spirit-tracks reblogged
Playing albw again and I know Link and Princess Hilda getting into a situationship during that whole mess would only end in catastrophe but gods wouldn't it be funny
Playing albw again and I know Link and Princess Hilda getting into a situationship during that whole mess would only end in catastrophe but gods wouldn't it be funny
Concerning Ravio's items in A Link Between Worlds; The fact that you can rent all these items from him as early as the beginning of the game is helpful and great, but it only makes me think even harder about Ravio himself.
The fact that he has a full arsenal to offer makes me wonder if Ravio has already done a game's worth of hero work. Think about it; he might have found every one of these items the hard way in dungeons and side quests. His magic bracelet is entirely too convenient, and even the presence of Sheerow makes me think of a questing companion he picked up who decided to stay with him permanently. Even Hilda seems well acquainted with him.
And it makes me sort of sad, that he offers to sell his stuff to you, no returns. In hero mode, you can read his journal, and his last entry mentions he's got enough magic to make it to Hyrule, but not enough to get back. He was selling the items to Link because he thought he could never go back to Lorule again— and even if he could, the kingdom was collapsing, and there was nothing left he could do for it. Link was Hyrule's last hope, so he did his best to equip him in full hero's gear. Ravio's gear.
Of course, he doesnt exactly give off a 'dungeon crawler' vibe. When you first meet him, he's a full fledged coward, refusing to fight monsters or participate in any hero work, mentioning over and over that he's not cut out for that kind of lifestyle.
Still... he's giving all the flags of a guy who's already seen a lot of things. If he really did have a quest before this, it must have been really traumatic to make him want to cut ties with hero work altogether.
More Spirit Tracks posting. Can I just say I've always loved how all the towns manage to fit the same motif across every town theme
They're all great and distinct songs on their own, but the Aboda Village motif across all of them really helps to establish a feeling of 'home' .
Edit: I had a video attached but tumblr nerfed it >://
Attached below readmore are the village themes. Aboda Village's motif shows up in all of them!
spirit-tracks reblogged
I just remembered how emotional the story of breath of the wild is and I got lowkey choked up for a second there
They LOST. Zelda's trusted friends and her father were all violently killed, her kingdom was destroyed overnight, Link died in her arms because she couldn't unlock her powers in time. Can you imagine the guilt? The utter, soul crushing regret she must have felt?
Link was asleep for one hundred years. Zelda held Ganon at bay for one hundred years. Impa and Robbie and Purah waited for Link for one hundred years. THE CHAMPIONS' GHOSTS WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR DIVINE BEASTS FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG ONE HUNDRED YEARS IS???
The world ENDED. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. And life still moved on. Plants grew, people grew old and had children who in turn grew up and had children. People traveled, put down roots, collected and bought and sold and traded, connected with other people, fell in love, discovered old artifacts and invented entirely new ones.
Then into this new world stepped two people from the past. Just a couple of kids. And Link and Zelda found each other again. They came back to each other, forever changed and yet exactly the same. They defeated the thing that defeated them one hundred freaking years ago, the thing that killed everyone they loved and razed the world they grew up in. These hundred year old ghosts in the bodies of kids, haunting the land, finally completing their unfinished business. The fact that it was the kids who came back to finish it, not the king or the soldiers or the adult champions, trapped in their beasts. The kids that had such terrifying roles to play, an enormous responsibility that stole away their childhood, who cried in each other's arms in the forest after they lost everything.
They were seventeen years old. They were seventeen years old. Do you understand.
I'm feeling so many things for this seven year old game.
The new Hyrule Castle theme in totk is fantastic. It doesn't even feel heroic like botw's did, it just feels incredibly unsettling and ominous and keeps you on edge.
In breath of the wild, you enter Hyrule Castle to go save Zelda and kill Ganon. He's done his best to keep you out, but now you're here and ready to conquer it.
In tears of the kingdom, you walk into Hyrule Castle knowing full well you're walking straight into a trap. Something's here and it's not Zelda, even though she seems to haunt the place like a ghost. The evil that poisons this place knows you personally, has known you for more than ten thousand years, and has been waiting for you, preparing for this moment, luring you in like a fish on a line. You're here and it wants you here. So you better be ready.
They're researchers. The past came back to haunt them. They're schoolteachers. They've got firsthand experience to everything they teach. They're cryptids. They're perfectly average hylians. They're heroes. They didn't ask to be. They're reincarnated legends. No one's heard of them. They're a princess and loyal knight. There's no kingdom left. They're champions. They lost. They're over a hundred years old. They're just kids.
