ZUCast XX: Celebrating What Was, What Could Have Been, and What Could Still Be!

Hey, Zelda fans! 2021 has been a rough year for many of you—this has been, like, the longest year for me—and the general lack of Zelda stuff has not made it any easier. Hopefully, the five episodes we put out before this one this year have made it just a little bit more tolerable!

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This is actually our twentieth episode since we returned from the dead in 2018! While I had wanted to do a little more for it than what we ended up doing, I did get to co-host this episode with my friend and yours, Elias Thompson, and had a great time doing it. Plus, we have a slate of thought-provoking content, including the return of a segment that we haven't had in a while, as well as a guest segment from former Zelda Universe and Zelda Wiki "tech guy" Justin! So, without further ado, here's the rundown for this episode:

Zelda History, Part 6: 2011-2015
Presented by Shona
0:05:49-0:15:46
Hey Listen!: Reflecting on the 35th Anniversary
Presented by Brian
0:21:36-0:29:53
An Introduction to Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
Presented by Justin Folvarcik, former ZU DevOps head
0:33:25-0:43:50
What If Zelda Was…an Unpacking Game?
Presented by Randy
0:48:56-0:56:13
Episode credits
Presented by Eden
1:03:10-1:06:56
Oops! I Crapped My Pants (Bloopers)
1:06:58-1:11:09

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With the Breath of the Wild sequel (probably) out next year, you can look forward to some particularly awesome episodes from us coming in the near future! As to what else awaits all of us, only time will tell. In the meantime, thanks to all of you for sticking with us for all this time, whether you started with our first episode in 2018 or this one! Happy new year!

Special thanks to Joshua Lindquist for putting together the static graphics for this episode!