Hannes

Why am I so much closer to Danish journalists and public figures than you are?

I find it interesting how EoW borrows things from Majora's Mask that have never been in any other Zelda game, such as Dekus living in a swamp or Zoras being associated with music. I think the Business Scrub design has also never been in any other game besides Majora.

I didn't notice it before because it's been so long since I last played Link to the Past, but I saw a post with Link to the Past's map and that made me realise EoW's map is almost 1:1 recreation of that map.

#ブルアカ #블루아카

Nice! Onnea hakuun

It's nonlinear but still feels more restricted than BotW or TotK, and I think that small bit of restriction is precisely why it's fun.

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I didn't mind it so much in BotW because its story worked for the structure, but TotK's did not work at all with the non-linear structure. But yeah, I feel this is a pretty ideal balance since the story isn't compromised by the player's freedom if only dungeons are linear.

I did the Gerudo dungeon right away but after that I've just been fucking around on the overworld and trying to access as many places as possible with my echoes. It's fun.

One thing I love about Echoes of Wisdom is that while you only have two dungeons you can go to after the first area, the world itself opens up completely. Even if there's only two dungeons there's a ton of things you can do on the overworld.

I should also go back to watching Kabuto and Dekaranger, I started both of them last year but for whatever reason I didn't continue either of them past ~10 episodes.

Bonesless Donbrothers is a good way to describe it. I think it was good when it was just goofy fun but unlike Donbrothers, its serious moments usually didn't land. I was caught up with Gozyuger when the Imamori thing happened though, but I have no motivation to continue past that.

I never even watched Zeztz beyond the first episode because it didn't stream over here and all uploads on the cat site at the time were garbage quality youtube rips, though I do still see people occasionally talk about it and say it's good.

But I think everyone I know dropped Gozyuger

I haven't looked into the new Gavan series that will replace Super Sentai, but it apparently starts airing next week so I guess I'll be watching that.

Also speaking of Gozyuger, I did not realise it ended today because I haven't seen a single person talk about it. It's a real shame that Super Sentai's incredible 50 year run ended with a show that had such controversy and production issues.

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Hideaki Takatori doing a cover of Gozyuger's OP was not something I expected but it is really good www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpFu...

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亰ザナめっっっっちゃ楽しみ！！！！

I really like the Still World areas. Alternate dimension versions of areas are nothing new to Zelda, but I think the Still World versions of areas in Echoes of Wisdom feel truly broken and twisted in ways Zelda's alternate dimensions have never felt before.

Oh I didn't know that was thing, that's neat

Though can you really even call this game 2D? Sure it has the top down perspective of 2D Zeldas, but there's so much depth in the level design that it feels much closer to 3D Zeldas despite looking like the 2D ones.

Oh damn, you can ride a horse in this game. I never thought that would be a thing in 2D Zelda.

I need them

And TP returning the money to the chest if you couldn't hold it (which is basically always) meant you'd be left with a bunch of unopened chests on the map, it drove me crazy.

Yeah, rupees are never satisfying but I don't think any other game in the series has had as many rupee chests as EoW does.

It really frustrates me how often chests only give you money. At least money has use in this game but it still feels unsatisfying when so often your reward for a puzzle or a battle is nothing but monry.

IT'S COMING!

I'm stoked to announce the upcoming English translation patch for the PS1 Lovecraft-inspired horror RPG "Ningyo no rakuin", now named "The Curse of Ogaeritō"!

ETA? When It's Done™ (soon!)

Stay tuned for more updates!

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#FanTranslation
#PS1
#Retrogaming

Also since Zelda and Link didn't know each other before the start of the game, it gives them a really unique dynamic where you're learning about Link's journey as you're continuing the journey as Zelda. It's very cool

Oh that is really interesting. I guess that is the danger of giving the player too much freedom though.

I really like how this game essentially starts in the middle of the journey. Link has already explored Hyrule quite a bit before he gets trapped and then Zelda picks up from where Link left off instead of starting the journey from nothing.