The Zelda Cast

Mar 10 2025 500 ep. 72 mins 352

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Andy and Al bring you the latest Zelda news, theories, reactions, analysis, and shenanigans in The Zelda Cast, the internet’s best weekly Legend of Zelda podcast!

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Episode 359 - Predicting the Zelda Dungeon Musical March Madness 2025 Bracket!

Mar 10 2025 100 mins

For the seventh year now, Musical March Madness returns! As the name implies, this is Zelda Dungeon's take on the traditional March Madness bracket, with our favorite Zelda songs taking the place of college basketball teams competing in 64-song single elimination tournament until there's only one left! This week, we're joined by the flounder of Zelda Dungeon himself, Mases Hagopian

Episode 358 - Our Top Ten Favorite Switch Games

Mar 03 2025 82 mins

We're back, and with the end of the Switch's life coming this year, we thought it would be a nice time to reflect back on the console that has been with us for our entire run on the Zelda Cast. We talk about our top favorite games from the console, which feature a who's who of familiar favorites and a few smaller entries that snuck in as well. Super Mario, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Sta

Episode 357 - Daily Debate Roundtable and The Best Dungeons in the Series Discussed

Feb 24 2025 68 mins

Andy returns after the smashing success that was the Omega Metroid Marathon! We get together to discuss a few different topics, including our Marathon experiences, reviewing the ZD Social Media Team's Top 10 favorite dungeon list - which included some big surprises - and how their list differed from ours, and answering some Daily Debates regarding music, Nintendo's IP's, Switch 2 f

Episode 356 - Playing Guess That Zelda Location

Feb 17 2025 71 mins

Alasyn is joined this week by The Zelda Cast producer Cal, and ZD YouTube extraordinaire Corey Richmond, and we decided that it was time to bring "Guess That Zelda Location" back from the grave! A spin-off on the classic "Guess That Zelda Character", this is Al's favorite game to play whenever Andy is away. So join in on the fun as we try to guess each other's Zelda locations in 16

Episode 355 - Battle Quest, Nintendo Land, and Wii U Retrospective

Feb 10 2025 65 mins

This week, we're taking the show a place it's never gone before: back to the launch of the Wii U! We're reviewing the Zelda-themed attraction Battle Quest, which was one of twelve Nintendo franchise themed mini games included in the Wii U launch title / showcase game Nintendo Land! We talk about the levels, swordfighting with the Wiimote versus archery with the Game Pad, the design

Episode 354 - Our Thoughts on the Switch 2, and Switch 1's Legacy for the Zelda Series

Feb 03 2025 81 mins

Andy's back! After two weeks off gallivanting doing who-knows-what, Spiteri rejoins the show to catch up with Al and give some thoughts on Nintendo's reveal of the Switch 2 and what we can expect from the console. We also take a quick trip through memory lane, talking about the Zelda series and its growth over the Switch era, looking at all the games and different ways Nintendo the

Episode 353 - Chiming in on The Zelda Cast Top Tens

Jan 27 2025 62 mins

Al is at the helm once again, and this week she is joined by one of The Zelda Cast's producers, Cal! Now, many might not know this, but this mashup happened once before, on a Zelda Cast Top Tens Patreon episode last summer. Well, that happens to be the inspiration for today's episode. Alasyn and Cal decided to expand beyond their opinions of that one bonus episode, and share their

Episode 352 - Definitively Ranking The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Jan 20 2025 64 mins

Welcome back for a new episode of the BEST Zelda podcast ever, folks! This week, Al is joined by The Zelda Cast's social media manager, Jules! In celebration of The Minish Cap's 20th anniversary (per the North American release on January 10th, 2005), we get down to business and definitively rank the most charming Zelda game. We discuss the game's world, story, pacing, dungeons, sid

Episode 351 - Zelda Daily Debate Roundtable

Jan 13 2025 68 mins

With no new news of the Switch 2 this week, we're turning to Zelda Dungeon's amazing writing team to answer a bunch of Daily Debates! Some of the topics include: what Zelda game has gotten better with age? What's the most underrated villain in the series? What accomplishment in the series that we have done are we the most proud of? What name do we always mispronounce? What's our th

Episode 350 - Celebrating 350 Episodes With a Special Q&A

Jan 06 2025 84 mins

We're doing things a bit differently this week and celebrating SEVEN years of this podcast by doing a special Q&A that's not necessarily about Zelda, but about Andy and Al as hosts! We're talking about the early days of the show, telling stories, and answering questions about favorite Lord of the Rings lines and moments, what our favorite songs of 2024 were, what JRPG series ar