Symmetry City + Royal Crypt = Here

My zelda sideblog 👋 Please bear in mind I greatly dislike totk, so I would recommend if you do like it to not follow/scroll through here, but if you still enjoy my blog for the other games and want to stick around, you can blacklist the tag: #totk salt . Main is @rediidesu I also really like Umineko a lot @gfiascos

[cryptotheism]

I just felt someone Z-target me

[search-queery]

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

[symmetrycrypt]

how i feel right now

[symmetrycrypt]

some of my thoughts about it. really feel like if it's coming out this year, they should have shown a much longer trailer

[symmetrycrypt]

my thing with the art style is i can't really give an opinion on it yet because they barely showed anything lol

[symmetrycrypt]

posting this now before it gets revealed tomorrow

[mirensiart]

you won and she chose you and she loved you and she's gone

[blueseastar]

if you plopped Spirit Tracks Link in TOTK and gave him the ultrahand ability Hyrule would have accessible worldwide public transportation within 4 business days

[symmetrycrypt]

corrupted!Lana doodles i did for warm up, and also i miss her

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

one of my favorite tidbits about speedrunning that comes up every time the games done quick marathons come around is how Wind Waker speedruns are about five hours long because of the giant wall in Hyrule that actually forces the runner to play the game because they’ve been throwing shit at this wall for over a decade and still can’t figure out a way past it. the wall in hyrule is entirely unglitchable and the only way past it is to play the game properly. the speedrun would be like one hour if they could get past this wall but nope, it’s five hours. fuck the wall.

[squishysnake]

and the comedy of this situation is exponentially amplified the more you know about skips and glitches in speedruns in general

as examples of how broken WW is elsewhere, you can clip through walls and go out of bounds to skip entire dungeon sequences pretty much anywhere with a ledge, use the Wind Waker to enter a state where you ignore physics and swim at 5000 miles an hour, and even fly infinitely into the sky after dying like some kind of helium zombie. do you know how many games could be broken wide open by an infinite height trick? TTYD would shave off 3 or 4 hours.

but this fucking barrier around Hyrule Castle, against all odds, is just completely insurmountable with any of this. Ganondorf is literally the most successful and powerful villain in gaming history and this Super Extendo Fuck You Shield™ is a shining testament to it

[ark-shifter]

This is the kind of information I want on my dash

[cozza-frenzy]

Okay but do you have any idea just how big the Super Extendo Fuck You Shield™ actually is? Try approximately four times the height of the castle itself.

And not only that, but even if you get over the invisible wall, there’s another barrier that causes damage and knockback. So even if you managed to get over the invisible wall part of the Nintendo Containment System™, there’s still an additional, cylinder-shaped barrier that will do damage to you and knock you back out, even if you try to get in from the top or bottom. That castle has more security measures than Fort fucking Knox and it’s all to give a middle finger to speedrunners wanting to finish the game in an hour. It’s fucking wild.

[yggidee]

https://youtu.be/7XBPrFYN1MU

As of July 2019, the barrier has been defeated in all versions of the game, and the current World Record is 1hr 04m50s. The current method is to give yourself seventy invisible grappling hooks, which corrupts so much of the game’s memory that there’s not enough left over to load the barrier (or a lot of other things, like enemies or cutscenes. It’s amazing). You can just walk right trough where it’s supposed to be.

[unyanizedcatboys]

Cant believe the only way to beat The wall™ is to stop it from ever existing in the first place

[xcal1bur25]

The line “seventy invisible grappling hooks” killed me

[rileymorph]

Blue Link because i miss him all the time

[mihama66]

I love this cutscene

[lemonheadart]

playing fsa for the first time, so here's a sketch dump

[mentalteen]

Pose practice with the boys and trying out designs<3

[sharkfiinn]

means to an end

how their relationship develops is probably my favourite thing in twilight princess

lalalalaala

[rodentlegalteam]

day four (sword) of forcing myself to do proper line art and eyes (both of which were only somewhat accomplished)

[symmetrycrypt]

the 'twist' in the end honestly feels like worse writing because the whole game was literally setting up for something else to happen (that a lot of people in the comments still THOUGHT was what happened because it made the most sense but apparently it's not), it almost feels like them making it a red herring with how everything was done made it more a 'twist for sake of having a twist' i will elaborate on this more later maybe

[symmetrycrypt]

been thinking about this more and honest to god the writing in this game is so bad, i'm almost wondering if the red herring was even intentional, and i don't know which possibility is worse

[symmetrycrypt]

i know apparently there are a decent amount of bonus dialogues in the side missions in aoi, i only watched the main missions so my criticisms are based only on them, but honestly i really don't care if the bonus ones offer anything that could potentially argue against my points because everything i'm criticizing is stuff that should be in the main story