What's up everyone! We're giving you one more week to finish Age of Calamity so you can join us for next weeks spoilercast, but fret not! We've got a great show for you this week! We're chatting with Mikel, who joins us all the way from Germany, to walk us through the creation and release of Zelda & Chill! You've heard the music on the podcast before, so come meet the man behind the tunes! Listen as we chat about how certain songs get picked, which remakes didn't pan out, what the artwork pr...
Dec 01, 2020•55 min•Ep. 188
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is finally out, and we have a lot of thoughts! This week, Andy and Al go through the game up until the beginning of Chapter 3! Come hear which Champions we loved playing as, which ones we didn't like, our thoughts the story so far, which boss battles we enjoyed, what side quests we've gotten around to doing, and so much more! THERE ARE SPOILERS UP UNTIL CHAPTER 3! If you haven't gotten too far into the game, bookmark this episode and come back later! You've been ...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 187
Welcome to... Virtual Theater?! We've got a special episode for you! I'm moving this weekend and Al is busy, so instead of skipping a week, we decided to pull an episode out of the vaults that up until now has been Patreon exclusive to Virtual Theater podcast listeners! If you didn't know, Virtual Theater is my other podcast, where we focus on video game movies and the stories that shape them, and one sub-series we've been doing is an episode-by-episode commentary on the ridiculous Legend of Zel...
Nov 16, 2020•47 min•Ep. 185
Our biggest annual feature is finally here! Best Zelda Ever 2020 has dropped, and Alasyn and Andy weigh in on where their personal picks differed from the rest of the Zelda Dungeon staff and if they're happy with the overall list! Read the original article here and follow along with us as go game by game ! Come for the list, but stay for the lack of mercy shown to Tri Force Heroes! If you haven't already, check out our boy Jokabi's album Chilltendo, where you can find the Forest Temple and Twili...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 186
Wow. That was certainly a twist, wasn't it? This week, we go FULL SPOILERS into our thoughts on the story and premise of Age of Calamity? How does it all fit together? Will this change the events of Breath of the Wild and Breath of the Wild 2? What other games or movies have used a similar trope well? Are we disappointed or excited? All this, and so much more! PLUS, our thoughts on the actual gameplay! How are Impa and Zelda to control? What's up with the frame rate? How are the new voice actors...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 184
Happy Halloween everybody! We've got a scaaaaary episode for you today that focuses all on the scariest dungeons and locals in the Zelda series! Of course, we know places like the Shadow Temple and Arbiter’s Grounds will show up, but what makes them so scary? What other dungeons try to be scary and miss the mark? And does darkness = spooky? Come hang with us as we get into the Halloween spirit, and also hear our thoughts on Hestu in Age of Calamity and a cool Symphony of the Mask trick! Follow t...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 183
Get ready to groove this week! The gang break down all their thoughts about the final piece of DLC for the rhythm based Zelda adventure Cadence of Hyrule. How is playing as Skull Kid? What are the different masks like? Is the music as great as what we expect? Will the punishing difficulty be too much for some players to overcome? And more importantly - should you buy it? Come see if Symphony of the Mask is music to our ears or a broken record! PLUS - Who was that guy at the end of the latest Age...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 182
Last week, I boldly claimed that Monk Maz Koshia, the final boss from The Champions' Ballad, might be the greatest boss fight in the entire series. This week, we put that to the test, as Alasyn, Rod Lloyd and I all came up with top ten lists for the best of the series! Epic final confrontations? You know it! Seriously fun fights with cool items? Yessir! Classic Zelda enemies and new ones alike? Of course! Come debate with us and make sure you let us know your own top 10 lists! Follow the Champio...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 181
It's time to put a bow on the emotional and fantastic DLC from Breath of the Wild! Today, we go over all of the trials and Shrines in each Champions song, talk about the Final Divine Beast, gush over that amazing final boss fight, and explore whether or not the extra memories added in The Champions' Ballad did enough for each Champion, and how Age of Calamity can finally give us closure for Mipha, Urbosa, Daruk, and Revali. All this PLUS our thoughts on Minecraft Steve joining Smash Bros.! You d...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 180
The episode we promised you a month ago is finally here, and it's too big to fit into one part! Come relive Breath of the Wild's DLC with us as we cover the initial announcement, that incredible trailer from The Game Awards, all the bonus outfits and sidequests, the Great Plateau enemy camps and Shrines, our thoughts on the One Hit Obliterator, and if we liked the Master Cycle! PLUS we go over the recently announced Age of Calamity news, including our thoughts on Impa as a playable character, th...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 179
You have questions about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity? We have answers! We asked you guys to feed us your most pressing questions about the upcoming prequel and you did not disappoint. Alasyn and I answer over 50 questions! Do we think Zelda's mother will show up? What kind of DLC do we want? What Breath of the Wild tracks do we want remixed in the signature Hyrule Warriors style sound? Will we see Purah in her adult form? Is there any way we get a happy ending? Will Cia and Lana show up? Fo...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 178
