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thegempage · 2 months ago

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thinking a lot about. how gameplay creates personality within characters. the link i play in tears of the kingdom is not quite the same link as the ones my friends play. what does it mean to experience the world differently through the same eyes.

#little rock.txt #mostly just thinking like.#bcus i picked totk back up recently after not playing for a Hot second #and sort of............... stumbled into the geoglyphs quest. bcus i'd #well i'd gone the wrong way during the tutorial section of the game and never gotten that quest jfkdslajkfdsfkjds #but didn't realize it for like. two years.#and so (spoilers) i ended up getting the master sword one ***first***#which was a Wild fucking experience. and also may or may not have gotten the master sword bcus i [location spoiler] and walked around #Exactly after [fulfilling requirement]#ended up reloading bcus it felt like cheating to have it that early in the game fjdksaljfdskl without quests or anything #but just like. idk.#thinking about my friends playing totk #the links who found out the geoglyphs in the intended way #wandering the landscapes for these things as their adventure continued #as opposed to my link #who stumbled across something horrifying and then ended up back at the lookout landing looking for answers #and then started hunting them down one by one. scouting from the sky to find these impossibly large figures #looking for answers. for information. for context to the terrible things he saw #filling in the map and splaying these images across it bcus he needs to know #it flows very nicely with the way i played botw and the link i ended up playing there #who was so terrified of this world he was supposedly apart of and yet a stranger to #that he looked at everything through the lens of his camera #bcus it knew far more than he did and gave him a sort of... comfortable distance #things are less scary when you can tell what they are even if they're blurry or behind a tree or mostly out of sight #if you can tell what guardians are rotted and which are sleeping from afar #like. idk. i know they are inherently from the same roots as they're both from the very similar way i approach both games #but it's a... very reasonable progression in how he approaches the world and his losses #botw link who found the whole map *first* at sometimes great cost to himself bcus he did not know or understand this world #totk link who had that map stolen from him and who puts it back together bcus he has already lost so much and doesn't want to lose this too #who has already forgotten the world once. cannot stand to do it again.

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