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Hey y'all!

Just letting you know I'm going to start posting TOTK content back on my main @gaylactic-fire ! I'm super far behind on the main quests and I think most people will be ahead of me by now, hence why I think now is a good time to let this blog be :]. Thank you all who followed my early TOTK journey here!

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This is why I can never truly hate TOTK despite all my grievances with the story n stuff. I be like "Man this game bums me out sometimes." and then boom. Jenga shrine...

#totk #tears of the kingdom #that middle chest is not worth it btw

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Is Kilton a Tumblr user

#tears of the kingdom #totk #tears of the kingdom spoilers #totk spoilers

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I was one of those people who generally didn't mind test of strength shrines in BOTW but god the proving grounds are SO MUCH better

#defeated an army of constructs using 3 murder roombas #I can't believe divine beast vah roomba is canon now

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Ook maybe korok torture is a little fun

#tears of the kingdom #totk #sorry for spam i got some funny vids tonight

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Fuckin hate this game tbh

#transparent sad cat link. as a gift

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Boys when they can't style their horse's mane

#tears of the kingdom #totk #THE ZOOM IN HEAD DOWN IS EVERYTHING

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Fuckin hate this game tbh

#tears of the kingdom #totk

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You're Prince Sidon's political marriage fiancee. I'm the guy in that statue he commissioned, the one where I'm riding him? We are not the same.

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Not sure if it's just something I dislike from a storytelling perspective or if it's just something I find deeply tragic about TOTK, but isn't it fucked how the same misfortunes tend to follow Link and Zelda? TOTK Link is gravely injured and gets stuck in a stasis to heal him before he wakes up weakened and confused, with the weight of the world on his shoulders again. TOTK Zelda is stuck trying to figure out some way to help and ultimately comes to the conclusion she must sacrifice herself. Like we've done this before??

Except in BOTW everything feels like a direct consequence of the reincarnation cycle. How Link was forced into knighthood as a child and how Zelda is expected to harness her sealing power only because of her bloodline. Hell, even how Ganon has warped into this terrifying force of nature and lost any shred of humanity. Everything is a result of thousands of years of the same song and dance over the triforce and it directly impacts these three characters arguably much more than their predecessors. So I guess it's a little lame that TOTK's reason for all the same things happening again is kinda just "Shit sucks I guess. Boom. Time travel."

#tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #This is a little rambly and doesn't have a cohesive point but I just need to ramble #I just think TOTK is trying to rely more on past Zelda tropes (including ones present in BOTW) than telling it's own story ig? #Like BOTW was incredibly solid thematically and it will make me feel things for years. TOTK... less so #It's almost as if it's lacking a true sense of identity. Which is hard when you're a sequel but certainly possible #In a way I really wish they had just... made an entirely different game in BOTW's engine rather than a direct sequel at times

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Ok the Link's Awakening set in TOTK actually drives me slightly insane. Minus the elephant in the room (giant mascot head nightmare) the way they tried to emulate that plastic-y feel on the clothing looks bizarre??

Ik you've got a cell shaded game here VS a very not cell shaded game but man y'all made him look so weird 😭😭

#tears of the kingdom #totk #link's awakening #we could have had Marin's dress..... #or like SOMETHING better than this 😭😭 #egg paraglider slaps tho

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Fused raw meat to OG Link's sword. It's what he would have wanted

#tears of the kingdom #totk #I should have never been given access to bootleg amiibo cards

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Thank fucking god there's still stupid silly goofy moments in Zelda amen

#tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers

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Not a yaoi obsessed lunatic who hates Yona for destroying Sidlink's (non-existent) chances of being canon, not a vehement Yona defender who thinks everyone who dislikes her is committing an act of misogyny, but a secret third thing (She's alright I guess. She's kind of boring).

#tears of the kingdom #totk #yona #I think she quite possibly exists bc Nintendo wanted to snuff out a popular gay ship #but there's no way to confirm or deny that #Anyway I wish people would like or dislike her for normal and not bizarre and malicious reasons #Also she is... a fish #like we r doing this song and dance over a fish

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#totk #tears of the kingdom #poll #I haven't played TOTK for like 3 weeks bc I've been vacationing with my GF #but i'm curious #I've heard mixed opinions

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It's kind of crazy how hard Nintendo focused on the skylands in TOTK's marketing when they had a whole entire new map in the depths.

Like I love the skylands, but they just feel much less hype in comparison to a whole entire new map

#tears of the kingdom #totk #I guess I appreciate the secrecy bc finding out it was a whole map shocked me beyond belief (in a good way) #I had pondered the idea of a dark world but I never thought they'd do it

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"Oh I remember this island! It gave me quite a fright in BOTW! I wonder what-"

#tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #I should have expected this 💀 #Last of my spam for today