It is that time of the year again, where your current wall calendar will soon have completed its service. And in the past Zelda fans could look forward to something new every year, but those days seem somewhat over...
The team at Danilo decided to make their Tears of the Kingdom calendars a trilogy, so it's more of the same. That means you get another 12 months of character artworks from the last 3D Zelda game, with some repeats and some new ones. Here is what's in it:
Link, Riju, Sidon, Tulin and Ganondorf are repeats from 2024. Zelda, Yunobo, Rauru and Hestu are repeats from 2025. And the Great Deku Tree, Purah and Mineru have their first occurrence.
Well, this could have been easily reduced to two calendars. Especially the current poster, which was last year's cover motive (and vice versa), seems rather uninteresting. And since there had been five repeats in the previous calendar already, two would have been enough to include all the artworks. Plus, they still haven't made use of everything there is yet, like Yunobo's default artwork.
At least the overall design has improved quite a bit, compared to last year. There is a lot more variance in the backgrounds and they have added the names of the characters, which looks good. I still like the one from 2024 the best, even though it has the simplest design of the three, but its simplicity made it the most stylish in my opinion.
Of course, the new calendar is very much still up-to-date with the releases that we had this year. Tears of the Kingdom got a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, new amiibo, and its own spin-off game with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. A calendar based on the latter would have been amazing, though, but that probably wasn't as easy/cheap to realize, since it involves a third party. In addition, Mineru and Tulin will make their crossover debut in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so there is some small relevance to 2026 as well.
Still, some love for Echoes of Wisdom would have been nice. This is where Abrams could have shined, but I'm pretty sure they have simply recycled stuff from their previous calendars, while getting some inspiration from Pyramid with their cover motives. So, I'd rather take the Tears of the Kingdom calendar for a third time, because this has at least something "fresh" in it.
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