The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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?

no mario is just a fun jumping plumber, and now he has a hat who is his friend

zelda theorists have a part where time fractures into three lines, thats how they make it make sense

tbf zelda does invite all this by having a lot of lore, but the games are obvs more thematically than literally connected

the zelda universe exists within the mario universe as a jumanji game the mario characters get sucked into

zelda is a dream luigi is having where hes the main guy thats why link has a green outfit

It is all imagined by an extra between takes on the set of Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS. It is a battle between Tom Hank's natural and Colonel Parker accents.

in tears of the kingdom, link has three children who all hate him and are trying to destroy him. he is tasked with identifying the one child of his three who is capable of seeing the wrongness of their ways and then sacrificing that same child on the blood altar to zelda as a symbol of their love

his three garbage sons

Finished Master Sword Trials!!! Once I got into the groove it wasn't too bad. The two things that helped me the most were mastering the shield parry to defeat guardians which gave me a surplus of ancient arrows at the end, and quickly switching between round bombs and square bombs to keep a constant stream of them raining at enemies.

At the very end of it I was shooting Bokoblins with ancient arrows and it felt soooooooo good.

I just noticed that I have 7 side quests I haven't done, so that should keep me busy until the new one comes out.

Is there any greater joy than firing arrows methodically from a great distance until you land one right into an enemy's head?

I don't think so.

i realized i never really explored thundra plateau, the area with all the huge mushroom plants. i kept climbing them and then gliding over to other ones and climbing up them, expecting eventually i'd find something cool (aside from the obvious shrine puzzle) but nope, just a bunch of bird eggs. disappointing.

it looks cool tho

something interesting but obscure about the thundra plateau: there are rainbow-colored birds flying above the trees that aren’t found anywhere else and are needed to complete the compendium

! I never knew that. I honestly thought I'd snapped all the birbs already.

Finished all of the side quests, now i’m wandering and filling in gaps on the map while wearing the seed mask.

One of the side quests involved a kid that wants a barrel to float so you tie some octorok balloon things onto it and he gives you a star chunk, I think. Anyways, he talks about these myths about people in the past living in floating cities. Which makes me wonder if Tears of the Kingdom involves going back in time? Does this floating city mythology pop up elsewhere in Zelda?

I always assumed that was a nod to Skyward Sword. Given BoTW is so far into the future, its now a myth anyway.

i fell off this game so hard, still haven't done two of the beasts or the castle and i'm not sure i ever will. my hero's path line is hilarious, like 2/3 of the map is completely covered in green and the other third just has a few big lines zipping around to some major landmarks

don't get me wrong this game world is a stunning accomplishment (and i feel bad saying anything negative about it) but i do wish it was smaller enough that it didn't have to recycle its interesting concepts. the most emblematic experience for me was finding the first labyrinth island, going "holy shit this so cool", then finding a second labyrinth island and going "oh this again?" and then finding a THIRD labyrinth island and saying fuck it i'm not doing this again, the first two were virtually the same
the world probably works better for people who are cool with leaving some content undiscovered and don't feel a need to overturn every rock. biggest thing i would change is the korok seed uhh economy... either make them rarer or gate more useful things behind them. in the beginning of the game those are your rewards for being an explorer, especially in the random patches of woods that don't really have anything unique going on aside from being named on the map. but they're designed to get less and less valuable the more you explore - both because it takes more of them to exchange for the same reward, and because you reach a point where you don't actually need more weapon or shield slots. eventually it didn't seem worth it to glide over ten feet to pick up a rock with an obvious korok under it. by that point the game just died for me.

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 1:44 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

been years but i finally finished it, had to really clamp down on some completionist tendencies to avoid falling into the same trap but i did do 120 shrines (albeit with help from google towards the end)

feel ready to make an annoying 2 hour youtube video of mostly complaints, skimming through this thread i honestly might agree with JiC more than not

but i'm overcome with hype for totk and ready to go through this again, need to actually acquire a nintendo switch though

Zelda: Please, make haste hero. The time of darkness is upon is. Only you can quell this great evil.

Link: *somersault* hueggh *somersault* hyagh *somersault* hyeep *somersault* hueggh *somersault* hyagh *somersault* hyagh *somersault* hyeep *somersault* hyeep *somersault* huegg

— Keifer (@DannyVegito) April 17, 2023

I've been kind of wondering if I should give this another try? Although I wonder if being indifferent towards fooling around in a physics playground and explain for its own sake (Nintendo: "See that mountain? You can climb it!" Me: "Why would I want to?") just means that I should accept that the game isn't for me.

i dont like sandbox games either but i still enjoyed the exploring and puzzles and atmosphere

yeah if you dont like finding out whats on top of the mountain then it might not be for you, the new one might have more reasons to do things tho, well find out soon

As I've said before my biggest concern with the new game is that it seems to deemphasize climbing