Can't think of a better opening to a movie that I've seen.

Might pull out one of the older games and consoles and play one

LttP is probably the best one you could start with. Zelda 1 would be good too.

People take the manlet thing seriously?

People take the manlet thing seriously?

tobasco might be an off-brand version

*persecution

i am THE pillar of morality

cool shit, but i hope the addition of blood & gore doesn't make it feel too inconsistent with the original series

Way to fall back on your point there. You had the correct outlook, yet you change the thread anyway.

So a few thoughts from me

Link to the Past is still the best 2D Zelda game to me, simply because it laid the foundations of future Zelda's with the Master Sword and everything else, along with general dungeon design and progress for a game at that time

Wind Waker is still the best 3D one. Why? Well, it's not until the very end really, but they actually made Ganondorf a legit character with motives and humanized him instead of just "hurr durr EVUL", and then he finally just says "fuck it " in the end after losing what he spent his entire life for.

Agreed on both fronts. I like reading your thoughts on things; I was actually a little sad when you decided to cancel your Skyward Sword playthrough thread, even though it's not exactly the greatest Zelda game. The game is so polarizing; no two people share the same opinion it. I won't ask you to play it again if you're not interested, though--I'll recommend/talk to you about an actually great game in the series instead.

Have you played the Oracle games at all? I'm going through both of them, and they're actually fantastic. Criminally underrated. I wrote them both off as a lazy cash grab back in the day, because there were two games I had assumed were identical (like Pokémon)--I tried Seasons first many years ago when I was too young to care about the intricacies, and I had fun, but I wasn't overly impressed and assumed that Ages was the same game with minor differences.

I discovered that not only are they completely different games--they're also designed to be linked together and played in concatenation. So while yes, you're paying for two separate games--you're also paying for two quality games that are fully developed, filled to the brim with enriching detail, and have an intimate comprehension of what Zelda is and should be. Someone was asking about Zelda 1 getting a remaster earlier--I'd say the Oracle games are the closest thing to that.

Capcom really played a love chord to the series with everything they've done for the franchise (I never really cared much for Minish Cap, though). This is pre-downfall Capcom, of course--it's games like this that make me upset now to see what they've become.

I post YouTube comments all the time.

Ender planned all of this

Twice. I was also using a guide because the sidequests in the town confused me. Maybe I should give it another shot.

Guides have a knack of sucking out all the fun--especially when it comes to Zelda. If you give it another shot, I'd dispense with that unless you're hopelessly stuck.

sigh

You done?

"done" what

this isn't a real-time conversation

LttP was my first Zelda, I hated the first two when I was a kid and I've only gone back to the first one recently. I can't bring myself to replay the second one.

Is it the graphics?