🎲 The Legend of Zelda Poster UK

Breath of the Wild · Tears of the Kingdom · Twilight Princess — three confirmed Zelda prints at 98types from £3

The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo's most beloved and longest-running franchises — a series of adventure games following the hero Link, the princess Zelda and the recurring antagonist Ganon/Ganondorf across the mythological world of Hyrule. At 98types Studio in Camden Market, three confirmed individual Zelda products cover the franchise across its most significant eras: the original Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild (the 2017 game that reinvented open-world design), and Twilight Princess (the 2006 game considered the darkest entry). All on 260gsm museum-grade archival matte paper. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🎲 Breath of the Wild — The Game That Changed Everything (2017)

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released in March 2017 as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch and won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2017. Its significance extends beyond Zelda to the entire open-world genre: Breath of the Wild's approach to player freedom — every surface is climbable, every object is subject to physics, every problem has multiple valid solutions — set a new standard that subsequent open-world games including Elden Ring were explicitly designed in response to.

Hyrule in Breath of the Wild is the largest and most exploratory world Nintendo had ever built — a post-apocalyptic Hyrule, 100 years after Calamity Ganon's victory, frozen in a state of decay and recovery. The Sheikah technology, ancient pre-industrial machines now repurposed for exploration, gives the world its distinctive aesthetic: ancient stone ruins alongside blue-glowing circuitry, traditional Hyrulean architecture alongside the biomechanical forms of the Divine Beasts.

The physics and chemistry engine — which allows players to cut down trees that fall and float on water, light grass on fire that spreads with the wind, use metal objects as conductors of electricity, and exploit the interaction of fire, ice and water in hundreds of ways the designers did not specifically program — created a sense of systemic freedom that no open-world game before it had achieved at the same scale. The challenge “Can you beat the game immediately after the tutorial?” is a genuine question with a genuine “yes” answer.

The 120 Shrines and the World Design

Breath of the Wild contains 120 Shrines — small self-contained puzzle chambers distributed across Hyrule — each designed around a single physics or combat concept. Rather than the traditional Zelda dungeon structure (large environments with a specific item unlocking a specific mechanic), the Shrine system distributes the puzzle content throughout the open world, making exploration itself the primary reward. Finding a Shrine — often hidden in the landscape, sometimes requiring a complex series of environmental interactions to reveal — is the game's most consistently satisfying moment.

The four Divine Beasts (Vah Medoh the bird, Vah Ruta the elephant, Vah Rudania the lizard, Vah Naboris the camel) replace the traditional Zelda dungeon structure with puzzle environments built inside giant mechanical animals, each associated with one of the Hyrulean Champions who piloted them before Calamity Ganon's attack. The Champions — Revali, Mipha, Daruk, Urbosa — are the game's most emotionally resonant characters, and their memories (delivered in flashback sequences) constitute the game's most moving narrative moments.

📶 Tears of the Kingdom — The Sequel (2023)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released in May 2023 and received 96/100 on Metacritic, selling 20+ million copies in its first year. The game extends Breath of the Wild's world vertically: the Sky Islands above Hyrule, the Depths beneath it, and a further transformed surface — all three layers accessible from the beginning, all interconnected through the Ascend ability (which allows Link to phase upward through solid surfaces) and the Recall ability (which reverses the movement of objects in time).

The Ultrahand and Fuse abilities — which allow the player to build any object from available parts and attach any material to any weapon — extended the systemic freedom of Breath of the Wild into a creative tool without precedent in open-world gaming. Players built aeroplanes, rockets, tanks, automated machines and functional computers within the game's physics engine. The game's collaborative design challenge — players sharing their constructions online — became one of 2023's most significant gaming cultural phenomena.

🥸 Twilight Princess — The Dark Entry (2006)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was released in 2006 for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii and is considered the darkest and most narratively mature entry in the mainline Zelda series. Set in a Hyrule threatened by the Twilight Realm — an alternate dimension of twilight that transforms humans into spirits — the game features a Wolf Link mechanic (Link transforms into a wolf in the Twilight) and the Twili character Midna as one of the franchise's finest companion characters.

Twilight Princess has a confirmed individual product at 98types. The game's visual identity — darker, more realistic, more cinematically composed than any previous Zelda entry — represents a specific aesthetic peak that the franchise did not repeat until Tears of the Kingdom. For the Zelda fan who prefers the darker, more tonally serious entries, Twilight Princess is the poster.

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