#GOD I LOVE BOTW

[limewatt]

GOD i love botw. no other game compares in how fun it is to sit around and travel and do nothing and cut grass and catch bugs and break ore deposits and take pictures of wildlife and pick up herbs and veggies and fruit and observe and

#i want a mod that makes me more inconvenienced tho #i wanna be able to eat and cook as like. gameplay? and not menuing. i wanna be able to sit down at tables in towns and stables and eat #i want to be incentivized to visit towns more often. i want storage #i wanna be able to set up camp and really sleep #i want horse storage #i want a bunch of tiny details to drive home the air of travel #wait. i think i just want to play dungeon meshi. #to me; with the way i play; i find the experience of botw sorta similar to that kinda long grand quest filled with mundanities #i guess i just wanna play into that even more #all the walking and horse riding. and tangent goals like getting a bunch of materials and korok seeds. routing monster encampments #and by god the walking. #it’s so fun and low-key #and so desperately lonely in botw. but it’s nice #GOD I LOVE BOTW #genuinely my favourite game of all time

[theartofmadeline]

yes i'm still thinking about the botw champions in 2024

#botw #breath of the wild #loz #legend of zelda #revali #urbosa #daruk #mipha #botw champions #art #fanart #illustration #comic #digtial art #digtial illustration #drawing #artwork #artists on tumblr #theartofmadeline #i cannot stop thinking about the sos signals. im losing my mind. #it's been years but it's eating away at my brain again. #god i love them.... #cant stop thinking about the moment they all realized they weren't going to make it

[vvenushalo]

remembered this old sketch of mine & im being so normal about it xx

#yknow it’s jus jus *muffled screaming* #the way they hold hands 😭😭😭 STOOOPPP #like when a baby grips ur finger…. truly incredible im obsessed…….. #they deserve to b normal and content and b sad but sad n supported.. so unfair literally SO UNFAAAIIRRR #my art #botw #revalink #anyways. hey.. haven’t posted on main in ages or online in general i have brain ouchies but . it’s chill i think :) #loz botw #botw link #botw revali #loz revali #artists on tumblr #digital sketch #digital art #if i never posted this im so sorry 😭 idk i still love it it’s like almost 2 yrs old but GOD something abt it

[metamatronic]

i’m not dead. here’s a bird.

also if anyone spoils TOTK for me I’ll cry, i’ve managed to dodge spoilers for a year now.

#revali #revali botw #breath of the wild #loz botw #legend of zelda #art #doodles #he’s an asshole but god i love him #i love all the champions actually. and their successors. there are no bad characters i swear

[john---baptist]

revali +wip

to hold me accountable.

#loz #botw #revali #link #revalink #man ..this wip is like 6 months old... #you can tell by how different i draw his face #please hound me to get this done. for the love of god. i dont need more wips. #myart

[aqrilene]

✨ All decked out in her new jewels ✨

#Botw #totk #tears of the kingdom #zelda #loz #tloz #breath of the wild #Quickly painted before taking a sleep #gnight #but god i love her new look shes so cuuute #myart

[arcane-gold]

takin a break from saving hyrule🌴

[prints!]

#botw #loz link #loz #botw fanart #totk #i love lurelin village #i love this guy #i want him to take a vacation #god knows he deserves it #my art

[fishieda]

Right after Zelda asks Link if she remembers him, and he does.

I'd like to think that he's also someone who's super attentive to his princess.

#botw #zelink #link #zelda #tloz #zelink fanart #the legend of zelda #link fanart #zelda fanart #god i love them

[nolongerapileofashprobably]

I remember a while back you said that TOTK ranks as one of the best narratives in the series, and replaying it again, I’m inclined to agree. Fans criticized it for being “incoherent,” but there’s literally nothing that happens in the story that isn’t set up in the opening/tutorial. The Imprisoning War, the Zonai, the statue depicting Rauru and Sonia, the Light Dragon flying near the temple, Link diving to Zelda, the Recall ability (how it serves as Link’s connection to Zelda throughout the game and will ultimately be how he saves her at the end). The recall ability is also how Link collects and examines the dragon tear memories. Even if you don’t collect the tears, Link’s last memory of her is the vision of her giving him Recall, so it makes sense that he restores her to how he remembers her (“coaxing the object’s memory” like Sonia says in one of the memories). The theme of community and togetherness is also woven into every aspect of the gameplay and story. BOTW and TOTK are both extremely narratively and thematically coherent.

