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[kradeelav]

as mentioned in previous posts, got LoZ:Tears tuesday and have been doing nothing but that, work, and sleep since then lol. gonna give myself one more week of game bliss and then resurface for drawing/other obligations.

this game officially blows OoT out of the water in terms of favorites which i never thought would happen. nintendo game of the decade.

this game rocketed from "third most favorite zelda" in the last six hours to tentatively, first, judging by the amount of literal jaw drop moments per hour, and i'm not even finished with the first dungeon, technically. (i also low key hated BOTW, so like, it's fighting against bias here). MM will always have a hold on my heart for how moody it is ... but. holy shit.

holy shit

literally thought i was incapable of feeling sustained wonder in a game again. I'm. floored, glad, and humbled to be wrong.

 

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(also i'll try to keep this as free from spoilers as possible but a very specific set of story-relevant ruins in hebra canyon had me internally yelling for joy of 'OMFG THIS IS WHAT HATARI (as headcanoned by me in ghost in the dunes) LOOKS LIKE 8D" (can you tell i had an absolute ball writing that fic lol)

there was something so wonderously massive / 'had to be built by hands of incredible strength and size' and old world and desert-ish-y that i was all 'oh man this is absolutely how zihark beorc felt like when they saw laguz ruins in the desert of death for the first time.'

whenever i start actually running out of the initial steam on this i am for sure taking a *shitload* of screenshots to draw some hatari stuff. there's even a really cool lattice-grid like texture between the clever use of sands and like, religious iconography and symmetry and ahhh shit this is the fun zone.

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[helicoprion]

...So what I gather from your recent loveblogging is, TotK has actual dungeons in it again?? Lack of conventional dungeons was one of the big reasons I could never be bothered to play BotW, hah.

[kradeelav]

OH YEAH does it ever! it's not as many as say, OoT but from my very very limited knowledge it's more than what Majora's Mask had which suits me just fine especially given there's a metric ton of stuff to do and all the dungeons are wildly different in mood.

if BOTW was just the tech demo with no soul, Tears is like, the actual fleshed out game. cannot recommend it enough.

[helicoprion]

!!! Fabulous news. This is the first thing I've heard about TotK that's gotten my interest, bahaha. Everyone else is just talking about silly things you can do with crafting, which isn't that much of a selling point for me. As a nice perk on top of a real game, though...!

[kradeelav]

just started the second dungeon/temple and aYEP can confirm we're back in glorious form with them! :D genuinely creative, unique little suckers with very respectful nods back at the culture/creators/land that surrounds them with loads and loads of enviromental storytelling. they're not the "longest" dungeons, mind -- but as you said with everything else being the cherry on top. ;)