Witness My Tears
Mar. 29th, 2023 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingNintendo released new gameplay footage for Tears of the Kingdom, and I am distressed to report that the new Zelda game looks dumb as shit. They took the most hated game mechanic - weapon durability - and they decided to "fix" it by creating a needlessly complicated weapon crafting system that still doesn't address the core issue, namely, that people don't want their weapons to break. The new crafting system is some goofy-ass bullshit that would actually be really great in a Mario game... so why don't they just put it in a Mario game?
Meanwhile, like an absolute patsy, I paid more than $50 for the privilege of playing The Minish Cap on Nintendo Switch, and now I feel obligated to finish the game. God it's so stupid. The Minish Cap is a perfect example of a game that might have been good if it had decent writing, but apparently that wasn't a priority. The conceit is that Link's green hat is actually a transformed elder mouse-person named Ezlo, and Ezlo has Attitude™. Throughout the game, Ezlo entertains you with all sorts of fun lines, like, "Looks like it's windy... better hold on to your hat!" Fucking dripless.
I know I'm being negative, but like. The Zelda games don't have to have bad writing. No video game on this earth has to have bad writing, and it aggravates me that Nintendo, which is in the same league as Sony and Microsoft, decided that the plot of the newest game in its current flagship series is going to be "Zelda fell down a hole, use these mushrooms to power up your sword and go get her."
ETA: This person totally gets it:
https://thebreathofthewild.tumblr.com/post/713056462832812032/but-every-zelda-is-like-that-half-true-while
Meanwhile, like an absolute patsy, I paid more than $50 for the privilege of playing The Minish Cap on Nintendo Switch, and now I feel obligated to finish the game. God it's so stupid. The Minish Cap is a perfect example of a game that might have been good if it had decent writing, but apparently that wasn't a priority. The conceit is that Link's green hat is actually a transformed elder mouse-person named Ezlo, and Ezlo has Attitude™. Throughout the game, Ezlo entertains you with all sorts of fun lines, like, "Looks like it's windy... better hold on to your hat!" Fucking dripless.
I know I'm being negative, but like. The Zelda games don't have to have bad writing. No video game on this earth has to have bad writing, and it aggravates me that Nintendo, which is in the same league as Sony and Microsoft, decided that the plot of the newest game in its current flagship series is going to be "Zelda fell down a hole, use these mushrooms to power up your sword and go get her."
ETA: This person totally gets it:
https://thebreathofthewild.tumblr.com/post/713056462832812032/but-every-zelda-is-like-that-half-true-while
