I played botw and there were details that i liked a lot. They are very small and kinda obvious but I find it very nice that they were in the game. It is very cool how the characters’ personalities fit in as a part of the gameplay. I liked how Yunobo who is a pushover kind of guy, actually asks Link what to do and you have to choose how to give him the signal to move and Yunobo follows you to Va Rudania. Sidon is energetic and believes and trusts in Link so Link is riding on him and Sidon immediately rushes to the water streams below Va Ruta. Teba is not so trusting toward Link and he doesn’t know him well so he flies in the distance and Link is on his own there (at least that’s how it was when I played that part with Va Medo. I remember that even the lasers were targeting me instead of Teba a lot of times). And Riju is my favorite. When I entered Gerudo town and interacted with npcs it was implied that Riju is really caring and she looks out for others’ well-being a lot. When you come with her in a quest to reach Va Naboris, before going Riju asks Link to leave if he gets injured because she doesn’t want him to die. And when you start the chase after Va Naboris (via sand seals), if Link gets hit by lightning, Riju immediately stops and waits (even if Naboris goes further and further away). And she wont move until you start moving forward again. And after you beat the Thunder Blight and return, if you speak to the guard before returning to Riju, she says something similar to “You should go to her quickly, she is worried and wants to know if you’re still alive”
There are other details as well. I learned that va Medo doesnt always stand still and it flies around the Rito Village occasionally. And knowing that it was piloted by Revali it kind of makes sense.
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A little touch of Miles in the night
Do you think about this Michael Sheen post as often as I do?
Cause...you can see what he meant here, right? Comparing Aziraphale (especially this Aziraphale, with this boa) to Miles Maitland. Comparing two Sheens with twenty years between them.
And it's not just a boa. They are so...them. Gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. Dramatic. Flamboyant. You can see this similarity in their energy in these particular moments.
And yet...is it all? Or there is something else?
Spoilers for "Bright Young Things" under the cut. tw:homophobia, just in case.
You remember what happened to Miles in the end of his storyline? To sweet, frivolous, charming Miles?
The police got Miles' letters to his ex-lover. It was 1930s, and one piece of paper with love confessions inside could lead you to prison. So he had to leave for France to avoid arrest, without even really packing his things. And it's happened just before WW2, so his further fate in soon-to-be occupied France was...unclear, let's say that.
And you know what's happening to our angel here?
He's so silly and happy. He's spending the night with a demon he just recently realized to be madly in love with. Crowley trusts him - as he showed in another round of their peculiar roleplay. He was able to be a terrible magician for one evening. This is a perfect evening, right? He's happy and is ready to share this happiness with the whole world.
There is knock in the door. In this second Aziraphale is beaming and shouts "Enter!".
The next second the door will be opened. Hell is gonna come into the dressing room. Hell that has evidence of an impossible, criminal connection. Hell, ready to trample not only over this second joy, not just this evening - but all past and possible future evenings too. Ready to destroy all of Crowley, and with him, all of Aziraphale.
All thanks to one piece of paper.
……. It was good that Aziraphale knew that trick with the photograph, wasn't it? After all, he and Crowley have nowhere to run to within the confines of Earth - the jurisdiction of Heaven and Hell is somewhat wider than that of an English court.
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man. not really an original thought but i’m always so deeply…annoyed, i guess, by media where there’s a category of instantly recognizable Bad Guys that you’re just meant to accept are Supposed To Die, because they’re Bad and killing them is therefore Good.
obviously more knowledgeable people than me have already pointed out the issues with things like inherently evil fantasy races and that’s an entire problem all on its own. i have nothing useful to add there, i agree that it’s bad. but even aside from that it just pisses me off. i can’t get my head around the appeal, it feels like the least interesting possible way to interact with a fictional world
it’s actually a pretty big part of why i have such a hard time getting into video games, even good ones. i couldn’t get more than ten minutes into playing breath of the wild when a friend let me try it out because i ran into An Enemy i was supposed to fight and it broke the immersion too much for me. why do i have to fight them? am i supposed to want to? why do they attack me? who are they? are they alive? sentient? angry? following orders? whose orders? what are they doing here? i kept asking all the wrong questions and they just kept trying to tell me which buttons to press to attack and eventually i got so frustrated i just quit and handed the controller to someone else
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