correct me if im wrong but im PRETTY sure that for something to be a proper sequel it needs more than literally just reusing the same world and character models and slightly altering their design or adding an ability (that they got somwhere in between which isnt shown nor elaborated on either while previous abilities or interests/knowledge vanish)

made the mistake of saying that really totk isnt a sequel bc it doesnt build on, nor expand nor elaborate nor continue anything from botw, its the same preset of basic things like ... world and character models and tells an entirely different story utterly disconnected from anything botw, which it not only acts like it never happened (aside from like one dialog which is not enough for me when everyone else has literally forgotten everything and tbh feels more like a reference thats actually a slap and laugh in your face) but often times actively contradicts it, like a different version of the same thing

which is called an alternative universe

half of the reasons why i despise totk is bc i wanted, expected and was TOLD its a sequel when it isnt, can you really blame me for being disappointed and frustrated when i was told its a sequel, which should build on established stuff, to a game and its lore i deeply cared about and then get an alternative universe game that has nothing to do with the one i cared about except wear its face and STILL get told its a sequel even just by simply reusing models

This person won’t let me reblog their posts, for good reason I suppose. They don’t want to deal with the fact that their opinion is a really bad one and unpopular.

I genuinely can’t understand how anyone could look at Zelda’s role in this game and come away with the perspective that she’s been reduced to a “puppy eyed little maiden.” What a disgustingly sexist and myopic view of her as a character.

And it’s wholly inaccurate too. Zelda not only actively participates in coming up with a plan to take down Ganondorf, she literally fights against him along side the other sages and the king! She’s not some helpless maiden in distress. She’s not regulated to a damsel needing to be rescued.

I do not understand people like this. You don’t have to like the story of the game, that’s fine. But to view it in this warped way is really bizarre to me. She’s more active here than she was in BotW, yet you can’t see that? Did you even play this game?

I’m thinking about tears of the kingdom again while watching afterthought’s video on how they handled the sequel and I’m sitting here thinking, you know what would have been good?

Like I love ganondoodle’s take with addressing the difference in the gloom and how it related to the shiekah tech, don’t get me wrong.

But if they wanted to give us Wild doing the adventure again, they could have just.

Sent Link back.

Instead of sending back Zelda, send Link. Make Rauru less OP maybe? and have a version of Link that has been massively damaged and is now stranded in the past with no master sword, no shiekah tech, no walking armory of OP weapons or fairy-blessed armor, and a 10 thousand year old version of the guy he just killed, except this one is a strategist with an army instead of a feral dust cloud with a possessed army of half-rotted tech.

Give us Link having to fight his way back up from the top, facing older and more dangerous versions of the monsters he knows and staring up at floating islands that he’s never seen before.

Everyone he meets is new, but most are hauntingly familiar, and maybe a few of the older beings, like the Deku Tree, even recognize that he’s out of place here.

Give us more weird battle strategy stuff like the siege on Gerudo, except this time, it’s helping a group of Gerudo at an oasis protect their fledgling trade camp from Gibidos or even helping the king of Hyruke repel an enemy invasion of a fort.

Give us Link helping a Zora sage protect her temple from a corrupting spirit that threatens her home and hunting down what could be poisoning the Gorons, sneaking through with potions made from half-familiar ingredients.

So much of TOTK is spent telling us that Ancient Things are returning, but they could have given us so much of that by just sending Link to the past. We could have avoided the awkward ‘everyone only kind of knows this kid who saved the kingdom that they definitely met and interacted with significantly’ AND it would have left the perfect opening for Queen “massive fucking history nerd” Zelda to find traces of Link in the little surviving history and going to the dragons or the Deku Tree or the goddesses themselves to try and pull him back to her time, but failing due to her lack of skill with her time powers, only serving to link their souls, but needing to do more before she could pull him back. It would have given her an opportunity to see her interact with her kingdom and see how much she did or did not rely on Link to help her navigate the world. Everyone’s stilted conversations make much more sense if they’re talking to royalty rather than a half-feral knight.

