Explore every episode of the podcast Iron Boots Deep Dive
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| It's Dangerous to go Alone, Take Us - Iron Boots Deep Dive, Episode 1 | 08 May 2025 | 01:31:12 | |
Freshly re-released! Join two college friends as they set out on a quest to play all the Zelda games and provide reactions, opinions, and professional insight on the varied aspects of this prolific game franchise! | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Part 8 - Intelligent Wizard Birds Iron Boots Deep Dive | 08 May 2025 | 01:23:26 | |
We go to the heights of the City in the Sky which last time we checked was higher than Death Mountain. In this episode we talk about Spaghetti Westerns, the Pokemon Diglett, and how come all this ancient unmaintained technology made by weird bird people seems to be functioning flawlessly. ko-fi.com/ironbootsdeepdive | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Part 2 Mondo Sumo! - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 25 Sep 2024 | 01:36:26 | |
Strap on those Iron Boots, because we get the Iron Boots. But this time we get them by winning a sumo wrestling match. | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Part 1 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 05 Sep 2024 | 02:13:28 | |
It's time to enter the Twilight Realm where Link discovers what it's like to be a Werewolf. | |||
| "Tiers" of the Kingdom: Ranking the Companions - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 21 Aug 2024 | 01:31:55 | |
It's dangerous to go alone, take a buddy. There's tons of companions in The Legend of Zelda and they range from birds, trees, ghosts, fairies, and a talking boat! Join us as we rank all the companions in The Legend of Zelda franchise! | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Four Swords | 07 Aug 2024 | 01:57:11 | |
No this isn't Four Swords Adventure for the GameCube, this is Four Swords (1) for the Gameboy Advanced packaged with Link to the Past for Gameboy. What's that? You didn't play this game? Neither did most people! | |||
| Wand of Gamelon - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 24 Jul 2024 | 01:28:09 | |
The first game to answer the question, what if Zelda was a girl? | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap Part 2 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 10 Jul 2024 | 02:02:22 | |
We're finishing up the Minish Cap where we discuss how long it's been since we've seen Vaati in a Zelda game, how many whirlwinds we go through, and the intricacies of having a figurine collection. | |||
| Zelda in Reverse Order - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 26 Jun 2024 | 01:34:56 | |
A Nintendo Direct has aired and gave us our first look at a brand new Zelda game but this time we finally answer the question "What if Zelda was a girl?" | |||
| The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap Part 1 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 05 Jun 2024 | 02:04:21 | |
Fighting a ChuChu isn't that hard, unless you're an inch tall! | |||
| Ocarina of Time Manga | 22 May 2024 | 01:23:42 | |
Whoops, getting Four Swords to work proved to be harder than anticipated. | |||
| Excuuuuse Me for Another Cartoon Episode - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 01 May 2024 | 01:09:20 | |
After a busy 2 weeks and over a year since the last one, we decide to cover the 3rd episode of the 1989 Legend of Zelda Cartoon, "The White Knight". | |||
| Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Reactions - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 23 Apr 2025 | 01:40:00 | |
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been revealed in a Nintendo Direct showing several new games and the price. We talk about all the Zelda related games and other games we're excited for. ko-fi.com/ironbootsdeepdive | |||
| Tournament of Weirdos - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 18 Apr 2024 | 01:33:28 | |
Zelda is known for having a bunch of really strange and weird characters. | |||
| Soul Calibur 2 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 03 Apr 2024 | 02:03:08 | |
Transcending history...and the world! A tale of Souls and Swords. | |||
| Wind Waker Trivia Extravaganza - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 20 Mar 2024 | 01:45:57 | |
We're back with our second trivia challenge. | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Part 4 - Drowning the Past and Sailing Towards the Future - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 06 Mar 2024 | 02:32:43 | |
We've finally reached the end of our Wind Waker journey. | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Part 3 - Meet The Sages - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 21 Feb 2024 | 01:53:52 | |
We return to 3rd part of our Wind Waker series. We get into spirited discussions about Zelda not being as cool as Tetra, why did Zoras evolve into birds, and why the Earth Temple and Wind Temple naming conventions don't make any sense. | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Part 2 - Even More Water - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 07 Feb 2024 | 02:03:17 | |
