#legit tho I love totk and from a gameplay perspective it’s my favorite of the whole series

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Anyway I would have never said this a few months ago but now that I’m on my second playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom and I’m giving myself time to actually digest everything I have to admit

Totk’s story is… kinda bad?

And like there are things about it I do like, basically anything having to do with the Light Dragon is soooo good and heartbreaking, but there’s also so much shit about the plot and how it had to be structured bc “open world game” is so disappointing

Like thanks I def wanna hear each sage give me the same spiel about the imprisoning war four damn times; I def think nobody realizing fake zelda is a fake is dumb even though link knows she’s fake pretty early on but he’s not allowed to emote or have a personality bc fuck you. I think ganondorf is such a damn non-entity in the present of the game that he might as well not even be there, he does literally nothing until the finale of the game, what was even the point of having him here if he’s just gonna lie underground the whole game. I hate that fucking robot construct body we build for mineru so. Fucking. Much from a gameplay perspective because it’s clunky af and also from a story perspective bc it’s so weird and random and like???? Why??? I don’t understand raurus whole “keep my enemy close” nonsense bc if he’d just dealt with ganondorf like he SHOULD have then maybe Sonia wouldn’t have died smh stupid stupid so many stupid decisions were made the entire plot and gameplay loop is structured just like botw but worse bc at least on botw if you got the memories out of order it didn’t really matter but in totk you kind of have to get them in order for literally anything to make sense but you only discover that order if you wander off to the forgotten temple and learn the very specific order like why did they do it like this why couldn’t we just have normal ass cutscenes why did they feel so married to botws structure why did they make so many weird choices wit. This games story, why is it so disappointing when it should have beeen great why is the tone of the game nothing like what that first trailer showed us why aren’t things more mysterious and left open to interpretation why why why WHY

Great game tho 10/10 goty