Triforce Trends : The Zelda Podcast

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is actually getting a full blown remake on the Switch 2... What are my thoughts? Well I think there's a lot of potential here, it just depends on if they realise it, Nintendo are riding a FINE line with this remake and I only hope we come out the other side of the game thinking it was a good idea to remake Ocarina of Time. If you want to SEE this content on YouT...

Dungeons are one of the most important parts of a 3d zelda game, but what makes a great dungeon? Well today I discuss some of the most underrated dungeons in the series and why they should be held in higher regards. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw/videos Support my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Tri...

Twilight Princess is like a ghost to me, it constantly looms over me and it's because the game is just so good. This COMPLETE retrospective is supposed to show you why the game haunts me and why I love it so much. Plus it's an excuse to talk about Twilight Princess for an hour and a half! The Cave Boys Video on Twilight Princess Music: https://youtu.be/HbzrpFreJDw?si=kkRitMb5Qx1-EeyO If you want t...

Zelda notes was revealed at the switch 2 direct a couple of weeks ago, let's talk about why it's a much bigger update to breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom than you might think. Especially since they decided to leave all the cool details out of the direct. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw/vide...

The Legend of Zelda series has grown a lot over the switch era for nintendo, but with the reveal of the next 3d game in the next couple of years, it's time to talk about other ways that zelda could become a much larger fanbase on the lead up to the next huge release. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw/vi...

How good are Echoes of Wisdom's Dungeons overall? Are they really as good as a lot of people are saying? Join me as I go through every dungeon in the game one-by-one (Suthorn Ruins, Gerudo Sanctum, Jabul Ruins, Hyrule Castle, Faron Temple, Eldin Temple, Lanayru Temple and finally Null's Body), and determine a ranking out of 10 based on their design, theming, puzzles and so much more to figure out...

Echoes of Wisdom was revealed at the Nintendo Direct today... I think that Echoes of Wisdom is an absolute miracle, it's a game that shouldn't exist by all accounts, it's made in the Link's Awakening art style, Zelda is the protagonist and it's the first new original 2D Zelda in around 15 years. But I'm worried, there are some things that are irking me about this game. If you want to SEE this cont...

I love Tears of the Kingdom, it's one of my favourite Zelda games... But, while Breath of the Wild had used freedom to it's absolute fullest potential, TotK really didn't, it kept butting heads with the idea that freedom is going to be the future of the series. So today I want to look beyond Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and explain why more isn't always better. If you want to SEE th...

Hyrule Castle is the final dungeon in Twilight Princess, today we take a look at it and why I believe this is the best finale of any Legend of Zelda title and discuss Ganondorf, the end of Midna's Arc and other things like the involvement of Zelda in the story and King Bulblin... In this epic finale of the Twilight Princess Retrospective series. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a...

Tears of the Kingdom has been under fire since release for being too similar to Breath of the Wild in a lot of cases, and because it's a sequel, there's the notion that it could end up aging worse than its predecessor, I don't believe so, and this video is explaining exactly how I think Tears of the Kingdom will be remembered for (outside of weak lore, you commenters are funny har har) If you want...

The Temple of Time, the City in the Sky and the Palace of Twilight, 3 dungeons that are located outside of hyrule in one way or another, whether it be through time travel, down to sky-based limitations or because Link travels to a completely different realm. Today we'll be exploring these locations, how much I like/dislike them and how well everything else in the middle is designed, in this episod...

The Zonai were talked about a TON up until the release of Tears of the Kingdom, in the end they didn't end up being the "warlike, barbaric" tribe that creating a champion/masterworks painted them out as, so who WAS the tribe we were all speculating on for 4 years? Today I answer that question as I believe I've solved who this "Fake" zonai tribe are in totk (tears of the kingdom) If you want to SEE...

The Triforce has been around in the series since the very beginning of the timeline, skyward sword features it heavily, it shows up in pretty much every single 3d zelda game, it's around. Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild don't put the triforce front and centre BUT I think there's much more to that than meets the eye, I think through TOTK and BOTW we've just been through the age of techn...

