Can someone tell me more about Zelda and Kirby?

@vaporeon_ what about them, exactly

@aescling Which games there are, what the gameplay is like, what they're about, what console they run on, these sorts of things. I've never played either of them, but maybe I should...

@vaporeon_ i can’t speak on kirby games other than that they are platformers, generally on the furgiving side, and that there are a lot of titles

zelda games are adventure games (some might say jrpgs, but the emphasis on roleplay is barely a thing). lots of dungeon crawling. nintendo deemphasizes narrative concerns generally when conceptualizing the games but that hasn’t stopped them from having interesting stories anyway. wind waker (gamecube, with a wii u rerelease) is a fucking banger if you can emulate it well enough then breath of the wild (wii u) has by far the most engaging overworld navigation and a secretly rather good story (if with some major missteps—the player character really should have been zelda)

@vaporeon_ zelda is definitely not cis though the series is too cowardly to really lean into that one

@vaporeon_ oh i should mention, though the series is named after her, zelda is the purrincess you save. the player character is named link. the structural misogyny of the series is very real

@aescling Like in a lot of the Mario games where you keep having to save Peach...

Why did they name the game Zelda, then if the character is not Zelda?

@vaporeon_ @aescling its one of the great mysteries of our time

@vaporeon_ @aescling shout outs to one the games that made a playable female main character and it was Linkle, not Zelda lmao