Gaming Entertainment: The Legend of Zelda Vol.1 (Comic) Review · 2:57am Sep 20th, 2019
A new edition of Gaming Entertainment is up and this time we look at the first volume in the Zelda comic series. Some of you probably rolled your eyes upon me reviewing another non-canon Zelda. However, the Nintendo comics actually had effort put into them compared to the cartoons they got based off. It all comes down to good writing and researching the license which is something TV and Film studios don't even do. That's why the majority of gaming TV shows and movies had horrible writing and if not animation for nearly two decades. Of course, it got better eventually when you factor in the recent Castlevania anime on Netflix and films like Detective Pikachu. I guess it took a few generations of gamers to have other producers and writers understand the license from the games themselves.
The comic much like the cartoon takes place after the second Zelda as Link and the Hylian Princess adventure through the land. The format is broken between two stories instead of being one whole chapter. The first story has the heroes face Ganon in one of his evil plans to conquer Hyrule. However, the Triforce of Wisdom predicts Link will die if he leaves the castle for any reason. The second story is about Zelda fleeing the North Palace with the Triforce hand. After reporting to the king about it, Links tries to find out why Zelda ran away and to make sure she returns safely back to the castle. The comics were said to have a much darker theme even compared to Nintendo's light hearted concept. That was a feature cartoon could never have when this got featured on a Saturday Morning TV block. So can Zelda be redeemed from its terrible cartoon with this comic?
