#still could've explored his character more (like in the original japanese) + shown more expression at the end to complete his character arc | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

watermelinoe · 1 year ago

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like yes totk is technically much darker than other zelda games, but is there any emotional weight to it? when the plot consists of these out-of-context cutscenes that you can collect in any random order at any point in the game (or not at all) with zero impact on the plot or link himself? somehow the silly toon zelda game managed to make toon king daphnes of hyrule's sacrifice more heart-wrenching than king rauru of hyrule's, and the toon guy was literally a boat for most of the game

#loz #finding the memories is completely optional. does not change the story at all.#you can't just put disjointed scenes of dark things happening in a storyline we're not part of into the game like optional collectibles #and point at those like ''see look how dark our game is''#maybe you should've let us play some zelda sections to develop more of an emotional investment in that storyline #or maybe given link the protagonist of your game an emotional investment in that storyline #does anything dark even happen outside of those cutscenes #that like. means anything #puppet zelda could have been really creepy if link wasn't standing there like 😐 the whole fuckin time #in botw it made sense for link to be more emotionally detached bc he was an amnesiac and it was part of the tragedy #still could've explored his character more (like in the original japanese) + shown more expression at the end to complete his character arc #but it was a more minor complaint in botw #in totk it's like does link even give a shit abt anything that's going on

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