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autumnoakes · 4 days ago

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my hot take of the day is that breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom are not adaptable into any other format. by doing so, you'd lose a huge part of both games which is exploration. if you follow a predetermined narrative, it's a different formula. a huge point of botw was that you could do the main story in whatever order you want. hell, you could even not do the main story if you really wanted to. the any% speedrun is like 25 minutes because you can just. go to the final boss. and totk is bigger, but it's not much different. you can't adapt that freedom of exploration and choice into another format in a way that really matters.

#legend of zelda #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #like yeah there's a TON of fanfiction for both games #but that all hits different because it's narrative-driven. because it's the written word #there's no freedom of choice in reading a fanfiction or book or watching a movie #like yes there are interactive movies and books but even then that's limited #usually to a couple choices at a time and each choice having a predetermined outcome #and each choice taking you further into the narrative #with botw/totk you get a lot of the story and lore by just. exploring #i mean totk has this side quest where you find markers that tell stories of the past #there are historians all over the map in both games who will freely tell you about the land #there are link's memories in botw and the dragon's tears in totk #that are sort of meant to be done out of order so that the context of the story is revealed slowly #(that's something i'm enjoying about resident evil revelations 2 but it has a different format)#(i like slow reveals of the story before it reaches a climax at some point)#i think botw/totk would be rather boring as a movie/tv series adaptation #i even bored myself trying to write a version of botw (i forget the word now)#because a lot of it is really just. walking around. getting distracted and finding new things #it REWARDS that even #idk what my point is anymore

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