The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Already seeing some excellent memes out of all this.

https://i.redd.it/bm3i7z2a9jqa1.png

Finally watched that video, new game (mechanics) look awesome. I rarely play my Switch, but will def. (eventually) get this.

I'm unemployed and looking for a job, I'm not sure if this is coming out at the best or the worst possible moment

heh

i think the only way to manage it is some sort of rewards system (identify a possible job opp, reward with a shrine, update a section of the resume, shrine, 20 minutes straight of trying to find a job and failing, shrine). however, i have never successfully implemented this system for longer than a day. signed, unemployed happy guy

beers of the kingdom

complete a shrine, drink

break a weapon, drink

actually, don't do that. zelda would kill millions of people that way

zelda is out of control she must be stopped

i think this game is going to be great botw was amazing even tho it often wasnt that good as a game where it seems like they stepped up the game stuff with this one, lord willing it will have dungeons

In the sky!

seems like theres going to be underground stuff too i mean theres def going to be underground stuff theyve shown the caves we just dont know how deep it goes

idk i am still skeptical that it will have dungeons i'll believe it when i see it. i do miss the dungeons though, you need a lot of cool overworld setpieces to make up for their absence and botw barely managed it

one thing people (youtubers) picked up from the trailers is theres clearly two sets of powers one whos icons are lil pictures of the power and one that look like japanese characters, you could assume that one set is picked up in the tutorial area but then where do the other set come from, dungeons?

I worry that I'll miss the amazing newness of experiencing BOTW for the first time, and that this sequel will just seem like a larger-than-usual DLC.

But as my therapist says, "stop anticipating what you're going to worry about, and worry about it when it actually happens" (or something)

my theory is there are dungeons and you get an apostrophe from the goddess hylia every time you beat one

https://i.imgur.com/arTPF2r.png

yeah those are prob the lil vials link carries on his hip that serve as the battery for the vehicles you build the more tears the further you can go which is a common formulation from life that we all know

it could be that you get a power midway through the dungeon then use it to complete it where you get the tear which would be in the style of classic zelda dungeons

Holy shit thats so obvious given the title, how'd I not spot it haha.

gimmie da zelda

ayy we wanna ride da horse

Using the Heroes Path mode to find all kinds of things I hadn’t discovered. It’s amazing how much is in this game. Last night I found the bowling with snowballs cabin.

its awesome to find new stuff i hope theres even more stuff in the new game

As I wander i’m wearing the korok mask. I’m not trying to get 900, but those lil fuckers are everywhere! Do they ever show up inside shrines? I can’t remember.

naw

apostrophes of the kingdom

i have watched the trailer the game looks incredibly sick there are flying boats

updated village dropped

https://i.imgur.com/XYggAkS.png

the game should have mario in the corner of the HUD like that, just to remind you of mario

its a me in the corner

Watched the new trailer and learned Link is the final hope (spoilers).

thats a lot of responsibility

Link must confront Zelda and ask her to please stop crying. "there is no crying in Zelda, please"

link you must find me im down bad

sporadic play-by-play of the Mets-Dodgers series and "money currently on Dodgers" in the corner

i think on a long enough timeline they eventually make a zelda game that has like a surprise section where you play as zelda for a while like halfway through the game but its funny just how resilient they have been to the idea. also the botw nonlinear progression model kinda prevents stuff like that

i also hope they make another 2d zelda someday, they did it with metroid which has me hopeful

lot of people were speculating on playable zelda in this one but idk

smash ultimate has soured me against playable zelda, she was so gd annoying

i think its good to keep the tension of never having her playable even tho the game is named after her

can i set the camera at a crazy dutch angle when link is diving out of the sky like in the trailer

Holy shit this new trailer. I really wasn't going to play this, I do not have time, but ...

lol I know! When I played BOTW I was home during the pandemic and had the time to get lost in it. I'm going to have to play this in thirty minute segments every night with an alarm to make myself get to bed on time.

Adulting suuuuucks

My Switch is kinda gathering dust, and my Playstation backlog is huuuuuuge, but I had such a good time with BOTW that it will be hard to resist. Still, the time before I get to it allows all the nerds to figure out many of the secrets and tricks, which I have no problem with. In fact, at this point it's tradition: I had the original NES, and I beat the original Zelda, but I could not have done it without the (printed! published! possibly mail-ordered!) guide.

gameplay reviews are out, looks pretty fn sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMZzW7hj0M

Those constant disclaimers are hilarious.

Looks cool, like the perfect match of design/material and (relatively limited) console technology. Which makes sense, its predecessor basically perfected open world exploration.

My son and i were trying to ponder how many thousands of hours of footage are going to be on youtube 1 hour after it's released.

I don't know if it's good or bad but he's going to know everything about it within a week.

i recommend looking at as little stuff as possible until you've played the game for like 30 hours

A friend of mine bought a Switch maybe a year ago, and I'm pretty sure I convinced him to buy Breath of the Wild right off the bat. He finally got around to starting it today, and gave me a call with his mind blown. Of course he was overwhelmed, so I told him to doof around for many hours and then when he hits a wall do a quick Google to get over the hump. Compared to impenetrable stuff like Dark Souls or lots of Metroidvanias, it's actually not that bad, considering doing nothing is one of the most important things you can do in Zelda.

The gentle learning curb is one of the best parts.