#better than totk

[thenmichael]

“Father always says ‘quit wasting your time pretending to be a scholar’ … curse you.”

#sometimes #I rewatch the botw memories just to cry #I love the story sm #better than totk #tbh #botw zelda #botw #breath of the wild #zelda breath of the wild #Zelda #legend of zelda #loz zelda #artwork #zelda fandom #tloz #digital painting #art #small artist #my art

[linkeduniverse]

TotK Spoiler

#totk spoilers #totk spoiler #tears of the kingdom spoilers #zelda spoilers #loz totk spoiler #loz spoilers #linkeduniverse #creator content #doodles #Yeah the ring ruins had me ticked off for the longest time #I know far too many people who haven't finished TotK yet #Better safe than sorry with spoilers less than a year old

[demi-pixellated]

The [Urban] Legend of Zelda

#Legend of Zelda #LoZ #Tears of the Kingdom #TotK #Zelda #Fanart #MSPaint Draw #totk spoilers #i think? better safe than sorry i guess #and now for something cursed #my first time drawing any prncess zelda and its this

[girlbogg]

hey has anyone else noticed that totk looks a lot like princess mononoke sometinms (<- guy who has never had an original thought)

#loz totk #zelda #ganondorf #tloz fanart #tears of the kingdom #tloz crossover #tloz au #i drew this back before i got very far in totk and i was convinced that the zonai would turn out to be dragons somehow #which wouldve made the game 150% cooler #i imagine eboshidorf would be kinda windwaker-esque #more like. reserved and genteel than totk dorf #trying to make a better life for his people but willing to kill gods and destroy the world to do it #meanwhile zelda lives in the forest and was raised by the gods (zonai) #and she meets link when he leaves his home village to find a cure for the gloom that is sapping everyone's health and nearly killed him #do you see my vision #my art

[science-lings]

Riju with short hair, two swords, and Urbosa’s lightning powers my beloved

#she’s my favorite little girl #I hope she’s allowed to be violent #this is better than in AoC where her weapon was just Patricia #totk #totk spoilers

[ganondoodle]

started to paint this sketch but ended up not liking it so this is as far as ill work on it back to comic work i gooo-

#ganondoodles #art #tloz #loz #zelda #ganondorf #totk #man my sketches really do look better than my painted stuff #i thought i was fixing things but i just made it worse lmao

[robotsweater]

*** results may vary — fuse at your own risk ”(ᴗ_ ᴗ。)

(new print incoming for my next con in july! :-)

#loz #totk #legend of zelda #loz totk #tears of the kingdom #fanart #i love building big ol trucks for the smallest possible reasons #nothin better than careening down a rain slick hill at top speed to a campsite a couple steps away #we still respect koroks in this house though!!!!

[rotisseries]

skyward sword was such a crazy insane game to make like ok what if there was a story about a great evil and a goddess. and that goddess locked away that great evil, but she knew it would come back, and it would need to be defeated again. and what if that goddess knew that for this impossible task, she would need a loyal soldier. so she reincarnates. she reincarnates into a human girl, because the best way, the most reliable way, to get a loyal soldier, is love. and a goddess is respected, and idolized, and revered, but a goddess isn't loved. not like a human girl is. so she reincarnates. and she is loved genuinely and wholeheartedly, by her family, by her peers, and most importantly, by her best friend.

and what if there was a story about a boy and a girl. this one boy loves her so much, that when she falls from the sky, crashing to the earth, and into her immortal destiny, he follows her. and she runs, because she has a destiny, because she's finding out she is part of a divine plot, she and the boy are pawns in a goddess' war plans. did she ever love him did he ever love her or were they just being manipulated by the goddess. SHE'S the goddess. was SHE just manipulating him this whole time? "I'm still your zelda" but is she really? does she know it for sure? she doubts it and doubts it and runs and runs and he keeps chasing her. and she locks herself in time to defeat this great evil and he watches her do it. and he fights because he loves her and he defeats the evil and he gets her back and they're happy.

but what if there was a story about a goddess and a great evil. the evil cursed them for the rest of time. their descendants will never be safe there will always be evil to fight and she'll always be running and sacrificing and he'll always be chasing and fighting.

what if there was a story about a goddess and a great evil. what if there was a story about a girl and a boy. what if it was about the innate mortality and humanity of love and the act of loving. ok. at the walls of nintendo hq

#GIRLS WHEN SKYWARD SWORD #the way nintendo released sksw and then botw AND THEN TOTK. BANGER AFTER BANGER AFTER HEARTBREAKING BANGERRR #WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL #girls when “I'm still your zelda” #guys I'm thinking about sksw idk if you can tell #the control scheme is literally hellish but sksw is such a game and I'd replay it right now if the control scheme wasn't literally hellish #loz #sksw #loz sksw #loz ss #skyward sword #zelink #no but it's crazy like love isn't divine in skyward sword it's the opposite it's an innately mortal thing #it's not holy but it's better than that it's something the goddess needs more than all her divine power

[blue-likethebird]

The explanation for why totk’s story is so Not Great and how disconnected from its predecessor it feels being that the devs didn’t want to alienate new players who didn’t know anything about botw’s story just falls apart the more I think about it. Nothing from this stupid half a plot works unless the player is familiar with specific details from the better games that came before it.

