#good job Nintendo

[pocketseizure]

I love that, in Tears of the Kingdom, the Ganondorf amiibo drops thick chunks of beef. Nintendo knows exactly what this man is about, and I salute them.

#Tears of the Kingdom #Ganondorf #good job Nintendo #well played

[leo-doesnt-know]

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#bro I loved this game soooo much #lil glitchy yes but most of them were funny #good job Nintendo #nemona pokemon #penny pokemon #arven pokemon #pokemon violet #pokemon sv

[meru-chanowo]

*Looks up Rauru's Voice actor on Google*

Google: Chris Hackney

Me: W H A T

#the legend of zelda #zelda totk #tears of the kingdom #totk #I love that choice #good job Nintendo #Also Matt Mercer is a good choice

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I think what chronically upsets me about TotK is that. So much of it could have been so good with so little change.

I am into Zelda as a sacrificial, wondrous and silenced creature who must literally carry the blade of the hero as a wound inside her forehead and silently wait to be humanized again --and the injustice of a kingdom built on such a premice doomed to repeat itself, especially if the kingdom was founded on such dubious grounds to begin with. I am into Ganondorf forcing the present to reckon with the past through the most violent clash, forsaking everything that made him a person while sinking down into petty vindictiveness until no connection and no humanity remains, even though independance was what he was trying to protect in the first place. I am into Link as somebody trying to hold onto his most important connection to the world he once knew being used to force him into a conflict that has ultimately nothing to do with him (sure that's SS again but, it could have been explored even further). I am into Rauru as this self-important, self-made king who used his own association to godhood to live out a power fantasy that refuses to ever be acknowledge as such, maybe compounded by the fact he is one of the last of his species and feel, himself, the crushing weight of their fading heritage?

I don't know, the Tears of the Kingdom or something????

But, it all tragically depends on one crucial thing, which is to allow hylians to be wrong sometimes.

And it's wild to me how all of this incredible potential to comment on the series' history and the characters' role in it is just. Flattened into nothing, because Good must be Good and Evil must be Evil, and Hyrule must be righteous at literally every cost --even if it means nervously rewriting their own history through convoluted logic that rejects conflict and depth and vulnerability at every turn.

#totk #totk critical #rauru #zelda #link #ganondorf #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #what offends me personally is that the game pretends to have written this heartwrenching tragedy #when objectively nothing has consequences and nobody (except maybe rauru and that's weak af) learns anything about their own flaws #look nintendo tragedies are My Shit you can't fool me into pretending you did a good job #especially when the execution is so so botched #you can't punch sonia's spine off and have ganondorf make a gary's mode face about it and pretend you wrote a good story like come on #also “man sad because wife died because bad guy is bad :(” is beyond level 0 of tragedy #it *can* be pulled off without making me roll my eyes with enough depth given to everybody involved #but this just wasn't it

[pockethexapod]

It’s the TOLL BOI with a GUN for a NOSE! (POST-Big Run Salmonids Part 10)

I’m back a year later to continue the fish parade. Hope everyone had a happy holidays!

Part 12

Part 10

#splatoon 3 #salmon run #big run #stinger #salmonid #fanart #nintendo #this one is my favorite #i just think they're neat #snipin's a good job mate

[dazzlerdrawer]

@the-smartaleck happy late bday !!

#youve been a cool sibling good job to you #:)) #mario #mario brothers #rosalina #wario #waluigi #luigi #pauline #mario pauline #mario rosalina #my art #nintendo #fanart #fan art #digital art #art #artists on tumblr

[blubikbeneeninktvis]

#the splat 3 sound design is STUNNING they did such a good job imo #toru minegishi #splatoon 3 #splatoon 2 #splatoon #nintendo #mijn

[spaceistheplaceart]

day 5: okay i finally got to Yona and completed the Zora's Domain Temple... I'm comforted to know that Yona and Sidon are in an arranged marriage,,, honestly- there's no way these guys are actual in love (I say this as a Sidlink shipper, but if you enjoy Yona and Sidon together more power to you) I mean I read the tablets and Sidon thinks of Yona as a big sister, canonically, and all at once suddenly was thrust into an engagement with her. They're great friends, but I'm choosing to believe this is a lavender marriage and both parties are gay so Sidlink can prevail and Yona already has a gf in her own Domain. BTW tho I LOVE Yona! ! ! Her theme is so pretty, she is so pretty... tbh i think im a little gay for her :flustered: soooo the real ships are Sidon x Link and Yona x Me okay

Speaking of tablets, WOW cool lore like Mipha could canonicalaly speak to Sidon from beyond the grave and Sidon is the direct descendant of Princess Ruto.

