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pagesofkenna · 2 years ago

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also, you know, not to be better-than-thou or anything, but i kind of... feel weird talking about the Zelda series with people for whom these games aren't Important

not saying these games have to be Important to anyone but I have a handful of friends who've basically only played BOTW, and I grew up with this series. this is like fundamental, shaping-my-personality level media. just the first few hours of TotK have me emotional for reasons I can trace all the way back to Zelda 1. this is me connecting to something that is like core to my identity

and I'm happy Zelda is mainstream popular (because the latest titles have been SO GOOD!) now but. when I wanna talk about Zelda I want to talk about ALL of it, not just the latest popular titles. it's weird talking to people who've only played one or two games when I have centuries worth of this world's lore ingrained in my bones. like I'm glad you had fun messing around, but this is my home and I can't really relate to it like that

#im trying to voice this without pretension #like its not BAD that other people didn't grow up on this. its an accident of fate or whatever it's not meaningful or important #and its not like im NOT having silly fun because i'm taking this oh so seriously or whatever #its just like... i guess this is a Special Interest for me and when people who are Normal about it try to relate to be about it #its like oh. ok. you have an incredibly baseline level of enjoyment and i'll have to limit myself to that during this conversation #which sounds pretentious ugh maybe i just AM i guess #anyway i've been messaging Nick about it all evening and it's been nice to have someone to be like #'this character made an appearance!! lore drop!! we're finally learning more about X! they played Y music!' with lol

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