#id do a readmore everyone but im on mobile and idk how

[malo-mart]

Gonna complain to you cause I need to complain to someone about it even if you disagree. I kind of hope totk is the last zelda game. I love the series, I could tell you every piece of information about every game and the 80s TV show. I've played and beaten every game (except totk because I got it late and im getting everything done before I progress). I dont like that they're changing the formula of the game. Why change something that makes the game what it is? It was just a ploy to get new fans but like?? I loved zelda because of what it was and now they're just rewriting it?????? I didn't like botw all that much honestly, I didn't like being told a story rather than experiencing it. It never felt like a zelda game to me totk is better so far but it's still just, if it's not broke, don't fix it. Yet they tried to fix something that wasn't broken. It's upsetting to me.

Wow first of all what an honour to still be the one stop shop for botw hate. I absolutely know what you're saying and I have battled despising botw for what it is for 6 years. They took all the Zelda conventions from us and left no scraps, not even an iconic boss redesign. No music scraps, nada. But I am learning to appreciate that it really was Game of the Year and it deserved the praise it got, but at what cost 😭 I think after straying so far from a traditional Zelda game, it means that at some point they are going to deliver an iconic traditional game that rocks us to our core. And it's worth noting that they have to move away from botw completely now. It's like OoT and MM - after that, Wind Waker was born. They will change the art direction, the gameplay, the story, the characterisation....so even though I know we will most likely never get what we had back, at least it will always be new.

I also completely get what you mean by being told a story rather than experiencing it. My girlfriend and I joked that the cutscenes were like watching TV cuz it's completely disengaged from what I am doing in the gameplay. I always had a criticism that for twilight princess, it's midna that confronts ganondorf and it's all her motivations which lead up to the final fight, but I also learned to appreciate that Link was just a pawn in the game. Like that was Midnas story and her fight, much like botw/totk seems to mainly revolve around Zelda. But at least Midna and Link are interacting the whole entire game. And also midna is gay to me so I love her regardless

Well after writing this I can very much see there are two wolves inside of me - botw hater and botw apologist. Feel free to always vent in my inbox, its a botw hate safe place.

I hope you're enjoying totk a lot more. I thought the first half of the game was SOOOOO good and the second half needed some story improvement, but the final boss and cutscene??? absolutely worth it!!!!! good luck out there <3

[alisaxii]

what if i just complain abt work here bc i feel like i complain too much on twt and honestubly this acct is mostly just to see me frends blogs and artists who i cant find on twt

also i forgot how to do a readmore on mobile so yall gonna see all of this until i login on my comp

nothing bad happens at work like no ones mean to me, everyones super swell and nice, i told my supervisor she reminded me of my kids when she told me her string of thoughts and she WHEEZE laughed, like ??? they chill peeps ??? i just hate the Work but and the amt of small talk i have to do to get by.....theres small talk done with kids too BUT small talk with kids is different yall its more interesting and theres no invisible pressure behind it.

and i kn o w you dont have to love what you do to get by but like it would Help. even bare minimum just Liking what i do would Help. summer camp was HELLISH but i got thru it bc i loved me kiddos and always looked forward to lunch bc less structure and also Id talk with my coteacher and he was funny.

the only thing i like abt this gig is the occasional free lunch and bfast, good coffee, and the 15 min or less commute....and the fact tht im parttime and i get to LEAVE during daylight....

this is what i get for just blindly saying yes.

also tho idk what id like to get into if not this gig...cos right now big main focus is paying my credit card bill and school loans and i /could/ do it if i just taught afterschool like i have been doing but id be getting by just /barely/ which means ill be living at home for longer. which means ill never hear the fucking end of it from the parentals. And the “if u dont find a fulltime gig youre gonna have to pay rent or st” arguement comes back up and after loans and my own bills i wouldnt have enough left over so thats a nice nightmare

i could go back to school and get a masters or st in education but like im not even sure about teaching ?? like i like these kids n being w them but i cant stop thinking abt Potential Debt and tht stresses me out like i dont have money...i thot about scholarships but my grades were Not Good like i barely got out

??? thanks for reading this far if u got this far???