THISSSSSS

Ive played the majority of Zelda games and some stories are iconic (OoT), some are DARK (MM), some are DIFFERENT (WW & TP), some are ROMANTIC (ST & SS), and all are adventurous and fun. This series has a plethora of interesting characters and captivating stories, but none truly compare to the intricacies of BoTW&ToTK. And this is achieved through the vast amount of details offered to players in each game.

BoTW has a TON of details for players who go looking for it, however none of them are actually necessary in completing the game. We know this is simply bc of the direction of botw and totk in terms of gameplay.

The stories are OPTIONAL in both of these games, but as you pointed out in ToTK, you don’t escape the Recall memory. And that ability is the one that is truly unique to the story and connects us directly to Zelda, and ultimately Zelda to her old self. Both of these games are directly related to Zelda’s journey as a character and are a testament to this Zelda and Link’s relationship. Without a romantic perspective (which actually requires you to neglect details given to us in both games), the story still stands in terms of development and emotional appeal.

I think everyone can agree that BoTW/ToTK Zelda is the most developed Zelda we have ever gotten, and if you accept that her development goes hand in hand with the story (which duh it does lol) then you realize that for all its faults, BoTW & ToTK has one of the best narratives of the series. To me, you can’t separate the games, because BoTW was the foundation of Zelda’s growth as a person and Zelda & Link’s relationship which resulted in the dedicated loyalty we see six years after the events of BoTW. Without that knowledge, we wouldn’t get the same emotional connection or understand how intimate the ending of ToTK is.

Link’s use of Recall, backed by Rauru’s light magic and Sonia’s time magic, is only achievable by HIS ability to remember Zelda, his own memories and the ones Zelda gifted him through the tears, in order to bring her back. This gives us the EXACT answer to the question BoTW ends on: “May I ask; do you really remember me?”

Like that is so impactful, it clears every other story in my opinion by a LONG SHOT. This doesn’t negate how amazing the other stories are, they are all powerful in their own way, but none compare to the fluid and consistent themes BoTW & ToTK are founded upon.

The story has its faults (as all do) and thus fans capitalize on them in order to tear down the games (which is natural for any popular franchise). But those faults do not impact what is perfectly executed in terms of Zelda and Link’s story. The things we wish to see more of are that of side characters and questions left unanswered (which provided the series a new set of lore to explore in future games). But I will forever stand by this era and it’s overarching story that still makes me stop whenever I see the light dragon or seek out those small details whenever I replay the games.

#god I love tears of the kingdom #I love breath of the wild so much #I love Zelda and link #zelink #botw zelink #loz botw #botw #the legend of zelda #botw link #link botw #loz tears of the kingdom spoilers #the legend of zelda breath of the wild #zelda botw #loz tok #loz tears of the kingdom #totk zelink #loz zelink #totk Zelda #totk link

[blueskittlesart]

i’m so used to how you draw zelda that whenever i see someone else draw her it’s literally like. skinny person jumpscare.

literally being a fat zelda truther is so hard bc why do people insist on drawing the girl like she's never had a meal in her life. put some meat on her bones please god she is starving

#yeah botw zelda fanart is always like. woe. skinny girl be upon ye #and people on instagram get SOOOO pissed about the way i draw her its so funny. the comments are always so formulaic #like its always 'uhmmm im skinny and ur taking away MY representation my body type is beautiful too!!' #or 'um i just dont think you should be promoting an unhealthy body type' SHUT THE FUCK UP. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD #OR if its a man theyll be like 'um you made her look fat :/' like its an insult. like yeah babe that was on purpose. lmfao #and its not like i dont notice that people ONLY EVER get pissed about how i stylize ZELDA'S body. because i change link's body type too. #but i make HIM noticably SKINNIER. like gee i wonder why we have a problem with one of these but not the other one guys. lmao #anyway. im glad tumblr has so many fat zelda appreciators because things are fucking bleak on instagram lmao #and i do also occasionally get jumpscared by skinny zelda. like i KNOW she looks like that but also She Would Not Fucking Look Like That #asks

