#also god bless fusing shit to arrows i am EVEN MORE RECKLESS now

[ballroomnotoriety]

totk spoilers and self indulgent inflated ego sbtw rambles

the fucking yiga impersonate zelda to try and trap link and i'm like, hey. i did that. pay me nintendo. i guess to be fair he doesn't eat anyone in the game but he does thrash them into the ground pretty efficiently. (you guys.......stop trying to attack me with your busted-ass eightfold longblades. i have a dragon spike on a stick that heals me when i hit you for 50 damage and your armor sucks ass.)

anyway i have all the memories now and the last final quest on my checklist is destroy ganondork and i have to say. this has been incredibly validating. i am so fucking good at characterization you guys. there has not been a single moment where i've been like oh shit i got that personality wrong. they would fucking say that. the only things that have really varied so far is a) my zelda is currently running with anonymity bc she's got her hands full (and it's immediately post botw) and b) i haven't let her say "okay" because it felt weird but she does say "okay." there's stuff i'm slightly pissy about because i had it planned before totk and now when it shows up in sbtw i don't get to be openly smug that i had it right. i was afraid the sequel would kill my motivation but i am more fired up than ever (except y'know...sidequests....the amount of external writing happening is uhhhh none). got a fair amount of a sidebar done tho.

anyway i have a million thoughts about how fucking good this game is and how it feels like a Classic Zelda in a way that botw didn't and how rich the world is and how loved link is and how he is never alone anymore, not this time, and hyrule is feeling lived in now and the growth and the people and the defense squads and research teams and lookout landing, my god, and how they always come back again and again and again but people far more eloquent that i have summed it up i'm sure.