#totk liveblogging

[vixivulpixel]

bionicle-ass lightroot name

[memorys-skyscraper]

yknow something i appreciate and find increasingly relatable about the world of botw/totk is the way people are just out here at their day jobs despite the world appearing to be actively ending/have already ended

like you go to a stable and the guy running it says, “shit’s falling from the sky now, huh. i could get crushed at any moment. that seems bad. anyway here’s a coupon for a free night’s stay”

like, yeah man. same.

[allgremlinart]

Nintendo this is going to blow your mind... but I'm getting a little sick of the caves already...

[voiddusk]

i just got the ancient hero's aspect and idk what i was expecting but i wasn't expecting this. i almost jumped when i equipped it. this thing is very silly

[justanotherhomelessromantic]

every time i tell myself "today is the day i finish totk!" i inevitably get sidetracked. fitting given that my entire experience with this game has been wanting to do something and getting sidetracked

[ghastlysparkz]

I THOUGHT THE TIME BOMBS WERE POTS

SO I SMACKED THEM

AND FUCKING PERISHED

[dreamerdagn]

I’ve been finding the crafting mechanics frustrating bcs of controls, but I just had my first major win with building a powered balloon to skip over some difficult terrain after stumbling around in the dark for 45 min…and yeah it was pretty exhilarating

[tricktack]

ohoho i am the Puzzle Man (successfully did 1 single puzzle)

[blatant-phishing-attempt-bot]

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

[momspren]

Excuse me. EXCUSE ME. ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT ZELDA MOVED INTO LINK'S HOUSE, HAS HER JOURNAL IN HIS ROOM, REFERS TO IT AS "MY HOUSE" COMMISSIONED A SPECIAL LITTLE ZELDA HIDEAWAY WHERE SHE KEEPS LINK'S EXTRA HAIRTIES AND WRITES CUTE LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PRESENTS SHE'S GETTING HIM??

DO I HAVE THAT RIGHT NINTENDO?

[furbygoblinxiv]

Link HUMS Ocarina of time songs while cooking?? I just noticed on Zelda's lullaby but I'm pretty sure he's also done Eponas song and Sarias song???? This guy loves cooking so much he's unlocking memories from a past life but JUST in the form of music?? Is that what this is???? I love him

[memorys-skyscraper]

just encountered a purely random happening in the overworld in totk that made my cynical ass say “wow!” out loud, like a breathless documentarian spotting an endangered species in the wild

this game sure is something

[allgremlinart]

what beautiful meticulously thought out puzzles and game mechanics Shuntaro Furukawa, unfortunately I'm still just gonna Skyrim it*

[voiddusk]

wait wtf. where is my "when the glow of the blood stained moon shines upon the land". it's just gonna be silent now? that's fucked up

[eerna]

the ancient hero armor set in TotK is like "so yeah the Hero from the first Calamity was actually not Hylian. he wasn't Zonai either. he was a secret third thing that has no name and the only other example can be found in weird statues in the Depths. HOWEVER he does wear Zonai clothes! but also Hylian body paint. no we will not elaborate further nor ever xoxo <3" insane absolutely INSANE

[blueskittlesart]

can we talk about how rauru is literally like. just zelda’s dad. like in that one scene where zelda looks like she’s gravely contemplating turning into a dragon and then rauru goes “i believe the answer lies in more research and understanding your power!” and she looks at him with such shock and awe. zelda’s adventures in the past are literally like her life but with a better dad. the queen promises her to help her figure out her power but dies before they can figure out a way how to use that power to safely save everyone. zelda desperately wants to help everyone and is clearly feeling the pressure of it all and the king is the one to tell her “hey i understand how hard you’re trying and how much you want to save everyone and we’re thankful for what you’re doing”. rauru actually acknowledges zelda’s dedication and the importance of research and technology, he is kind to her and never blames her for any of the bad things happening. he also never pushes zelda to make sacrifices and is the one sacrificing himself in the end - in botw, all the champions and zelda have to choose to make sacrifices to save the kingdom, but in totk rauru doesn’t ask that of any of the sages, instead recognizing his own responsibility as king and basically dying to save his kingdom. he’s literally zelda’s better dad.

same anon as the one raving about rauru also the differences between how the two kings treat link. they’re both tutorial figures but the way they guide is SO different. pretty much the first thing rhoam does is lie and pretend to be a random old man, being quite annoying as he sends link to do a bunch of challenges for a paraglider. the framing is so fundamentally different, rauru freely offers the information he has to link upfront, he apologises for the body modification, acknowledging link’s potential distress. rhoam basically keeps link on the plateau arbitrarily, presenting giving items and teaching link about things as challenges for link to overcome. rauru on the other hand aids link as best he can, tells him what he needs to do from the beginning (tells him to open the door which is pretty much the last thing he’ll need to do in the tutorial, telling him about the ultimate goal from the beginning), proposes solutions when it doesn’t work out (directs him to the shrines as a way to help him gain the strength he needs, as opposed to making him complete challenges to get a paraglider that in the moment seems like literally arbitrary conditions). rhoam telling link how much responsibility and pressure he has on him all of a sudden and how much he needs to do vs rauru telling link that it was wonderful to meet him and zelda’s accounts of him were all true. like. the framing. the difference in character. the deterioration of knowledge within hyrule falls parallel to the deterioration of its king’s kindness and virtue.

the differences between rauru and roham are crazy to me because one of them was so fundamentally good and one was so fundamentally flawed and yet. neither of them were able to save their kingdom. no matter how good a king of hyrule is, no matter what he gets right or wrong, he is still doomed to die. rhoam tried to sacrifice his daughter to keep hyrule alive. rauru did everything in his power to make sure she DIDNT have to be sacrificed. and in the end the outcome was the same. but the KINGS were not the same, and that difference in framing you mentioned i think is fundamentally a difference in legacy. rhoams legacy is to forever be the king who sacrificed children to save himself and died anyway. rhoam died a loser through and through, a king atop a throne of nothing but failure. i think that’s partially why he appears as an old man at first, because he KNOWS what being the king of hyrule means and he’s EMBARRASSED that his legacy is what it is. but rauru. in complete contrast, rauru was so GOOD. rauru died with his sages and his DAUGHTER alive to see another day. rauru ENSURED they’d live no matter what. he wouldn’t LET them sacrifice themselves for him. rauru put everyone else before himself. he didn’t expect or even tolerate self-sacrifice and yet when the time came he sacrificed HIMSELF selflessly despite knowing that it wouldn’t even WORK. rauru’s legacy is something to be proud of. he’s open to link because he has nothing TO hide. no regrets or stupid decisions. and he is remembered so much more favorably because of it.