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 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
