A-Z Challenge Letter Z

Z is for ZELDA!!!

The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説 Zeruda no Densetsu?), occasionally called Legend of Zelda or simply Zelda, is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is developed and published by Nintendo, with some portable installments outsourced to Flagship/Capcom, Vanpool, and Grezzo. Considered one of Nintendo's most important franchises, its gameplay consists of a mixture of action, adventure, and puzzle solving. The series centres primarily on Link, a playable character and the protagonist. Link is often given the task of rescuing Princess Zelda in the most common setting of the series, Hyrule, from Ganon (also known as Ganondorf), a Gerudo chief who is the primary antagonist of the series. However, other settings and antagonists have appeared throughout the games, with Vaati being a strong secondary antagonist during the lifespan of the Game Boy Advance. The story commonly involves a relic known as the Triforce, which is a set of three omnipotent golden triangles. The protagonist in each game is usually not the same incarnation of Link, but a few exceptions do exist.

As of December 2011, The Legend of Zelda franchise has sold 67.93 million copies since the release of the first game, with the original Legend of Zelda being the fourth best selling NES game of all time. And The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time holds the record for highest reviewed video game of all time. The series consists of 16 official games on all of Nintendo's major consoles, as well as several spin-offs. An American animated series based on the games aired in 1989, and individual manga adaptations which are officially endorsed and commissioned by Nintendo have been produced in Japan since 1997.

The Legend of Zelda franchise is the inaugural recipient of Spike TV's first ever Video Game Hall of Fame award. The franchise was inducted on December 10, 2011 during the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards.

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As some may know (and some don't) Zelda is not the person you play in these games. You play Link. So when people play the games called Link its the same game. Zelda is the princess. Yes it can be considered confusing to some. Anyway each game has improved graphics as time goes on but I still enjoy Zelda for NES just as much as I enjoy Zelda for Gamecube. I still haven't gotten use to the Wii enough to enjoy it on there. Zelda is an all time favorite of mine. I could spend hours upon days upon months playing these games. I actually beat the GameCube wind waker game. Zelda will always be one of my favorites and live in my heart forever!!!

Also one of my followers and I follow her ResidentGamer has an AWESOME Link tattoo!!!

Check it out and follow her blog (Here)

Did you know that Link is the character you play and not Zelda? Which is your favorite Zelda game?

A-Z Challenge Letter Y

Y is for Yoshi!!!!!

Yoshi, known as Yoshi's Egg (ヨッシーのたまご Yosshī no Tamago?) in Japan and Mario & Yoshi in Europe and Australia, is a puzzle video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. The game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy consoles. Both versions were first released simultaneously in Japan on December 14, 1991, and then released in all other regions the following year.

In Yoshi, the player is tasked with clearing monsters from the on-screen playing field. The monsters fall in from the top of the screen to build vertical stacks; the player must prevent a stack from growing too high such that it exits the play field. In order to so, the player swaps and moves the stacks about such that falling monsters collide with identical monsters stationed atop the stacks, causing them to be removed from play. Yoshi offers both a scoring-focused single-player mode and a competitive two-player mode.

The NES version of Yoshi was made available for purchase on the Wii Virtual Console in 2007. The game was then re-released on September 1, 2011 as a downloadable title on the Nintendo 3DS, available only to members of the Nintendo Ambassador program. Yoshi is currently planned to be made available for purchase in the Nintendo eShop at a later date.

Yoshi is a falling block game in which the player is given a playing field that is divided into four columns. Monsters, which consist of various Mario enemies, appear at the top of the screen and fall into each the columns, turning into blocks as they land and creating stacks that incrementally grow in height. The main objective is to prevent the four stacks from growing too high by eliminating blocks from the field; a game over occurs when any of the stacks crosses the black line drawn across the top of the play field.

To eliminate a block from the top of a stack, it must come in contact with a falling monster that matches it. For example, if a Goomba falls directly onto a Goomba block, both will be removed. The player controls Mario, who resides below the playing field and has the ability to swap the positions of any two adjacent stacks at a time. Thus, the player is required to switch around the stacks to ensure that the monsters fall into the correct places. Points are awarded for each set of monsters that are eliminated.

