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@coriander technically i think the clawshots are even better because they're slightly more mechanically impossible and slightly cooler but same family

@coriander the hookshot is my favourite zelda tool because (1) absolutely no part of it makes any rational sense, and (2) cool as fuck

@coriander i mean i'm surprised the sailcloth/paraglider doesn't do that tbh

@coriander the little “oof” when you accidentally drop the rock on their head

@coriander i mean We’ll See but i’m cautiously optimistic about it even though i generally dislike direct sequels for popular Nintendo titles

@coriander yeah my hope is that when making Breath of the Wild they were thinking hard about like, building the world and how do we make a Game out of this and all of these conventional questions

but when making Tears of the Kingdom they just sat down and were like “okay, let’s list all the wild shit we didn’t do, and then let’s make a game which does that”

@coriander « Aonuma: When we released the DLC for Breath of the Wild, we realized that this is a great way to add more elements to the same world. But when it comes down to technical things, DLC is pretty much data—you’re adding data to a preexisting title. And so when we wanted to add bigger changes, DLC is not enough, and that’s why we thought maybe a sequel would be a good fit.

Schreier: Was this sequel originally planned as DLC?

Aonuma: Initially we were thinking of just DLC ideas, but then we had a lot of ideas and we said, “This is too many ideas, let’s just make one new game and start from scratch.” »

https://kotaku.com/breath-of-the-wild-is-getting-a-sequel-because-the-team-1835624233

@coriander like the whole Hyruleans came from the sky and the Goddess Hylia blah blah is because Nintendo wanted to show off the skydiving thing with the Wii MotionPlus. like that’s it. that’s what it was

@coriander one of the "great" things about Zelda as a franchise is that Nintendo literally does not care about the lore until it comes time to actually like, market and sell the thing, and they design the games generally primarily around game mechanics and let the worldbuilding fall where it may

so like in ocarina of time they added these masks for this trading sequence and then in majora’s mask they were like “huh we could do more with this mechanic” and made a whole damn game about them and now suddenly Hyrule just has this entire Mask Culture sitting there which is never quite explained and like

that’s not a reference to anything?? they just did it for the game mechanics?? but what it means is that there’s actually a bunch of worldbuilding in Zelda which is really pretty unique and doesn’t necessarily have a real‐world parallel that you can just run with