Re: Zelda News

Posted by hennethannun on
URL: http://the-architecture-of-the-legend-of-zelda.345.s1.nabble.com/Zelda-News-tp20p26.html

I'm more or less of the same mind as you, concerning BotW; I enjoyed it in most aspects, but for a few, glaring areas. You're right to speak of the potentiality inherent in the game, but it isn't the relational potentiality that has been the mainstay of past Zelda titles. As you so rightly say, there is no home village, there are no small-town friends, and there is no Home to which Link can return. (There are many good elements to this new formula, which makes it more reminiscent of Metroid Prime than Skyward Sword, but there are attendant losses.) I think it is very fair to say that Link doesn't belong to the world of BotW; he is a remnant of a different age. This isn't his "time", so to speak, and therefore we feel odd acting in the world through him. Again, this is both beautiful and melancholic.

We're fully agreed that more mountain-top cabins, more wayward farms, and more land-placed residents would have been a welcome addition to Hyrule. One of my favorite places in the game is the Old Man's cabin on the Great Plateau; it is so rustic, charming, and warm, and it is set so beautifully against the wilderness of Hyrule. And there is not enough of *that* in the game.