Featured on Console to Closet!

Hey guys! This is a really short post, but I wanted to share that I just got featured on the website Console to Closet. I've talked about this website before, but basically it's a blog of outfits based on video game characters. Anyway, this week an outfit I designed was featured this week as "Community Submission." It was based on the character Tetra from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Anyway, you can read the entire post on Console to Closet here, and check out my outfit on Polyvore here.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Cats and Zelda

This is just absolutely adorable! I'm sorry that was kinda random but... This needs to be shared! Seriously, if you don't think pictures of a cat with a Link figurine aren't cute, then... You either don't like Zelda, or you don't like cats. Anyway, just please go look at this. It's adorable.

Link Ditches Epona for a Cat - Zelda Universe 

Figment Feature

GUESS WHAT!

Haha, yeah, one of my stories, "The Stupid Dress", made it onto the Figment's front page! No lie!!



Sorry, I'm being a little overreactive. But it's so cool! Anyway, if you'd like, you can read it on Figment, or I also have a link to a Google Doc if that's more your style.

"The Stupid Dress" (Figment)

"The Stupid Dress" (Google Doc)

Moving away from that, I also read something on GamesRadar today about video game charactes competing in the Olympics, so you can read that right here.

And that's all for now!

Console to Closet

Okay, so I just thought about posting this now, but a few weeks ago there was an article on Zelda Universe about this website called Console to Closet. What it is is a website with outfits that someone has designed based off of various video games. For example, there's one for everyone's favorite antagonistic AI, GLaDOS, Assassin's Creed, the magical Princess Zelda, and even Amaterasu from the game Okami. So if this kind of thing interests you, it's really a great website to check out. There are so, so, so many different designs to look at, I can bet ten dollars there's something you'll like! So you can either click that link above, which will take you to the homepage, or you can go to the archive and see the entire list of outfits on the site! Have fun!

Double Post

Okay, yeah, I posted, what like three hours ago? No matter. I just thought of something I was meaning to put on my blog at some point in time (and I totally forgot until now), but if you have some free time at some point (as little as five minutes is okay), you should check out some more links. They go to two of my friend's deviantArt pages (art website, in case you didn't know). And since they're both really freaking great artists you should look at them. So do it. DO IT NOW!
SoxPaws - Awesome Sonic the Hedgehog art and some really great manga/anime in there too. (by the way, all the pics she does of Silver are cute! *fangirl scream* No really, I had them on my iPod wallpaper for like five months. They're that amazing.)
cavemankong - Honestly, he has everything and a pegasus up here. Some Kingdom Hearts stuff, Halo, Assassin's Creed, etc. (And that Zelda one is cool. So do yourself a favor and look at it!)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go hide in a closet for the rest of the day...

Hey!

Hey, fun little note for today.

Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is Wikipedia's featured article today! Cool!

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Okay, well if you've been paying attention to anything I've said for the past 6 months, you know that The Legend of Zelda (LoZ): Skyward Sword was released yesterday. I got it. I got a CD. I got a gold colored Wii Remote. It's shiny. And sparkly. And all Zelda-y. I love it. All of it.

Well, currently I'm at the first boss of the game. Skyward Sword isn't exceptionally hard, but the controls take some getting used to. Once you get into it though, you'll be pressing buttons and swinging your sword like you've been doing it all your life.

Anyways, I'm planning on writing a tiny little pointless reveiw after I get deeper into the game. So far though, so good. Seriously. I find almost no flaws. Except for when I can't do a forward stab or a skyward strike. Other than that, everything is working fine. Even Fi (your sword's spirit-ish) isn't as annoying, and her tips are actually helpful.

Also, I mentioned that all copies of Skyward Sword come with a LoZ: 25th anniversary music CD. It's awesome. Although I'm not exactly a fan of that kind of music, if it's related to Zelda, and it's free, it's gonna be awesome.
Ballad of the Goddess (Skyward Sword)
Wind Waker Symphonic Movement (Wind Waker)

And if it means anything to anyone, I swear Fi is Zelda's version of GLaDOS. Without all of the sarcasm and murder, of course. But the way they talk is so alike. I'm not joking.
And Zelda herself reminds me of someone...

Happy Birthday GameCube!

Well, if the title wasn't a dead giveaway, today is the Nintendo GameCube's 10th birthday in America! YAY!!! Hm, well if you don't know what a GameCube is you're a) too young b) not caring c) too stupid to recognize it as the best home console in the world. Okay, that's a bit of a stretch, but still, I love my GameCube (herinafter GC) more than any other home console I've ever played, including the PS3. I suppose it means something when I say it was my first "real" home console (that old PSone doesn't count). I bought mine for $20 from a good friend. It came with one controller, a GameBoy Player, and a GameBoy Player disc. I was sold. Later that night my bro bought Pac-Man World 3 for it, and we thought that game was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Boy, were we wrong.

