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moonglide · 8 months ago

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Echoes of wisdom hours 10 & 11

-spoilers for the end of the gerudo quest, and most of the hyrule castle quest.

-previously on: moon's eow playthrough

-AAAHHH WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE THREE LINKS???

-this concludes the segment about the last entry.

-okay so with some clever manuevering, i killed them. had to distract them with moblins and then take them out individually.

-oh i got a bow! guess that makes sense. will the next one be bombs???

-oh i have to be in hero mode to use the bow. lame. zelda is totally an archer.

-i only knew half of the two statue puzzle so i just guessed. and it worked.

-mole guy. i'm a little scared because i've seen people talk about this guy

-guess i'm just too skilled. that wasn't that hard. i used albatrosses or whatever they're called.

-ok so yeah the restored parts of the world are definately just copies. how can i still be standing on gerudo sands in the still world if it got put back?

-no extra triangle? i just get reduced cost on certain echoes? huh? are those echoes gonna be useful in the castle or something?

-ok tri. you want me to go back to lueberry's? joke's on you, i was about to go there anyways to upgrade my sword.

-i ship lefte and wright. i also headcannon that lefte is right handed and wright is left handed.

-OH GOD the rift has overtaken castle town.

-love how when the soldiers are freaking out wright just takes charge. he's actually a really good leader. he boosts morale, is decisive, helps out his soldiers. it's great.

-down, you say? guess i'm taking the well.

-ohhhh we get to go through the castle again! but backwards!

-there's magic evil soldiers? ok. guess they'll die.

-guess they won't die. what? why are they so strong?

-OOOHHHH it's so it can be a stealth section like the beginning of the game!!!!

-got caught and it took me to a pocket dimension. is that why they one shot everything? they're just being teleported?

-ok so apparently you can place water blocks as long as they're connected to the ceiling. the more you know.

-fell off the roof. got stabbed by guard. there's like two darknuts and a moblin in here. guess i'll die. that's death #6

-impa????

-wait she has a diary

-read the diary, i'm not crying you're crying. god impa did you have to punch me in the feels so much?

-ok but also this is the same cell with the hole in the wall. impa you are a ninja. you could have figured something out.

-man imagine what it must be like for zelda in these underwater tunnels. she can't see through walls. she doesn't know where the next pocket of air is. terrifying.

-diff stealth section. landed on this guard's head. from the ceiling. bro turns around and i teleport off.

-hey remember when i asked if the echoes with reduced cost would be useful in the castle? they were useful in the castle.

-death 7 from that room with the ball-and-chain darknut.

-oooh high jump amulet!

-i teleported back but forgot to open the big chest. now i gotta go back again.

-wait am i just straight up fighting the king and left and right???

-oh it's ganon. and he's an echo. i still think ganon from the start of the game was an echo.

-first phase went well. was low on hero mode mana so had to send birds to fight for me

-second phase went well. could get mana from the flaming keese, so i could actually stab him.

-i'm so disappointed in myself. i'm actually so disappointed. i died to magic tennis. how did i die to magic tennis???? it's so simple!! i was too close to him and so when it sped up i couldn't react. i'm a fool. i'm pretty sure i have to start from phase one. whatever.

-death count: 8.

-fave monster: albatrawl. with this guy i can use cloud of bats but better, because they can take a hit, and attack faster, and are stronger. two strong birds is still better than four weak bats.

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beardedhandstoadshark · 2 years ago

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If you could make a connection between your favorite character and another work you care about (whether a crossover/fusion or a wonderfully “pretentious” literary reference) what would it be? How would it work?

Oh I‘d love to add a literary reference! Sadly can’t recall any rn though, and as it turns out, "I fear no man - but that thing - it scares me“ did not in fact, as I previously assumed, stem from MacBeth before being turned into a Team Fortress 2 meme, but rather originated from said game. Could’ve sworn I read how MacBeth said it in reference to the knife scene though…

Given that most other literary pieces I liked either don’t have scenes I’d know how to translate into a different setting with the characters I like or aren’t very referenceable to begin with, and with other media most of it already exists in the form of Super Smash Bros Brawl and/or Ultimate, and while I have ideas for it I doubt me talking about Etrian Odyssey for the millionth time is very interesting, AND my nr. 1 fave being Luigi Mario of all characters… that leaves us with…

No, wait, actually, what would a crossover with MacBeth look like…You could make it so the mc isn’t in the role of MacBeth, but watching it unfold?