The believability of Link and Zelda’s connection to each other hinges on you knowing about the nuance of their relationship in botw. The ancient sages fighting with the champions’ arms and divine beast helms will only be impactful to botw/aoc players because totk doesn’t bother to explain the significance of that callback at all. Fi’s cameo is meaningless unless you either got every memory in botw or finished the master trial dlc (and know about her from skyward sword). You’ll only get the full context of Teba being sidelined in favour of a 12-year old if you played a specific chapter of Age of Calamity’s second DLC. Like sorry but I think Nintendo just made a bad story tbh

#bluebird.txt #salt of the kingdom #totk critical #yes i do think aoc is better than totk and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t #and In what universe is tarrey town common knowledge among non-fans while the divine beasts are a complete mystery #the mcu-ification of Zelda #also the champions’ weapons and sages’ helmets can’t believe I forgot about those! #if you’d never encountered anything from botw and wanted to know who Revali was after seeing the great eagle bow description #or you wanted to know why the Zora sage wore a helmet shaped like an elephant #you’d be shit outta luck unless you googled that information bc totk sure won’t tell you

[pumpkinsouppe]

The funny thing about playing botw and Totk is I don’t hate or scorn the Yiga at all. I actually think they’re so well within their rights to be super bitter and angry bc of what the king of Hyrule did to the Sheikah over 10k years ago. I need Kohga to know I am also anti monarchy and we should talk to Zelda about establishing a democracy or at least not giving absolute rule to the Hylian monarch. We should also let the yiga be members of society again and not continue to outcast them when they were actually again SO RIGHT to oppose the crown and refuse to be subdued and have their culture and technology destroyed

Ocarina of Time made me such a Hylian Royal Family and Royal Knights of Hyrule hater hjdgnlsdjnfjlsd

#like I love you Zelda but please abolish the monarchy immediately there’s better ways to rule than giving one person ultimate ruling power #that led to the Sheikah being used as dogs over and over in history and we should put in protections to prevent that from happening again #I think Zelda is a great leader and I’m so sure that the people of Hyrule would absolutely vote her to lead the country #but again it’s like… look at why the hylians have done to the Sheikah over and over like this shouldn’t happen again 😭 #I get so worked up over this fjkdojfdwkon it’s bc I’m sheik and OOT impa’s no 1 fan #okay that’s enough ranting 💀 #tloz #totk #souppe blurb #zelda souppe blurb

[vicaly]

Braids

Aka Sidon refuses to admit both his hands are stuck in Link's hair after his failed attempt at a braid. How long does he stay there contemplating life? We'll never know :)

#art #legend of zegend #link #loz #tears of the kingdom #totk #prince sidon #sidon #sidon x link #sidlink #my art #Zora don't have hair and I wanted to mess with that curiosity #who better to ask than the local gremlin

[ask-lu-wild]

#pic #story #Checking Courage #The Royal Pibling’s Plight #the queen has arrived #Urbosa is a little harder to write than the other champions #I talked a little about it with friends #She's supposed to be the 'mom friend' of the champions #but we're not just dealing with the champions here #and with this story Twilight is the more established mom friend #I also personally feel like Urbosa's character in botw was... eh. #Like I have no problem with a mom friend in a group but Urbosa could've been done better yk? #All of the supporting characters in botw/totk were kinda one-note but #there was something interesting about revali mipha and daruk that complimented the original personality #Like with Revali he's a haughty pretentious asshole but he also gets a lot of that ego from wanting others to see his feats #Mipha's shy and sweet but she doesn't just love Link she loves everyone and wants to protect everyone #DARUK IS DARUK! #But with Urbosa her entire personality... surrounded Zelda in some way #I think I feel this way because every time we saw Urbosa in the past she was with Zelda #her conversation with Link was centered around Zelda #So I want to get into her relationship with Link #and maybe see what I can work with because Fujibayashi and his writers like to annoy ME specifically GA 21 year old tumblr user

[cinnamin-is-a-star]

All my thoughts have been replaced with Zelda, so please take this art I made

#I'm very happy with thus drawing #im very proud of how it came out :))) #i also feel like i was sorta able to capture the vibes™ that this game gives me? maybe? idk #the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk link #totk #totk spoilers #loz totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #it's not rlly spoilery but like better safe than sorry #loz #loz totk #totk light dragon

[cerame]

I have so many feelings about tears of the kingdom, y'all.

#totk #tears of the kingdom #link #loz #legend of zelda #totk spoilers #do i need the spoiler tag? eh better safe than sorry #my art #the next time i play the ending i'm going to cry #it just lines up with skyward sword so well

[everythingzelda]

I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate how the Gerudo have been presented as a group of lovesick women and their goal is to snag a man in botw/totk. A society built by women, for women and somehow still centered around men????????? Take me back to OOT/MM where they dropped from the ceiling to kill Link’s ass on sight for being in their fortress.

#cmonnnn #wHYYYYYYYY #they got better shit to do than worry about crusty males #totk #botw

[isa-ah]

im watching a retrospective about Majora's Masks dungeon progression and realizing a little more every time he says "this game took a lot of very brave steps out to not be ocarina of time" that my disappointment with totk isn't out of place. I've been told "it's breath of the wild 2, why did you expect it to be different?" but like.. it's it's own game. why is it the exact same but with an arguably worse iteration of the story?

#i actually have a very long list of reasons i dont like totk but yall have heard all of them a million times before #he makes a point of showing how the 3ds remakes ruined a lot of majoras masks unique boss fights #and i agree completely. i think its emblematic of how zelda has changed as a franchise #if the most casual non gamer would be frustrated by a puzzle or fight it needs to be dumbed down NOW! #vs how the games used to be almost mythical. like how people STILL talk about the old water temples #how it used to be an EXPERIENCE to go thru dungeons. it would take hours #it would feel like something #the quote unquote dungeons in totk are the subway surfer tiktoks of ingenuity. its so disappointing #totk is only better than botw in 2 facets. it handles fantastically. and tulin. thats it that's all it did to be its own game #oh and the brave choice to not even mention revali by name which is fucking hilarious #genuinely so disappointing that they can have more money and man power than god and the games are worse now