#there's nothing to tell. so the overworld is changed superficially to make it slightly different but that's it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pa-pa-plasma · 4 months ago

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genuinely not kidding when I say that Tears of the Kingdom is not only a bad Zelda game, it's just a bad game in general. it's inaccessible to casual gamers who previously could play Zelda games because of their structure. there is virtually no plot, & what little plot there is sucks ass, is predictable in a bad way, & doesn't make any fucking sense, with the absolute lack of emotional reactions from the characters making it all the worse. the references are only there to distract from the absolute nothingness, despite a main timeline Zelda title being the perfect game to have them as a type of storytelling (what happened to Skyloft??). the sky islands are just rocks with nothing on them except fruit, or maybe a chest if you're lucky. the underground is a walking in the dark simulator. the overworld is the exact same shit as in Breath of the Wild & I already explored that twice so why do it again. the caves are pointless. they didn't add much to the game besides that (the shrines & towers are just reskinned, do not fool yourself) & what they did add is just more sidequests to fill the gaps between the bits of non-existent plot. the dungeons suck. the boss battles are okay which is just sad for a Zelda game. it's just a $90 DLC & if that doesn't explain why I'm so mad about this idk what the fuck will. maybe the fact that this "new formula" is a severe step down from the old one, where you had an actual full fucking puzzle game to play with an actual fucking characters & a story that wasn't just more MCU "cameo! reference!!" bullshit

#sorry to people who enjoyed the game. raise your standards #i feel like the people who think this is a good game either are new to zelda or can't look at things objectively #or are in a fuckton of denial cuz my guy..... this game?? this game???? please tell me you're joking.....................#i cannot begin to describe how fast i got bored with totk #at least botw had the benefit of being new. totk is just botw slightly to the left. & shittier if i'm being honest #it's literally just botw reskinned. except it got rid of guardians so it doesn't even have a cool scary enemy #''but the hands!'' i got over that pretty fast tbh. guardians haunt me to this day. the hands are an old zelda enemy #so i count those as just another reference because that's all anything is in this game #they spent waaaayy too much time on that stupid ultrahand & not enough time on the actual fucking game #& btw this isn't like. new. nintendo games have been getting shittier in all the same ways #like. you can track it. they're not doing a new formula. they're not trying out a new interesting way of doing things #they're becoming lazy & cheap. instead of setting up a storyline they just throw you into a big open world #that takes like 2 irl hours to cross & hope you don't notice the time not being spent being told a story #in botw a lot of stories were told via environmental storytelling. you go by Lon Lon Ranch & Know what happened #you visit an abandoned & destroyed town & you Know what happened #totk doesn't have environmental storytelling so that big open world is useless #there's nothing to tell. so the overworld is changed superficially to make it slightly different but that's it #there's no environmental storytelling in the sky or the underground where it'd be best used #they just Tell you things & there are no hints at anything they don't tell you #uuuuuggggghhhhhh this stupid game frustrates me so fucking much & i hate how no one seems to have a brain about it

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