#mooooreeee GIVE MEEEEEE MOOOREEE ZELDA TEAAAMMM JEEZ

[ofcowardiceandkings]

peepee poopoo whining

i hate comparing my fave things, and its partly just down to the order they released, but the more i marinade in the sauce the more i wish TotK had some of the depth of story and history crafted into it as GG gave Horizon ?

i GET

.. that it took some serious polish to have its systems work and run well and i get that the past few havent been as story-driven or lore focussed buuutttt i do miss it a bit. its the main thing i find im pining for in newer zelda titles?

again im a heavy stan for both BotW and TotK i fucking love both of those games to death they ate my brain, but yknow ...

like i said, the fact that ive been waiting for these two games for what felt like an eternity while also talking about them constantly, and HFW released a year before probably spoiled me for story content lmfao

GG really spoiled us with their level of care in Zero Dawn & Forbidden West so its REALLY hard to make the comparison but i knoooowww the writing team are capable of something like that because fuck me Skyward Sword was a masterpiece fight me on that

just like, a little bit of elaboration or some expanded worldbuilding would have been nice

lead me a little on what happened to the Zonai? who do the giant statues in the depths represent? what is Ganondorf's actual motive? does he hear Demise in his dreams maybe??? are there anymore ancient Hyrulean ruins?? did ALL of the sheikah get cleared away or is there some still about? WHO was the Ancient Hero and why can we look like him ??! is he an ancient form of Zonai ??? (can i have more Sonia please?) ALSO WHERE THE FUCK IS KASS ...

yknow, like in a DLC :)

not that HFW is perfect either, it definitely isnt i have gripes and reservations, but the story-drive comparison is hard for me to escape and GG have done phenomenally well for following up on a sequel to their FIRST REAL NARRATIVE GAME (?!)

also the irony of both sets of games & their sequels being about post-apocalypse cultures existing in the shadow of extremely 'advanced' civilisations who have accidentally set up this new existential threat lmfao

anyway ill stop on this train of thought now but yeah

thoughts :V