#I should get some batteries for my wii motes and start with tp it's always been my favorite and I've been wanting to replay for awhile now

[geekeryisafoot]

I've just about beat Echoes of Wisdom (meaning I got to the entrance of the final dungeon and then ran off to 100% everything else which I'm now done with) and I really loved it. There are so many reasons why I loved it, but the biggest is that it brought back classic core game elements we haven't seen since Link Between Worlds (which came out in 2013 holy shit that's a lifetime ago) and that I was worried the series would leave behind. Namely dungeons. OH MY GOD I MISSED DUNGEONS. I've been worried that with the success of BotW the series might never do true dungeons again, so now that I can rest easy on that I can enjoy TotK even more

Other things beyond dungeons I was delighted to see again:

A gameplay gimmick that's fun but highly unlikely to be seen again. Every Zelda game has a gimmick that defines it and keeps each game fresh and fun: turning into a wolf, islands, boats, trains, birds, masks, turning 2D, and now echoes. I love getting to explore the new gimmick without worrying that it will take over the entire series

A companion character!!!!!!!!!!

A silly little guy who is excited to drag you into his hobby and reward you for helping him with it (like the bunny guy from Spirit Tracks, or bug girl from Twilight Princess)

Summoning your horse from anywhere. Oh my GOD I hate needing to keep track of my horse

Being able to swim indefinitely

Rupees from cutting grass

Music that gets stuck in my head and that I hum along with

Yetis!!!!! I have so much nostalgia for the Twilight Princess yetis

The fact it's not open world, ie possible to actually beat it and complete literally everything without spending hundred of hours on it. I like feeling accomplished ok, I liked closed games. AND this means it's actually replayable

And probably a bunch more stuff I'm blanking on right now

Now I'm feeling a bunch of love and nostalgia for the series as a whole. I want to go play all the older games again, rexperience what I loved about each one