The title says it all! We're giving you this weeks episode nice and early so you can hear all of our takes, thoughts, theories and more on Tuesday's blockbuster announcement of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity! Will this game be canon? Who else might we play as? Will we see the demise of the Champions? Does Link start off with the Master Sword? What's up with that baby Guardian? Will we get a tease for Breath of the Wild 2? All this and so much more! Make sure you do NOT miss this episode! Also,...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 177
If you didn't know, Fall Brawl II is right around the corner , pitting 64 Zelda characters against each other in a NCAA-style tournament, so naturally we decided that we wanted to get in on the action! Come hang out as we run through the bracket to determine our favorite Zelda character, and play along with your own bracket as well ( you can fill one out here !). Who is our winner? Come listen to see! PLUS, hear our thoughts on Mario 3D All-Stars and get a really cool Zelda II-esq game recommend...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 176
Get ready to do some barrel rolls, because today's episode is all about the swan song for Rareware on Nintendo consolesL Star Fox Adventures! How did a Star Fox game end up with Ocarina of Time's game engine? What did we think of the Arwing segments pasted in here? How does the world of Dinosaur Planet compare to Hyrule? What are the dungeons like? And for the love of God, what's up with the voice acting!? All this, and just general talk about Star Fox as a franchise and why it hasn't taken off ...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 175
We hope there are some fans of Ocarina of Time around, because this week we dedicated an hour to Ocarina of Time Q&A! How would the game have turned out if it was a FPS, like originally intended? What's our least favorite thing about the game? Can Ocarina legitimately be called the greatest game ever made? Could Link and Zelda be brother and sister? What are our favorite mini games? What's this new theory that actually makes the Downfall Timeline make sense?! All this and more! We were joine...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 174
Get ready to fight evil this week, as the gang strap in and discuss every single final boss fight with the series' big bad himself: Ganon! From Beast Ganon to Ganondorf to Calamity Ganon, we dissect what we liked from each fight, what maybe didn't work as well, and which one was the most disappointing of the bunch. With eight different fights to choose from, there's lots of meat on the bone! Making her first ever appearance on the podcast this week is Mallo, a Zelda fanatic and photograph extrao...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 173
Guess That Zelda Character is back, but there's a twist! There are only so many characters in the Zelda universe, but the locations are seemingly endless. So this time, we had to guess the Zelda location in so many questions. I say "so many" because we started off with 16 questions, and it proved to be a bit difficult for us... at least at first! So come hear us get into each other's heads and play along! Try and see if you can guess what Zelda locations each of us are thinking about for yoursel...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 172
Warning: this episode will make you hungry. This week, we have some special guests join us for a talk all about food, Zelda, and recipes! We sat down with Aime and Walter Woods and chatted about their new cookbook, The Unofficial Legend of Zelda Cookbook! How did it come to be? How was Nintendo in this process? What inspired them to make this? What was the reaction when they surpassed their Kickstarter goal by almost 30-fold? How did they make a recipe for Dubious Food and make it taste good?! A...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 171
Strap yourself in, because this is a marathon episode dedicated to one of the most oft-forgotten about Zelda titles: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds! We are definitively ranking all 12 dungeons from the game, so there is a lot of go through! From Eastern Palace all the way to Lorule Castle and everything in between, we go in depth talking everything dungeon related! Come listen to what dungeons ended up being our favorites. The gang were joined by Lorule Legend himself, Tony Harris, s...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 170
Another week, another episode where we know not a single thing more about Breath of the Wild 2 than we did last year. That's okay though, since we did what we do best here on the Champions' Cast: speculate! This week, we asked everyone to head over to Facebook and ask a Zelda question to get a Zelda answer, and you delivered big time! We had tons of questions to answer, including what would we undo in the Zelda series, what new mechanics Breath of the Wild 2 could introduce, what Zelda game do w...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 169
Metal Gear!? To hear those words uttered in a Zelda game would give me no end of joy, but then, I'm a big fan of stealthy games and Tactical Espionage Action. But after kicking around the idea, I realized that Zelda has a plethora of stealthy sections spread out in the series for us to dissect and discuss. Come hang with us as we talk Gerudo Valley, Silent Realms, the Yiga Clan Hideout, the Forsaken Fortress, and more as we offer our two cents of most of the stealth segments currently available ...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 168
The Intro Dungeon: a games first dungeon that acts both as a tutorial as to how the rest of the game plays, and as a standalone experience. That's our definition anyways, so with that in mind, the gang discuss the 5 best intro dungeons in the series and give some honorable mentions to strong opening "areas". We also shoot on the worst intro sections (no points for guessing mine) and what made them so lackluster. Come have fun as Corey returns to the show by popular demand! Oh... and did you know...
