Recent content by Ryu that somebody?

I knew the holy grail was a myth independent of any Christian canon but never knew it specifically originated from the King Arthur legends. I'm learning all kinds of stuff here.

Your paper gets an A from me, for whatever that's worth! Good observations, and it's all the more amusing to me specifically because I just recently tried making the case here on the forums that the Zelda series' roots are probably broader and more varied than the tales of medieval Britain that...

Sorry, it's been a few since I've been on. But it might be moot, though; from what I understand the codes are tied to your name, so I don't know if trading them willy nilly would work. Or am I mistaken?

I hope I didn't put you on the defensive, I actually wouldn't have responded but since there were multiple posts about it I thought I'd make it known there was not a consensus among us about that topic. Thinking about it some, I actually think the early Zelda games did quite well with Link's...

On the contrary, empire and conquest being universal evils is hardly political or controversial at all and I think a game that puts Link and Zelda as plucky rebels in a quest to stop her wicked stepmother that usurped the crown from assembling the eight pieces of the macguffin cannon and using...

You seemed to take an awfully specific idea from someone's use of the terms "expansionist" and "colonialist," but yes, people generally soured on those things after World War II.

Do we know this? We all admittedly don't have much to go on besides our memories and what remains of the press of the day, but I've seen little to suggest that there was much of anything other than a widespread consensus of the game's excellence. I remember Zelda II being the talk of the...

Related to/ elaborating on the above: it wasn't universally taken for granted that Zelda II was a departure from the first, but rather an extension or progression, sort of like going from 2D to 3D. I know for me I looked at it as the first Zelda but 'zoomed out' to capture the scope of the world...

Finished Oracle of Ages yesterday, and it scratched my Zelda itch enough that I considered maybe taking a break before jumping into Oracle of Seasons. But I decided to at least play a bit of the beginning, and I think I might like this one even better! Wound up plowing al the way through three...

It's Zelda's legend, we're just living in it! Edit: I'm sure you and most folks here already know this, but just for posterity: the series is still "The Legend of Zelda" in Japan. And even though the original FDS game is called The Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda in the title's most...

This is a narrow one because I actually did get it (and technically still have it, though it's in storage on my brother's property in another state) but I'd be sitting on a very good condition complete set (game & box & inserts) of Earthbound if it weren't for the fact that at one point in the...

And then you go back and hand her the letter and suddenly she's all, "That's right, I am dead. Dead serious about these low, low, prices on both varieties of fabulous health-restoring potion! Available now while quantities last!"

The potion shop lady in LoZ before you gave her the letter and before you had any idea what her deal was at all. Like, you enter this cave, the music cuts out and it's totally silent, and there's this old nun-looking lady standing there not saying anything and not reacting to you in any way no...

I'll offer a dissent on this one. I think that the Zelda games mostly providing the broad strokes of a story and leaving Zelda, Link and Ganon as mostly blank-slate archetypes to be filled in by the player is one of the secrets to the series' success. Whether Link is stoic and humble or if he's...

Timelessness is exceptional and admirable! It's just not a fair requirement. Times are always changing besides, who can say that things won't shift in some wild new future direction and suddenly SMB3 isn't as modern friendly as Zelda II? There's a deeper notion we're poking at here and it's...