[elliethecat]

So I know I'm DEFINITELY late to the party, but I decided to do the DTIYS made by @kenneduck ! I'm a huge fan of hers and I'm horrible at drawing people, so when I saw that I instantly wanted to try my best!

Edit: been a while, but I thought I would add that I made Link trans :D I gave him top surgery scars bc I love trans!link

(P.S, Kenne, if you are reading this you're doing really good on Secret Confessions and it looks really good <3)

#Secret Confessions DSIYS #tears of the kingdom #sidlink #legend of zelda #king sidon #botw link #sidon x link #god i love sidlink #Really though check out Kenne's work it's amazing #Sidon's thigh was surprisingly hard to draw lmao

[patt-is-cool]

various linkeduniverse doodles to figure out how to draw them lol 

#patt's art #k by eim going to scroll thru their entire blog now #fanart #linkeduniverse #linkeduniverse wild #linkeduniverse time #linkeduniverse twilight #linkeduniverse warrior #linkeduniverse fanart #god i love loz so much yippee #u will not be seeing me in a 1000 years #i will be playing botw #i think ive imporved a lot compared to my previous linkedunivser fanart LOL #linked universe

[cyphyra]

i think my only big critique of TotK is just the choice of translation for certain words in english

like... seriously... "gloom"? "secret stones"?? two of the most important/widely used names for things over the course in the game, and they're really unassuming

apparently the literal translation for the word they use for gloom in JP is "miasma," which is LEAGUES more imposing than "gloom"

as for "secret stone" they literally could've called them anything that made them sound more important-- magatama (what they're literally based on), zonai keystones, hell, even "sage's stone" would've been more important-sounding

#cyspeaks #totk spoilers #i guess #i love this game to bits but god did they fumble with the translation again #first they take away link's first-person quest log in botw and now this

[catman-draws]

Color study because this game is gorgeous

#breath of the wild #loz fanart #botw #botw champions #urbosa #loz botw #the legend of zelda #urbosa botw #color study #screenshot redraw #catman draws #if there comes a day where I stop drawing muscular women; the catman you know is dead #hi botw is BEAUTIFUL just fyi #liberties taken because I love drawing Urbosa but oh my god her armor is agonizing

[finrinrinfin]

I’m finally playing breath of the wild and I’m in love with it

#botw link #botw #botw fanart #botw doodles #Zelda #zelda botw #legend of zelda #legend of zelda fanart #breath of the wild #breath of the wild fanart #I bought a bunch of new clothes and dyed a set #so I was inspired to doodle #im learning how I like to draw link #link #trying to get looser with my art as well so thjs was a fun warmup #very sketchy and messy but that’s ok I think he came out cute #also #prince sidon #oh my god #I love him #prince sidon x link #I am infatuated with the shark man #I love fish #that’s kinda my thing #and his design is just #chefs kiss #I love Sidon sm

[undergoing-mitosis]

so what if i just

*stares at you in ^-^ and ._.*

#aether (internally): OH MY GOD IT'S LINK FROM THE HIT NINTENDO GAME SERIES THE LEGEND OF ZELDA #aether: hi. #link: ._. hyup #threatening to eat paimon 🤝 torturing koroks #“oh look it's my favourite blonde haired blank faced androgynous player insert character from that open world video game i love” #aether #aether genshin impact #genshin impact #genshin #aether genshin #genshin aether #link #link loz #loz link #loz #legend of zelda #loz botw #botw #(since i used his botw design) #(champion's tunic and master sword combo my beloved) #my art #this was my first time drawing aether so sorry if it doesn't look like him #oh yeah and aether is taller than link cause everyone is taller than link it's a canon event