The Legend Of Zelda Will Be 40 Years Old Next Year

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I was just musing and realized that next year will mark the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda.

I remember as a kid owning this game and how excited I was to finish it. IIRC correctly, I had a save file before completing it and went over across the street to my neighbor's house, who also had the NES, the ending.

It's crazy to think that this fantastic franchise, which is still thriving, will have been around for 4 decades by February of 2026. I'm living with someone to turn 40 in October of last year and this game is almost as old as she is.

Even to this day, the game is still aesthetically beautiful. Link to the Past especially still looks great in my opinion.

This series is still one of the best ever made.

I'm really hoping for some special announcement by or before February of next year. I read that there was going to be an announcement for a new game in the series in 2026 so hopefully it is something really special.
 
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Darkmakaimura said:
I was just musing and realized that next year will mark the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda.

I remember as a kid owning this game and how excited I was to finish it. IIRC correctly, I had a save file before completing it and went over across the street to my neighbor's house, who also had the NES, the ending.

It's crazy to think that this fantastic franchise, which is still thriving, will have been around for 4 decades by February of 2026. I'm living with someone to turn 40 in October of last year and this game is almost as old as she is.

Even to this day, the game is still aesthetically beautiful. Link to the Past especially still looks great in my opinion.

This series is still one of the best ever made.

I'm really hoping for some special announcement by or before February of next year. I read that there was going to be an announcement for a new game in the series in 2026 so hopefully it is something really special.
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I would like a remake of the original ala Links Awakening but maybe with an updated aesthetic. That would be a great way to celebrate and give something my kids might actually play.

And yes a tease of what is coming next for a mainline game would be great too. 3 years out from TotK is not too early going by their past reveals.

The only game that really faltered over all these years (excluding CDi) was Skyward Sword and that was due to the fucking controls and designing the game to them. Had the tech been better or the motion controls been fully optional, the game would not have been so friggin frustrating.
 
Darkmakaimura said:
That's what I would like to see. That looks so awesome. Shame it didn't happen.
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It's essentially Twilight Princess HD, but designed for the target hardware and with much better lighting and post processing. Switch 2 could easily handle that realtime in 60fps.

Twilight Princess HD has horrible lighting and post processing. Very flat game. Never understood why Nintendo went for this ugly flat lighting in the original and HD version.
 
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The only game that really faltered over all these years (excluding CDi) was Skyward Sword and that was due to the fucking controls and designing the game to them. Had the tech been better or the motion controls been fully optional, the game would not have been so friggin frustrating.
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Yet (in my opinion) Skyward Sword is still a very solid game. It tried something new, it has very interesting setpieces and bosses. Lanayru Desert is the most ambitious overworld area ever seen in Zelda before the Switch games, making the overworld a dungeon in and of itself. It started blurring the line between overworld and dungeon, breaking away from the trite "find dungeon, open dungeon, find key, open door" routine established by ALTTP. With all its problems, I maintain it's much more interesting than TP, which is itself a mess of a game, and as safe as they come.

Zelda is a commendable series of games for having tried so much within the confines of a single IP. It's significant that while all its games are arguably very good to excellent, pretty much every single one since Majora's Mask has been somewhat controversial. Nintendo used Zelda to experiment with time travel, time limits, open worlds, touch controls, motion controls, and still a lot more gameplay elements that effectively shook up the foundations of the gameplay every time. They never achieved flawless perfection (OOT is arguably the most perfect Zelda game ever made, and it still has its blemishes), but they were never tempted to just remake the same stuff again and again and again like it happened with Mario in the NSMB era.
 
Yeah, 40th anniversary of Mario this year, and Zelda next year.

We're in for some good celebratory stuff I hope!
 
Darkmakaimura said:
I'm really hoping for some special announcement by or before February of next year. I read that there was going to be an announcement for a new game in the series in 2026 so hopefully it is something really special.
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Do not get your hopes up. These "x game turns x years old" threads don't make devs suddenly realize that they should do something with their franchise to appease fans. Some do. Most don't.

Maybe for Zelda it might be different cuz it's 40 years, but I'd still be mum about anything they might do for it's 40th.
 
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