Another really good friend of mine lent us Super Smash Bros. Melee, which I still consider to be better thatn SSB Brawl. We borrowed Super Mario Sunshine and MarioKart: Double Dash!! (and eventually bought both games). And later, maybe just a year or two ago, I spent a whole day in the hot sun managing a yard sale. That afternoon, my dad took me to GameStop and I bought what would be my favorite game in the whole wide world: The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. Later I got Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, LoZ: Collector's Edition, and many other games. If you're ever looking for some good Nintendo games, without wanting to pay the $200+ for a Wii, trust me, the GC will not let you down.

Happy Birthday GameCube!! <3

Random Pokemon Picture (and Zelda nonsense)

I found this while I was looking at random pictures on the internet in an attemt to find some new wallpaper. I love this pic, and I crack up every time I look at it.

PS. Just for clarification, the girl on the right is Green and the boy (yes he's a guy) on the left is Silver.

Also, you can expect me to be posting again later today because I'M PICKING UP SKYWARD SWORD TODAY!!!! (I think)

EDIT: I just called GameStop, and even though they told me when I pre-ordered the game that I could pick it up today, it would not be released until Sunday. Idiots.

Well, until then, I'll have to hold myself over with video clips and spoiler-free trailers. Speaking of, I just watched this video on Zelda Universe, and I thought it was pretty funny.
Zelda Williams- Worst pick-up lines (ZU)

Other than all of this, I'll try to keep you posted... if I don't die of suspense before next Sunday...

Skyward Sword Trailers

With less than two months to go before Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is realeased, news has not stopped coming. Yesterday, I saw some new trailers... click the links (no pun intended) to see them.

Romance Trailer
Opening Trailer
Swordplay Trailer

Haha, the romance trailer was cute. In an article on Zelda Universe, it said, "But, just when thing’s start getting romantic, she get’s swallowed by  a whale. Too bad."

Stupid whale. You are SO going to die.

Source: Zelda Eternity

A Flood of Skyward Sword News

Well, it's a flood because ZeldaUniverse had a server outage over the past few days, and now that it's fixed, they've posted AT LEAST 8 videos and a ton of other stuff that I've reposted below.

- Japanese box art
- Second quest
- Weapon upgrade system
- GameInformer Scans (I'm not looking!)
- 100 minutes of cutscenes
- Boss challenge mode
- GoNintendo news [SPOILERS]
- Nintendo Everything [SPOILERS]

I am NOT going to read the spoilers. Skyward Sword might be the first Zelda game I'll play without someon *cough* Xeon *cough* spoiling the best parts. Well, I hope you enjoy all of this!

Source: ZeldaUniverse

Skyward Sword Playing Time

At a recent press conference, Nintendo announced the time it would take for the average gamer to complete their newest Zelda game, Skyward Sword. Any guesses?

Shigeru Miyamoto announced that the game would take about 50-100 hours to complete. Sound's about right to me, but taking into consideration that I'm terrible at video games, It could take me a year or two to complete. Nah, probably a few months at the most.

Also, during the conference, Nintendo showed a little show of different gameplay clips, including some epic boss battles. Nintendo said that once you've completed the game, you'll be able to replay all of those boss battle in a "boss rush" mode, kinda like in Ocarina of Time (hereinafter OoT) 3D.

There is also a new location revealed, Eldin Volcano, which I swear is Death Mountain from OoT. But really, who knows? You can watch that video here. GameInformer.com also said that they'll be posting the clip show video as soon as they can get it, so I'll keep an eye out.

Source: GameInformer.com and Zelda Universe

GI: Share Your Favorite Zelda Memories

Again, something with GameInformer.com and Zelda. Go figure.

Today, however, it's something a little different. The post says, "Reader Disscussion: Share Your Favore Zelda Memories". Since it's Zelda's 25th anniversay (a few months back) the editors of GI have asked that the readers comment and write about their fovorite Zelda memories.

Mine? Oh boy, I have too many to count...
The first Zelda game I ever played was Spirit Tracks (bad place to start), but the first one I really, truly devoted some time to was Wind Waker. Also, it's the only one I've ever completed. My favorite Zelda memories... I can think of three right now.
1) Finally finishing Wind Waker after a year... I love the ending cutscene, fighting Ganon, just everything after you get into Ganon's Tower is epic.
2) Playing the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time with my friend. Getting the megaton hammer, and getting collateral damage bats was memorable. But the best part about that: When we got to the boss (Volvagia) and he told me, "Ok, now this is just like Whack-a-Mole." I just about lost it there.
3) Again, when my friend was over. He showed me how to launch gossip stones into outer space. I was laughing so hard. You can watch a video about it here. (fast-fowrad to 2:00)

Well, that's all for now.

Source: GameInformer.com

GI Cover

Okay, I know I just posted like an hour ago, but this is worth getting excited about. To me, at least.

GameInformer revealed their cover for October's issue, and guess what it is? Three tries...

(cue Jeopardy music)

Okay, well, I'm going to tell you anyway! It's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword!!! Here's a picture if you want to see it too.

