Video Games An Examination of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker David Kastner Full Sail University Author Note This paper was prepared for English Composition I, Section 25, taught by Joana Lincoln Criteria and Quality in Video Games An Examination of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker This paper examines the different criteria that can be used to determine the quality of a video game, and more specifically the video game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. While many people believe that
The concert that I attended was, The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses. It was a birthday gift for 20th birthday and a graduation gift for my cousin that had also come along with me to the show. The concert was advertising the recent re-release of a game of the Legend of Zelda (LoZ) series Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 3DS. The game had first came out on the Nintendo 64 but Nintendo wanted to allow the children of the recent generation and the adults who have previously
Legend of Zelda Legend of Zelda is a legendary series having sold over 67million copies to date. Having released over 15 titles (and many more spin offs) across all Nintendo console releases. It one of the highest acclaimed game series having pioneered many new game features that were to become industry standards. Legend of Zelda, having evolved over the course of 28 years, is a mixture of action, adventure and puzzle solving. It is one of the Nintendo’s most prominent and popular franchises and
who wants to call themselves a gamer has to have some idea as to what Zelda is. It is among one of the most popular video game series out there and has created its own cultural wellspring. There have been spin off cartoons, websites, walkthroughs, forms, etc…but strangely enough the story for one of the video games doesn’t change much. You are this elf looking boy or adult named Link that is on a quest to rescue Princess Zelda, reunite the Triforce, and save the land of Hyrule from evils such as
that’s exactly what Shigeru Miyamoto did, especially for his time. Miyamoto is arguably one of the most (If not, THE most) important and influential game designers of all time. Being the creator of beloved franchises like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, it’s almost impossible to imagine what the gaming industry would be like if Miyamoto would not have joined Nintendo, in fact, the gaming industry might not even exist now if it was not for him. Over these next few paragraphs, I will prove to