#fiveblogs zelda

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Non binary dekus confirmed

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I know technically I’m now allowed in Gerudo Town despite being a voe but out of respect for their culture I still try to wear the most femme thing in my wardrobe

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Okay so Sidon has a fiancée or whatever but he also

a) commissioned a statue of him and Link saving the domain together

b) designated that stature a cultural landmark and

c) has not shut up about Link to his fiancée

So if this is Nintendo trying to make Sidon not in love with Link………..not working

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If I had a nickel for every time I did something to avoid the main quests only to have it turn out to be a main quest later I’d have two nickels which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened twice

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After a few days of doing practically nothing but playing Tears of the Kingdom, I can say that I’m enjoying myself and it’s a fun game

Here are some Thoughts about the beginning:

- The thing about sequel games is that they have to come up with a reason to take the MC from level 100 where they ended in the first game back to level 0 so the player can do the leveling bit all over again. Kingdom Hearts does those by putting Sora in a coma and into situations where he loses all his old abilities so he can train up new ones.

I really like TOTK’s solution: start Link at level 100. Have Ganondorf reset him back to level 0

It’s a clever way to excuse the level reset and show how much of a threat Ganondorf is.

And I really like how the game leans into it. When you get a new heart container, you’re not growing and getting stronger, the game literally says you’re just restoring what Ganondorf already took from you. Link doesn’t have all his powerful weapons because he’s been using the restored Master Sword, but it’s gone now so he has to start over. He doesn’t have his old Sheikah Slate apps because he upgraded to a Purrah Pad, and his new arm has new functions he has to learn.

Anyway I just think it’s neat.

- Tangentaly related, I think it’s neat that everyone knows who Link is.

The Zelda series doesn’t have that many direct sequels where you play as the same Link again — out of the 20 games in the series, only 5 are (Zelda II, Link’s Awakening, Majora’s Mask, Phantom Hourglass, and now Tears of the Kingdom). And most of those games have Link travel to another world, so even after saving Hyrule, no one knows who he is.

But in TOTK people know him. Some just know of him, some people he hasn’t met yet don’t know that he’s The Link, but everyone has heard of him, and can either clock him by his face or his skill with a blade (and probably the Master Sword if he still had it).

Idk I just think it’s nice. Most Zelda games are about the growth and journey to become the hero, so to have a Link that’s already so established is neat.

And yes, technically he was already The Hero in botw, but he’d been gone for 100 years. Aside from the Zoras and the Sheikahs no one knew who he was, those that knew about the hero 100 years ago assumed he’d died a long time ago, and most of what he’d been had faded to legend. This being known far and wide thing for the things he’s done to help people is different.

- Me desperately melding the Zonai stuff with the events of Skyward Sword: here’s how the timeline can still win

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I was gonna make a comment about how if bokoblins can’t swim maybe piracy isn’t the best career path for them, but that hasn’t stopped half the cast of One Piece so

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Me playing Majora’s Mask in 2000: It seems pretty unrealistic that there’d be a contingent of people insisting the Carnival goes on as planned despite how obvious it is that the moon is falling

Me playing Majora’s Mask in 2020: .............I see now

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Link in Majora’s Mask is fun because it’s like “I am the Hero of Time and with the Ocarina of Time I can bend manipulate time to my will And I will use these powers to commit bank fraud and cheat at the lottery”