#squido plays twilight princess

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GASP!!! IS IT TIME????

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this is the greatest video game ever made

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you heard it here first, folks! eat! sleep! drink water! take your meds! stretch! go for a walk!! pet a plant or animal that it is safe for you to pet!

[sky-squido]

this frog is my favorite person in the entire world

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the "he" they're referring to here is supposedly a hero who went before me whose power is within me and whose tunic i now wear.... i know it's supposed to be Time, just given the release date and everything, but i'm actually leaning more towards it being Sky. it's his spirit, after all, and this tunic looks way more like his than Time's

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TOO MANY RUPEES?? FOR FRESH BREAD??? THERE'S NO SUCH THING!!!!!! COWARD!!! GIVE ME MY BREAD!!!!!

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this. game.

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wow okay so i really didn't completely understand why midna broke the mirror at the end of the twilight princess—it felt like it came out of nowhere. but i just beat the temple of time and, though i accidentally skipped past the dialogue box before i could get a picture, she said (about the mirror) that: "we could be assembling something truly terrible, here. something we might have to destroy ourselves when we're done with it." this boss was huge and nasty and the previous boss was blizzeta and both times midna comments on how horrible the creatures corrupted by the shard were. honestly, i think the reason she destroys the mirror at the end is far less "our worlds must remain separate" and far more "dude this mirror is so horrible and murdery we need to disintegrate it at the first available opportunity." honestly, i respect that. and since it's the means she has a problem with, not the ends, i choose to believe that after the game ends, she gets all the magic twili folks to build a Far Less Evil portal to the world of light and they get to be happy together and help rebuild each others' kingdoms :)

[sky-squido]

reason 53728292 that i love this game:

so this is his resting face

and THIS is resting face when he's

knee-deep in a snowbank.

yeah i'd be grumpy too

[sky-squido]

I CAUGHT THE FORBIDDEN FISH

[sky-squido]

wait so in twilight princess there's a spirit in your boomerang... and the spirit has dialogue....

new fic where twilight's chillin one night and someone hears him talking and goes "who's he talking to?" and it's his boomerang

and the other person thinks he's crazy until the boomerang talks back

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I FINALLY BEAT THE BOSS OF THE SECOND DUNGEON IN OOA (which means i got past that room i was stuck on, thank u @pacicidal and @elegantcollectionkoala)

since i'm playing virtual console, i used a lot of save states to warp back to right before the fight to save time on retries and i've never used save states like this before so i had this really weird time loop sense like those fics where a character is trying something over and over again (of course, i would never write something like that) and it was interesting to see what conditions i set for myself to warrant a reset and experiencing the feeling of jumping back into the fight right after the start of the death animation played with new knowledge about how the fight would go down, but refreshed health and bombs, while the boss has no idea who i am and is seeing me for the first time. it just. it's giving me thoughts and feelings about time loops but this time with legend sklfjghsdfgkjsdf squido don't do it don't you dare

anyway i also beat twilight princess!!! (finally) i LOVE LOVE LOVE when you power up the master sword with the sol's in the twilight realm BECAUSE THE GLOW IS SO PRETTY DUDE THE LIGHTING ON THIS GAAAAAME but also i feel like coming back to this game, especially after screwing around in botw, it really hits me how they do a really great job of making the master sword feel like a total light saber and i am HERE for it!! you just feel so strong and powerful, and after having been so weak at the beginning of the game, having to smack things with your wooden stick and it taking forever to kill bokoblins with the ordon sword, just plowing through baddies is SO satisfying.

BUT THEN ALSO IT'S NOT JUST PLOWING THROUGH BADDIES BECAUSE THE COMBAT IS SO GOOD instead of just mashing Y, you're doing back slices and shield bashes and helm splitters and it's so much more fun and engaging and you feel SO COOL pulling it all off and aaaaah i love this game and how STRONG it makes you feel after working so hard to build up all these heart containers and learn all these skills and get and strengthen the master sword. what an adventure.

AND THE PUZZLES DUDE I DIDN'T WANT THE HYRULE CASTLE DUNGEON TO END it was just a playground of puzzles with all my items and shooting the paintings off the walls? clawshotting to the grates on lamps and chandeliers? i feel like this game perfected the art of observation-based puzzles. i feel like so many of the puzzles in this game amount to looking around, looking around differently (as a wolf, from different angles, with different items in mind, reexamining your surroundings and looking for new ways to interact with them) and i LOVE it!! i feel so clever when i finally spot The Thing that i was looking for and i usually endure zelda dungeons to get to the bosses and the story, but this is definitely the most fun i've ever had in zelda dungeons outside of link between worlds. i honestly believe the reason nintendo has deviated from their standard dungeons/items formula and has no intention of returning to it is that twilight princess PERFECTED IT in 3D so they have to try something else now (this is also why i think we haven't gotten a new traditional 2D zelda game in so long—albw perfected 2D zelda dungeon design).

BUT YEAH THEN THE ENDING OF COURSE RIPPED MY HEART OUT OF MY CHEST BECAUSE WHY WOULDN'T IT AND I WILL BE THINKING NONSTOP ABOUT HOW LINK RIDES OFF ON EPONA AND THEN STOPS YES I KNOW IT WAS ORIGINALLY A MISTAKE BUT THEY KEPT IT IN THE HD VERSION SO IT'S CANON NOW, BABY

anyway i love zelda games and I HAVEN'T PLAYED TOTK YET SO DON'T MENTION IT IN YOUR TAGS PLEASE CUZ I DO READ THEM ALL but yeah i'm getting totk soon and also just got minish cap and also i still have oos to play so yaaaaay i am once again feral for zelda games ALSO I CAN FINALLY PLAY ONE OF FOUR'S GAMES AND NOT SUBSIST SOLELY OFF WIKI ENTRIES WHEN WRITING HIM THANK GOODNESS

[sky-squido]

HSKDNJD THERE'S BREATH OF THE WILD CONCEPT ART IN THE SNOOTY SHOP MALO BUYS OUT

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so how about that boss fight, amirite? (sound on!)

[sky-squido]

EVIL BENCH

[sky-squido]

MDKDDNDJEKKFKE MALO