#this game is such a good sequel man

[gelljc]

some recent octopath 2 things from twt!!

[konaharts]

He's been on my mind ,,,

[maxwell-grant]

Was kinda interesting watching Aquaman 2 do that thing Hollywood movies do where a villain barks orders in an non-English language to signal to the American audience that they're foreign and scary, except this time the actress doing it was speaking portuguese so I actually understood everything she was saying and it was just weird and abrupt. I guess they just told her to translate and say the lines in her own language but didn't direct her how to adapt the dialogue accordingly, so she ends up just telling the henchmen to pick up a guy in a very stilted formal factual manner while everything's exploding around them, that was kinda funny.

[doopn00p]

Strange friendships between opm and mp100 characters based on tomodachi life

[murphyslawyer]

I’m excited about getting a new Life is Strange. But I’m also skeptical because it’s a Deck Nine game.

[diseaseriddencube]

me finding out william only got 5 whole minutes of screentime as i edit every single scene of him into a compilation:

[simonstamenovic]

respecting supergiant character design less and less. i see what you did for jodariel. do it for any of your goddesses.

[chrismcshell]

just found out about microsoft/xbox shutting down tango gameworks. why must capitalism and monopolies take everything from us

[dwn055]

I miss botw smmmm

[goldensunset]

ok yeah unsurprising if kyurem is sequel territory lol. of course the third legendary won’t be prominent until the third version, or in the absence of such, the full sequel

[kaoharu]

guys ^—^ no one talk to me. Forvever

[pennamepersona]

sorry babe go back to sleep I was just thinking about the wasted potential of aa4 again

[evsanchez-1]

So, in light of the most recent events related to botw's sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, I thought it would be alright to share my thoughts on a certain "criticism" that has been given to botw throughout the years and that may show up again as the sequel's release date nears.

(I don't know if anyone will be reading this, really, but I just need to SAY IT, so forgive me if there are any mistakes or if I fail to explain myself at some point. I'm just vomiting my thoughts here).

First off, I want to make it clear that botw is NOT a perfect game (there's no thing such as a perfect game, really), and the same thing will surely happen to the sequel. It's okay to critisize a game. I do it all the time! And seeing everyone's arguments as to why botw failed in some aspects is really fasctinating! I CONSTANTLY find myself agreeing with some of these opinions.

What I don't (and never will) agree with, however, is this weird saying that claims that botw "is not a real Zelda game."

It's okay if you think that. I do understand where you're coming from. Because the truth is that botw was explicitly made to change this "classic Zelda formula." And (kind of ironically), to do so, they had to go back to the very first game. To the roots.

But I think that, as a fandom, we should stop for a moment and think about what really makes a game a Zelda game.

Is it the title "The Legend of Zelda" that automatically makes a game a Zelda game? Is it having a guy in green running around and solving puzzles? Is it the special items that you collect as you play? Is it the music? Is it the dungeons that you have to solve in order to progress through the game?

Well, to be fair, it's okay to agree with some of these. I don't blame anyone who does! Some of these things have been really important in previous Zelda games.

But, to me (and this is completely subjective), the heart and soul of this series is actually just... the feeling of adventure. Of being part of the world and experiencing the same things that Link is going through. Of traveling through Hyrule as if I was really there, meeting characters and helping them and getting to know the land as if (again) I truly lived there. Of becoming the hero of my own story.

I've always been a huge fantasy fan. And few series have succeeded in the very difficult task of capturing that very sense of adventure. One of those few lucky ones is Zelda. I'll never get tired of Zelda games because they just provide the kind of feeling that every story in fantasy (and most of fiction, really) should mesmerize you with. And I'm just so, so grateful to the incredible development team behind each of these games for making such masterpieces every once in a while.

So. That being said. To me (and, again, keep in mind that this is very subjective), botw is the Zelda game that takes that feeling of discovery and adventure to another level.

I'm sure you all know what this game is about, so I'll try to be quick. One of the first images you get during your very first minutes of gameplay is this huge world bathed in sunlight that stretches out as far as you can see. You are in that world. You can explore it as much as you want, at your own pace. It's your adventure. You decide, and the game just gives you the necessary tools for it.

And when you finally glide away from the Great Plateau (I don't know about you, but I took my sweet time just exploring that area that seems so small in retrospective, compared to the rest of Hyrule), you step on the actual world that you'll spend most of the time in for the very first time. It's quiet and lonely, but you can still feel that same excitement, giddy joy and sense of adventure I was talking about earlier.

I'm not by any means trying to say that botw is the best Zelda game. I won't be that person. All I'm saying is that, for me, it was the one that worked the most. You may or may not agree, and that's okay.

Yes, botw is different to what fans were used to. No, it doesn't have traditional dungeons or a clear, linear story and path that you have to follow. But, in my opinion, that's one of the many beauties of botw. It's a breath of fresh air in a series that has used the same formula for many, many years. Maybe I'll make a separate post about my take on dungeons and my opinion on botw's narrative. But, for now, I'll try to be brief.

The Divine Beasts in botw were great. They aren't the best dungeons in the series, but they had really cool puzzles. To me, the problem is that players can't tell the difference between each dungeon. I wouldn't be able to, right now. I don't know which puzzles were featured in each dungeon because, from the inside, they all look kind of the same.

The developers were clearly trying a different approach. They didn't completely fail, but there's still room for improvement.

However, I don't think it's fair to say that botw is not a Zelda game because it doesn't have traditional dungeons or because it doesn't follow the classic formula. This series has always been about changing and reinventing itself again and again. That's why it has lasted this many years without truly stumbling and failing, and that's also why it's so beloved.

So, I don't think we should center this series around just dungeons. It's not fair to botw, and it's not fair to the series as a whole.

I hope this wasn't too long😅 I love sharing opinions with other fans, so feel free to say if you agree or disagree with me! There's just so much more to this series, and I really needed to talk about this, I guess. And now that the hype train is back, there's no better time.

[pastryglitch]

Also just btw I am 100% an “Emmet also got sent through time” TRUTHER. It just makes sense to my brain I need Gen 5 legends sequel and I need Emmet to be in it NOW

[lecliss]

OO has me in a fucking vice grip with the urge to lunge at Seph's throat!!!!!!! I can't fucking believe he convinced Kadaj to join him!!!!!! I'm gonna go fucking feral!!!! Leave my sonboy alone!!!!! He has no free will!!! He keeps being used for what Jenova wants cuz of the cells and he keeps being used by Seph as a remnant!!! Daj can never truly have something of his own accord cuz of the very meaning of his existence!!!!! He can never be an individual cuz of them, but without them he wouldn't exist!!!! LET HIM BE HIS OWN PERSON!!!!

And to top it off, Team Ninja dangles a Loz and Yazoo tease in my face after I just said I need Kadaj to have his real brothers back!!!! FUCK!!!! I FUCKING HATE FINAL FANTASY!!!!!!!

[just-an-enby-lemon]

My Riddler casting criteria is Game Show Host Vibes and that's why Paul Dano just is an odd choice for me (even ignoring all the other problems I have with his Riddler -being the fact that he would work more as a bunch of other Rogues the only thing that I don't enjoy in The Batman).