Sacred Reviews: Hyrule's Christmas DX Review · 2:42am Dec 10th, 2022
There is an old edition of Sacred Reviews reuploaded, and it is when I reviewed Hyrule’s Christmas DX in 2018. If you are familiar with Ballad of a Bloodline from CastChaos and Twilight Knight, then they also made a prequel called Hyrule’s Christmas. However, unlike the main game, HC is an actual short quest starring Knil’s (Link of the story) girlfriend Myra. The thing about Zelda Classic is there are not that many that use Christmas as its theme. Aside from the one covered here and Link’s Quest for Christmas — an 8-bit NES style adventure — often a warmer season or just the traditional Eurasian medieval style from the official series is used. It is surprising to find such themed quests even though there are so little of them. The fact a real wintery festival and its traditional music appearing in a variant of the Zelda verse are hilarious.
Now, according to the backstory, HC is actually a prequel to Ballad of a Bloodline since it involves the same characters. The plot centers around Myra where one morning a being known as the spirit of Christmas tasks her with stopping a dark entity. The spirit explains that because of this dark being is the reason joy isn’t being spread across the kingdom. As Knil sleeps in Myra sets out around the town to find and put an end to this evil entity to spread holiday joy. The concept for Zelda is truly hilarious that Hylians celebrating the famous wintery holiday is next level parody. I find this similar to Doom’s Christmas mods that was designed in a parody manner. The Doomer Board’s Christmas Carol and DBK Holiday Special (a Doom version of Jingle All the Way) did something similar to this concept. Can CastChaos and Twilight Knight replicate what the Doom Mod community did?
