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i’m too mentally weak for the NES zelda games and i’m fine with that
i hate zelda ii so much 
idk how i would do this if the switch didn’t let me bullshit so much of it, IT IS MISERABLE
i’m about to start the last palace THANK GOD I HATE THIS GAME SO MUUUUUUUUUCH
jk it sounds like it sucks i’m going to bed
i’m done with zelda ii thank GOD...now on to link’s awakening which i have bounced off repeatedly but coming in the wake of this nightmare i think it’ll go down a lot better
i did just stumble into a complete zelda playthrough bc i needed SOMETHING to pick me up after jenny l*clue and knew link to the past would be good. i was going to replay zelda NES too but zelda ii convinced me not to, i’m not built for 80s games that aren’t mario or duck hunt
just to be clear i was playing this on switch, using the weenie edition that starts you at the max level with all techniques unlocked, using a walkthrough, and RELENTLESSLY abusing the rewind feature. i could not have cheated more.
the one thing i liked was finding out that a bunch of ocarina of time characters are named after zelda ii town names. that was cool.
the absolute fucking THRILL of being in a zelda dungeon and realizing this must be the one where you get the hookshot
no one cares but i’m in the final dungeon and it’s EXTREMELY funny to me that the way you get there is a ladder i passed a thousand times and never realized i hadn’t climbed. i opened up an old save file to confirm the ladder hadn’t just APPEARED when i got the last instrument.
ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AT THAT ENDING WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED AJSVSJSNBSJSHSHSBSB
STOP
i ended up playing this a second time bc i really had to work through my Personal Issues with the wind fish, which remain unchanged. now it’s on to ocarina which i have played a million times before.
however i have never been so struck by how much ZELDA FUCKING RULES IN THIS GAME????? this is what’s cool about playing the games in release order, i can really see stuff develop over time and see the origins of elements of the franchise i take for granted
in the games so far zelda has AT BEST been like “let me sit in this chapel like a sitting duck for half the game until i am predictably kidnapped” but in OoT right off the bat she’s like HEY I HAVE PROPHETIC DREAMS AND I LOVE SPYING ON GROWNUPS. LET’S STEAL SOME FUCKING RELICS.
replaying this game is weird bc i’m always like “hey what if i DIDN’T open the sacred realm and doom us all” and navi is like “but what if you DID”
also i think this is the first time i’ve encountered the dying soldier in broad daylight and honestly even though it’s 1998 technology the way the moment of his death is animated genuinely unsettled me
see even zelda is like “i didn’t think you’d just OPEN THE DOOR FOR HIM” https://twitter.com/dudski/status/1377002454643007492
ocarina has been dragging a bit and i’m not sure why? i guess it’s a combo of general n64 quality of life issues + having played it enough times that there’s no real satisfaction from discovering things or figuring stuff out.
i’m pretty hopeful i won’t feel the same way about majora, mainly bc i find the side quests and the time travel system inherently satisfying, but i might play it on the 3ds just in case, particularly since the time controls are so much better in that version. MUCH TO CONSIDER!!!!
the ending of ocarina always makes me sad!!!! but it is extremely funny to think about the fact that there is a whole ass timeline that splits off here where link’s decision to constantly bring crucial artifacts to ganon’s doorstep causes years of untold death and destruction
like idk bringing all three pieces of the triforce together is all well and good when you win but when you lose it does look like a wild gamble to make based on the combat abilities of a tween in the body of a high school junior
don’t get me STARTED on the wind fish, toto (also this is my millionth time playing this and i think my first time getting this reference! love 2 learn)
1. majora’s mask UNSCATHED i am exactly as into it as i have been the last million times i played, termina fucking RULES i could stay forever.
2. in order to laze in my preferred way i did stick to the 64 version which is good bc i forgot how much they watered it down for 3ds https://twitter.com/dudski/status/1379644134898741250
2. in order to laze in my preferred way i did stick to the 64 version which is good bc i forgot how much they watered it down for 3ds https://twitter.com/dudski/status/1379644134898741250
i think what makes MM so lastingly replayable for me is being able to set my own priorities, and that in turn makes me more motivated for the more linear Core Plot stuff, vs the standard zelda cycle of “completing a temple unlocks another temple” which i LOVE but can’t live in
i did woodfall temple today which means i can move on to snowhead temple, which does not interest me in terms of “another step towards the final boss” but DOES interest me in terms of getting me closer to more masks and more notebook stuff and EPONA
