2023-05-13 12:29:00
It is an event eagerly awaited by many players around the world. The new opus of “The Legend of Zelda” was released Friday on Nintendo Switch console. Entitled “Tears of the Kingdom”, it is the direct sequel to Zelda “Breath of The Wild” released in March 2017. After a wait of more than 6 years, fans of the legendary Nintendo license can finally discover the sequels of the adventures of Link and Princess Zelda in the imaginary kingdom of Hyrule. A look back at some key dates and figures for one of the most legendary video game licenses that has become a pop culture monument.
Shigeru Miyamoto’s Dream
It all started in 1986 with the release of the first video game in the series entitled “The Legend of Zelda” on the Famicom. A small revolution in its time, this adventure game plunges the player into a vast universe…. And for example allows players to save their game in order to resume it later, an almost essential function for a game much longer than the average of the time. The game has sold more than 6 million copies and the success has never left the license, which has given birth to 16 games and numerous spin-offs and has sold more than 140 million copies in the world.
It was Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario’s dad, who imagined Zelda. It was in his childhood memories that he drew to imagine his game. When he went on an adventure around Sonobe in Japan to explore the surrounding nature. This feeling never left him and he wanted to transcribe it into a video game. This is how “The Legend of Zelda” was born.
Almost limitless exploration
This freedom is the red thread of the series which very rarely gives players a clear goal from the start. Rather, the game encourages you to explore and show curiosity and bravery to discover over the course of adventures what your mission is. This concept was taken to its climax in the last installment of the series released in 2017 and which then granted a freedom never before seen in a video game. “Breath of the Wild” redefined the codes of the genre and sold more than 30 million copies, a record for the franchise.
In nearly 40 years of existence, the Zelda license now goes far beyond the borders of video games. She made a passage on the small screen, was adapted into manga, comics, novels. The universe feeds the creativity of many fans around the world. With a new game that seems to push the limits of the genre even further, the Zelda phenomenon does not seem about to run out of steam. /tna
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