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Judge Tesla posted:This only works if you are implying the people of Skyloft mated with the Loftwings. Well, who wouldn't.
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Plot Twist: The Oocca are just straight up the descendants of the Loftwings. No people of Skyloft involved. <.<
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BlazetheInferno posted:Plot Twist: The Oocca are just straight up the descendants of the Loftwings. No people of Skyloft involved. I find this highly unrealistic.
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Judge Tesla posted:I find this highly unrealistic. So a perfect explanation? I mean the loftwings had to do something after all their humans/hylians went down to the ground. And Bird to Bird Person is still more sensible than the Fish Person to Bird Person that Windwaker pulled. Though I guess in Windwaker the writers/gods had to do Something with the Zora after the goddesses sealed Hyrule and screamed "GET OUT OF THE WATER!" so no one would find the ancient kingdom.
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Geemer posted:I'm so, so, so glad to hear I wasn't the only one that spent hours fumbling about after missing that one goddamn switch.
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 What I'd give for an accidentally-left-in debug trick to speed this up.
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Man, I remember the Cave of Ordeals but I do not remember the Great Fairy at all. I also don't remember it being so dark but then again I guess it has to be to prevent you from being too prepared for the next room ahead.
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Let's be honest: from the state of his home I'm surprised Govanni's girl is still alive. Looks like he's been there for at least a decade of abandonment.
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What if instead of Agitha they had Talo, Malo, Colin and Beth as playable? All together as one character though.
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Hmm, the happy call of bugs sounds suspiciously like a very high pitched "help me, help me!"
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Ninty also posted the soup recipe when they released the HD version. Trip report: definitely needs more cheese, but overall pretty good. Should have had it alongside salmon in retrospect but hey, hindsight's 20/20.
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 Regrettably, not at the same time. Last bit of collection around Lanayru before we hop into the Twilight
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So, maybe I'm behind the curve, but... I just noticed that the bomb bag looks like the de-boned head of a Lizalfos or something. Another tick in the "grimdark Zelda" tally?
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stryth posted:So, maybe I'm behind the curve, but... I just noticed that the bomb bag looks like the de-boned head of a Lizalfos or something. Another tick in the "grimdark Zelda" tally? Probably a Dodongo rather than a Lizalfos but now that you mention it yeah the bigger bomb bag looks like a head with the opening as the mouth.
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stryth posted:So, maybe I'm behind the curve, but... I just noticed that the bomb bag looks like the de-boned head of a Lizalfos or something. Another tick in the "grimdark Zelda" tally? I mean the Bomb Bag in Ocarina of Time was made out of a Dodongo stomach, so it's hardly a new thing there.
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Judge Tesla posted:I mean the Bomb Bag in Ocarina of Time was made out of a Dodongo stomach, so it's hardly a new thing there. Is that said anywhere? Or is that one of those things that fans assume is right? Either way, OoT's bag just looks like a bag, TP's Big bag has dead staring eyes. So it's not quite the same thing.
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stryth posted:Is that said anywhere? Or is that one of those things that fans assume is right? quote:You found a Bomb Bag! This bomb-holding bag is made from a Dodongo's stomach! Via the item description in OoT.
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Judge Tesla posted:Via the item description in OoT. Ah, to be fair I haven't played that game in like 15+ years.
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Seems like the proper time to post my favorite ELO song, ever.
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TwoPair posted:I had forgotten how strange Midna looked without her hat Even though a lot of fan artists REALLY hate drawing her hat, she still wouldn't be the same without it.
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AltaBrown posted:Seems like the proper time to post my favorite ELO song, ever. Time, the whole album, is great. My dad bought it for one song - "Hold On Tight (To Your Dreams)" - and used to blast just that one on repeat when his depression was getting the better of him and he needed a little audio pick-me-up. I listened to the whole thing one day as a teenager and it's just so much fun.
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AltaBrown posted:Seems like the proper time to post my favorite ELO song, ever. It may be that I was first exposed to it from Daicon IV but the song is just not the same without the prologue. Just on the border of your waking mind there lies another time where darkness and light are one and as you tread the halls of sanity you feel so glad to be unable to go beyond. I have a message from another time...
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Rolling works for that last part but it really feels like what you're supposed to do it let the hand take the orb for a second.
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I remember being able to steal the Sols out of the hands, with the clawshot. Am I wrong? Was this a thing?
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The thing I do appreciate about the Zant fight is that he just loving sucks at fighting, all of his attacks are just wild flailing and extremely erratic, even if it wasn't the original intention, as stated in the video, they really nailed the aspect of Zant not having a clue how to use the stolen powers he was granted by Ganondorf when someone is able to fight back against him. He just caves in seconds under the pressure and is reduced to a shrieking toddler.