We continue our adventure across The Great Sea. We sail the cursed sea, get a bunch of bombs way sooner than we realize, and debate whether the Tower of the Gods is an Island or a Buoy. | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Part 1 - Gotta Wake Up the Wind - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 24 Jan 2024 | 02:39:00 | |
Time for our biggest dive yet! You know, because of all the water! Right?! Guys?! | |||
| The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 10 Jan 2024 | 01:42:50 | |
We've entered the uncharted waters of fan made Zelda games. We found an actual N64 cartridge for The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link, a fan made game using N64 assets made in 2020. | |||
| Oracle of Seasons - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 13 Dec 2023 | 02:30:19 | |
We take the deep dive into The Legend of Zelda: Red Version. It's definitely Pokemon this time, there's an Onyx and a Venomoth or as the game tells you Onox and Mothula but we can read between the lines that Capcom wrote. | |||
| The Game Award Predictions - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 29 Nov 2023 | 01:27:40 | |
The Game Awards are upon us and as Zelda fanatics we're thrilled that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been nominated for awards in 5 different categories. | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Part 7 - Another Time Travel Adventure - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 12 Mar 2025 | 01:18:54 | |
This episode, we go to the Temple of Time, but this time, it's a dungeon. We discuss it's design of climbing the tower through puzzles and then the thrill of getting to come back down smashing all those same puzzles with a giant statue. ko-fi.com/ironbootsdeepdive | |||
| The Legend of Horses: "Tiers" of the Kingdom ranking all the Mounts in The Legend of Zelda - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 15 Nov 2023 | 01:56:45 | |
Horsegirl fever has taken over the podcast as we rank all the horses, mounts, vehicles, etc. in "Tiers" of the Kingdom. | |||
| Oracle of Ages - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 01 Nov 2023 | 02:14:29 | |
The Legend of Zelda franchise pulled a Pokemon and released 2 versions of a game for the GameBoy at the same time and they're Red and Blue. | |||
| Dawn of a New Day: Majora's Mask Theories | 18 Oct 2023 | 01:14:30 | |
We've been talking about doing this for 3 episodes straight. It's our highly anticipated Majora's Mask Theories spectacular. We cover all the crazy stuff fans have been all over since the game came out 23 years ago. We cover the 5 stages of grief, what is the moon, and who is Ben and why did he drown? | |||
| Dawn of the Final Day: Majora's Mask Part 3 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 04 Oct 2023 | 01:55:48 | |
We've reached the final day, we're finally going to stop the moon from crashing into Termina. | |||
| The Legend of Advertisements - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 20 Sep 2023 | 01:17:38 | |
Uh oh Alex disappeared and we couldn't finish Majora's Mask. Whoops! To fill in until Alex returns, Justin's sister Megan joins him to talk about all the ridiculous ads for various Legend of Zelda videogames and see the evolution of how this franchise was marketed towards the players. | |||
| Dawn of the Second Day: Majora's Mask Part 2 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 30 Aug 2023 | 01:28:22 | |
We've gone back in time 3 days in order to beat Snowhead Temple and a boatload of sidequests. We were going to do Great Bay Temple but somebody got a little too sleepy to talk about it. Whoops, guess we'll just have to get that on the next 3 day cycle. | |||
| Dawn of the First Day: Majora's Mask Part 1 - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 16 Aug 2023 | 01:59:11 | |
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's.. the moon crashing down upon us?! | |||
| Enter the Great Fairy Fountain - Iron Boots Deep Dive, with Guest Host AJ! | 03 Aug 2023 | 01:01:53 | |
Join us for a special guest host episode, as Justin is on vacation! | |||
| Justin's Ocarina of Time Trivia Challenge!!! | 19 Jul 2023 | 01:57:48 | |
We're a bunch of obsessive weirdos who act like we know it all when it comes to Legend of Zelda, especially the Ocarina of Time. Now we'll see how much we really know as Justin puts together a Trivia Challenge to test Zelda knowledge retention to see if we can remember the name of a dog, 3DS song notes, gossip stone factoids and other niche questions. | |||
| Ocarina of Time Part 2: Now We're Adults and Have to Pay Taxes - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 06 Jul 2023 | 02:42:04 | |
Seven years have passed and Link has grown up into an adult. Has the passage of time sucked all the childlike wonder away from him like the rest of us? Probably not. We finish Ocarina of Time and defeat Ganondorf in the conclusion of this game! | |||
| Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Part 6 Hyrulean Odd Jobs - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 27 Feb 2025 | 01:31:27 | |