THE TEMPLE WAS AWESOME BTW. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT WAS SO WELL DESIGNED. THE MUSIC, THE BUBBLES, THE FLOATING!!! I LOVED THE FLOATING SO MUCH... OUGH. IT REALLY WAS JUST PERFECT. usually water temples are the worst but this was was amazing <3 good job and give whoever thought of that floaty underwater feeling a RAISE IMMEDIATELY.

#totklb #totk lb #i am very tired of people wanting to kill yona #i understand the hatred for why she is here. yes. i hate it too. #i know nintendo knows of sidlink and decided to give him a fiancee to make sure we know hes straight but they did not do a good job of it l #i hope to explore yona as a character on her own too #also! more domains! #so there are zora outside of hyrule im assuming #awesome

[blueskittlesart]

this is my favorite comment i’ve ever gotten on a loz comic bc like. do you have any idea what i would sacrifice to be paid by nintendo to serialize a legend of zelda game in comic form. the things i would do to be able to write a full loz manga. you are genuinely just asking me to do my dream job

#NINTENDO HIRE ME SO I CAN QUIT MY SERVICE JOB AND WRITE YOUR GODDAMN GAMES #personal #i love akira himekawa from the bottom of my heart and i know that if botw ever gets a manga they can be trusted to do a good job with it. #however i want that job to be mine more than life itself. i would commit murder to be able to write and draw official botw manga. #i would give literally anything for that to be my job

[prnsn001]

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition (2019)

#dragon quest #dragon quest xi #hendrik dragon quest #pnscapture #PNdq11 #nintendo switch #the general costume is so handsome. good job hennie wennie

[kirby-the-gorb]

they sent my wife home from work ostensibly for using a cane, even though it didn't interfere with her duties as a medical resident and the whole point was she was well enough to work with the extra support. (even the most charitable interpretation, that they assumed the presence of a mobility aid meant she was too ill to work regardless of what she said, is a serious issue.) happy disability pride month I guess, kirby's fixin to start whackin.

#kirby #coronavirus #ableism #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #I'm pretty upset about it honestly? #like. it belies a fundamental misunderstanding of what mobility aids even are #(treating them as a symptom rather than a solution) #and it further pushes anyone who might benefit from use of an aid away from using it #because they're essentially told they have to burn the extra spoons to be able-passing or not show up at all #she could have worked today! #she wasn't an infection risk and she'd been doing a good job of pacing. #but their weird hangups cost her an extra sick day instead. #if they pull the same stunt tomorrow I will be talking to people in my capacity as a disability advocate #regardless of whether they want to listen to her.

[laneofpennies]

Charlie Day sounds literally perfect though. No notes there.

#and ofc jack black did a good job. he’s fucking JACK BLACK. #nintendo direct #mario movie

[zelda-posting]

tears of the kingdom could have been so good if it were built around like, its story or its characters instead of being a clunky shell to show off the mechanic no one asked for that it forces you to use