OR - another idea. I don’t try to make this work with main fave Luig- but with Link Legend of Zelda :3 Becaaaause there just so happens to be a canonical royalty-murderer turned self-proclaimed king in that series :] And while he doesn’t have a wife, he does have two very bloodthirsty moms who he probably got his murder tendencies from to some degree.

So, this is probs gonna be vastly ooc, but-

our three fatebound souls all get smacked with a prophecy by the three Goddesses that made the Triforce (maybe via prophetic dream. If Zelda and Link both canonically get them why not Ganondorf too),

GDorf decides nows a great time for King Rhoam to roam the way for him, does just that, and instead of a mental breakdown over floating knifes he gets angry over a vision with a master sword, because GD just isn’t a character to get breakdowns like that unless it’s a 3rd act breakdown mayyyybe?

decides *screw that* and goes full tyrant like in the second half of ocarina do time, either orders his giant bird to kidnap blonde kids again or Yiga to just kill Link and Zelda,

shortly afterwards Link hears Zelda is missing, decides to kick Dorfs ass, on his way gets joined by a super mysterious Shiekah called Shiek (Nintendo is not very creative with names ngl),

on their way they defeat the moms, find the sword in the forest that’s known for shifting around and parted itself so it could be found, and make friends from all the other…kingdoms? Counties Regions? They have their own royalty and rulers but still somehow belong to Hyrule?? Hyrule is the Britain of fantasy countries…

Anyways, war - but it looks like Ganondorfs too powerful, as always

plottwist, Sheik is no man borne from a woman, but was Zelda all along. Promptly shoots him with holy light arrows so he can be sealed away

Epic 1v1 battle

He dies

Happily ever after until the next cycle of reincarnation!

…this is really the best I’ve got. Not much (aside from the ridiculous length). Sorry.

#another anon ask #long post #in my Defence half of that is for the formatting #it just looks easier to read this way imo

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repeatsfate · 8 years ago

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A, K, R!!

vidya games!

K – game you’re most looking forward to?

at the moment it’s super mario odyssey and pokemon ultra sun and moon! and, uh… my inner 12 year old is rearing her ugly head to force me to admit i’m also pretty hyped for sonic forces, oops. lOOK IT LOOKS FUN, OKAY…

i’m looking forward to fe musou too but also i’m pretty neutral on it– everything they’ve revealed has been super incredible so far and i’m looking forward to maining my birb, but i’m more interested in the confirmed fe16 and i’m looking forward to hearing more about that when the time comes. <3

R – most underrated game?

hmmmm… while xenoblade chronicles itself would certainly fit the bill despite shulk being a giant meme now, i think i’ll take it a step further and go on to say xenoblade chronicles x deserves a bit more love than it got–

despite the very real flaws with the game and some aspects of the story, a thing that draws me to it aside from the ‘if you can see it, you can go to it’ MASSIVE open world and setting on a foreign planet was just how human its supporting cast and even minor npcs are. the game does an excellent job of portraying raw humanity in both ends of the spectrum– where there are heroes, there are people even in man’s most desperate hour that took that second chance as an excuse to be horrible, horrible people. the encounter of alien life goes as swimmingly as you expect, with the remaining fragments of humanity split on how to deal with these new beings in their midst. some choose to try and form alliances and bonds, the others shun and fear the outsiders– many quests actually revolve around the racism in what’s supposed to be a safe haven for the aliens pledging themselves to humanity’s side. the conflict taking up the last leg of the game is one born of human grief and the sting of loss– and when you really get into the motivations behind it it’s so easy to understand why the person did what they did but also acknowledge yeah no you did bad buddy you gotta pay for it now. i just???? it’s so good????

the planet and creatures that make up the game’s setting are imaginative and beautiful, i honestly love just booting it up and wandering. sometimes it’s scary as all heck because OH GOD GIANT MONSTER OUT OF NOWHERE but also… that just adds to the immersion and feeling like you’re a tiny fish in a big, big sea… and when you’re strong enough to stand up to those monsters it’s the most satisfying thing in the world.

the musical direction is honestly up to taste- i personally adore xcx’s soundtrack, but those not a huge fan of hiroyuki sawano’s works might find it lacking. here’s a personal favourite!

point is, it’s super fun, i want to do an araceli run sometime if i can ever be arsed to go back on my wii u or it gets a switch port, and a verse would be fun to play around with… i’m not a huge jrpg person, but i really really like xcx. also, fans of matthew mercer– he’s in this one, too! he plays lao huang, one of my all time favourite characters tbh <3

point is it is flawed, yes, but it’s also a very solid jrpg that i had fun sinking hours into and i’d totally do so again

A – favourite game of all time?

