The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

does the shrine music ever change up? not sure i can handle this 45 second loop for 100 more of these

you can and you will

You’re not listening to podcasts or watching a movie while playing this game? What is wrong with you???

i occasionally put podcasts on, yeah. i'm not generally used to listening to podcasts often though as i have no commute and my work is highly verbal- they distract me too much, so i'm slightly thankful for this game as it lets me listen for once. can't imagine watching a movie tho

still need to get back to this one

i still haven't really made stasis a staple of my approach because aiming objects is so wonky and inconsistent. i can't make rhyme or reason of it, and while holding Y to do a spin makes it a little easier, that also lessens your ability to set the power of the eventual launch. i've also hesitated to upgrade stasis because i feel it will make combat too easy? i am trying to get the rhythm down for dodges and parries and whatnot. freezing enemies seems like i'd potentially miss all that, although now that the yiga clan's boss is down they are being way more aggressive and showing up to monster fights. might be nice to stop those assholes now and then

OK this is kind of mindblowing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/sju0zs/botw_new_musical_connection_found/

Cute!!

I was thinking you'd like that!

It took 5 years and many aborted attempts but I just beat Ganon.

congrats, I still haven't done it

The mi-fa / ti-do thing isn't a new discovery FWIW:
https://nintendoeverything.com/breath-of-the-wild-composers-on-changing-up-zeldas-music-formula-and-more/2/

Wakai: I just had a sudden idea. Originally Sidon’s theme was made of a combination of scale Ti and Do (Sidon’s original Japanese name is Shido) and Mipha’s was a combination of Mi and Fa (original Japanese name: Mifa), but then for the song ‘Mipha and Sidon’ I created Sidon’s theme using the Mi and Fa scale, because I thought when you look through Sidon’s eyes, Mipha is the real hero.

this is cool but you know what would be even cooler? releasing the damn sequel... folks am i right here or what

I just want another expansion pack with 900 more korok seeds.

lol a real sicko

I love shit like that tbh!

I'm sure if we're talking about this then we already know that the Skyward Sword theme was Zelda's theme in retrograde, right

I mean, it's a bad theme and a bad game but it was cute idea

It's cool that "video game serieses" have provided a format for the most worthwhile developments in "use of leitmotif". The first time the pointillist piano score in BoTW got excited about me being on a horse and started working in fragments of Zelda's theme, I got SO HAPPY

I think it's also interesting how the overworld theme from NES Zelda (you know, the famous one) seems to be approached by their composers as top-shelf, like they really save it for climaxes and closing credits, it's not really used as musical material with nearly the same frequency... largely, I assume, because it's so recognizable in its jumpiness, very "Star Spangled Banner"-ish

So I bought a house in Haetano village or whatever it’s called. I spend all my time hunting for jewels and riding my horse aimlessly.

ah bolson <3

Start collecting wood now because you're going to need a lot of it to complete that side quest

Four divine beasts fixed. Full stamina. Can’t remember how many hearts. 50,000 rupees in my pocket. Exploring the last bits on the map.

I'm probably coming to the end of my obsessive few months of BOTW - got all the shrines, completed the Champions DLC thing, haven't done the Trial of the Sword yet but having tried it I fear I'm just not good enough at the fighting to get beyond the first few stages - and know I'm gonna miss it. For all of the lovely moments, my fondest memory might be wearing a Bokoblin mask and hanging out with a couple of Bokoblins, feeding them my fruit, then calling my horse over to say hello only for her to kick my new friends to death.

The little hints of that classic Zelda theme it knits in here and there get me every time. I expected a more epic version for the Ganon fight or end sequence but maybe it's nice they held back. I can just imagine the spaghetti western-styled one from the castle exterior ramping up a few notches instead.

you gotta do the trial of the sword its so good, plus then playing with the op sword is sick, fwiw winning is more about playing strategically than being good at the fighting mechanics, basically thinking about how you can pick off the monsters one by one

Here we go, May 12th 2023:

The sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom!

The Legend of #Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launches on #NintendoSwitch 5/12/23. #NintendoDirect pic.twitter.com/qkGnFYFXNs

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 13, 2022

fired up ready to go

but that's not soon enough!

true, and itll push back the one after it too

are you telling me there's another zelda game in the making

Let's goooo

are you telling me there's another zelda game in the making

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 1:02 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

zelda: the encountering forest

they should make a new 2d zelda after this

The next Zelda starts with Link getting launched into outer space

i thought this part from the trailer was intriguing, possibly a dark new direction for zelda

https://i.imgur.com/2kdVoqI.png

zelda: eldritch mayan lobsterbat 666 edition

Galactus confirmed.

About freakin time.

Trailer didnt give away anything previous ones havent, though. It seems like it's going to be a sort of BOTW/Skyward Sword mashup?

The next Zelda starts with Link getting launched into outer space

The Legend of Zelda: Tears in the Rain

Link's plane looks like the bird whistles sold at Teotihuacán which are similar to an ocarina.

tons of zonai imagery in this + links gear look pretty rudimentary seems like it could take place in ancient hyrule or like the ancient stuff is leaking through to the present day

lol groovypanda

i'm boycotting breath of the wild 2 because it's pronounced tears, not tears

now i bought all this tears-related merchandise and diy creation tool assets and they're all worthless, completely irrelevant

i do want to add to the some of the intense fan-speculation about the story of the game by theorizing that in this game, link cries all the time and you can't get him to move some days

oh great, link is sad about some relationship again, wonderful

crying link, verbally abusive zedla, a gritty new reimagining of the hyrule hero

now you must hold the Y button for 3 to 5 minutes as you eat, and cannot move. the food has lost its taste since all link's friends stopped talking to him, so every once in a while you have to press X to attempt to chew it a few more times, to get it down

i do like watching the fan theory youtubes, serious neurodivergent hours, the best part is the insistence on a unified timeline for all the games which is obviously not something the people who made the games were thinking about at all

timelines and story and lore are maybe the biggest part of videogames that are absolutely invisible for me. it's like i'm into art but i can't see lines. i've played like 10 zeldas and beaten one (botw 1: the time of no crying), and i can't imagine caring about what year it is or how old ganon is this time

ganondorf is 600 years old, is what i think, he's always that age. the whole series takes place in the land of imaginationville

is there a similar thing with mario games? is there a mario universe with a timeline?