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I’m not going to go looking for this, nor am I going to let it find me, but I suspect there are people in the Zelda fandom who are going to attempt to apply some sort of half-baked political reading onto Age of Imprisonment – a game that really, really doesn’t support a political reading.
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But trying to interpose real-world politics onto the basic “good vs. evil” fantasy trope that informs this game is a lost cause, and the attempt is only going to make people unhappy. If you want political nuance in a high fantasy setting, there are many other video games to play! If you want elves and furries teaming up together to defeat waves of monsters with the power of friendship, then Age of Imprisonment does this remarkably well. And that’s cool.
To give an analogy: Redwall could be Game of Thrones, but it’s not. And that doesn’t make Redwall any less valid for being what it is. Two cakes is better than one cake.
Or, more to the point: You can have Breath of the Wild (gorgeous nuance, complex carbs), and you can have Age of Imprisonment (zero nuance, pure sugar). Two cakes!
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But trying to interpose real-world politics onto the basic “good vs. evil” fantasy trope that informs this game is a lost cause, and the attempt is only going to make people unhappy. If you want political nuance in a high fantasy setting, there are many other video games to play! If you want elves and furries teaming up together to defeat waves of monsters with the power of friendship, then Age of Imprisonment does this remarkably well. And that’s cool.
To give an analogy: Redwall could be Game of Thrones, but it’s not. And that doesn’t make Redwall any less valid for being what it is. Two cakes is better than one cake.
Or, more to the point: You can have Breath of the Wild (gorgeous nuance, complex carbs), and you can have Age of Imprisonment (zero nuance, pure sugar). Two cakes!
