#but I've never seen anyone invested in narration argue that the gameplay doesn't matter

[rawliverandgoronspice]

zelda truly do be one of the only fandoms where you will get dragged by fellow fans for feeling attachment towards the world and the characters

#thoughts #zelda fandom critical #I know I made a post like this recently #but I watched it happen again to someone else in a discord server I'm in and #I think it comes from a weird defensive place from fans who want to defend their type of investment is the correct one? #but I've never seen anyone invested in narration argue that the gameplay doesn't matter #or that you're even wrong for only caring about that #(also: as if caring about narrative makes it incompatible with being invested in gameplay? which is just... false?) #(maybe one day I'll make a post about everything I did really like and consider exceptional in TotK to counterbalance my other points) #(because there are things in its very philosophy I do consider delightful) #(but. one thing being really nice does not prevent the other aspects from being questionable)