Did Zelda Lose the Magic?
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- Zelda the Legend, one of the greatest and most attractive characters ever thought up. But is the Legend of Zelda even the Legend of Zelda anymore? Or is it a casual Skyrimlike action-RPG with Zelda-lite elements? With the release of Tears of the Kingdom (or totk, for all you people who typed that term into the UA-cam search bar instead) and Ao Numa's no longer recent statement on Open World Good Linear Bad, the future has never looked more uncertain. Is it even the Legend? Or is it just the Zelda? Find out in this equal parts exhaustive and exhausting video essay, and laugh at all the loud noises and funny images I included!
Very nice work, i cant agree more with the "refresh was needed, not a reboot" point you brought up.
The biggest mystery in Tears of the Kingdom isn't where the Shiekah tech went or how Zelda is descended from the Zonai, but the biggest mystery is what accent did I just spend 25 minutes listening to?
Good video.
I call it a "Squidwestern accent"
the concept of dungeons giving you a "training" version of a weapon that you cant take with you outside the dungeon is great because it opens up the necessity to have other items unlocked in other dungeons. Ive always thought that Zelda Dungeons should be like OG Megaman you should be allowed to go in any order. But no matter which order you choose at least 1 or 2 areas your not going to have all the weaknesses to completely steam roll. Also its about time someone said that weapon durability needs to get yeeted into the sun besides me.
almy never fails to utterly shitpost all over some franchise that apparently some people care about
Can we take a second to appreciate how Almy never fails to disappoint us with these quality of videos?
Strineru Moment
*BAAAAHHH*
Never ditch this editing style
This editing style is what gets me through the process of editing a 30 minute video in the first place.
Dead horse beater, here, but I kinda think the Zelda series should go back to what made it iconic for close to 40 years and stop chasing the attention of kids with notoriously short attention spans. No one is going to look back on this Era of Zelda titles ten years on and talk about how iconic and formative they were for the series; they won't garner the same reverence that titles like Twilight Princess and Wind Waker have over the years. People aren't going to hype how great it was to super glue rusty weapons together in the way they talk about the Hookshot or the Iron Boots, Roc's Feather or the Megaton Hammer. They don't even let us fish anymore.
I don't necessarily see the new games as zoomer-brain and low attention span (they probably involve more walking around with nothing happening than the rest of the franchise combined,) but you're right on about how they'll probably age. In the best case, the lessons they taught on open world design will become standard without ever being taken fully for granted, and people will still be writing occasional essays on their impact 30 years from now.
Man. The algorithm chose spicy one for me today, (also wtf is this editing is like brainrot mix MLG!)
BOTW and TOTK are the best of the franchise.
The thing is I wouldn't even consider that an outrageous or bad take, my opinion is mostly just a combination of:
1) Not liking to see media become increasingly homogenized and losing the characteristics that make every series unique.
And, perhaps more importantly,
2) Thinking the games could've been made even better, if a few more of those characteristics were brought over and a bit of the excess was cut.