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
@vaporeon_ many people are saying this
@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
@wallhackio @aescling What does Zelda look like? If that's not too big of a spoiler...
(I'm assuming that the green guy is Link, then...)
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio that REALLY depends on what game you’re playing. gimme a sec
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio as seen in ocarina of time, wind waker, twilight princess, tears of the kingdom. these are not exhaustive depictions of her within most of these games (aside from twilight princess) because of reasons
btw: zelda is a reincarnation of a goddess and is thus reborn constantly as new people, which is why she keeps looking so diffurent
@Lady @aescling @wallhackio Why does original Zelda look so much like Peach...
@vaporeon_ @Lady @wallhackio literally while being developed at the exact same time as super mario bros., even
@vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio Peach is slender whereas Zelda is thick
@Lady @aescling @vaporeon_ shameful of me tbh
@wallhackio @Lady @vaporeon_ she was replying to me but yeah
@aescling @Lady @vaporeon_ we literally chose the same four games
@Lady @aescling @vaporeon_ the top right is me when the cheddar cheese from my local meijer happens to be really sharp and delicious this time
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@Lady @aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio That's a whole lesbian
@coriander @Lady @vaporeon_ @wallhackio and that’s BEFUR we get into spoiler territory
@vaporeon_ @aescling The Zelda series has been adventurous with its art style over the years so we have many different Zeldas:
@vaporeon_ @aescling fun fact: The phrase "Twilight Princess" is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is likely not referring to Zelda lmao
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling zelda is also playable in hyrule warriors????
@Lady @vaporeon_ @aescling oh i didn't know that, my bad
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling @Lady also cadence of hyrule and echoes of wisdom
@Satsuma @wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling and spirit tracks as a secondary character
@vaporeon_ @aescling the player character is of the nameless hero archetype, so it would be weird to have their name be the name of the series
also, despite not being the player character, zelda is usually up there in terms of being narratively important characters
to the extent that some games (spirit tracks, breath of the wild) are really and wholly zelda’s stories and the player is just bearing witness to them
@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?