#gameplay alone cant remedy a shitty story

[ganondoodle]

honestly yeah, i didnt even think about the mastersword but i guess .. there were two then for the period of time between totk-past and totk-present, since it gets only send back at the start of totk so idk

(also i wouldnt take AoC as canon, honestly the major reason why i dont like it that one either is bc it was marketed as a botw prequel and FIND YOU WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CALAMITY 100botw edition, when it was just like any other warriors game, a fun beat em up with fanservice but not canon in any way -thats not a bad thing- ... honestly similarly to how totk was advertised as the sequel to botw when it really isnt tbh)

(wait what i only know that half the fandom seems convinced that totk-past retcons every other zelda game bc its either forced in aside oot or straight up before skyward (lol) just bc rauru calls himself first king (like theres only ever been one hyrule) and the fact that the war to seal and evil monster guy is called sealing war which means it has to be the same one as back in the old timeline apparently bc words cant be used twice or soemthing, which i think is pretty stupid and makes no sense and if that were true i might just quit fnhdjkfnhkdk ((im sorry i just cant not be bothered by this)) but totk past being 10k years ago is a new one ... making just as little sense ;___; like its pretty clear that clamgan got made through totk gan trying to break the seal .... even if nothing of botw lore is really followed up on .... not in any satisfying way at least ... sigh)

just yeah to this, it really does make no sense, gan really wasnt a problem before he got the stone, like is it really jsut an excuse to put her yet again in the dress of sacrifice(tm)?? did they want rauru and sonia to be like surrogate parents (like really what, she looks desperate and uncomfortable almsot the entire time) only to both yank them away oh no look she lost her parents twice look how DARK this game is?? look sonia was nice to zelda in a single memory look how motherly she i- WOOPS fridged (not gonna get into how the way she died was also just so ... disrespectful really, i hate that media being made for younger audiences means yeha people dying is all well and good BUT OH GOD NO DONT EVER SHOW BLOOD OR A WOUND OH NO THATS BAD but he she fucking died on screen from a single punch lol)

man i swear im not trying to be a hater but its all just ... ugh ... so sad really, all of that build up and potential wasted like that, its feels hollow and incomplete just like i felt when i was done with the game, i planned to 100% it bc i was to excited at first but now i cant even be bothered to do all shrines

i just want to reiterate for newer followers, im not complaining and writing so much over and over again about this game bc i want to be hateful but bc i care about this, and esepcially so bc botw is one of my fav zelda games ever just short of ww, and it just .. hurts ... it affecting botw too makes it unignorable to me, like if it was a seperate isntallement ok i just dont like that one, thats fine, but with it supposedly being a sequel ... i cant really disregard it, and if nintendy wants to keep that one singluar timeline a thing now i guess its all gonne get connected back and back, i kinda worry for the future, id rather have a full new game thats entirely seperate from everything instead of totk2 or something ...

every now and then i get comments on some of my older rants about totk and im pretty sure its usually the very first post without any of the additions i tend to add later on-

old post about how i found it a lil weird that the one of the first things rauru and sonia doing is put zelda back into a little white maiden dress even tho her own clothes didnt look damaged at all and were far more practical and someone commented that its so she doesnt stand out (something that was said in nearly every comment i got on that post already) and that it was only weird bc i was making it weird or sth xD

but it made me think about it again, so .... that excuse doesnt work for me at all bc .. why wouldnt she want to stand out? whats the danger of that? her suddendly appearing out of nowhere, not knowing anything of the traditions or happenings of the time, being around the king and queen all the time with a duplicate enigma stone and unknown technology (purah pad) isnt weird? i know the excuse of oohoho shes a distant relative of sonia (i know its far stretched techinically true i guess) but why even do that, why go to such lengths of keeping her time traveling secret? making her less of a target for gan isnt really sensical either bc he went for sonia anyway, despite zelda clearly being the younger and less experienced of the two with less control of her power, and if he knew she was techinically more powerful .. well then shes even less in danger, and if he might have wanted to get information from her what could he have gained from it really? she didnt really know anything more anyway? like all she could tell him would be like you will lose i guess lol

(also you could keep it secret from him but why from the others, i just dont see the point, i dont find her look pretty either, she just looks uncomfortable, like if she gets put in to a lil white uwu maiden dress AGAIN im just gonna assume ok you are stripped of all your agency and will sacricifce yourself again wahoo what fun)

in a world were time magic is normal why wouldnt you just say yep she literally came from the future to help us? the usual rules of time travel, as in, dont tell anyone who you are, dont mess with the happenings bc everything can have major consequences, doesnt apply anyway, she goes around by her real name and is involved in literally every major happening .. so why care?? keeping it secret from gan for the future? why? he literally recognizes her within a split second anyway

(no gonna get into why i think her time travelling in the first place is like .. so forced? its only segway to put her out of the game essentially and the oh no tragic twist, but like why, she got the powers and the stone so she unconcisouly travels ... back in time ..?? why not reverse the stones she fell from or something, if it was soemthing that would come up again ok! like she did the time travel accidentally and then learned how to return over the time she spent in the past thats good!! i like that idea, but its never broguht up again, the closest thing to it is the weird two time bubbles that just serve to give you her time powers (whats up with how that went down anyway) and then to send the mastersword back ... why even do that when it could have fallen and travelled back with her right away?? and both of those are at the very start of the game AND IT NEVER COMES UP AGAIN, like fine if it was her trying to go back but not getting it right so she creates weird ass time bubbles cool! why not put them all over the place with them getting bigger and maybe being able to talk to link from the past idk SOMETHING- ok ill stop here ...)