#no interesting ruins of the zonai. the only story to the depths is the fucking yiga

[lesbianbishounen]

god i hate that i was right about this. the “its $70 dlc” people were right

god i need cool/interesting new areas in totk i hope theyre just avoiding visuals of most stuff in order to not spoil it bcus the sky islands rn just seem kinda. idk more of the same. yes the new fuse mechanics and stuff are cool but thats not what im interested in really

[pseudonemisis]

So I finally finished tears of the kingdom and I have thoughts, far too many to encapsulate here, but I'll start.

So I guess we'll start w/ my biggest mechanical problems (I wanna let story stuff stew for a bit) I'll just come out and say it then. I hate the depths they felt tedious and punishing to get through. The sense of joy and discovery that I got from exploring the over world was completely missing. This is probably because of a mix of a lack of natural beauty, no people or towns, and it being Pitch black while everything wanted to kill me.

I can almost understand how it'd be enjoyable from a more challenging point of view, but I could never get into. I'd just become frustrated, take a break, and come back a little later. I always like to get all fast travel points in a game before I get too into it, so I wanted to get all the shrines pretty quickly. Unfortunately, to do that I had to find every light root, which took up a chunk of my game play, making me tire of the game much faster than I otherwise would have.

I'm confused as to why they added the depths to the game. The only thing from it that I actually enjoyed was Master Kogha and Yiga clan, which could've been moved to the caves. Anything of interest in the depths could've easily been moved to the sky island which I feel would've been so much better. The sky islands should've been a much bigger part of the game. After the tutorial island I only went up there when grinding for shrines or chests and they rarely felt like an important part of the world, which I think is a shame for how important they were to the story.

Which leads me to my final point. Where the fuck did the depths come from? Maybe there is an explanation that I just haven't come across or it's set up for the next game like the zonai ruins were in botw, but I can't figure out why it exists. I've heard some theories that it's entirely another realm but then why does it map to the over world. Why doest it maych the over world at all? How did people get in and out of the mine? Why are former Link's stuff down there? Why? How?? What is going on down there? If it's not another dimension how does the world not, like, collapse in on itself?

Overall the depths are a confusing, tedious, unnecessary realm that nearly drove me to tears and I cannot fathom why it exists.

All that to say, I haven't seen anyone else complain about it, so if you liked it please tell me why. I'd genuinely love to know!