my personal problem with ganondorf apologists is that it has been shown time and time again that he’s the reason he suffers so much. You all decide to villainize rauru or literally anyone but him, but don’t accept that ganondorf is the one who brought this onto himself. He was greedy and power hungry and repeatedly refused things that would have been better for his people, just because of his own ego.
I think it’s stupid to place the blame on rauru, because it literally just comes off as that dumbass “imperialist zonai” video that feels like a coke rant.
yeah, hyrule has done things to the gerudo. I am not denying that, but i don’t think it justifies the shit that ganondorf has done. Totk isn’t bad story wise , i think you all just need to use your goddamn brains 😭😭 you can like ganondorf and still let him be evil jfc
sorry, im a little pissed off
also, adding on, i’m a ganon centric account and a yumeshipper of him. I love ganon to hell and back, and i STILL think shifting the blame from his own actions to rauru is stupid. What rauru is doing is attempting to unify multiple kingdoms in an alliance to promote peace and prosperity. What GANONDORF IS DOING is attempting to BUILD AN EMPIRE. There’s a difference, and the deliberate obstruction of your own ability to see it, is stupid at best, and deliberately misleading at worst. I don’t think the gerudo are in the wrong for resisting, i think GANONDORF HIMSELF is in the wrong for stifling all the aid that is attempted to be sent to his people.
I hate the type of sidlink fans that hate on Zelink shippers and their art. Especially the Pinterest fans. I swear there’s something with Pinterest fandoms and being assholes…
Hello tumblr let me take a moment of your time to put you onto my worst enemy
looks like a normal tree right? WRONG
these things are sent straight from the bowels of HELL with the SOUL PURPOSE of ruining my entire week
LIKE LOOK AT THEM WHY DO THEY MOVE LIKE THAT
now, i can already hear you typing,
“Xavier, the evermeans are one of the weakest enemies in the game, you are a coward and your bloodline is weak”
and while i do see your point, you are objectively WRONG and i am going to show up to your house WITH A HAMMER
Listen, when im trying to enjoy a nice little stroll through the virtual forests of Hyrule, yknow trying to get myself immersed with the game, the LAST thing i need is THE WEIRD COUSINS OF THE ENTS FROM LORD OF THE RINGS BURSTING OUT OF THE GROUND AND SCARING ME NEARLY HALF TO DEATH WHILE IM TRYING TO ENJOY MY BOWL OF CHICKEN RAMEN AT 3 IN THE MORNING
I hope you can all see my frustration with these ABOMINATIONS TO GOD and i will NOT be taking any constructive criticism GOOD DAY SIR
i just revisited playing totk because i was bored at my boyfriend's house and we decided to start from the beginning... only to realize how much we both sucked and spent the whole time just roasting each other's technique and trying to one up each other ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)
so ive seen on here that a negative opinion of the new zelda game is like, the popular opinion rn but im just over here like ???????
-the zelda series is defined by it breaking it's own conventions, and echoes is doing that in a very interesting way, to me
-ive never subscribed to the idea that if we had playable zelda, she HAD to play exactly like link. it doesn't make sense. she's not a trained swordswoman in any continuity, she's a princess. if she had a combat kit, it'd lean heavily more into magic than anything physical
-the gameplay of Echoes makes sense for her character; you have to use your echoes wisely to overcome combat and puzzles rather than just boldly rushing in.
-i understand the arguement of "it takes away a lot of her agency!" but again, unless it was established in-game, it wouldn't make any sense for her to get and use a sword and start the game like link-- magic i could definitely argue about, but the d-pad on the left side of the gameplay trailer leads me to believe that you WILL get more abilities down the line, such as pure magic attacks
-personally i kinda think that playing a zelda game where you can play as zelda but it's the exact same game if you'd played as link is also really stupid.
The deep urge to write a full-length fanfiction on this Zelda idea I've had since I was like 12 and it's reached novel-length potential at this point and I have a whole trailer in my head and I was gonna learn to animate it but I have NO IDEA how to and I used to be good at drawing anime but then I stopped and now I have to relearn and HONESTLY I don't even know if it's a good idea but I DESPERATELY want to write it but I don't have time to do it consistently and it haunts me--
Why Tears of the Kingdom is the Breath of the Wild I was hoping for
Alright, so before I get into my rant. I really like Breath of the Wild. It's a very fun game and the events of 100 years ago are super interesting. It just... unfortunately let me down after Skyward Sword in two aspects that I personally feel Tears of the Kingdom succeeded at for me. Story and dungeons. Also please don't tell me to watch a Youtuber on why TotK is worse than nuclear war. I make my own opinions and my take on TotK is very unlikely to change. I have done 6 playthroughs and still feel this way. Spoiler warning.
