Tears of the Kingdom, Part Ten
Jun. 17th, 2023 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingTears of the Kingdom is a remarkably unbalanced game. One of the more annoying sources of this lack of balance is how quickly your bows and weapons break. To give an example, a sword that had an attack power of 12 and took 25 hits to break in Breath of the Wild now has an attack power of 6 and takes 15 hits to break. If you attach something to the sword to give it a greater attack power, the durability will decrease, meaning that it will break in 7 to 10 hits. Likewise, if you attach anything to your arrows, the durability of your bow will decrease substantially. This is especially annoying when the things you attach to your arrows are necessary for environmental navigation (to create light in dark places, for example).
If you stay on the beaten path and do your chores like a good little boy, this is not a problem. If you want to go exploring, however, you're shit out of luck.
I therefore decided to go ahead and do the fire temple, as the ability you get there helps you break rocks and other obstacles "for free." As I wrote earlier, the scenario for this temple bothers me. Essentially, Yunobo the Goron has invented capitalism, but none of the other Gorons wants to work for a corporation. Your job is to get the fat lazy Gorons off their fat lazy asses and force them into a situation in which they're alienated from their labor.
It turns out that Yunobo is being possessed by The Evil Ganon™, who is controlling him by means of a totally sweet luchador mask. (Seriously, I fucking love that mask.) After you have a silly little battle, Yunobo's mask breaks, and he returns to normal. "Normal" means that he's still the CEO of a corporation, of course, but now he's "good."
So I guess, in This Year of Our Lord 2023, we are back to the same bullshit where capitalism is divided between "good capitalism," which is enabled by smart and hardworking individuals, and "bad capitalism," which is a sneaky plot of people who look like this:
If you stay on the beaten path and do your chores like a good little boy, this is not a problem. If you want to go exploring, however, you're shit out of luck.
I therefore decided to go ahead and do the fire temple, as the ability you get there helps you break rocks and other obstacles "for free." As I wrote earlier, the scenario for this temple bothers me. Essentially, Yunobo the Goron has invented capitalism, but none of the other Gorons wants to work for a corporation. Your job is to get the fat lazy Gorons off their fat lazy asses and force them into a situation in which they're alienated from their labor.
It turns out that Yunobo is being possessed by The Evil Ganon™, who is controlling him by means of a totally sweet luchador mask. (Seriously, I fucking love that mask.) After you have a silly little battle, Yunobo's mask breaks, and he returns to normal. "Normal" means that he's still the CEO of a corporation, of course, but now he's "good."
So I guess, in This Year of Our Lord 2023, we are back to the same bullshit where capitalism is divided between "good capitalism," which is enabled by smart and hardworking individuals, and "bad capitalism," which is a sneaky plot of people who look like this:
