Tag: tears of the kingdom

More Zelda musings

Posted on by Shawshank

Here we are again, me talking about Tears of the Kingdom. Just when I think I know what I’m doing, shit will enviably go sideways! But I’m slowly getting the handle in things. I’m currently ignoring all the main quests – I’m doing side quests, exploring, and just general fuckery.

Crystal is currently playing. For the last couple of weeks, I think, she’s been deep under Hyrule, exploring the Depths. I’ve been down a few times, but she has a huge chunk of it mapped, where I have just a small smattering. On the other hand, I have just about the whole top side map opened up. So we’re doing the same thing, but in completely different areas.

I’m doing all the “useless” side quests, like taking pictures for Sayge in Hateno, which gives me new paraglider skins. I also travelled up to Death Mountain, to get some Goron spice so I can start to grow my own food stuff. That’s pretty neat.

I also did a handful of quests in Tarrey Town – and subsequently I own a plot of land, and have a quant two room “dream home”. I’ll be able to build on that. I can have ip to 15 rooms, so it’ll be a build over time, to be a Barbie dream house.

You can’t tell me how to play the game!

Sweet dreams are made of these

Posted on by Shawshank

Oooh a rare second post on a week day! I know right? Well something awesome dropped today – the 3rd and final trailer for the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Lemme tell you, it seems like this game is going to be even bigger than BotW. And let me tell you, for a guy that hasn’t seriously played video games since I was like 13-15, I pretty much fell in love with BotW. It’s the first game in decades that I’ve spent any sort of time on. (I’m sure I’ve annoyed Crystal with watching videos, etc) You see my reflexes aren’t as quick as they were when I was a teen. And BotW is pretty much just my speed. Hell, I’m even getting better at puzzles. (But don’t tell Crystal, I love having her help!)

So yeah, as I was saying, the final trailer dropped this morning. And OMG, everything seems SO MUCH BIGGER. Bigger in every way. From falling from altitude, to just standing in the desert. Link seems very very small. And the world looks very very big.

But, I’m insanely excited about the release of this game next month. We’re still deciding on whether or not we’ll just get the digital download, or if we’ll travel to CapitalCity, and get a physical copy, and go to a few other places to make the trip worthwhile. I’m on the fence personally. I’d love to go into the city, and hit up Value Village, and eat “proper” fast food. But then the other part of me says “Dude it’s a 2.5 hour drive there, and 2.5 hour back. You have to spend money on gas, etc. And you’ll probably buy something that you don’t need – like more Twilight books.”

Hey, now I feel personally attacked.

I do need more Twilight books.

Also before I post my screenshots (I’m still waiting for them to upload), I really think I need a Lockup Library Video Game graphic. Don’t you? Is it silly for me to be excited about a video game? I mean I’m like, you know, freakin’ old?