We take a break from saving the world this week by playing a bunch of mini games. We get all sorts of rewards and all sorts of frustrations. Who thought relaxing would be so stressful? ko-fi.com/ironbootsdeepdive | |||
| Ocarina of Time Part 1: Living Up to the Hype - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 21 Jun 2023 | 02:06:26 | |
We've finally arrived at the game hailed as perfect 10/10 by every game reviewer in existence. At least it was in 1998. We're joined by our Zelda noobie friend Evan to see if this N64 classic holds up in 2023. | |||
| "Tiers" of the Kingdom: Ranking the Final Bosses - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 07 Jun 2023 | 01:41:39 | |
Are we taking advantage of the algorithm that Tears of the Kingdom came out? Maybe? | |||
| Tears of the Kingdom - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 24 May 2023 | 01:38:43 | |
After 6 years of waiting, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has finally arrived. This episode we ignore all obligations in our lives to obsessively play this highly anticipated game. Does this game live up to the hype? Is this just $70 Breath of the Wild DLC? How many Koroks did we turn into unwilling astronauts? Tune in to find out all the answers! | |||
| Darknuts, Lynels, and Zonai Oh My: Tears of the Kingdom Wild Speculation - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 10 May 2023 | 01:46:28 | |
In preparation for the Tears of the Kingdom release, the guys go through wild internet speculation about what's going to be in the upcoming game. They come up with their own theories, look at internet theories, and come up with some really nuts stuff that will definitely never happen...probably. | |||
| Link's Awakening - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 26 Apr 2023 | 01:50:44 | |
What if you had a Zelda game that didn't have Zelda, but instead had a giant fish egg? | |||
| Lol So Random: A Link to the Past Randomizer - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 12 Apr 2023 | 01:21:39 | |
We're playing A Link to the Past again but everything seems off. Why did I pay a big Zora 500 rupees for 20 rupees? | |||
| A Link to the Past - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 29 Mar 2023 | 02:10:42 | |
What if Link was a Pink Bunny that can't use any items? That would be really unfortunate. This episode The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo, a game that we've been really excited to play and has nothing to do with time travel. | |||
| The Legend of Zelda Cartoon - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 16 Mar 2023 | 01:10:49 | |
Did you know that there's a Zelda Cartoon?! It's not very good! Join us as we discuss the first 2 episodes of this cheesy late 80s cartoon most famous for inventing the phrase "Excuse me princess!" | |||
| Zelda II: Castlevania - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 01 Mar 2023 | 01:29:34 | |
This week we take the Deep Dive into Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the black sheep side scrolling Zelda game that nobody talks about. Will we able to beat this challenging game? Only one way to find out, put on your Iron Boots and dive on in! | |||
| "Tiers" of the Kingdom: Zelda Overworld Themes Ranked - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 15 Feb 2023 | 01:56:49 | |
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| Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 5 Mansion of Yetis - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 12 Feb 2025 | 01:42:31 | |
We've returned to talk about one of the most unique dungeons in all of the Legend of Zelda franchise, the Snowpeak Ruins. We encounter yeti's, snowboarding, ice physics, and an oversized ball and chain! Also AJ makes one of his craziest and best potions to date. ko-fi.com/ironbootsdeepdive | |||
| Introducing Ganondorf: Rehydrated! - Iron Boots Deep Dive (Mini Episode) | 11 Feb 2023 | 00:22:47 | |
Join a games industry veteran and professional cartographer as they set out on a quest to play all the Zelda games and provide reactions, opinions, and professional insight on the varied aspects of this prolific game franchise! | |||
| The Legend of Zelda: Instruction Book of Secrets - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 02 Feb 2023 | 01:38:29 | |
Join two friends from college as they set out on a quest to play all the Zelda games and provide reactions, opinions, and professional insight on the varied aspects of this prolific game franchise! | |||
| Annoying Enemies Tournament - Iron Boots Deep Dive | 11 Dec 2024 | 01:37:38 | |
Zelda is full of enemies that are difficult, but it's also full of enemies that are annoying. They disable your weapons, set you on fire, freeze you, shock you, eat your shield, and even warp you back to the beginning of the dungeon. | |||
| The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Part 4 - Midna is Dying! | 20 Nov 2024 | 01:57:19 | |
We enter what many would consider the most iconic part of Twilight Princess. The part where Midna's dying and only Zelda can save her. | |||