my top fave game of all time? easy! it’s the legend of zelda: wind waker!

it wins in both nostalgia points and a critical eye as i’ve gotten older– as a little kid, it was the first game i ever actually beat all by myself! the gamecube was the first home console i ever got to own– for a while i lived with my granny, who wasn’t very big on gaming if that makes sense? and then after moving back in with my mom she got me one for christmas and a friend lent me wind waker after i tried playing it at his house and repeatedly got stuck in the forsaken fortress. the excitement of finally making it past that and seeing this big, bright, beautiful world and story unfold before me has stuck with me to this day?? idk how to explain it i just. wind waker was an important game in my childhood, and i’ve played through it a loooooot– mostly i’ve noticed it was during times of stress or particular loneliness. everyone has that one game that’s been there™ for them during times of duress, and wind waker has always been mine.

okay i’m read more-ing the rest of this because i… went on for a WHILE. which is also why i answered it last oops. tl;dr there are many reasons why i love this game and it’s still my fave even now that i’m nearly 23.

as an adult, i’ve found that from a technical standpoint the game holds up really well, too– even without the hd remake on the wii u wind waker is still a very beautiful, stylistic game; a major benefit to having taken the art in a more cartoony direction is that it prevents the game from aging too much; if you were to look at the vanilla gamecube edition now, it still holds up amazingly! (meanwhile, i find that while twilight princess is still lovely, the more realistic art direction tends to date it a little. i could look at the original and just know the era it was made in, whereas if i never saw wind waker before, i would question it.)

the textures are rather blurry, sure, but that was a product of the time– hypatia on tumblr actually produced a mod with hd textures for roms of the gamecube version– check out these comparasion shots of the then-work in progress mod versus the original textures… and then here’s a few polished shots of the mod with a few extra effects dolphin/ishiiruka can provide. in short, the original wind waker is a very, very beautiful game and age has done very little to tarnish that even with the remake’s updated graphics.

but obviously graphics don’t make or break a game, though proper presentation is important– wind waker’s story also resonates with me deeply in various aspects. as an older sister, the initial quest to set out and rescue your younger sibling in danger caught my attention and held it fast; they do a very good job of making you feel attached to aryll, and the scene where she is kidnapped always tugs at my heartstrings every time i see it. watching this young boy who lived the world’s most quiet little life on a tiny island suddenly get swept up into this grand, big adventure to rescue someone dear to him and becoming an actual hero – despite having no relation to oot link whatsoever! – is the quintessential coming of age story that most people can relate to, and watching that change as the game plays out is always really sweet???

it was nice watching link’s development through his little actions: the backing away from helmaroc king when he first storms the fortress and then confident staring it down the second time and then giving it what for– aside from ganondorf himself that’s my favourite boss in the game if only because of those moments of development. link’s not just some kid from outset in over his head anymore– he’s a hero who overcame the trials of the goddesses himself in the name of protecting his baby sister, and he will not fail again. and then, after he could easily just throw in the towel and take his sister home because he accomplished what he set out to do, link goes on and sees it through to the end anyways because restoring order to the world is the right thing to do– there’s no legacy of knights looming over his head like several of his other incarnations. there’s no grand kingdom, there are only desolate little islands. there’s a princess, but… he barely knows her. hell, she didn’t even know she was a princess until that moment.

the story also touches on themes of death and the ends of eras… but also ends on a note of hope and new beginnings– clinging to the past only leads to ruin, and we must create opportunities for ourselves and the world to grow. hyrule is actually completely washed away by the end, and ganondorf goes with it– unless we assume breath of the wild is in the adult timeline, that’s it. he’s gone FOREVER in the subsequent games, with bellum and malledeus taking his place as the main villain. the kingdom link and tetra found is called new hyrule, but that’s all they share in significance– it’s their own land, just like the king said. that final scene of wind waker with the king always got to me– that message of hope is so poignant and powerful, i just. i don’t know how to put it into words, but it’s a scene i love dearly.

then there’s the music and cast of characters, and even quests and gameplay? i know the sailing could get tedious but i always liked it; it was relaxing to me just watching the virtual waves and listening to that beautiful score?? the characters are all bright and unique and fun– they’ve got their own little lives and you can impact them in so many different ways and things definitely change once you do?? like starting windfall vs windfall after you do a few sidequests or even turn on the ferris wheel and lighthouse again feel so different? it’s a neat little detail i’ve always found!!

…i really need to stop rambling about wind waker now i actually dozed off a bit typing this post, oops.