Okay, so my issue with Breath of the Wild's story is how it feels like a mess at times. The memories don't even try to tell anything coherent outside of the final few. Some of them even need journals for any payoff as well. This system also limited the Champions from getting any development or character arcs. It took until Tears for me to appreciate them because Hyrule was still grateful for them. Revali's bow being treasured by Teba, Riju prays to Lady Urbosa in her diary, Mipha got Mipha's Court and Sidon's entire character arc was about how her death still haunts him and he doesn't want that to happen ever again. Daruk... got lights added to his statue's eyes I guess. Anyways, Tears' equivalent to them is the Neo Sages. Tulin, Riju, Sidon and Yunobo. They each get their own arc and you can tell how much they have grown since Breath of the Wild. What makes them better here is that they actually are relevant for more than just the Divine Beast boarding segments. Sidon deals with fear of losing his beloved Yona just like how he lost Mipha 105ish years ago, yet Yona and Link bring him to his senses. Riju goes from being stressed out about how she's too weak to defend Gerudo Town from the Gibdos with her aim, but Link returning reassures her. Tulin goes from being arrogant and thinking he can do anything all by himself to realizing that charging ahead all on his own is a bad idea and that working as a team is the best way to do things. Yunobo goes from being a manipulated crack dealer to being cowardly again for a bit to becoming courageous and willing to fight to defend Hyrule. These arcs help me appreciate the characters a LOT more. The Old Sages intentionally aren't fully fleshed out characters and its fine because they're barely on screen (their names are Ruto, Darunia, Nabooru and possibly just Medoh for the Rito Sage). Ganondorf being an actual character really helps as well. He wants to use the godlike power of the Secret Stones to his advantage to achieve total rule of the world (in the English localization at least). Rauru and Sonia are wonderful characters that actually try to help Zelda achieve her goal of returning to her time (nice opposition of Rhoam forcing her to achieve her light powers and being harsh towards her). Unlike the events of 100 years ago, the memories/Tears in this game actually focus on telling what led to the Imprisoning War in a specific order. The events in the memories and Tears also are all relevant and side stuff was pushed to the Stone Monument side adventure. Unfortunately the game is less linear than Breath (which honestly should be the other way around and is a massive storytelling issue), however Impa at least alludes to the order of the Tears when you go to the Forgotten Temple after the first one. The Fifth Sage quest is also an incredible questline that did what BotW should have done. It showed the Imprisoning War and how Ganondorf shouldn't be taken lightly. I seriously feel let down not seeing Link and Zelda fight the Calamity and losing. Also thank god you don't have to do an absurdly tedious backtrack quest to unlock the Camera, Tears, the Champion Leathers and the Kohga fight.
Onto the dungeons. I don't get why people switched up on the Divine Beasts in a positive way. They have a great gimmick and the "fights" are cool but that's it. The puzzles are... fine I guess? The visuals are cookie cutter and so are the bosses in every aspect except gameplay (and are basically just the Calamity split into 1/4). Tears' Temples are legitimately the most enjoyable dungeons in the series for me. The atmosphere, music, puzzles having a large amount of solutions, etc. Not to mention the boss fights actually being unique and very fun this time (BotW had some bangers too like Koshia and Thunderblight) and have unique fight themes that are so, so, so good. Seized Construct might be my favorite non-final battle boss theme for me. Also the pre-dungeon segments actually feeling like dungeons for 4/5 of them really helped make me like them more. Both games also have great and bad Shrines. TotK has far less bad ones and has a much better vibe with it's Shrines.
Anyways, ramble over. Thanks for reading. The only reason I made this post was because I was pissed off due to personal reasons. I love these games and this series so please don't take this as me hating BotW.
its 1 am and im thinking abt zelda. thinking abt how the sacred blood flowing thru her veins makes her a prisoner.
you are not a person you are a body, a vessel, for The Goddess, her divine power. you are nothing but your blood. just sit and think about it. quit playing at being something you're not.
you are nothing but your blood so so your body gets stolen from you, time and time again. evil violates you, worms its way into your limbs and casts you out. helpless to all but one, if he can save you.
