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I finally returned to my current playthrough of The Wind Waker.
According to my save file, the last time I played the game was back in April. It feels weird that it's been so long, especially since I've been listening to game's soundtrack and the audio of the Game Grumps playthrough more or less on loop for the past few months.
When I left off, I had apparently just finished the Withered Tree sidequest, so there was nothing else I could do at this point except to go to the Forsaken Fortress to save Link's sister and confront Ganondorf. Although navigating the Forsaken Fortress is a pain in the ass if you don't know exactly where you're supposed to go, I actually really enjoy this part of the game. It's like, Get in the boat kids it's time to go see shitty grandpa!!
The Forsaken Fortress segment consists of a fun boss fight with Phantom Ganon (in which Ganondorf laughs a lot and does zero damage to Link), a cute cut scene with Tetra and Aryll, another fun boss fight with the Helmaroc King (which also does hardly any damage), and then a cool cut scene with Tetra and Ganondorf. It's strange to say this about video game characters from 2002, but there's so much chemistry between Link and Tetra and Ganondorf. The character models are surprisingly expressive given the level of technology, and the cinematography of the cut scenes is incredibly creative.
I'd like to write a Wind Waker meta post analyzing the Forsaken Fortress cut scene with Ganondorf using the formal vocabulary of cinematography. Basically I'd argue that it's really well done from a technical standpoint. I also think it's interesting that the scene is shot from Ganondorf's perspective, with the camera situated at his eye level. It might also be interesting to compare the way Ganondorf addresses Link as opposed to the way he addresses Tetra. I'm really enjoying not getting death threats on Tumblr right now, though, so maybe I could publish this essay elsewhere?
According to my save file, the last time I played the game was back in April. It feels weird that it's been so long, especially since I've been listening to game's soundtrack and the audio of the Game Grumps playthrough more or less on loop for the past few months.
When I left off, I had apparently just finished the Withered Tree sidequest, so there was nothing else I could do at this point except to go to the Forsaken Fortress to save Link's sister and confront Ganondorf. Although navigating the Forsaken Fortress is a pain in the ass if you don't know exactly where you're supposed to go, I actually really enjoy this part of the game. It's like, Get in the boat kids it's time to go see shitty grandpa!!
The Forsaken Fortress segment consists of a fun boss fight with Phantom Ganon (in which Ganondorf laughs a lot and does zero damage to Link), a cute cut scene with Tetra and Aryll, another fun boss fight with the Helmaroc King (which also does hardly any damage), and then a cool cut scene with Tetra and Ganondorf. It's strange to say this about video game characters from 2002, but there's so much chemistry between Link and Tetra and Ganondorf. The character models are surprisingly expressive given the level of technology, and the cinematography of the cut scenes is incredibly creative.
I'd like to write a Wind Waker meta post analyzing the Forsaken Fortress cut scene with Ganondorf using the formal vocabulary of cinematography. Basically I'd argue that it's really well done from a technical standpoint. I also think it's interesting that the scene is shot from Ganondorf's perspective, with the camera situated at his eye level. It might also be interesting to compare the way Ganondorf addresses Link as opposed to the way he addresses Tetra. I'm really enjoying not getting death threats on Tumblr right now, though, so maybe I could publish this essay elsewhere?
