The Legend Of Zelda. If you call yourself a gamer at all, you have some experience with this game. Spanning more than 25 years and 16 official games, and selling 67.93 MILLION copies across all of them, many a gamer have called it one of the best series of all time. And for good reason. If you played any of them, you will find yourself treated to a symphony of excellent story telling, fantastic action and compelling settings that draw you in like few games do. Over such a long period of time, there have been many tributes towards the material, and I have collected many of them. Many are of great quality, and if you like Legend of Zelda's style, which I hope you do if you are reading this article, then you will love these great tributes!
I do not own any of these works and give credit to those that I can find! I only mean to collect these in one location to share to my readers and if you would like me to remove them please contact me and I will do so promptly!
This one, coming from user Smosh, is a rap, which normally would be enough to turn me away, but the quality is fairly good surprisingly! Careful where you watch it, as it does contain some naughties, so you've been warned...
Egoraptor is the well-known creator of the Awesome series, which is rated exactly as titled. Link to the Awesome plays off of my very first and most favorite of the Zelda adventures, A Link to the Past, and the quality, like all of his more recent videos, is phenomenal.
Dubstep has recently become a very popular music genre. Even I love how energized I feel from listening to it, and having it mixed with some Zelda tunes is weirdly hypnotic. There is a solid series of these done by DJ Ephixa, but this is one of the highlights!
And to be a little more loyal to the source material, for the 25th anniversary a full orchestra has been organized to play some of the series' own music, in a very moving concert playing even through this year:
Link, Zelda and Gannon have been done in cosplay plenty, but I think this is my favorite.
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| You just follow the music, Scott. |
Anyone who knows me knows that Scott Pilgrim is one of my favorite things. Period. End of discussion. So when Scott Pilgrim does a reference to Zelda, I pretty much lose my mind. Like here:
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| Found at Shirtoid.com, Gideon Gordon Grave's iconic shirt from the comics and movie. Also, its awesome. |
Or this one, done in a very similar style to Bryan Lee O'Mally's Scott Pilgrim series...
If you are looking for a really good creepy story, there is a great one involving a haunted N64 Majora's Mask cartridge, once owned by someone named BEN.
Be warned, it is a VERY long read from start to finish, but it is a fantastic ghost story, and it literally gives me chills every time I read it!
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| Hello, I'm creepy as hell. Nice to meet you. |
BEWARE... HERE COMES NAVI
The little fairy introduced in Ocarina of Time has been the butt of many a joke, and for good reason. I'm keeping her in a seperate section, as just one more HAY LISTEN from her could send people to the hospital or a killing spree, and I don't want any blood on my hands.
For those who remembered the Nyan Cat meme, this is a Navi remix that was done really well and uploaded by Musicman497, but don't listen to the whole thing as a full ten minutes is enough to cause brain hemorrhaging.
Link finally snaps too, in this great piece by Genzoman:
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| VG Cats! |
Last one was from the great webcomic VG cats, done by Scott Ramsoomair, who likes to roast Zelda whenever possible.
See? Great work though!
They hit Four Swords Adventures pretty hard as well:
Which leads me quite nicely into another Four Swords Adventure comic, this one done by Penny Arcade. Its by far my favorite comic done by the duo of Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST!!!!!!!!!
In this beautifully realized piece of art the series is shown in one giant tapestry, just like it would show up in the series itself. Done by an artist calling him/herself AG+, it encompasses all 25 years in one amazing picture. I saved the best for last here people. This is the creme de la creme.
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| Wanna see it in more detail? |
And if that wasn't incredible enough... here's the time-lapse video of the artist making it. AG+ is a Japanese artist, however, so just watch it for the art and accompanying music, it really is astounding.
So there you go! All the ones that have stuck with me as great tributes. If you have any more, link them to me in the comments, and happy watching! Make sure to subscribe to our blog and LIKE our Facebook page!
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