In addition to the four different types of monsters, two halves of a Yoshi eggshell will also fall. The bottom eggshell half behaves like a monster: it disappears when it comes into contact with another bottom half. However, if a falling top half comes into contact with a bottom half, the two will join and hatch a Yoshi, earning the player bonus points. Furthermore, if a stack of monsters grows atop a bottom half and a top half is then added, all monsters between the halves will be encased and eliminated. Larger Yoshi characters will hatch depending on the number of monsters encased, which also increases the number of bonus points awarded. If a falling top half does not have any bottom half to join to in the stack it touches, it is automatically removed and no points are awarded.

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Okay this may "show my age" but I'm only 24 and I played this game to death!!! I would spend tons of time on this game. It is addictive and so much fun! Like all tetris type games as you increase in levels the speed increases and it becomes more difficult to keep the stacks low. However with this game you have the shells. If you have a bottom shell on the bottom row and you have four other things on top of it and then you get the top egg to fall on your stack the egg with eat through the four other blocks to make the Yoshi egg. It is really helpful if you get in a bind. 

What was your favorite Yoshi game? 

A-Z Challenge Letter X

X is for X-Men!

X-Men Legends is an action role-playing video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It was released on the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles in the fall of 2004. Barking Lizards Technologies developed the N-Gage port of the game, which was released in early 2005. Players can play as one of fifteen X-Men characters, with the ability to switch between four computer- or human-controlled characters at any time.

X-Men Legends is not set in any particular Marvel Comics universe. It follows Alison Crestmere, a young mutant who has the ability to summon and control volcanic activity. As Alison is taught to control her powers at the X-Mansion, the X-Men are sent on several missions. Eventually the X-Men learn of Magneto's plan to cover the Earth in darkness from his base on Asteroid M.

X-Men Legends received generally positive reviews from critics. The Xbox version was the best received, garnering aggregate scores of 83% and 82/100 on the review aggregating websites GameRankings and Metacritic respectively. Reviewers praised Raven's variation on cel-shaded graphics. Due to the success of the game a sequel was made, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse.

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Growing up my mother loved X-men so I watched it a lot and I know why she loved them because they are amazing. So yes I too have a love for X-Men. I do have to admit I find the cartoons I watched growing up more my style of X-men then the trilogy released a few years ago.. But each their own. Anyway this game can and will get difficult in some spots. You get to chose which xmen you want to play as and I forget if you start with a team or slowly unlock it but at one point you have 4 xmen at one time on your team that you can switch between. You fight the normal villains the xmen fight and I think its really fun. 

So who is your favorite X-men or X-men villain?

A-Z Challenge Letter W

W is for WORLD OF WARCRAFT!!!!!!!!!

World of Warcraft (often abbreviated as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.

The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007. The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008. The third expansion set, Cataclysm, was released on December 7, 2010. At BlizzCon in October 2010, lead producer J. Allen Brack announced that there would be a fourth expansion set for the game, though the developers did not yet know what it would be about. On October 21, 2011, the fourth expansion set of the game, Mists of Pandaria, was announced at BlizzCon 2011 by Chris Metzen.

With 10.2 million subscribers as of December 2011, World of Warcraft is currently the world's most-subscribed MMORPG, and holds the Guiness World Record for the most popular MMORPG by subscribers

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When it comes to gaming World of Warcraft has to be one of those yes or no games. I don't really know anyone that is a gamer that doesn't have an opinion on rather they like or dont like World of Warcraft. Nobody I've met has been in the middle. I am one of those on the side of I like/love this game. There is so many different things you can do and multiple ways to go about doing them. You can get achievements, collect all the companion animals (Which will start having battles once the next expansion is released), collect all the mounts which some you have to get your reputation up with a special area before you can buy their mount, you get to level 85 (again when the next expansion is released this will go up to 90), you pick professions to make and sale stuff or use it. You can be crazy obsessed like me and have 10 characters on one of the multiple servers so you can have a character in each of the professions. Play with friends or go about the quest solo. Join dungeon groups, join raid groups, join battlegrounds where you can take down the alliance (or horde if you are alliance), join guilds. The possibilities are ENDLESS. 

Let me know if you play. I play Horde on Thrall. and I have one alliance toon on Staghelm.  I'd love to play with you. 

Special shout out to Panser who I stole her youtube video called tradechat. If you're a WoW fan like me you have to subscribe to her channel on YouTube. She is always keeping people updated on the changes happening on WoW. 

TradeChat

Have you played WoW? If not would you consider the free trial? If so did you like it? 

My WoW ID is:

DarkScorpio#1720