Winter in Gaming – Day 28 // Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Across the growing number of entries into the coveted Legend of Zelda franchise.  Snow is an environment you’ll rarely find yourself inhabiting.  Ice on the other hand has a little more emphasis through it being a semi recurring dungeon theme, but traversing to these Ice dungeons is not quite the climatic shift that makes a lot of sense (but in a game of such fantasy we can let that fact slide.

An interesting conversation starter to ask any Zelda series fan is what their top 5 or so Zelda games are (don’t ask them to choose just 1 as that’s cruel and the type of thinking I’d expect from Ganon).  So following on from that case study you’ll find that you’ll get different answers when it comes to asking people if they have a particular stand out memory when it comes to snowy experiences across the games.

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Winter in Gaming – Day 11 // Mario Kart

Regardless of if you’re keen for the festive season.  The majority of the world is at it’s coldest right now, so you’re more likely to be in doors.

Now you could sit and feel blue about how much money you don’t have this time of year, or the fact there’s less daylight…

or!

Why not invite a friend or 3 round and play Mario Kart.  Plan b, for those lacking a Nintendo (I feel for you) just send your Nintendo having friend a message and get some Mario Kart scheduled!

Look it’s Mario Kart.  I’d be a patronising pokey if I was to write an article explaining what Mario Kart is and why it’s good.  It’s already proven simple maths.

Mario Kart + Friends = Good times.

Their are some advanced Mario Kart math classes such as “Friend + Blue Shell = Asshole”, but I’m not here to teach math.

 

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