DivineDragoness
Bombergirl Xtreme
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2023
Skyward Sword was an almost perfect version of the 3D Zelda formula, but didn't get appreciated because of forced motion control combat.
I will agree with you on the main story quests being good, mainly the regional phenomena and Sage of Spirit. The memories quest was fun to do, and some interesting nuggets in the cutscenes, but Zelda's fate was dumb and the fact they went back on it was dumber.This seems to be rather unpopular, at least on this site: Tears of the Kingdom's story was excellent and one of Zelda's best. Lots of emotional payoff and the main story quests were exciting and well-played-out. The lore it introduces really isn't all that contradicting if you think critically about it for like five seconds. It is so strange to see people react to the "Rauru was Hyrule's first king!" thing. When that was first stated, my initial gut reaction was to be like huh. well that can't be right. must be a refounding then. And it's so weird to see people think it literally means the first, very first ever, Hyrule, when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary. It's kind of amazing to me how many people took it that way yet from my perspective it was very obviously meant to allude to a refounding. Fascinating how that works. It's a shame that there aren't a lot of people willing to engage with this in good faith, either, just preferring to assume bad or lazy writing. It's not fun to talk about it with people who do that. So it just goes in circles. This game's story is almost as divisive as Skyward Sword's existence. I'm not saying people can't think what they want about it, or that everyone who thinks its the original Hyrule does that, but it's still a shame the way it seems to bring some unfortunate things out of some folks out there.
Zelda's fate had my crying in a good way personally. **** was so good. The fact that it makes you go oh **** she was there with you all along... not herself but still with the echoes of her duty spurring her on to help you... the way she came in for the final battle... I didn't even mind that they walked it back because it was so emotionally satisfying. I absolutely loved everything about it.I will agree with you on the main story quests being good, mainly the regional phenomena and Sage of Spirit. The memories quest was fun to do, and some interesting nuggets in the cutscenes, but Zelda's fate was dumb and the fact they went back on it was dumber.
What was your thoughts on Gandorf eating his stone and the whole segment after that? Imo it could have ended with you killing him in the basement, some sort of epic finale there. I hated the entire concept of the demon dragon thing, the actual fight was stupidly easy, and then it ended with Zelda being freed. Would have been much more satisfying if you stabbed him in the head a la Wind Waker, destroying his secret stone.Zelda's fate had my crying in a good way personally. **** was so good. The fact that it makes you go oh **** she was there with you all along... not herself but still with the echoes of her duty spurring her on to help you... the way she came in for the final battle... I didn't even mind that they walked it back because it was so emotionally satisfying. I absolutely loved everything about it.
I actually loved that, too. I made for an amazingly epic finale even if it was an easy battle. The fight before was already satisfying enough. Spectacle fights are cool ways to finish too. Zelda coming to help was exactly what I was most hoping for in the final battle so I got that and then some. Plus the BGM was amazing. I have no reason to be dissatisfied with it personally.What was your thoughts on Gandorf eating his stone and the whole segment after that? Imo it could have ended with you killing him in the basement, some sort of epic finale there. I hated the entire concept of the demon dragon thing, the actual fight was stupidly easy, and then it ended with Zelda being freed. Would have been much more satisfying if you stabbed him in the head a la Wind Waker, destroying his secret stone.
please tell me the mountain of evidence then, I'd definitely feel better if it's what you say but I haven't really had a reason to believe so, outside of speculationThis seems to be rather unpopular, at least on this site: Tears of the Kingdom's story was excellent and one of Zelda's best. Lots of emotional payoff and the main story quests were exciting and well-played-out. The lore it introduces really isn't all that contradicting if you think critically about it for like five seconds. It is so strange to see people react to the "Rauru was Hyrule's first king!" thing. When that was first stated, my initial gut reaction was to be like huh. well that can't be right. must be a refounding then. And it's so weird to see people think it literally means the first, very first ever, Hyrule, when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary. It's kind of amazing to me how many people took it that way yet from my perspective it was very obviously meant to allude to a refounding. Fascinating how that works. It's a shame that there aren't a lot of people willing to engage with this in good faith, either, just preferring to assume bad or lazy writing. It's not fun to talk about it with people who do that. So it just goes in circles. This game's story is almost as divisive as Skyward Sword's existence. I'm not saying people can't think what they want about it, or that everyone who thinks its the original Hyrule does that, but it's still a shame the way it seems to bring some unfortunate things out of some folks out there.
