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YESTERDAY I was running on four hours of sleep and I somehow managed to beat Skyward Sword borrowing it and a Wii motion plus controller from a friend actually 7 years ago it took me SEVEN YEARS to beat this game SEVEN ACTUAL YEARS and I have many thoughts head full but after I beat it I passed out like immediately because of said four hours of sleep I was running on BUT TODAY is a new day AND I HAVE.........OPINIONS

so like when skyward sword was announced with just that lil teaser where Link like jumps to his death that was THE MOST HYPED I had ever been for anything ever as well as like actually the first time I ever got hyped for anything at all and you've seen how out there my imagination can go with just a couple hints imagine what it was like when I was 12 xhdbshs but yeah obviously there no way the plot could ever be how I imagined it and there was plenty I loved, I can't help to be feel there were lots of missed opportunities y'know? Like yeah everyone's talked about the controls (which every criticism is incredibly valid like Jesus it's genuinely one of the most inaccessible control schemes I've ever seen like "u got fine motor skill issues? Ur left handed? Ur left handed with fine motor skill issues? Fucka u" hell I'm right handed with average fine motor skills but the only way I managed to beat it after actually seven years was by slapping in some infinite health cheats in there lol (and it was still surprisingly tricky at times....) Wait sorry I got distracted what was I talking about hold up)

Anyway the controls are rightly criticized the most but I also thought it dropped the ball a lil as a "THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN" kinda story that it kept saying it was, there were some really cool things like Zelda being actually the goddess hylia, I thought that was a bop, also demise is pretty neat even though....did they go into why he's so mad? Did I forget his deal? Or did they just handwave that ....also ghirahim is great and I love the lil plot twist that he's a sword thing like fi, also I love fi, also groose is the perfect character, also the final battle with demise was so cool like I loved the backdrop, also ghirahims animations in battle are so threatening and it's great, also obvious the soundtrack is fantastic, I did cry a lil when the song of the hero was revealed to be the main theme of the franchise, also links clothes being knight clothes is really cute, also I do like the Atlantis the lost empire situation but the other direction with the floating skyloft being up there cause a long time ago a godly power threw them up there to protect them, yeah there's so much in this game that slaps

I did find the story's emphasis on link being chosen by the goddess kinda lame, like maybe it's just my own personal eh-ness towards chosen one narratives which I mean it present in like all Zeldas but in other Zeldas it doesn't feel like this? Like wind Waker feels like he's chosen but the world is apologetic about it because he is just a baby, ocarina feels like he's chosen but this is like a tragic duty he must fulfil, twilight feels like he's chosen but just barely man there's a lot happening we forgot about u link im sorry I got roped up into this we thought u were just a dog (maybe that's why it's my favourite lol), skyward had like this weird focus on spiritual journeys as a chosen hero? I dunno I'm not super into it, especially since it feels a lil lame to have a chosen hero in the first situation like this, I highkey wish that this entire situation was originally all on Zelda/hylia and demise and link was just a guy who happened to be best friends with Zelda and wanted to help, I dunno like hes still destined.its Zelda u gotta have destiny....but no one chose him...y'know? It was sorta an accident he turned out to have just the right type of courage to help

Also I wish Zelda coulda turned into a big giant scary god creature like demise at one point since she's the reincarnation of a goddess, like a sort of equally scary but benevolent counterpart to Demise's design, I just think that'd be cool

Wait going back to the history with demise (which is a little odd in itself as the game that talks about itself like the origin of all things, there sure were a lot of references to stuff that happened before djdhshsh I mean I guess maybe it means this is the first time this specific cycle has ever happened, but still....I feel a lil left out game.....everyone's already been reborn or reawakened and shit....) Like I mentioned before I don't remember if they explained his whole deal but not to bring Okami into this but I think it woulda been kinda cool if there was a bit of like, mythological history between hylia and demise like how ammy has all her connections with other Japanese myths, like maybe they had a falling out like gods do and that's where all this stuff comes in, and maybe u could go a lil Greek god ish and make hylia maybe not always perfectly good? Like maybe she did something selfish or shitty and that's why demise is so mad, and like the DRAMA like Zelda would feel so bad being the reincarnation of someone who maybe did something not so good....the drama................I dunno I just think that'd be neat

How long has skyloft been up there? Hyrule historia low-key implies it honestly hasn't been that long but I choose to believe it's been a long ass time like to the point where legends of what's below are completely doubted, also I didn't mind all the clouds on the bottom of the sky overworld since they needed to hide skyloft and I don't think it needed more floating islands but I desperately wish it was less grayish brown and it had more like, flavour things? Like more interesting animals and weather effects and natural whatever to make flying more interesting, the flying controls could be kinda fun sometiems!! It was just....a lil uninteresting to look at qwq

This sounds like I'm complaining a lot but I did enjoy most of it lol, it's still a Zelda game, clunky controls and kinda messy storytelling or otherwise qwq it wasn't bad it was just....a lot, maybe just too much going on, maybe it shoulda been more focused story and mechanic wise, at least I think that woulda been nice

Also everything I say and suggest does not comply to any lore ever and I will never try to make it so, sorry qwq Zelda lore and Zelda timelines......I think it works best when u don't follow those so perfectly closely y'know? That's just the sorta franchise this is to me fhsvrvtbdb

Also going back to that initial link jumping to his doom trailer I saw when I was 12, I think there should have been 78% more megafauna in this video game and that was the biggest disappointment by far

I think, and I have thought this for the past decade, I think link shoulda jumped down to earth and just landed in a sea of dinosaurs

Shadow of the link

Link of the Colossus

I think there should have been more dinosaurs and that is skywards swords biggest crime

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What Zelda remake or reimagining would you like to see in the future?

What could be changed from the original besides the obvious graphical overhaul?

I'm not talking HD Remasters like WW, TP, and SS HDs here. I mean from the ground up remakes and overhauls like OoT/MM 3D and Link's (Re)Awakening for Switch (omg were those really the only ones?)

I would like a remake of the Oracle games, either in the same style of Link's (Re)Awakening or maybe a full 3D remake. That would be interesting. Maybe do away with the password system, having the next game instead be affected by the save data from the other, eliminating the need for a back and forth. Or utilize Amiibos somehow. I genuinely enjoyed those two and would love to have a modern release. Would Capcom even need to be involved in development this time?

Or remake The Adventure of Link but.... make it easier... Look, there's challenging and then there's bullshit. I want to be able to play AoL and not want to kill myself.

In today's era of gaming, AoL and The Hyrule Fantasy (Zelda 1) could have a modern reimagining with more characters to interact with. The overworlds can be beautiful, either 3D or sprite based. Ooh...... Sprite based remakes would be awesome....!

Obligatory "OoT and MM HD based of the 3DS releases but looking more like Twilight Princess or something" comment from me but I'd be happy with a mere 3DS to Switch port. Nintendo when? Take my money.