Tears of the Kingdom's world reuses assets from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but it also adds 2 more layers to it's map, The Depths and the sky... Today, the cave boys and I (Hyrule Gamer and ZINK), come together to try and argue a point for each of these layers of the world of hyrule being the best map in the game. Are the depths the best, the biggest of the 2 new maps, housing zonait...

Tears of the Kingdom is the highest launching Zelda title to date, so it absolutely HAS to get DLC right? Well today I bring up some ideas I have for DLC for TOTK, and why I could actually see there not being ANY DLC for the Sequel to Breath of the Wild. Hope you enjoy! If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rPIJpgj0ZRtDvcbquukuw...

Every single hero in the history of Hyrule up until Breath of the Wild had the same green tunic that the last one did... Up until the era of wilds. So in Tears of the Kingdom you can find the tunics of the old heroes... But they're in the depths in totk, so today I wanna ask the question of, "in-lore, why would the tunics be found in the depths?", highlighting problems and theories within my own t...

The Zelda series has been going in a direction that a LOT of people LOVE, and some people don't love quite so much, they'd like some more traditional elements to return that aren't currently in Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild. Today I'm gonna be looking at some interviews that Aonuma and Fujibayashi have attended to look for some clues as to what's in the future of the Legend of Zelda...

In my opinion, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has made Breath of the Wild feel like a tech demo... But how did we get into this situation? Well I think after playing BOTW over the course of years I found more and more that needed "fixing" in that game, stuff that could easily be improved upon... Which is why I bring the thesis of this video, I think that TOTK improves on a TON of stuff...

Are you in the camp that thinks that Tears of the Kingdom's Dungeons are BAD? Well I don't think they are at all, this video is my explanation as to why I don't think that dungeons in TOTK are bad at all, in fact I think a few of them are some of the best in the entire series... But there are a lot of reasons why you might like a dungeon, for it's theme, atmosphere, combat, puzzles, bosses, and al...

The Zonai are an EXTREMELY mysterious race of people, even MORESO after Tears of the Kingdom... And that means we have mysteries to try and figure out. In today's video I look into the source of both Zonai Energy AND Magic, 2 completely different things in my opinion! One being used in abilities like ascend, fuse and ultrahand, while the other is used in Link's energy cells to power machinery... J...

Dorian and his struggle against the Yiga is one of the most memorable side quests seen in Breath of the Wild, we learn of his wife who died to a Yiga Blademaster after Dorian tried leaving the tribe. In Tears of the Kingdom, there are a few signs that point to what happened to Dorian and his family before the events of Breath of the Wild. So join me as I tell the tragic tale of a family. And the l...

These are the final moments before a brand new Legend of Zelda title releases, so today I'll be discussing the review score for Tears of the Kingdom, the reason why Tears of the Kingdom is so special to me and why I think Tears of the Kingdom has the chance to be something VERY special in terms of gaming as a whole. If you want to SEE this content on YouTube, here's a link to my channel: https://w...

Tears of the Kingdom has the chance to make Breath of the Wild basically obsolete, if Breath of the Wild's world is smaller and less detailed than Tears of the Kingdom's, and if TOTK improves on everything that BOTW set out to do back in 2017... What might be the reason to go back and play Breath of the Wild in the future? I talk about this and more in this video. Hope you enjoy! If you want to SE...

Spirit orbs played an integral part in Breath of the Wild's story and it's gameplay loop, you go through a shrine and a spirit orb lays waiting for you, with an ancient sheikah monk on the other side of that spirit orb. Using the orbs you can increase your heart containers or your stamina vessels. This made for a fun gameplay loop... To this day though we don't really know what spirit orbs were......

The sheikah played a huge role in Breath of the Wild, they created the divine beasts and the shrines that were used as trials for the hero and were one of the main reasons why the hero of the wilds actually won the battle against the calamity after failing 100 years ago. It can't be understated HOW much of a part to play the sheikah had in Breath of the Wild's story. But us not seeing anything in...