What's The Deal With: The Legend of Zelda?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Jason Schreier, Arts, Society & Culture, Video Games, Maddy Myers, Technology, Kirk Hamilton

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

With Skyward Sword coming to Nintendo Switch, the Triple Click gang asks the question you've all been asking: What's the deal with Zelda? Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about the origins of the series, how it's evolved over the years, the stagnant Zelda formula, the delights of exploration, the unexpected creativity in limitations, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	I started learning how to play the Ocarina and it's been a lot of fun.
0:07.6	First we learn major scales, then minor scales, and then how to magically transform night
0:11.4	into day.
0:12.4	Welcome to Triple Click where we bring the games to you.
0:15.4	This week we're talking Zelda going back to the series roots and trying to figure out
0:18.2	how a series so unafraid of radical change still somehow feels like it's steeped in tradition.
0:22.8	It's not actually that dangerous to go alone, but all the same, why don't we all go together?
0:29.5	I'm Kirk Hamilton.
0:30.5	I'm Maddie Myers.
0:31.5	And I'm Jason Shire.
0:32.5	And hello.
0:33.5	Hello.
0:34.5	Hello, my friends.
0:35.5	My video game Discourse Engaging in Friends.
0:38.7	It's nice to see both of you.
0:40.5	Like Gladys.
0:41.5	Is that what our names are in your cell phone?
0:43.5	Yes.
0:44.5	That's the little group.
0:45.5	Discourse.
0:46.5	Video game Discourse Engaging in Friend.
0:48.5	Yes.
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