Did you know? Zelda was originally called “Hyrule Fantasy”

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1. Mou~ That Zelda is too cute..

   I'm so excited for Skyward Sword! (I know I'm just 24 so forgive the statement older fellows.) I feel like such a kid again waiting for this game! 😀 Story, and characters play a huge role in my love of video games.. and this game is overflowing with both! I don't know if I've ever been this hyped for a Zelda game before. 🙂

2. Interesting retrospective… can I make a confession? I never beat the original Legend of Zelda. I even have it on the VC. Just been too busy with other games!

3. From what I understand, the game (and the princess) was named after Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom Shigeru Miyamoto admired after reading a very popular 1970 biography of her by Nancy Milford, "Zelda" (look it up!)…

4. (Ooops… I just noticed that factois was included in the article! So there you go…)

5. I'm actually thinking I want to play Dark Souls as my next Zelda- a deep challenging world, a huge adventure, a community finding and supporting each other- it sounds like my memories of trading secrets in the original legend of zelda back in middle school.

   This Zelda looks nice… but it's probably not for me.

   Interestingly, I don't have much trouble with modern "hardcore" games, but I still can't get far in Zelda II… Zelda II will forever be my nemesis it seems…

6. @deepthought

   …but almost every community spills ALL the secrets hidden in Dark Souls the instant you enter a forum or wiki…
   The only one that's hard to get around in getting information for was the Gravelord Covenant (which I only looked for since there was little to no clue as to how it worked in the game… while all the other covenants were easy to figure out).

   You know, you could just play Zelda AND Dark Souls.
   ……. it's like giving up Tactics Ogre just to play Final Fantasy Tactics… doesn't really make sense considering they're both very different games..

7. @deepthought

   Just to make clear, my point about Dark Souls in the first paragraph was: There's little to no secrets that's really hard to come by that's worth sharing with others. Smart thinking and careful checking solves almost all problems, and everything else is either answered by messages on the floor or insta-spoiled on the internet.

   The vast majority of Dark Souls and Demon's Souls communities are known to never hide most spoilers (and only hide ones that are easily assumed). Zelda communities are still the same as they were back in the day: You'll find *SPOILER* tags everywhere you go. 😛

   That's one thing I always favored about most Nintendo communities over most PS3/360 communities: They knew the value of surprise.
   Not saying all Nintendo/PS3/360 communities are like that, just a vast majority.

8. @ Skotski

   Very true. The internet really can ruin all mysteries. That's why Dark Souls' online interaction seems so brilliant to me. Playing Zelda before the internet, and having a friend draw you a map on graph paper, or try to verbally describe which the bush hides the seventh dungeon, or trying to memorize the pattern out of the lost woods during lunch period, sounds very much like the cryptic clues left on the floor. Plus, the excitement of discovering something yourself will really motivate my exploration.

   I say this may be my next Zelda not because I am looking to replace Skyward Sword, but because I am looking for a gaming experience that provides the same reward as my first run through the original Zelda. Or the original Startropics for that matter. The tone and organization of Zelda games has not gone where I wanted the series to go, so I need a replacement.

9. Dark Souls rocks my world…!

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