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rawliverandgoronspice · 1 year

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hey sorry everyone I'll reply the asks and everything (<3 thank youu they are all so good and I love them and I feel so blessed) I just... I need to be serious and focus on work for a solid minute. :((

BUT I played a little more of TotK and, yeah, I'm actually pretty baffled people are impressed by this story and considering it a step above BotW, when to me we are clearly below in almost every single way. Again: the game is super fun and I love the little touches and everything, but beyond The Issues there's a lot that's just... incompetent at a very basic level honestly, and I find little excuse for the amount of slack in the way informations are conveyed and, just, how nonsensical and disjointed I find the plot and the world to be overall

(I have a Post in my heart about how I think a single* fix would have done so much good to the story and actually led to a theme and to stakes and tension and characters arcs and everything this game is cruelly lacking in the narrative department)

((*it would imply a number of other cascading fixes, but the framework could roughly stay the same))

#thoughts #totk #tloz #yeah I mean the writing itself is atrocious in my opinion #there's nuggets of good ideas hidden in there #but man does the game goes out of its way to neutralize every spark of interest that could emerge by accident #I'm fairly certain it was a conscious decision by nintendo to proceed in this way #(and this makes me tense as to what that implies for the future of the series tbh)#and like I'm pretty sure the writers/narradevs are Aware of all the issues #but MAN does it suck to see this aspect be so utterly glossed over in the reviews #(again I'm biased obviously but like.... I don't know it really detracts from my enjoyment)#(I don't want to explore a world if I don't believe in this world and the people inhabiting it.... )#(there's nothing to discover if everything is just one-dimensional and rubbed of any hint of ambivalence)#(ALSO I'm so ughhh at everybody defending this aspect as It's Just a Zelda Game It's Not That Deep and It's For Children Relax)#(zelda did much better than this before AND a story doesn't need to be complex or Dark and Edgy to be meaningful)#(also: children are not stupid + deserve better + this game is pegi 12+ anyway)

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