Gearoid Reidy, Columnist

Zelda the Movie Shows Nintendo Has Learned Its Lesson

It’s dangerous to go alone, and in teaming up with Sony and the man who made Marvel successful, Nintendo shows it has learned from past mistakes.

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“It’s dangerous to go alone!”

It might be the most famous line in all of videogames, uttered at the beginning of 1986’s Legend of Zelda, as an old man hands you a sword and sends you off on an adventure. It’s also advice that Nintendo Co. has been taking: With its announcement of a Zelda live-action movie, it’s shown again that it knows better than to go by itself.