Zelda Megathread

[Nickakyoin]

I'm also 90% sure to skip the next Hyrule Warriors on TOTK. After Age of Calamity I don't trust the KOEI Tecmo guys.

 

[Turbo Kid]

You're aware that Link is a kid in like 90% of the series right? Also you become an adult after 1/3rd of the game.


I'm not sure what you mean by "serious" because Zelda II felt similar to Zelda 1.

As for the stories I'd even argue that ALTTP and LA's respective plots had some seriousness in.


Yeah, Castlevania itself had several art styles through its existence.


I forgot which but aren't there guides?

Have you done FS, FSA and TFH? Those are my remaining top down entries.

No, he is not a kid in 90% of the games. He is 10 in the original game. However, In Zelda II we know he is 16 because that has been documented. He is almost a full grown adult. He is also 16 in Twilight Princess. In most games he is at least a teenager and in his late teens in many of them. In Ocarina of Time he is 9 years old. The game does everything in its power to make it clear you are playing as a child. He looks like a kid and he sounds like a kid. It's one of the things I find annoying about Ocarina of Time.

Zelda II feels darker than the first game (you even fight a dark version of yourself as the final boss) and is infamously more challenging as well. Zelda II was a game for big boys. Oh, and there's also the ladies in red which everyone just assumed were prostitutes whether that was the intent or not.

 

[Tonberry]

I always preferred Link being a kid. Makes it feel more whimsical to me, and I’ve always appreciated Zelda being more whimsical and fairy-tale coded than just straight up safe high fantasy.

As far as artstyles go, Zelda has almost always had a somewhat contemporary style, it’s just that they’ve almost always had really really good artist and art direction to make stuff look and feel hand crafted and unique.

 

[NeonKnights]

 

[Nickakyoin]

Fun fact: it has been 5 years since Age of Calamity. And now we're getting a new HW. And, no, I still don't trust Koei Tecmo for this one. But might as well try the demo if they drop it before the game's release.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I don't care that much about Hyrule Warriors.

On the other hand I'd like to see another Cadance of Hyrule or any new spin-off idea.

 

[Nickakyoin]

I don't care that much about Hyrule Warriors.

On the other hand I'd like to see another Cadance of Hyrule or any new spin-off idea.

The problem is that they wanted to go with easily explorable lore stuff on purpose. Made me wonder if they planned this before writing TOTK. And I will expect that Link will be playable somehow, even if it won't make any sense.


Good thing you specified new on spin-off, otherwise I would have spammed a Tingle without any mercy.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

The problem is that they wanted to go with easily explorable lore stuff on purpose. Made me wonder if they planned this before writing TOTK. And I will expect that Link will be playable somehow, even if it won't make any sense.

HW games are in fact canon? I always assumed they were mostly "what if" kind of scenarios.

I'm confused about the second HW game anyway (since they wanted to explain the events from before BotW yet said it wasn't canonical...)

Good thing you specified new on spin-off, otherwise I would have spammed a Tingle without any mercy.

Sadly I feel like we missed the window of any potential Linkebeck or any other major NPC having their stories.


On a side note I'm almost surprised we didn't get to see a second Link Crossbow Training for the Switch.

 

[MasterEn]

HW games are in fact canon? I always assumed they were mostly "what if" kind of scenarios.

I'm confused about the second HW game anyway (since they wanted to explain the events from before BotW yet said it wasn't canonical...)


Sadly I feel like we missed the window of any potential Linkebeck or any other major NPC having their stories.


On a side note I'm almost surprised we didn't get to see a second Link Crossbow Training for the Switch.

the first hyrule warriors can be canon. it follows the same set up as the other games; link and zelda stop ganon/ganondorf. i'm pretty sure that it is not. i think nintendo wanted to try something different and to give some zelda fans something to entertain them while breath of the wild was being worked on.
i know that isn't very deep, but story always second or dead last with nintendo games; hence me summing the series up in one sentence.
yeah, age of calamity is mostly nonsensical. i think it is a case of wanting to use the assets that they already had to get their money's worth of time and effort spent on making them. which i believe is the same reason that 99% of totk is the same layout with like, 3 new things added to the overworld and spammed all throughout it.
link's crossbow training was supposed to be the second installment of twilight princess. or something like that. i don't think many people were very impressed, revisiting the same area with little to no change. i played the game, and i only did like one or two levels and lost interest.

 

[χKai]

So, it's like this..
I first started Breath of the Wild on Master Mode, which forced me to really learn the battle system, or else continue to get my ass kicked.

Eventually, I move on to Tears of the Kingdom. It had been awhile in between games, but playing it a little I was easily able to get back into the 'feel' of the game. Having played BotW it became butt-ass easy, especially having played on Master Mode. But here's what I really find interesting.

In Breath of the Wild, I was forced to fight for my fucking  life in every battle, every encounter. I would go through at least several weap9ns, usually about 2-3 per enemy. That's not to mention how often you have to perfect guard, or flurry rush or come up with ways to cleverly avoid the enemy's attacks. It pushes you to the  limit.

Then Tears of the Kingdom rolls around; no master mode, so the game is already pretty much on butt-ass easy mode. Then, you get further and

Spoiler

unlock companions; other characters who will fight for you. It's so ridiculously OP that I hardly fight anything now, I usually just run up to it and let my entourage wipe out whatever it is; sometimes I even fight enemies that are somewhat strong (Silvers) using only Yunobo's roll, and the other companions (they automatically attack on their own).

What I find compelling is thus; Breath of the Wild kicks you while you're down and stomps your face in the mud while making fun of you (Instead of throwing yourself at enemies again and again to no avail, why not try.. getting good?) but Tears of theKingd9m will hold your hand like a little old lady trying to get across the street.

What a weirdly inconsistent mess, and that's not even getting to the timeline