User:EzloSpirit/ZUCast Portal
This is a portal for EzloSpirit's work on the ZUCast, Zelda Universe's official podcast, to which he has contributed since June 2009. Links at which you can download full podcast segments are provided here, and maybe some other stuff. This page is mostly targeted at ZUCast listeners, but if you're just passing through, then why not check some of this stuff out?
EzloSpirit-Style Profiles
EzloSpirit's first series incorporated his trademark wacky humor! Enjoyed more by younger audiences, these segments had EzloSpirit writing "profiles" for different things around the Zelda universe, highlighting their quirks and curiosities and then essentially making fun of them! Running for a grand total of eight "episodes," EzloSpirit himself cancelled the series do to boredom and a growing overall negative response to the series. His personal favorite episode is the seventh, the Christmas special, which guest-featured ZUBC Producer Liah.
1. EzloSpirit-Style Great Sea Isle Profiles: ZUCast Edition! (June 2009)
2. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles II: The Races of the Zelda World (March 2010)
3. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles 3...D! (in 2D): The Bosses Around Here! (April 2010)
4. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles: The Thrilling Companion! (May 2010)
- The Thrilling Companion! Extended Version (part of a ZUer's application to become Assistant Editor. Includes most of the original dialogue and new music, and it includes the original Midna profile, which was removed from the podcast-aired version)
5. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles: You Got a Profile! (July 2010)
6. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles: Mini is the New Big! (October 2010)
7. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles: Christmas in the Dark (December 2010)
8. EzloSpirit-Style Profiles: Ocarina of Slime (January 2011)
EzloSpirit's Hyrulean Symphonies
A huge fan of video game music since 2007 or so, and with Zelda music pretty much at the top of his favorite video game soundtracks list, it was inevitable that EzloSpirit would eventually turn to his favorite topic in his podcast segments! More serious and factual than ESSP (though with some witty humor still sprinkled in occasionally), EzloSpirit's Hyrulean Symphonies takes a closer look at the music that plays in the background of your Hyrulean (or Terminian, Labrynnian, Holodrumian, etc.-ian) quest. Comparing and contrasting different musical arrangements and picking the music apart and looking at what different instrumental parts contribute to the overall song, plus a lot more, have made this segment much more widely accepted among ZUCast listeners, even among older listeners, than Profiles. Hyrulean Symphonies is still running. There have been four episodes so far. EzloSpirit's favorite episode (so far) is the fourth, the first "Across the Universe" part.
1. Hyrulean Symphonies #1: All Over(the)World (March 2011)
2. EzloSpirit's Hyrulean Symphonies #2: To the Dungeons (April 2011)
3. EzloSpirit's Hyrulean Symphonies #3: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition! (June/July 2011)
4. EzloSpirit's Hyrulean Symphonies #4: Across the Universe (January 2012) (COMING SOON!)
LoZ: Parodies of Time
EzloSpirit's second segment was his personal favorite until he wrote the sequel (under pressure from a friend and the original segment's second anniversary) two years later. These two segments are satires of two well-loved installments in the Zelda series, OoT and ALttP, respectively. They take the classic stories from the existing games and put them in the context of another time and age. OoT is put in the future, in which Ganondorf wages a nuclear war against Hyrule, and ALttP is put in the Stone Age, when an obviously-bored Witch Doctor is stealing little cave-girls and leaving them in the Burnt Forest for no apparent reason. The segments also include lists of items, each of which mirrors an item from the real games. For example, in EGoT (the OoT parody), Link obtains the Bifocals-of-Being-Able-to-See (the Lens of Truth), and in ALttWWWP (the ALttP parody), he gets the Really Rad Pile of Super-Awesome-Badass Flaming Rocks (the Fire Rod). These segments are sure to be a charm, and if you don't crack a smile at least once, then you need some Prozac or something!