#I love WW Link’s chaotic energy

[void-tiger]

I just...kinda wanna take my pictobox and run around Windfall taking pictures of people and chance shots and really weird stuff.

Or fish, dig at the excavation site, or play with trees and snuggling cows while my hippy partner plays under a tree next to the cat and doggo.

Problem? Well, neither the gamecube or wii are set up, and it just feels Wrong to do it when the bonus room’s become Dad’s office. (Especially since...y’know... I’m still neither Employed nor Student.)

[loregoddess]

i dont think ppl bitch abt it anyways but share a reverse unpopular opinion abt wind waker

I have been in the LoZ fandom long enough to see people bitch about literally every single game, and guess what I do have a strong opinion about something a lot of people hated.

I actually love the sailing. Like I get where some people are coming from when they say it's tedious, but I liked it so, so much better than having to roll across a large field bc I hadn't gotten a horse, it was so chill and relaxing. I also really loved the exploration aspect a lot, I remember the very first time I played the game I didn't even know I was supposed to be looking for Triforce shards, I just Really Wanted To Fill In The Entire Map, and hit a point where I didn't know what I was supposed to do and figured "eh, I can fill in the map finally" and went and bought a ton of fish bait and went to town, ironically unlocking the final area of the game despite my not knowing how to do that. I really loved how unique every island felt, and I loved getting off the boat and exploring all the different little islands not knowing what I'd find.

Also to this day WW's soundtrack is one of my all-time favorites. I don't actually have top x number lists or anything, but if I did a few songs from WW would definitely be on the hypothetical top LoZ songs list. The music is just so full of life and adventure, I can't help but love it.

ALSO ALSO, this was the first LoZ game that gave Link like, more than one family member! I loved Aryll, and I loved Grandma, it was so exciting to have a family for Link, and it made the whole "call to adventure" portion of the game where Aryll get's kidnapped actually feel like a call to adventure that would drive someone to leave their cozy little island. There's so many good characters in WW actually, like I loved that Link was literally Just Some Kid--according to official lore he's not actually like, destined to be the hero or anything, he doesn't have the hero's spirit, he's literally Just Some Kid who wants to save his sister so bad he impresses the gods (sorta on accident) into giving him the Master Sword and title of Hero of Winds. WW is also my favorite variation of Ganondorf, since he feels a lot more fleshed out in his motivations and overall character, and also his design is my favorite Ganondorf design as well. I really love Tetra and her band of pirates, she's such a refreshing and novel spin on the Zelda character, and I love her absolute chaotic energy and gumption. Also the Rito and Dragon Roost in general are some of my favorite additions to the LoZ universe, and I really loved all the Rito characters a lot.

Also also also, for lore reasons this is one of my favorite games. Like there's this somber undertone to the setting of a flooded Hyrule, where Hyrule no longer truly exists, and that doesn't get reversed at the end. There is no "restoration" of Hyrule with Tetra taking her "rightful place" as the lost ruler, there's just...a quiet, watery end to it all (also breaking the cyclical curse which got retconned into the series later), and then the characters move on with their lives and Hyrule remains in the past. It doesn't even feel like a true tragedy, because we as players spent the entire game seeing how alive and thriving the world is, having moved on from being Hyrule, and know it will continue to do just fine--there is no stagnation, no sense that something is cosmically wrong with the world just because it's ceased to be Hyrule, but that it has healed and grown and will continue to do so. And I dunno, there's something very poetic and beautiful about that.

Anyhow I love LoZ a lot, but WW is one of my top five favorite LoZ games on those hypothetical lists, and I love it so, so much.