#* #text #totk #mechanics #i had fun scuttling around in the depths for a while but that got old eventually. for obvious reasons #what i liked about zelda games was always the atmosphere and character interactions #like. one of my favorite games is twilight princess. which is. deeply unserious in many ways #bit it COMMITTED to its setting and what the writers went ham making sure #that it was still full of whimsy and affection. #totk doesn't have that. the characters are all 1) instruction manuals or 2) vehicles for what small and disparate semblances of plot #survived whatever disaster must have happened in development that made them cannibalize several different ideas #and stick them into the shell for the fucking. arm #totk plays like a gallery or again just an engine for the building thing. #it's pretty. the music is good. the building thing is well made. but as a zelda game totk Fucking Tanks #i HATE overinvolved mechanics. i HATE having to stop and rely on a Whole Process that i have to keep stocked #to get anything done. i've always liked loz again bc of characters and whimsy but also bc it's always been mechanically vert streamlined #and accessible to someone like me who is disabled and finds fiddling EXTREMELY tedious #you have one required tool per dungeon and they're QUICK they're SIMPLE they're A GOOD TIME #totk. to me. is just clunky and has no redeeming qualities outside of again being pretty and still sort of nominally letting you run around #collecting things. some of the side quests were cute. but even then the characters were very. #THE THING ABOUT ZELDA GAMES IS THAT IM used TO THEM BEING ABOUT. NOT JUST THE FUNCTION!!!!!! #there were things— many of them! sometimes most of them even!!!— there just for fun. again almost especially The Characters #totk is so goddamn UTILITARIAN on all levels ITS. CLUNKY and BORING i don't WANT to have to do 30 things just so i can do something else. #hey nintendo. if you have to force people to play your game. like if you specifically have an ''open'' game and then subsequently have to #manufacturer MANY blocks and caveats to the idea of ''do whatever have fun!!'' so that it's''but only how WE want you to''. maybe thats bad. #maybe you've done a bad job. if again. you have to FORCE players to go about things in the way and order that you want. it's no fun. #like even zelda games where you have less options and linear progression feel less restrictive bc like. they don't fucking punish you. #for. playing the game. you just can't do things. totk really punishes you for going off script. which like. why even do that. #anyway. this is all probably incoherent. i'm right tho. #wow there are so many typos. pretend there are not <3

[doomed-era]

look my main takeaway from totk that isn't massively spoilerrific is that zelda games tie into each other only when the devs say they do and even then they can discard details whenever.

if you want to find connections you can and no one's stopping you

but the devs are not interested in creating a consistent timeline they are interested in making a fun game

so basically do whatever you want

#there is no easter bunny there is no tooth fairy and there is no zelda timeline!!!! #you have no idea how happy this makes me #i've always disliked the idea that all the games are connected to each other #(i mean no offense to skord likers but thats the number one reason i dislike skord) #i think...that totk could have done me an extra favor and dismantled the monarchy #but they still have the elitist overtones despite kinda disregarding lore #so i cant say im COMPLETELY happy but its a step in the right direction #good job nintendo now go obliterate the idea that link and zelda are soulmates next teehee #oh wait thats fandom bullshit ss link is canonically soulmates with his bird. oh well. byeeeeeeeeee

[just-some-brainrot]

legend: why is there a brothel—

twilight, covering wild’s ears: shhhhhh

twilight: don’t say that in front of children

wild, who had a guy try to coerce him into “hanging out” together in his camping tent: yup. the child. that’s me. i have noooo idea what you’re talking about. i’m innocent and pure, yessir

#thinking about bozai from botw again #that whole quest sequence in general #it’s so awful #like the fandom does a good job of interpreting the gerudo as a whole in a far less misogynistic and racist manner #but that quest #man….. #nintendo had no reason to hypersexualixe the gerudo the way they did #ugh #UGH #linked universe #incorrect linked universe quotes #lu wild #lu legend #lu twilight

[bapzap]

its so funny seeing the absolute jarring change in like. the entire splatoon creator sphere

yesterday? everyone was happy and cheering

today now that nintendo has elaborated and revealed Literally Anything? people are despairing. there's funerals on twitch for it. there might be tentamissile big swig

the turnaround on this was hilarious

#splatoon #im safe bc i already assumed sizzle season would suck #i had faith in nintendo to mess it up #tetris piece map identical to the other two so far? kits intentionally meant to be barely unplayable? six hours of Challenge mode monthly? #fine by me i've accepted the devs are hopeless so when they accidentally make something good i win #give me the salmon run map and im on my way back to my minimum wage job