(click the images to make them bigger!)

Source: GameInformer.com

Epic Video Game music covers!

Reading my Yahoo! news feed and Something caught my eye: "Lake Hylia Cover on Guitar". In case you didn't know, Lake Hylia is a location in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. As it turns out, the game that this specific instance is from is Twilight Princess, so I didn't recognize it. Anyway, the article linked to this guy's (TheDelRe) YouTube channel, which had a lot more covers. Below are links, etc.

TheDelRe's YouTube channel

Gym Leader Battle (Pokémon Black & White) On Guitar

Super Smash Bros Menu Medley (Melee/Brawl) on Guitar

Source: Zelda Universe

Nintendo Power Issue 268

 

The other day I bought a Nintendo Power magazine from Wal-Mart just because I could. The cover, as you can see, has the "modern" Sonic (the alternative cover has "classic" Sonic on it). On the inside, there's a 11-page feature all about Sonic the Hedgehog, along with a feature about the GameBoy Advance, LoZ: Link's Awakening. Plus, (this is my favorite part) the
4-page review on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. It was FUN to read. Also, reading the Pulse (e-mails, etc.) section was fun. My favorite letter was:

"I know this is irrelevant because The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker hasn't been mentioned in a while, but I will belatedly defend the game's sailing sections.  I thoroughly enjoyed traveling from island to island by boat.  The experience heightened the sense of exploration, and braving my way through dark thunderstorms was awesome." -Littleredwolf

 In my opinion, sailing was fun, for like the first half of the game. Then, right around the part where you get the Master Sword, it became annoying.  Although the Ballad of Gales made it a bit easier, sailing around to find to those stupid Triforce shards was just plain boring.  Maybe that's why I didn't finish the game for like, 2 months...

Magic Trick

For my next trick, I will make a scavenger hunt, Pokemon, Legos, Skillet, and Zelda all fit in the same post.


Well, my party was a blast! We had a scavenger hunt, and My team didn't win, but it was fun anyway. Click here to see pics from that. We had to take pics of the team doing certain things, like standing next to a McDonalds Drive-Thru menu. It was an interesting experience, and no one got arrested. So thats good...sorta...

On Bulbapedia, someone (Danielle Detering) made an article about how Pokemon and math go together. Read it here.

I've been drawing with chalk lately, and I drew Link, a Shellder, and a Mareep. You can see them if you click "More Nonsense"

Well, that's about it. Maybe I'll post more tomorrow...maybe...

General News&Nonsense

Well, first of all the Pokemon Global Link is scheduled to open this Wedensday (a.k.a. April 13).

In other non-Pokemon related news:

Today is my friend Libby's Birthday! Happy Birthday!!!
It's about 80 degrees at my house today, and it is HOT!

Now for the nonsense...
Today, a few of my friends and I were talking about nintendo and the new Zelda game that should be released any minute now. Then, we talked about what would happen if Nintendo went banckrupt or shut down or something like that. It's doubtful in my opinion, but it could happen. Anyway, we were wondering that if it did happen, what would happen to Zelda. Tyler (who deserves to be punched) said that they should sell the series to like Sony or something so that they could make it for Ps3. I immeadiatly said the opposite, and said I would no longer play Zelda if it went on the Ps3. They Tyler and Xeon went into this whole talk about Microsoft would get mario and Sony would get Zelda and Pokemon. Where does that leave me? And by the way, you both deserve to be punched because you made me feel horrible afterward.

P.S. Tyler's a noob.

Good News and Somewhat Bad News

Somewhat Bad news
If you bought Pokemon Black/White and were just as excited as I was for it, you'll know about the Pokemon Global Link and the fact that it was supposed to be opened on March 30th. However, due to the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan (You did know that Pokemon was based in Japan, right?) the opening of the GL was delayed until who-knows-when.


Good News
Speaking of the earthquake, one GameInformer editor (Meagan Marie) had a red Nintendo DS, which was signed by Shigeru Miyamoto (if you don't know who this is, you don't deserve to play games[no offense]), Koji Kondo (does the musical stuff), Charles Martinet (voice actor for Mario since 1995), Eiji Aonuma (Zelda guy), and Martin Leung (a guy who plays video game music on a piano). Anyway, Meagan sold the DS on eBay for $4,050 and donated all the money to the Red Cross to help in Japan. Seriously, if I had that kind of money, I would've bought it. I mean, hardcore gaming device+signatures from famous people+donation= pure awesomeness!


PopCap (the best PC gaming company EVER) also raised $200,000 for Japan by lowering the prices of all (or most) their iOS and Android games (iOS meaning iPhones, etc) and donating all money to the Red Cross. Way to go PopCap!


So more good news than bad news, which I suppose is also good news.

Happy Birthday, Zelda!

Apparently, 25 years ago today the original Legend of Zelda was released in Japan.

Cake, anyone?
Read some people's memories of Zelda

So anyway, happy birthday to you!

I'm also wondering how many of those cakes were made/eaten today...