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playing thru curious village and this is how it feels so far

#i remember the curious village puzzles being particularly random lol #they got a little better about tying them to the situation in later games #professor layton

theghostwthemost

Professor Layton and the New World of Steam Level 5 Vision 2026 Trailer

#we're so back #professor layton

verfray

Anton oh anton i miss you so.....

#professor layton

padawanlost

“Of all the monsters I have created, I still regard Darth Vader as something of a minor masterpiece. No, he was not an entirely alchemical creation, but he was my monster nevertheless. Even though he failed to live up to his full potential, there was much pleasure in transforming Anakin Skywalker from a bright-eyed, tousle-headed youth into the greatest Jedi killer of all time. Yes, he ultimately turned against his Master, as monsters sometimes do, but that was my fault, not his. Given the opportunity to create Vader again, I would, and with zeal.”

— Palpatine in Ryder’s Windham’s Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force

jurassic-404

They never actually explain why the fuck he's riding in a carriage through the evil forest so he did this just to aurafarm

#professor layton

fantasy-seal

Fanart of Princess Zelda from LOZ Echoes of Wisdom, forgot to post this one before

(2024)

#the legend of zelda #echoes of wisdom

mrkanman

#professor layton

theunconventionalking

new world of steam is real right like we didnt collectively hallucinate it or anything

#professor layton

summerf0x

Having a favorite character that looks goofy sucks because you’ll say something like “He’s a modern-day Sisyphus trapped in a hell of his own making, convinced that if he tries to improve his life in any way that goes against expected social norms it will be an admission of defeat even if it would make him happier” and this is who I’m talking about

#pikmin

girbirty

return of the jedi (1983) ...

#star wars #original trilogy

ganondorf

the thing is so many people try so hard to "understand" ganondorf but in order to do that you have to acknowledge that

1. loz is imperialist and orientalist in its themes

2. its narrative in some games functions more as propaganda rather than any sort of fairy tale-esque fantasy story

that is to say the orientalist themes wrt to ganondorf start when they decided to take the main antagonist, originally only a non-human monster, and portray him as a man from the desert with every possible caricaturization

and, a lot of the way that the hylian monarchy is portrayed is based on both medieval europe and japanese myth — the latter especially embodying the "divine emperor" ideology, which was something that was often utilized to justify imperialist aggression from japan, by inculcating the belief that the emperor was divinely ordained to rule the world

and b. what i mean that loz narratively functions more like propaganda than a fairy tale-esque fantasy in some games, is that there is no coherent moral statement to be found. particularly in ocarina of time and totk (the latter of which is sort of a revisit of the former) ganondorf does not actually function as any sort of parable. which is why any attempts to analyze and determine his goals beyond "evil guy from the desert wants to steal our grass" hits a dead end. you can't determine any sort of moral statement or anything about ganondorf's actual character just from looking at the source material alone. which is why so many people who analyze these things often come to these conclusions — not because we're trying to "defend" or ""woobify"" ganondorf, but because the writing in loz often makes it hard to come to any other conclusion with him besides this "fear of the other," that the demon from the desert will ruin everything you know and love

i'm quoting someone else on this but ganondorf as portrayed in canon is only whatever he needs to be in order to justify the fantasy of killing him

ganondorf

people in the notes praising wind waker for "subverting" these issues and while i do love wind waker dearly, i do want to point out that it is still based in orientalist ideals. the representation of the desert as a harsh, hostile, and unlivable land serves to perpetuate orientalist tropes as well

Aladdin, Al-Qaeda, and Arabs in U.S. film and TV is a great read but specifically i want to point out a specific quote and how it relates to ganondorf in wind waker:

Such pejorative association between topography and cultural identity shapes the mise-en-scene and is the initial locus of much of Hollywood’s negative portrayal of Arabs. As Shaheen puts it, “The depiction of Arabs always begins with the desert.” As with depictions of Africa where the jungle connotes both danger and cultural “backwardness,” the “hostility” of the desert environment often translates into attitudes about the people who live there.

#the legend of zelda