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speaking of zelda... i gotta admit it's been pretty mediocre since skyward sword came out. that game was obv the worst zelda has ever been, and it broke aonuma's brain to the point that he just turned zelda into an entirely different game (botw). which was completely unnecissary. the traditional zelda formula wasn't the issue with ss, those parts were great. the problem was it's dependancy on broken motion controls and horrendous mechanics. it was a bad game because it was BAD, not because people were sick of zelda.

we got lbw between ss and botw, and sure it was fine and all? but let's be honest. it was sidegame quality, and didn't hold a candle to lttp which it was supposed to be a sequel to. i also don't think the "pay rupees to get all gear instantly" was good at all, imo it kinda ruined it. i prob shouldn't complain tho, bc it was worlds better than what came after. botw is zelda in name only. and i'm sick of hearing dumbasses say "it's just like zelda 1!" no it's fucking nottt. z1 was fairly linear, you COULD do dungeons in "any order" but nobody actually would. progression was dependant on gear and stats. and all the later zeldas were a slow evolution of that same formula, eventually putting a big focus on story and characters and aesthetics. oot had infinitely more in common with z1 than goddamn botw ever did. botw was just a shameless combination of the most successful games of the time: skyrim, minecraft, gta, dark souls. don't get me wrong, it's not an objectively terrible game. but it IS objectively unlike what zelda had been for 30 years. THAT'S why i dislike it. i love zelda because it's zelda. i don't love botw because it's not really zelda, it's an impostor that takes up the slot where a more traditional zelda could be. because botw exists, we don't get real mainline zelda games anymore. then came the la remake. which... fuck i love orig la so much. and the remake's aesthetics SUCKED. it was a shallow remake of a masterpiece. i can't begin to understand why people look at toddler toy lookin lar and say "yeah that's the same". orig la, even ladx, had aesthetics that worked well when it was both light and dark. lar looked and sounded kiddy no matter what. it was everything people hated with that first e3 look at windwaker, but with none of the redeeming intention that ww had in execution. and it was yet another slap in the face of pixel art, a 2d game made 3d for no reason besides companies don't think 2d games can sell. and then of course then we got ANOTHER botw, totk. which as i said was much better than botw (and had much more traditional zelda elements). but that's purely when compared to botw. totk is still barely a zelda game. i am well aware the only reason i kinda like it is my expectations are already in the gutter. finally, we got eow. which i played for like an hour before realizing I'M SICK OF MINECRAFT ZELDAS. aonuma clearly doesn't want to make zelda games anymore. take him off the series. yeah sure i loved mm for bein so experimental, but right after we got a ton more traditional shit. and mm was a hell of a lot closer to traditional zelda than any of these newer zeldas. i saw interviews where "aonuma doesn't know why people want to go back to traditional zelda". well tough shit aonuma. they do. because people loved zelda. you should know that because you made like half of them. and i think it's perfectly reasonable that you're sick of making similar games over and over. but that means you SHOULD MAKE OTHER GAMES! or nintendo should allow you to move on to other projects. at the end of the day, if these new aonuma games weren't called "zelda". if they were their own things, and real zeldas were still being made by other people who actually loved zelda for what it is? i'd be fine with them. i may not like "aonumas wacky open world adventure game" as much as the new zelda games, but it'd be a cool new series i could appreciate. i wish all these new zelda fans who didn't really like old zelda and only jumped in because everything had changed could see things from the other side. and understand that things don't have to be this way. could understand that the reason a lot of us "purists" dislike botw and eow isn't at all because we hate the games themselves, but more because those games came with a big middle finger to what we love about zelda. i don't think it's too much to ask for zelda fans to want zelda games, do you?

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‘Moonlight Lady’ [ムーンライトレディ]

[PCE-CD] [JAPAN] [MAGAZINE] [1993]

“Moonlight Lady is a cute action/RPG by Nec Home Electronics. The game features three super-girls - the intrepid “Moonlight ladies”. The game starts when the pink-haired Artemis, the cry-baby of the group, is followed to her house by a mysterious floating ball of light. Scared, she cries to her mom and runs to her bedroom where she meets the strange ball again - and, curiously, she’s given the power to understand the language of animals. Nick, a weird red talking bird, appears and she learns that humanity is in danger and some evil monster called Gargoyle is about to take over the World. Artemis later meets the other girls of the team who also received more offensive powers - Aquarius can use the power of water and Minerva the power of fire. Moonlight Lady alternates simple RPG scenes where our cute ladies walk around the city and talk to various characters, and pure-action scenes full of vicious monsters and terrifying bosses.” ~Video Game Den

Source: Video Game Den