater
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No Ordinary Rabbits
I don’t know if anyone was at all interested in last week’s post on rabbits in the Super Mario series, and Easter is over now, but I’m going to do a follow-up about rabbits in other games anyway. I’ve already … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Monty Python, Mythology, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ultima, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link to the past, black mage, bunicorns, coco, dragon quest iii, dread killer rabbit of caerbannog, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy xii, final fantasy xiv, ghosts, gyroids, haniwa, horned rabbits, humingway, jabberwocky, lagomorph, link, majora's mask, monty python and the holy grail, moon, mugu mugu, mysidia, mysidian rabbit, namingway, ocarina of time, phantom hourglass, pols voice, rabbits, rabites, samurai warrior the battles of usagi yojimbo, seppuku, setzer gabbiani, spiked hares, springer, the legend of zelda, ultima online, usagi yojimbo, vorpal bunnies, way of the ronin, wizardry
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Grand Unified Marioverse Theory
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one interested in mapping the Mushroom World and riveting together a sense of continuity for the Mario games. Like Oz, the games show a whimsical world where the creators weren’t all that … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Maps, Mario, Metroid, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link to the past, banjo-kazooie, brothers bear, crossovers, diddy kong racing, dk vine, donkey kong country 3, gulliver, hyrule, king bowser koopa, link's awakening, luigi, mario kart, mario kart 8, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, ocarina of time, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, princess peach toadstool, reddit, skyward sword, starfy, super mario bros. 3, super smash bros., wario, wart, yoshi, zelda timeline
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Hyrule Tech
For the most part, the Zelda series is set in a quasi-medieval world, the traditional setting of sword-and-sorcery fantasy. There are kings and princesses living in stone castles, and Link fights with swords and rides a horse. There are some … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Urban Legends, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link to the past, bombs, hookshot, hyrule, lasers, link, majora's mask, mario kart 8, master cycle, ocarina of time, phantom hourglass, shigeru miyamoto, spirit tracks, swords and sorcery, termina, the legend of zelda, the minish cap, time travel, trains, triforce
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Holy Ghost in the Machine
It’s a well-known fact that, back in the earlier days of Nintendo, they censored a lot of religious references in the English translations of games. It’s stated here that their policy was to exclude “symbols that are related to any … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Video Games, Zelda, Zoroastrianism
Tagged a link to the past, alltrades abbey, bible, celestria, censorship, corvus, crosses, devils, divinegon, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, farore, fiend, final fantasy vi, goddess, hades, hera, hylia, hyrule, jesus, kabbalah, kefka, nayru, nintendo, odin, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, poseidon, rubiss, satan, sephiroth, sophia, temple of dharma, tetsuya nomura, triforce, warring triad, zenith dragon, zenithia, zenus, zeus, zurvan
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Let’s Be Fair to Fairies
Fairies in the Zelda series are largely of the English variety of tiny people with wings and magical powers, but there are exceptions. The Great Fairies in Ocarina of Time can fly without wings and look kind of like drag … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Crossing, Cartoons, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Magic, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link to the past, aesop, captain snes, elves, epheremelda, fairies, gaia, ganon, hylians, king hippo, light warriors, link, majora's mask, miff, na'vi, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, oberon, ocarina of time, oxyale, queen venus, seraphina the pabst fairy, spryte, tatl, the honest woodcutter, the legend of zelda, the wind waker, tinker bell
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Warp Whistling in the Dark
When Super Mario Bros. 3 came out, it was apparently known that there were three magic whistles that allowed you to skip to another world before anybody knew where they were. I have to wonder if anybody ever found one … Continue reading
Posted in Magic, Mario, Music, Mythology, Oz, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged a link to the past, die zauberfloete, jenny lewis, magic flute, nintendo power, ocarina of time, princess peach toadstool, super mario bros. 3, the legend of zelda, the wizard, the wizard of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, warp whistles, wolfgang amadeus mozart
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Hello from Hyrule
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia – This book on the Zelda series is quite attractive, but does its content stack up? Well, let’s take a look. To begin with, the volume is divided into four parts. The first is … Continue reading
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