My Time With Tears Of The Kingdom

Check pinned post for how I tag spoilers

[fire-plays-totk]

Hello! This is @gaylactic-fire 's TOTK blog. I will be posting about the game here for a while before moving TOTK discussion to my main.

Here is how I tag spoilers:

🍂 Content already shown in the trailers / ten minute gameplay footage will not be tagged as spoilers. This content will only receive a regular TOTK tag.

🍂 Content not shown in trailers, but that is non-story relevant (e.g: exploring, new costumes etc.) will receive a spoiler tag (TOTK spoilers, Tears Of The Kingdom spoilers) but will not receive further censorship.

🍂 Story relevant or otherwise heavy spoiler content will receive spoiler tags as well as be hidden under a read more cut. Please click these at your own caution!

[fire-plays-totk]

Hey y'all!

Just letting you know I'm going to start posting TOTK content back on my main @gaylactic-fire ! I'm super far behind on the main quests and I think most people will be ahead of me by now, hence why I think now is a good time to let this blog be :]. Thank you all who followed my early TOTK journey here!

[fire-plays-totk]

This is why I can never truly hate TOTK despite all my grievances with the story n stuff. I be like "Man this game bums me out sometimes." and then boom. Jenga shrine...

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Is Kilton a Tumblr user

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I was one of those people who generally didn't mind test of strength shrines in BOTW but god the proving grounds are SO MUCH better

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Ook maybe korok torture is a little fun

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Fuckin hate this game tbh

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Boys when they can't style their horse's mane

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Fuckin hate this game tbh

[orcboxer]

You're Prince Sidon's political marriage fiancee. I'm the guy in that statue he commissioned, the one where I'm riding him? We are not the same.

[fire-plays-totk]

Not sure if it's just something I dislike from a storytelling perspective or if it's just something I find deeply tragic about TOTK, but isn't it fucked how the same misfortunes tend to follow Link and Zelda? TOTK Link is gravely injured and gets stuck in a stasis to heal him before he wakes up weakened and confused, with the weight of the world on his shoulders again. TOTK Zelda is stuck trying to figure out some way to help and ultimately comes to the conclusion she must sacrifice herself. Like we've done this before??

Except in BOTW everything feels like a direct consequence of the reincarnation cycle. How Link was forced into knighthood as a child and how Zelda is expected to harness her sealing power only because of her bloodline. Hell, even how Ganon has warped into this terrifying force of nature and lost any shred of humanity. Everything is a result of thousands of years of the same song and dance over the triforce and it directly impacts these three characters arguably much more than their predecessors. So I guess it's a little lame that TOTK's reason for all the same things happening again is kinda just "Shit sucks I guess. Boom. Time travel."

[fire-plays-totk]

Ok the Link's Awakening set in TOTK actually drives me slightly insane. Minus the elephant in the room (giant mascot head nightmare) the way they tried to emulate that plastic-y feel on the clothing looks bizarre??

Ik you've got a cell shaded game here VS a very not cell shaded game but man y'all made him look so weird 😭😭

[fire-plays-totk]

Fused raw meat to OG Link's sword. It's what he would have wanted

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Thank fucking god there's still stupid silly goofy moments in Zelda amen

[fire-plays-totk]

Not a yaoi obsessed lunatic who hates Yona for destroying Sidlink's (non-existent) chances of being canon, not a vehement Yona defender who thinks everyone who dislikes her is committing an act of misogyny, but a secret third thing (She's alright I guess. She's kind of boring).

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[No spoilers!] People who have finished the main quest, what did you think of TOTK's story?

Amazing

Great

Good

Ok

Not great

Bad

Terrible

I haven't finished / show results

Voting ended onJul 11, 2023

[fire-plays-totk]

It's kind of crazy how hard Nintendo focused on the skylands in TOTK's marketing when they had a whole entire new map in the depths.

Like I love the skylands, but they just feel much less hype in comparison to a whole entire new map