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As time goes on, I've gained more of an appreciation for villains who are, beneath their facade of cool, really just shrieking manchildren upset that a woman got promoted over them. Something I've appreciated from this Let's Play is how much Twilight Princess is just deliberately off. The brown and bloom makes it seem like a grimdark game of the early 2000s style, but it's really just a very ugly game, as an aesthetic value, in the carnivalesque sense. With really stylized NPCs, you fight a monkey with a big red rear end, there's a deeply weird and vaguely uncomfortable cutscene about temptation, and you jump in a two legged walking cannon to get to the final dungeon. It's goofy and deformed and just very off at every chance it can get. The final showdown with the King of Shadows being where he reveals himself to be a tantruming jackass feels really in line with all the rest of the game in that light.
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Precambrian posted:As time goes on, I've gained more of an appreciation for villains who are, beneath their facade of cool, really just shrieking manchildren upset that a woman got promoted over them. You know what, when it's put this way I'm 100% for this in stories more often. I just wish it had been telegraphed at all before now. Even one or two screeching hops in your previous interactions would have sold it better than the reveal with no support.
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God Darknuts immediately transform from being a fun challenge into being an intolerable slog the second a pair of them shows up to fight you. Is there anything you can do to make that easier? Bomb arrows, the ball and chain, getting pinned between then and a wall and bouncing them to death with the spinner somehow, something?
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God that Zant twist still hurts me. He just seemed like such a evil creep in his earlier appearances only for him to be revealed as a loser. And don't get me wrong, I don't mean like a (I've been playing Ace Attorney recently so I definitely a good villainous breakdown) but a dude who was a loser all along. I feel like I would've been way more okay with Ganondorf hijacking the plot if like was mentioned in the video, Zant was kind of hinted to have a screw loose earlier. I remember when I first played TP back on the Wii it actually kinda surprised me. In retrospect, I don't know why I was ever surprised, the minute Ganondorf showed up with an actual model in that cutscene it should have clicked that oh there's the real final boss.
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Zant's battle mix is one of the best Zelda pieces. I actually liked Zant's reveal as a loon. It reminded me of Majora's Incarnation, which I also loved.
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Yeah the idea is fine but it's just that the execution is mediocre. Just like the spinner.
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RareAcumen posted:God Darknuts immediately transform from being a fun challenge into being an intolerable slog the second a pair of them shows up to fight you. If you shoot bomb arrows at the ground right behind them, the splash damage makes their armor falls off, just like when you hit them. At least that's how I remember handling them in the original game. might have been changed in the HD version.
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To make an extremely online comparison Kylo Ren from specifically Force Awakens was a decent example of how to show a gradual descent of the cool and measured villain into more and more childish behaviour. With Zant the direction certainly makes sense but you jump from one end to the other despite even meeting them a few times in between. Wasn't a big fan of this part of the dungeon though. A lot of it seemed like looping around a single room just because looping was the only way to cross the triggers to get the enemies you need to defeat to spawn.
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Hyrule Warriors also splits the difference, Zant is still a manchild but he also knows when to put his game face on and be serious so it's probably the perfect version of him.
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Precambrian posted:As time goes on, I've gained more of an appreciation for villains who are, beneath their facade of cool, really just shrieking manchildren upset that a woman got promoted over them. I completely agree with this and that this would be the best direction to rewrite/fix Zant in this game. The game as published just didn't lay any groundwork for the reveal, and pre-reveal Zant had a sort of calm, understated menace to him that was compelling in its own way. And on top of that, I remember there being a popular sense of what I'll call "Ganon fatigue"; I think it went even further than just the Zelda context, people were sick of games in general using the same recurring antagonists ad infinitum, so the reaction to Ganon here was "ugh, him again, just when we thought this might be getting interesting it's the same old thing". (I think the pendulum might've swung too far in the other direction for a while, with all the various one-off villainous entities that are neither seen before or since. Bellum? Malladus? Who?) TP Ganon went up a lot in my estimation after seeing the directions subsequent games went with their villains. Even at the time, though, I really enjoyed the actual fight with him. It's an interesting way to squeeze a boss rush in, and Zelda doesn't often do those. And then seeing Zant and/or his helmet replace various bits of the bosses was often quite funny. It's a silly fight (which might bother those who wanted something more serious or dark), but it's fun. Edit: also, I've always thought the line "to merge shadow and light... and make darkness" was incredibly nonsensical. That's not how any of those things work! I've never looked into it, but I always wondered if there was some kind of translation mishap there. Explopyro fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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