Jul 05, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 167
We recently undertook a mammoth task here at the site and polled 30 different staff members to gauge their favorite dungeons in the Zelda series. We then took all that data and made one overall list, with the dungeons that finished highest on most peoples lists getting pints that determined their placement on our master list. We finally revealed all 50 dungeons on that list, and the gang are here to give you their thoughts on the placements and what dungeons were the biggest snubs. This is a lon...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 166
A couple months ago, the Zelda Dungeon writing team put their collective heads together to think of some specific in-depth changes they wanted to see take place from Breath of the Wild to its sequel . This week on the show, we go over the list of suggested changes and weight in on what we'd like to see! Recipe Books? A customizable base? Some forgeable weapons? More exuberant music? Underwater travel? A LINK THAT CAN TALK?! All this and more explored this week, as the gang are joined by Tony Har...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 165
Live from Linktober's Zelda Creators Con comes an episode two years in the making - a Phantom Hourglass retrospective! Andy finally replayed Link's DS adventure for the first time in ten years and shares his thoughts with Alasyn and Mases, two big fans of the game. Is this the first bad Zelda game? What are our thoughts on Temple of the Ocean King? Do the controls kill the game for newbies? Does this game have some of the best items in the series? What do we think of Linebeck and Ciela? Does Pha...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 164
Buckle in and grab your weapons, because this week, we go in our way back machine to reminisce about everyone's favorite Hylian Hero making an unprecedented guest appearance in Namco's 2003 fighting game, Soulcalibur II! How did this happen? How does Link play? What were his weapons like? And what was the climate of the console wars back then? All this and a ton more are up for discussion! But that's not all! We have TWO live streams to announce - first, NEXT SUNDAY at 4 PM Central, Alasyn and I...
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 163
Hey everyone. It's been a tough week for all, but the gang are here to try and provide a distraction from life by answering a whole schwack of questions about Zelda! Who do we want as the next Smash fighter? What came first, Hylia or the Golden Goddesses? What moment made us the most proud to be a Zelda fan? What's the hardest shrine name in Breath of the Wild to pronounce? All this and much more! Come hang out among friends, and if you are interested in following the links suggested at the top ...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 162
You've heard The Champions' Cast version of the ranking, but now you can experience the original video from the Hyrule Compendium team of Mases and Gooey as they give their two cents on Link's maiden Gamecube adventure! Check out the Youtube video here , and make sure to like and subscribe!
May 28, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 161
A day late, but a couple bucks over value, we are here to dive into The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. You guys know how these definitive ranking series work by now - we take 10 classic categories like dungeons, overworld, art style, music, etc. - and grade a Zelda game individually on these categories. Up to bat today is The Wind Waker. In a companion piece to our friends over at the Hyrule Compendium's own video , we tackle the game and go in depth to give you one of our longest shows yet! R...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 160
So a couple weeks ago on my other podcast Virtual Theater , I was telling Gooey that I wouldn't buy the recently released Final Fantasy VII Remake because it was a remake of only the first 5-10% of the game. I even said "that would be like remaking Ocarina of Time and only having the entire game take place in Kokiri Forest!". Fast forward to now, and I caved and bought FFVIIR, really enjoyed it, and felt like it offered a complete experience. So in order to not have to eat a bunch of crow, I cam...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 159
