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If you are ignorant unaware, ONM is the Official Nintendo Magazine. In a recent feature over at their UK site, they've asked fans for their favorite moments in Ocarina of Time. They got some great responses, from exploring Hyrule Field, to Link growing up, through to rescuing Epona. I agree with everyone who said as a kid they feared things like Redeads, that was some scary stuff. What's my favorite moment - while rescuing Epona and Sheik's exposure are top moments, none are better than the Water Temple. That's right, you heard me. It would be such a shame if my favorite moments were ruined in Ocarina of Time 3D. Stay tuned for Zelda Informer's top 100 moments in Zelda (100 to 91 and 90 to 81). So what's your favorite moment in Ocarina of Time that you can't wait to relive in 3D? Jump inside and let us know your memories in the comments!...

No, I'm not saying "Hey! Listen! Hey!" just to get your attention. Besides, who pays attention to Navi anyway. Now that I do have your attention however, "Hey! Listen! Hey! is the title of this fantastic piece of fan-art created by Kevin Keele (Kanyn), who you can check out on deviantART. I'm kind of wondering what exactly is going on in the picture, because it looks like Ganon is all chained up (Sacred Realm maybe?), and Link's just giving him the silent treatment by turning his back on him and havin' a good ol' talk with Navi. A higher resolution version is inside....

This rap was refreshingly simple and entertaining. Usually when I see stuff like this I instantly cringe expecting something really bad, but this time around I was pleasantly surprised. This is written and performed by Alex Hanly and you can see some of his other work on his YouTube Channel. ...

I swear, Nintendo better bring Pandora's Tower to the west or I will cry. Alright, so I wont actually cry, but it would be great to get some of these amazing Nintendo exclusive JRPG's in the west. Final Fantasy could use a big run for it's money. The above trailer looks great, and I am pretty enticed with the many uses for that "chain whip". It visually looks stunning for a Wii title, and it appears to have a very deep and intense story to back it all up....

So, a few days ago I got a lot of flack for asking the question "Is Project Cafe Really the Right Move For Nintendo?". I came to the conclusion that this could be a poor move on Nintendo's part on the whole, not necessarily because of anything related to the obvious HD and improved graphics, but more so to what should end up being an inflated price point. However, if there is one thing I have learned in my almost 20 years of gaming it's this: Never bet against Nintendo. Just when you say they can't... they do it. Everyone laughs at them over something crazy? They turn it into a profit. Of course, they don't always come out ahead (See Virtual Boy), but Nintendo knows what they're doing. Unlike most game companies out there, Nintendo has arguably the best grasp on the industry as a whole, especially the fan base. They understand that above all else, people play games to have fun and be entertained. Whether it's through a free or cheap social game, or through a AAA title, they all provide varying levels of fun usually for completely different people. It's not that graphics don't matter, but...

The closing chapter of our in-depth A Link to the Past walkthrough finally went live this morning - the end of an era! (Or perhaps the beginning.) This now brings our total number of completed walkthroughs up to two, as we also released our awesome The Wind Waker walkthrough in March. That's two steps on our long journey towards totally comprehensive Legend of Zelda game content. We'll continue to release new walkthrough content coinciding with the games' release dates - including the upcoming Ocarina of Time 3D and Skyward Sword. I'd love to say that the Oracles games, whose birthday falls later this week, will be next on the list, but between school, the Ocarina of Time walkthrough, and getting ready for E3 there's just no time to build guides for two additional games. I guess they'll have to wait until next year. In the meantime, jump inside for a full chapter update history - or just head over to the walkthrough home page to browse the Table of Contents....

Holy crap, guys, I think the mailbag just got a little more epic. 17 questions! Okay, so maybe a few of them don’t exactly 100% count, but hey, it’s still 17! Got a pretty wide selection of questions, with a couple extra focusing on Twilight Princess, A Link to the Past and Skyward Sword. Enjoy! [...]

As Zelda fans, and especially as Zelda theorists, we all tend to do a whole lot of complaining about translation and localizations done by Nintendo of America. Dan Owsen and Bill Trinen have all received extreme amounts of online bashing. This new feature from GlitterBerri.com compares the original English text and the original Japanese text, before offering its own fan translation. There are already plenty of these around the web, but we know there are lots of the analytic type at our site (me included) that like to see what fans get in their translations. So check it out to see the main differences between the English and Japanese versions. It seems that the English translations have been extremely simplified compared to the more natural translations. At the same time, they show a lot more creative license. For instance "I AM ERROR", the classic line is more literally translated "My name is Error", but that's just crap isn't it? It slightly annoys me how much seems to get lost in translation in Zelda, but the Adventure of Link isn't one of the larger concerns, with less than 700 words in the game anyway. It's the translations of the Adventure...

This cross-stitched map of Hyrule, as seen in A Link to the Past, took four months of toil to reach completion (Click for the full size image). The stitches creator, known as Servotron, was originally planning on doing it on a screenshot from Donkey Kong Country on the Super Game Boy. So either through some very bad stitching and a massive fluke, or more likely, through a conscious change of mind, the end product is this map of Hyrule. Looking pretty awesome I must say. Wouldn't mind one of those for myself! You may or may not have seen this piece before, because it was actually completed over two years ago, in 2009. It was reported over at Kotaku back then, and made it's way over to GoNintendo. Two years later GoNintendo seems to have forgotten that they posted about it years ago, with this new post. Thankfully, the new post finally got our attention, and now this superb piece of artwork hopefully gets yours too. Enjoy! (That's probably the longest news reference we've ever had.)...

Our Facebook Prize Draw for Skyward Sword is going to be drawn on Thursday morning, with entries closing the midnight beforehand. In other words, there is only 26 hours left before entry to the competition closes. So if you want to enter for your chance to win be sure to "like" our page and then comment on the entry status. The chances of winning currently stand at 1 in 330. For the full details of the competition check out that link at the top of the post. Up until now a part of the competition was being able to find the entry status yourselves; however we've also linked to that status from every page on the site for the last week. So to the people who were struggling to find the status, all you needed to do was click the competition banner in the sidebar (up to the right there). If you still haven't entered and want to for your chance to win a copy of Skyward Sword upon release, comment on the entry status (linked to above). Remember that it doesn't matter where you live because we will send you Skyward Sword in your regional version. Good luck...