#how many zonai researchers are there in totk vs how many sheikah researchers in botw?

[bloomingbluebell]

hi im ranting (positively! this game kills me but in a good way) about breath of the wild again

i know it's controversial but i love the way the story of the game is told. because you start the game in the middle, perhaps near the end, of the story. the game is entirely through link's perspective and he wakes up knowing and remembering nothing. in turn, the player starts off knowing nothing. the past is revealed as the story goes along, and the player learns about the past and about the land as link does. there are little tidbits about hyrule and about the calamity scattered across the land. an old woman in hateno village tells you of an age of desolation that she grew up in. the travellers you see on the road are younger people because they're described by older characters as more bold, whereas the older characters grew up being told to never leave the village, it's too dangerous outside (compare this even to tears of the kingdom, where travellers are more common because the land has been safer. even older characters have left their home to travel elsewhere (not including the lurelin villagers)). battlefields are still strewn with old rusty weapons and deactivated guardians that no one but monsters will go near. myths and legends about the princess and hero have been passed down, to the point where their legitmacy is questioned and everyone has a different opinion on them.

it's environmental storytelling. it's things like seeing drawings and a bow in zelda's study and seeing a child reading a storybook with a hero that wears a blue tunic similar to link's. it's the stories that the villagers share about old myths that turn out to be true. it's the ruins scattered across the land, long since overtaken by monster camps but still unmistakably being houses that people once lived in. it's the utter lack of civilization anywhere remotely near the castle and the feeling of dread in the ruins of the town that surrounds it. it's a kingdom entrenched in its past, with no ability to move away from it until the calamity is finally defeated.

#head into the wall. i love this game so much #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #and no i dont hate totk for getting rid of the sheikah tech and replacing it with zonai tech #the zonai tech is foreign and new to the people of hyrule and theyre EXCITED about it #how many zonai researchers are there in totk vs how many sheikah researchers in botw? #people are wary of the technology that destroyed their home a century ago #and they're terrified of the guardians that still roam the land #i still hold that link likely was behind the reason why the shrine of resurrection was completely dismantled #it's kinda like majora's mask in which half of the story is in the side quests and the characters #mm had a plot yeah but it kind of accompanied the rest of the setting #link had a goal but he also had so many people to talk to #botw is similar. link has a goal in mind but he's also one to help others #and if someone literally just lost their chickens or if their husband is sick and needs medicine. he's willing to help them out #the world is just as important as the plot itself and i think i like that more #than just a linear plot which is accompanied by the world #botw totk and mm reward you for exploring #(along with some of the others like twilight princess and a link between worlds) #but it's very different i think when half of the game is about exploring #or more than half even. you have your goal but you have to get there first #and there are so many ways you can get there and so much you can encounter along the way #biting screaming crying #the bow is in zelda's room but close enough