Tools of the Trade: Link’s Greatest Gadgets
One of the best parts of any game experience is the different gadgets and weapons you get to play with along the way. Perhaps no franchise better embodies this idea than the Legend of Zelda series; each dungeon presents a new treasure to uncover and subsequently use to either defeat the boss or reach your next challenge. Since my love for this series is already well documented, we can skip past the praise-lavishing and get straight to the good stuff: my list, in no particular order, of some of the best Zelda weapons and gadgets of all time. I’ll try and forgo some of the more iconic choices, i.e. the Master Sword, on the assumption that you and I both know that the Master Sword owns you.
Like most people in the world, I watched the Dark Knight in a pure and unholy awe. I had two 32 ounce beers on each side of me, and I was prepared to be planted in my seat for the whole movie. (Or course, midway through the 2nd brew I had to pee like a damn race horse.) The Dark Knight is one of those rare movies that lived up to its hype. And it did one of the few things I could never imagine a sequel doing, it was better than the original. So, being a long time gamer, this got me thinking about all the games that had better sequels than their predecessors. And, like the cinema, it was rather difficult to find superior sequels, but I have managed to think up a few blowouts.