My brother's first game was spirit tracks (same as me!) And right now he's playing Skyward Sword for the first time and he keeps saying "WOW this is so much like spirit tracks!"
#I LOVE HIM ITS SO FUNNY#he sees the minecarts and is like 'ohh just like spirit tracks'#and the goddess sword 'ooohh it looks like the one in spirit tracks'#bomb flowers 'hey i remember those from spirit tracks!'#sees link and zelda being cute together 'man that's just like spirit tracks'#skyward sword#wicked.loz
Some things I would have changed about totk's Memories and how they affected gameplay! I loved the story, but I thought the memories didn't impact the Present day as much as they could have. So, here's my thoughts. Warning, spoilers for the endgame!
My toxic trait is just calling the Depths "downstairs"
Manifesting 3 hour long Zeltik video going into depth about the Zelda series' religion and the pantheon of hyrulean gods
#/hj hj#Ive just got nothing to listen to at work but MAN id love to listen to a deep dive of all the gods we were introduced to across the series#bonus points if it's a collab with several other ztubers like monster maze and nbc#actually id really love to make this video myself but im afraid my voice won't be pleasing to listen to#side note id want this video to include the gerudo goddess from oot and tp's desert dungeons#as well as gods from other worlds like termina and the realm of the ocean king and new hyrule#every single being even REMOTELY divine i want to hear where they fall on a hierarchy and what they do and their history#mainly because I'm just fascinated but also for worldbuilding purposes#legend of zelda#wicked.loz
I'm playing Twilight Princess while my brother plays totk nearby and when I came across the Hero's Shade for the first time he looked up and yelled "WHY IS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HERE"
HELP
I was going through a few of my old posts and reminded myself about the original hero of the Four Sword. Not the one from Four Swords or Four Sword Adventures, the one who came before them.
This one.
We never play as him. We don't know what he looked like, how old he was. We never hear tell of him again after this, no more context for who he was or why he stepped up to defeat Vaati.
Going off the fact that he possessed the Four Sword, I'm going to assume he was a descendent of Minish Cap Link, who created the Four Sword and likely kept it to pass onto his successor. What I love most about him is how CRYPTIC he was. He came out of the forest one day, talked shit about the local evil sorcerer, kicked his ass, dropped his sword like it personally offended him and promptly fucked off back into the forest, never to be seen again.
This story paints a very specific picture about the guy, (for me personally at least). Guy dropped hero business like it was retail and waltzed off until the woods forever, so I mean, he must not have liked the job very much. He left the sword, too, which further implies he wanted nothing else to do with it. He must've been arrogant and very self-assured if he so bluntly announced he could defeat Vaati (and i mean, he was right). Considering no one believed the maidens when they said he could split himself into four people, he must've stayed solo most of the time until he really needed to split. Maybe he just didn't like being split, or maybe it helped him keep a low profile. Maybe he didn't want the attention.
In any case, his vibes are immaculate. Go, antisocial king. There will be urban legends for about you for years to come.
#four swords#the legend of zelda#loz#loz four swords#link#wicked.loz#i made another post with tags that say this exact thing but this one feels more cleaned up and i have more to say about him#specially the ''character analysis'' (i can't really call it that because we know nothing about him)#i just have a really specific image of who this guy is and he FASCINATES me
Nintendo: go ahead and design the miner's set. The Depths are super freaky so go for those vibes.
Designers: super freaky, you say?
Pre-Calamity:
Link: I am a very quiet, reserved individual. I'm very skilled with a sword, incredibly well-mannered and respectful.
Zelda: I am an eloquent princess who is regal and authorative, despite it not being the true me. Even when I am allowed to let loose a little, I'm still a little distant and contained.
Post-Upheaval:
Link: I'm a 100+ year old cryptid with Tony Hawk syndrome who has stabbed not one but TWO world ending calamities in the face. My hair has not been brushed in a hundred years, I eat stuff off the ground, my arm glows sometimes, and I run around bare-ass naked for the hell of it. I'll kill Ganondorf with a stick. I will.
Zelda: I am a 20,000+ year old cryptid and at this point being the goddess reincarnate is the least weird thing about me. I made Link eat a live frog once and I probably have eaten many more, for science. I probably cut my hair with a bokoblin fang. I do my homework at the bottom of a well like a goblin. I ate a rock once. I also willingly stabbed myself in the head with a sword. Ganondorf made a puppet of me that appeared and disappeared randomly saying ominous shit all over Hyrule and nobody questioned it because I'm apparently Just Like That Sometimes. I introduced ancient hylians to the iphone. I will turn myself into a worm. Don't even test me I will turn myself into a worm right now.