[vivrcard]

i would put this under a readmore but unfortunately i cant find it on mobile which is a gigantic L. or maybe it's there and im just too tired to see it. anyway. obviously this is gonna talk about spoilers soo

i think what hollow knight really excels at is telling a story without being super obvious about it (and if u know me at all you KNOW i love when games do this). and i dont mean this in the sense of "oh hollow knight doesnt have a main story at all you just explore" because it 1000% does and it's all just. so bolstered by the exploration aspect of the game. i think in that sense, a lot of the main story is unraveling the secrets of hallownest as opposed to some big event where you have to stop a major catastrophe. the infection is very much alive and well, but you can go through a fair deal of the game playing as an explorer instead of a problem solver and you get rewarded with more lore tidbits the more you explore. i eat that shit up i love environmental storytelling type stuff so much

i think one of my favorite pieces of environmental storytelling is when you first go to the abyss. i didnt know what i was supposed to expect down there and honestly i thought people had been lying when they said there are thousands of dead children in hollow knight but uh. yeah. there sure are a lot of them! and it's soo fucked up especially once you get the void heart. like god. when i crawled out from underneath the broken bodies of all those siblings and watched as more fell from the sky AND i started trying to climb up. that hit so so hard, partly due to the mysterious nature of ghost along with the fact theyre a silent protag. again you really have to rely on all the clues the game drops you to 100% get whats going on. i love that ghost has an actual reason to be a silent protag too

i thought it was really interesting how the game approached the subject of loss in the sense that despite everything there were times where you couldnt save characters which made it so much worse. when cloth started helping against the traitor lord i somehow knew that something terrible was about to happen and i was right. theres literally not much i couldve done in that moment since id made some different exploration choices earlier on than what wouldve saved her. it's like.. idk. somehow it humanizes the characters even more. you see these guys over and over as you wander around and explore so to suddenly see, say, tiso lying dead at the bottom of a cliff after having spent the entire game going on and on about wanting to fight in the coliseum.. it's so fucked up. you really get to know and love some of these characters which makes the bigger ones SO much cooler.. like when quirrel showed up to help in the uumuu fight i just about lost my goddamn mind. he'd always been my favorite but dude. he was so cool. it's really something how one of the first things he tells you is that you need a new nail because your current one is really worn and then like. he shows up in that fight and he is the ONE thing capable of piercing uumuu. literally insane. i felt like a wild animal.

re: quirrel, i wish i hadnt been spoiled on his death a little bit but i think it was still impactful because again, the way these characters live and die is so .. something. human maybe? idk. i call quirrel my friend jokingly but i sorta mean it which is maybe silly but whatever. what matters here is how not all the deaths are these violent occurrences or something. not everyone gets stabbed to death. when i saw quirrel just sitting by the blue lake talking about how lucky he was to have a second chance and get to see the world in wonderment again it unlocked some emotion or another in me. frankly im crying while typing this lol. it was so well done. the fact that all you could do was sit with him.. i think i just sat there for a good ten minutes or so (partly because me and my roommate were sobbing). it's such an understated way to die. you sit with him and when you leave and come back all thats left is his sword. god. it's so much.

i think the hollow knight themself fucked severely. idk what i expected going into that fight but there were so many things that made me kinda stop and go oh. shit. this really was just a guy :(. theyre such a tragic character (maybe thats why the chsracter deaths that happen hit so hard as well–they have this element of tragedy) and i wish i could give them some sort of happy ending, but i guess putting them out of their misery really was one of the best and only things i could do :(. it's soo messed up especially since you can tell theyre still in there and not fully consumed by the infection of the radiance, like when they have to stop after doing an infection related attack or when they straight up start stabbing themself. they KNOW something is very very wrong and it's especislly fucked up since containing the infection/radiance is what they were made for. cant help but wonder if they saw themself as a failure

my final thought is idk what i expected with mr mushroom but that last cutscene left me with more questions than answers