The first game in the by now very extensive row was released in 1986 in Japan and 1987 in the rest of the world under the title "The Legend of Zelda". The developers of the series still are Shigeru Miyamoto and his Nintendo-Team.
In the meantime there have been produced at least two games for each console and were, among a lot more, due to their complexity, the elaborate story line, the difficulty, as well as the fun-factor, always big sellers. Exception is the first title in the series, which initially turned out to be a flop, however, by the present day it has become a desired collector’s piece.
Eiji Aounuma(since the game "Majora's Mask"; released in 2000; working as coordinator and in the EAD of) himself dared to confess that he had surrendered to the game in desperate tears after only half an hour. He has never reached the second dungeon. A nice example for the sometimes simple but almost inscrutable puzzles, even for crusted players of the series.
The game "Twilight Princess" served as launching title for the Wii console and its successor on the Wii, "Skyward Sword", which functions as the official game for the celebrations around the 25th Anniversary of the series, revolutionized the 1:1 controls with the Wii-Remote and the Nunchuk in terms of synchronicity and realistic gaming experience. The remote control reacts precisely close to the moves of the gamer, for example, when it comes to swinging a sword. As the second game to the jubilee(in Summer 2011) the most popular and back then revolutionary game "Ocarina of Time" was being reworked and reissued for the new 3D Handheld Console Nintendo 3DS.
Since the series is one of my favourite video games series, I felt the need to join the enormous squad of Cosplayers and replicate some of the costumes from the series. Thereby I put a lot of emphasis on making them as close to the original reference as possible, as well as making as many of the parts thought of being metal, from real metal, which is being eased by my education at a big extent.
Nevertheless each of these more or less detailed costumes takes a lot of time and money. Therefore I ask for patience.
Digital painting for the 25th Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda series, painted by Ag+
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Official website of Nintendo
Zeldawiki (most precise version)