#totk#totk spoilers#tears of the kingdom spoilers#tears of the kingdom#the legend of zelda#totk zelda#totk link#wicked.loz#nothing just thinking about the evolution of these characters across the trilogy we got#link and zelda really became hyrules biggest cryptids. good for them!! good for them#i wouldn't have it any other way
Okay SO. Theory Rush after finishing Tears of the Kingdom. Go.
- The Zonai are said to have descended from the heavens to help found Hyrule. I can think of another race that descended from the heavens. Do you guys think the minish are native to the Zonai sky islands?
- Does the Depths set look a little familiar to you? This along with Josha's theory that people once lived down there, I wonder if the interlopers were present in the Depths before being banished to the twilight realm.
- The architecture and robot designs from Skyward Sword have a distinct Zonai look to them! So that leads me to believe the Zonai were the race that created the Lanayru Mining Facility.
- It might even be that the Past from Skyward Sword is indeed the time period that Zelda was transported back to! Maybe the legacy of the kingdom of Hyrule goes back even further than the fight between Hylia and Demise: though I admit the early appearance of Demon King Ganondorf throws a wrench in this theory.
- About secret stones and the amber relics in Skyward Sword: I want to say there's a connection between them, though amber relics don't seem to be as rare and important as secret stones, (we find them in abundance in Skyward Sword and they don't do much). Of course, i haven't played SS in a while so if they have any more significance it's escaping me at the moment. For the time being I'd like to think ancient hylians might have carried them around as good luck charms to emulate secret stones of their own.
- The Legend of the Great Sky Island mini quest in has the construct telling us that the island was supposed to be where a hero will one day awaken to defeat the Demon King. I know our Link wakes up on this island, but there's definitely something eating at my brain about the Great Sky Island being related to (or perhaps even IS) Skyloft, and that the awakening of the hero is referring to Skyward Sword Link. (This potentially supports the theory that the Past in TOTK predates the war between Hylia and Demise)
- There's a pretty good chance that Rauru and Sonia's child could have been named Zelda, after the sweet time traveling girl they practically adopted :) the first princess of Hyrule named after the last princess of Hyrule.
- There is a giant dragon skeleton in the Gerudo Desert Depths, big as or even bigger than Farosh, Dinraal and Naydra. It is my belief that this mystery dragon became a dragon ala Secret Stone alongside the three aboveland, but was killed at some point in the Depths. I don't know what four people decided to become dragons, but my strongest theory is that Dinraal, Farosh and Naydra are the draconified forms of the oracles of the Golden Goddesses, Din, Farore and Nayru. So who is this?
- Seeing as the Lightroots underground are activated via Zonai hand terminal and each Lightroot lies directly beneath a shrine on the surface, I think the Lightroots are extensions of these shrines, having grown straight downward to light up the underground. This is probably obvious but I just barely figured this out 😅
- Since Rauru, sage of light, and a new Temple of Time are in this game, I want to think that this person and location are more than just Easter Eggs to Ocarina of Time. I think that the sage from Ocarina of Time was named after King Rauru, though I'm not sure whether him being the sage of light would have been a coincidence or a direct inspiration.
- What I do think is that he indeed did put the triforce in that very same Temple of Time and all the sky islands went to the Sacred Realm until Tears of the Kingdom, when they came back to earth and appeared in the sky. That's just a theory but why else would the sky islands be reappearing as if from nowhere?
- Speaking of which, there were floating masses in the sky in Minish Cap, namely great big stone temples and fortresses. Minish Cap takes place during the early days of Hyrule, which would be pretty much right after the Zonai descended. Perhaps the Zonai are the Wind Tribe mentioned, and the people we see in game are their descendants, who look much more hylian than Zonai due to being crossed with full hylian genetics over the generations?
Anyway I need to retouch up on my Zelda lore to make sure I'm getting the details right, (that, and i haven't yet 100% the game so i may be missing some totk context), but I HAD to post my thoughts and get them out there! I'll add on later if I think of any more, in the meantime feel free to brainstorm!
loOK I'm not saying it's a CONSPIRACY or anything I'm JUST saying that Ravio has 'Vio' in it and he's PURPLE and Vio was the only color not in Triforce Heroes SO THEREFORE--