Warning: This article contains spoilers for the end of Tears of the Kingdom. Something I have been thinking about for the past few months as I have pondered Tears of the Kingdom is the concept of sequels. As an avid reader, binge-watcher, and multi-fandom fanatic, I have had my fill of sequels to my beloved books, movies, and video games. I am all for expanding a story with more adventures, more interactions between my favorite characters, and more lessons and...

Spoilers for both TotK and BotW in the linked article. Longer form than most Zelda Dungeon blurbs.

Man I love these games.

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    7·
    10 months ago

    I thought this was going to be about some novel programming techniques used to squeeze performance from the Switch :)

  • byroon@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 months ago

    There might be something interesting here but it’s buried under about a million unnecessary words

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.worldM
    3·
    10 months ago

    Also a big reason why this “sequel” works so well with the first game, is because TotK was originally going to be a third DLC for the base game, and then got “too big” so they decided to make a whole game out of the ideas / content they had. Since it started as a 100% base-game-compatible add-on, it is not that big of a surprise that the stories compliment each other so well that the author speaks of “two halves”. ;)

    • MelodiousFunk@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’m glad things played out the way they did. Had Nintendo stuck with the original plan it would not have been nearly as fleshed out.

      Also: it’s nice to see a friendly face from that other site pushing content like mad. Doesn’t seem like any of the other niche communities I was a part of there have any plans to move over to Lemmy/Kbin. But I’m not going back, so… thanks!