The thing that’s bad to me about the story is that it’s a bad continuation.This seems to be rather unpopular, at least on this site: Tears of the Kingdom's story was excellent and one of Zelda's best. Lots of emotional payoff and the main story quests were exciting and well-played-out. The lore it introduces really isn't all that contradicting if you think critically about it for like five seconds. It is so strange to see people react to the "Rauru was Hyrule's first king!" thing. When that was first stated, my initial gut reaction was to be like huh. well that can't be right. must be a refounding then. And it's so weird to see people think it literally means the first, very first ever, Hyrule, when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary. It's kind of amazing to me how many people took it that way yet from my perspective it was very obviously meant to allude to a refounding. Fascinating how that works. It's a shame that there aren't a lot of people willing to engage with this in good faith, either, just preferring to assume bad or lazy writing. It's not fun to talk about it with people who do that. So it just goes in circles. This game's story is almost as divisive as Skyward Sword's existence. I'm not saying people can't think what they want about it, or that everyone who thinks its the original Hyrule does that, but it's still a shame the way it seems to bring some unfortunate things out of some folks out there.
That's a fair complaint, there could have been more. I personally think it's dumb that the people of Hateno don't know Link considering he was with Zelda everywhere she went (and he likely lived together with her in that house considering it was his initially and some of his things are still there i.e. the photo from the Champion's Ballad). The random people on the road I get; do you remember every stranger who did you a good turn once six years ago? Add to that Link is too humble to correct people to the point where someone will look at the Master Sword on his back and go "Is that the Master Sword? Nah no way you're too scrawny to be the hero" and Link will just be like "haha yep". But the folks of Hateno, Bolson, and Hestu should definitely know Link, even if it takes them a bit of interaction to remember.The thing that’s bad to me about the story is that it’s a bad continuation.
We hear hardly anything about the champions in the game aside from like a few dialogues of Mipha and Daruk and Urbosa. But I don’t recall Revali ever being mentioned. And all the Calamity stuff feels very much brought up and then forgotten. The Shrine of Resurrection isn’t even there anymore, which is dumb.
There could’ve been a much cooler continuation than this story of finding Zelda on a wild goose chase
please tell me the mountain of evidence then, I'd definitely feel better if it's what you say but I haven't really had a reason to believe so, outside of speculation
This is an interesting thought, that he was having it fall where he wanted it to instead of just throwing stuff everywhere.We also see gloom and chasms take the place of other shrine and sheikah tech areas, which we know happened with the Upheaval. We can assume Ganondorf didn't want to make the mistake of having the sheikah tech bite him in the butt again.
Oh he was definitely purposeful about where he put the chasms and gloom. He used the gloom to decay all the weapons on the surface on purpose, so the people couldn't easily fight back against his forces. We know from that that he had full control of what he did with the gloom during the Upheaval. It's not a stretch to think that he was intentionally trying to get rid of more undesirable things on the surface than just the weapons, hence shrine spots and even old great fairy spots being affected.This is an interesting thought, that he was having it fall where he wanted it to instead of just throwing stuff everywhere.
ok, but then why does this only happen with some of the shrines? Why would Ganondorf only do this to some of the shrines? Hell, why would he do it to the shrines in general? It’s not like they can help Link again.Oh he was definitely purposeful about where he put the chasms and gloom. He used the gloom to decay all the weapons on the surface on purpose, so the people couldn't easily fight back against his forces. We know from that that he had full control of what he did with the gloom during the Upheaval. It's not a stretch to think that he was intentionally trying to get rid of more undesirable things on the surface than just the weapons, hence shrine spots and even old great fairy spots being affected.