today we have fanart-ception, with fanart of @ganondoodle's amazing totk re-write! I'm so sad zelda got snatched five minutes into the game, i really thought i was going to get to interact with her more :(
This person won’t let me reblog their posts, for good reason I suppose. They don’t want to deal with the fact that their opinion is a really bad one and unpopular.
I genuinely can’t understand how anyone could look at Zelda’s role in this game and come away with the perspective that she’s been reduced to a “puppy eyed little maiden.” What a disgustingly sexist and myopic view of her as a character.
And it’s wholly inaccurate too. Zelda not only actively participates in coming up with a plan to take down Ganondorf, she literally fights against him along side the other sages and the king! She’s not some helpless maiden in distress. She’s not regulated to a damsel needing to be rescued.
I do not understand people like this. You don’t have to like the story of the game, that’s fine. But to view it in this warped way is really bizarre to me. She’s more active here than she was in BotW, yet you can’t see that? Did you even play this game?
honestly. if the movie is done shittily/has the same problems as the franchise (orientalism, racism, misogyny, etc) than im hoping itll let more people be aware of its problems. im not too bad abt live action but also remembering other live action adaptations. i dont have high hopes
(bc your tags on my post about outer wilds- yes it actually is like that, the entire plot hinges around their tech and trying to understand them- im pretty sure even the color scheme (grey/white green gold) of the nomai is similar; but i dont want to spoil anything, outer wilds is a game you really should experience spoilerfree (even if i only saw a stream of it and didnt play it myself) )
Oh wow, that's insane. It really does sound like Nintendo copied them! Yikes, talk about lazy. I mean outsourcing the writing was lazy enough, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they were 'inspired' by Outer Wilds.
And yeah I've only heard good things about the game! I only had a chance to play a small part, but I have it on my wishlist for Steam.
yes i am making 'new' arrow types that you craft with material in bulk (essentially like the new types in totk but crafting them instead of having to fuse it for each single one- to be specific, ZELDA crafts them for you bc i think its great to give her more stuff to do, the same will work with weapons and repairing weapons but that i will lock behind quests as i mentioned before, maybe you will select the stuff and then keep playing while she does a lil animation and then throws it back to you when in combat, otherwise you can make multiple at once so it doesnt take too much time- or you approach her and open an extra menu for crafting/repairing)
Saw that one divorce ask and couldn't contain myself: Explanation (or opinion, dunno) on "Ganondorf and Rauru are bitter exes and their hypothetical son is the hero from the 10.000 years calamity tapestry" point
(amazing art by Ganondoodles on tumbrl)
The artist does bring up a solid point: I do not want anything of Rauru's save the power he held.
I’m thinking about tears of the kingdom again while watching afterthought’s video on how they handled the sequel and I’m sitting here thinking, you know what would have been good?
Like I love ganondoodle’s take with addressing the difference in the gloom and how it related to the shiekah tech, don’t get me wrong.
But if they wanted to give us Wild doing the adventure again, they could have just.
Sent Link back.
Instead of sending back Zelda, send Link. Make Rauru less OP maybe? and have a version of Link that has been massively damaged and is now stranded in the past with no master sword, no shiekah tech, no walking armory of OP weapons or fairy-blessed armor, and a 10 thousand year old version of the guy he just killed, except this one is a strategist with an army instead of a feral dust cloud with a possessed army of half-rotted tech.
Give us Link having to fight his way back up from the top, facing older and more dangerous versions of the monsters he knows and staring up at floating islands that he’s never seen before.
Everyone he meets is new, but most are hauntingly familiar, and maybe a few of the older beings, like the Deku Tree, even recognize that he’s out of place here.
Give us more weird battle strategy stuff like the siege on Gerudo, except this time, it’s helping a group of Gerudo at an oasis protect their fledgling trade camp from Gibidos or even helping the king of Hyruke repel an enemy invasion of a fort.
Give us Link helping a Zora sage protect her temple from a corrupting spirit that threatens her home and hunting down what could be poisoning the Gorons, sneaking through with potions made from half-familiar ingredients.
So much of TOTK is spent telling us that Ancient Things are returning, but they could have given us so much of that by just sending Link to the past. We could have avoided the awkward ‘everyone only kind of knows this kid who saved the kingdom that they definitely met and interacted with significantly’ AND it would have left the perfect opening for Queen “massive fucking history nerd” Zelda to find traces of Link in the little surviving history and going to the dragons or the Deku Tree or the goddesses themselves to try and pull him back to her time, but failing due to her lack of skill with her time powers, only serving to link their souls, but needing to do more before she could pull him back. It would have given her an opportunity to see her interact with her kingdom and see how much she did or did not rely on Link to help her navigate the world. Everyone’s stilted conversations make much more sense if they’re talking to royalty rather than a half-feral knight.
Now she’s the one who has to prove herself to the koroks with all their puzzles and maybe you could even have the shrines be Zonai tests of intellect and Link learns things or gains abilities, some of which he can’t use, but Zelda can through their soul link by connecting at dragon shrines that survived to present day in a system similar to the dragon tears.