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katherine-rambles · 8 years ago

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now for my more spoilery, discuss-all-the-things-in-detail BOTW finishing post

spoilers ahoy mateys

the final boss was pretty easy. actually, scratch that, almost all of the bosses were easy. i have more trouble defeating fucking lynels and getting dragon horn shards than i did defeating Ganon. (toooo be fair, if you don’t do the divine beast quests i’ve heard the ganon fight is a LOT worse, but even so.) i also had the ancient arrows by the time i did my first divine beast, so i’m sure that was a large part of the ease i had.

as a result the main challenges in the game came to me through Trying to Upgrade My Damned Equipment and Shrine Puzzling. i really appreciated the variety and just.... fun that the shrines were.

though, Fuck Eventide Island. first time i went i was super underleveled, landed on the weapon-poor part of the island, died. second time i went i was way overlevelled and landed right near the goddamn 26 atk soldier’s sword. the first time i’d gotten to the island, the 3 atk goddamn axe was my most prized weapon.

goddamn axe! ugh. after fucking rafting my way there? augh.

also, why am I hearing nothing about Yunobo? soft boyfriendo. good buddy. i sincerely don’t like how people prefer sidon/kass to yunobo. a.) kass is married with kids and it’s adorable don’t mess that up and b.) sidon is a good boyfriend too but i KNOW the goddamn reasons why people prefer sidon and i’d bet my horse that sizeism has a large part to play.

i’m glad trans gal link is a decently common headcanon. after finishing that story i realllllyy hope that we get good platonic link/zelda stuff. but knowing Fandom and Heteronormativity, my hopes are low.

anyway my fave outfit style by the end was gerudo voe headband w/ gerudo vai top and the barbarian booty shorts. i feel like it fit my Link p. well

zelda X urbosa and trans lesbian link x mipha are my ships pre- calamity. post-game, cis gay link X sidon, cis gay link X yunobo, cis/straight m!link x paya, zelda X paya, trans lesbian link X moza, and link w/ a couple other npcs i can’t recall the names of right at the moment. there are. a lot. of npcs in this game.

as far as post-game headcanons go.... i’m not actually super sure yet. clearly zelda and link are BFFs. zelda finds herself very lonely, perhaps even depression-levels so. it’s not Super Clear how she experienced time during the 100 year interlude, but no matter how that went, she’s coming back to a world where she is all but a legend and all but like, three of her ENTIRE SUPPORT NETWORK is Dead. because of her, too, because I can 100% guar-an-tee that that many years of internalized blame do not Fade Away so easily when you add survivor’s guilt into the mix. she takes it... better than she would have were she younger, but it’s still A Lot.

plus she ain’t rich anymore which is usually a culture shock on top of all the shit she been through. not like she can demand taxes on royal lineage alone

i think zelda becomes a mentor to chief riju. a listening ear, good to bounce ideas off of. her being not super tied into the whole gerudo town political mess makes riju trust zelda’s judgement a little bit more than she might someone who also knew riju’s mom.

actually, zelda becoming a sort of... tech diplomat or teacher doesn’t sound too far off the mark in the long run.

link helps zelda, of course. which is a balm on her own grief, if not a cure. gives her something to focus on in the immediate aftermath of The Battle. link really wants to make a life for herself, though, and makes an effort to spend time at her House in Hateno. (zelda moves in for the first couple of months, so that part’s easy.) hateno serves as an interim HQ as zelda sets up the political pieces to start rebuilding Castle Town. brings the town business, and is conveniently located so as to be close to Kakariko and the various other hylian settlements. trips to the various village leaders are common, and really it’s only through link’s insistence that they spend much time in hateno at all. but link needs the downtime, after everything. and though it drives zelda a little mad sometimes, she needs it too.

for the most part, zelda pursues a reconstruction of Hyrule because she thinks it is what must be done. she continues to research on the side, becoming more of a historian than she used to be in the effort to reclaim & preserve the knowledge lost in the calamity.

link, for her part, finds herself adrift when not part of the Pair that she & zelda are. sure hyrule is dangerous still, and zelda needs protecting, but link fears (knows) that being a royal guard can’t be her endgame. the sheikah are good enough at it when not facing Ganon & company. and who needs a knight errant, anyway? she’s not really sure.

of course, this problem resolves itself naturally as link falls into the role of diplomat, without her or zelda really even ever having to think about it. zelda was always worse at that stuff anyway, her attentions having been split between prayer and research as she was growing up.

god i’m sure i’ll have more to add to this as i like. remember shit but that’s it for Vol. 1: Katherine Just Finished and how The Fuck is it 3 AM again?!

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