Ganon has Dialogue in Tears of the Kingdom. This is the first time Ganon's spoken in, what, 3, 4 games?
Nintendo has a bad habit of hearing criticism and over-correcting to compensate.
I only heard the complaint about Ganon's lack of character in BotW once from a video by Nerrel. In which he states that each entry of the Zelda series has a unique interpretation of Ganon.
For the purposes of that Video, Demise and Ganon counted as the same character. He praised Skyward Sword for depicting "Ganon" as a barbarian-type character, and admonished BotW for giving Ganon no personality.
The fact that BotW Ganon had no personality because of Skyward Sword was apparently lost on him.
I am... cautiously optimistic for TotK.
(Wow! this has been in my drafts since 2023 I must've just forgotten...) So! Turning this into an official add-on to the post, I replied to this comment before (back when it was originally made) But as a Reblog I not only have more room, but can also throw in pictures to help illustrate my point.
Where you heard that was from BotW itself:
[ID 3 Zoomed in Screenshots of Dialogue from Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Together they read "The demon king was born into this kingdom, but his transformation into Malice created the horror you see now." "a primal evel that has endured over the ages." "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodyment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again..."]
And not to mention the naming of him as Calamity Ganon, as if he is, in fact, just a force of nature.
But that's weird, right? Ganon was evil in the previous games, sure, but "A pure embodiment of the ancient evil"? "Primal?" That's some weird language they chose to describe him, right? Because it sure sounds weird... you know... until you cross reference it to the (very much canon) worst prequel ever written.
[ID: 3 Screenshots showing dialogue, 1 from Breath of the Wild, and 2 from Skyward Sword, the first is spoken by Zelda, and reads "[Ganon] has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form" the other 2 are spoken by Demise and read "My hate... Never perishes. It is born anew in a cycle with no end!" "An incarnation of my hatred shall ever follow your kind, dooming them to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time!"]
Oh Gosh! I wonder why I hate Skyward Sword so much! Must be because I'm too lazy to use motion controls! Certainly can't have anything to do with the writing!
This is why Ganon was a non-character in BotW. This is what I meant when I said that it was "Because of Skyward Sword"
Skyward Sword was allowed to contradict as many of the games that came before it as it pleased, but god forbid they contradict Skyward Sword even a little moving forward.
This is why Ganon didn't speak through all of Link Between Worlds, and why he didn't speak in BotW. And I mean not a single line of dialogue!
The only reason Ganon got to (temporarily) be a character again in Tears of the Kingdom, was because the same people who praised Skyward Sword for its writing, said that BotW's handling of Ganon was bad, unwittingly admitting that, in truth, they thought Skyward Sword's direction with Ganon was a mistake.
They'd never word it like that, of course, because doing so would admit that Skyward Sword has flaws. And because Skyward Sword is "The Best Game In The Series (tm)" and can have no flaws whatsoever, any connections later games have to Skyward Sword are ignored, and they speak about, and critique the writing as if Skyward Sword had no influence on these decisions, when in reality, it did.
By ignoring Skyward Sword when complaining about the decisions made for BotW, Skyward's fans shoot themselves in the foot, and wind up looking like rubes with no reading comprehension because of it.


























