#MINOR BOTW SPOILERS IN THE TAGS AFTER THIS!! i know it's been out for a while but. Yeah

[hello-eeveev]

I’ve tagged this for general spoilers, but I want to specify that this post will contain spoilers for the Dragon’s Tears questline in Tears of the Kingdom. So proceed with caution.

So I’ve been collecting a lot of dragon items for armor upgrades, and you wanna know what is such a tiny little game mechanic/detail that has me in a chokehold lately?

All the dragons have an updraft around them so they’re accessible, and with Naydra, Dinraal, and Farosh, that updraft can really send you flying up high—to the point where you’re not in their atmosphere and maybe you can’t even hear their music anymore. It’s not difficult to land on the dragons per se, but if you’re trying to be precise and to not take fall damage, it can be a little finicky. They are docile creatures who let you hang out on their noses for hours and clean up their spikes, but they are also constantly pushing you away.

The Light Dragon’s updraft doesn’t behave that way. Once you are up there, you can keep your paraglider open and cruise along her back at a pretty consistent altitude. No wind to blow you a dozen meters in the air, no hazards to knock you off, no vertical dives into chasms that will send you plummeting if you’re not holding on.

And it’s such a minor detail that I didn’t notice it for a while (other than vibing on the light dragon was always a relaxing time), and if it had just been another dragon, I don’t think I would have thought much more on it.

But. But it’s Zelda 🥺

She has—ostensibly—lost all sense of self, what with turning into a dragon and then flying waaayyyy up in the sky for 10,000 years, but something within her allows you close and doesn’t push you away 🥺🥺🥺

(I choose to believe that all the dragons are my besties—especially after saving Naydra from gloom/corruption in botw—but that doesn’t erase the fact that their very design necessitates precaution, if not distance. Not so with the Light Dragon.)

Tl:dr dinraal, naydra, and farosh have features that keep you and literally push you away. The light dragon gets you close and lets you stay there and I’m emotional about that bc something in her recognizes me as a friend. As someone safe 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

#anyway I’m constantly looking at the light dragon with her weird nge angel eyes #and crying ‘that’s my wiiiife!!! 🥺’ #totk #totk spoilers #zelink #if you squint

[triforce-princess]

AHHHH, ive been playing every zelda game i own to lead up to botw and FINALLY im almost done with skyward sword (leaving out hyrule warriors, the handhelds, and cdi installments for now) AND FINALLY I'LL BE ABLE TO PLAY BOTW!!! I just wanted to thank you for tagging spoilers all this time, even after all these months of it being out. You're the best.

no problem! my general rule is that it counts as spoilers until 2 years after release. after a while i stop tagging some minor stuff like little gameplay things or stuff from the very beginning of the game that im sure most people have seen by now. i do understand though that a lot of people don’t get games until holidays or birthdays. i get the feeling a lot of people especially younger folks won’t get the game until christmas. i know how that is, but its so much more difficult to wait in today’s world because people on the internet have no respect for spoilers. back when i was a kid most people didn’t have internet so it was never an issue lol, unless some kid at school was being a jerk or something (but then again, most of the time it was just kids making up fake stuff like how to get mewthree or how to get the triforce in ocarina of time rather than spoilers).

you should give minish cap and hyrule warriors a try sometime, theyre pretty good. minish cap is a hundred times better though imo i would start with that one. honestly an underappreciated gem of the series. i’m sure you can easily find a gba game on the internet and how to run that

#ask #misc #dread-pirate-robin