Now she’s the one who has to prove herself to the koroks with all their puzzles and maybe you could even have the shrines be Zonai tests of intellect and Link learns things or gains abilities, some of which he can’t use, but Zelda can through their soul link by connecting at dragon shrines that survived to present day in a system similar to the dragon tears.

For the ask game; 6 and 26! Your art is so so so good, so I'm very interested to learn more of your process and stuff :D

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn’t supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

MMMM IT'S A GOOD QUESTION!! There ARE some artists on here/twitter who have inspired me. Not always subconsciously but sometimes I'll notice I've done something and realize later it's because one of them. @/ganondoodle, @/somesleepyfreak, @/scolopendraws, @/fembard, and @/ballpitbee are some but definitely not ALL the artists who have influenced how I make things :0!!

But as far as, like, other series/games/shows that have subconsciously inspired me, I'm not sure??? I mean, obviously I draw/write a lot about zelda, but that's not subconscious XD If my art looks like something else, I can't tell, but I would be very interested in hearing it!

26. What’s a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

HMMM!!! As far as art goes, I'm not sure any piece was interpreted too differently than what I was expecting. Though sometimes I do START a piece intending to go one direction then pull a 180 and doing something else. Usually it's with monsters or villains and I tell myself "okay, they're gonna be creepy this time!" and then I end up with a little bean at the end lmao

With writing, there's nothing TOO crazy either. Mostly, we just got some predictions that were different than what we were foreshadowing (which is a good thing I think XD! I liked hearing what other people thought might happen! or seeing another way a line might have been read). The only ones I can remember off the top of my head right now are a prediction that the footsoldier with the crooked mask could end up being Koh. And another that said there was no way Kohga just died by a random rockslide and they suspected it was actually intentional and someone killed him (which, honestly 👀 Kohga's death being a murder could have been really interesting tbh. and iirc we did even talk about that comment and that possibility. but we didnt have time to do something like that because we already had another totally different tangent to go off on with the history of Kohga and Greg ahahah)

Though mostly I always think I'm making things WAY too obvious with the foreshadowing somehow XD I'm always like "Wow, just print it out on a neon sign why dont you" only to realize later it does, in fact, only seem way too obvious to me because I know exactly what's gonna happen and I wrote the dam thing XD

-Oh Bearer Mine

(My partner talks about Ganon/dorf a lot so I made a little Ganondoodle)

A quick little thing of @ganondoodle‘s Hylia and mine because I just really liked the idea of these two meeting and being like ‘unique design? unique design!!’ :>

Plus, if I see anything SS related I must acknowledge it somehow and naturally I do that by drawing lmao.

the 43% of people on the master koga poll voting to wanting to kill him are my personal arch nemesis now

what the fuck do you people have against him??? whats there to possibly hate??? hes the best character in the games hes in??? his design fucks??? hes the purest source of joy???????? even if you dont love him hes just a funky dude??? do you hate fun????????

sorry i keep coming back to totk rants, but something that utterly baffles me from a game design perspective especially is

who, in their right mind, would think to put similar objectives with the same characters in the EXACT same place as its previous game when already reusing the same exact map (no, single rocks springkled around isnt a meaningful change, fight me)

like from a purely logical point of view its just ... not logical?? and TWICE so when most players will have played the previous game, so now that the exploration, which was the main driving point of it, isnt as satisfying simply bc you know most locations and what is what, the thing you need to do is subvert it as in you go to that location and theres something else now or something that leads to a new reveal, but not NOTHING either, bc you likely cared about what youd find- the satori mountain was such a cool mysterious place, so now you head to it to see what is now and its nothing but maybe an obvious treasure chest? thats both lazy (i realy use that since its way overused by people missusing it) and just ... it might be meant as a lil nod so that there isnt nothing at all but to me it feels even more condescending as if there were literally nothing instead

satori isnt here anymore? thats weird if its always been there, so you go find a cause, maybe theres a fissure somewhere you can enter a large cave system, an hidden entrance to the underground that reveals there is something corrupting the place somwhere nearby but not exactly in the same spot- make it into a bossfight at which end satori gets cleansed- maybe it got captured and taken somewhere else, to a place that was kinda neat but didint serve a big fucntion in botw like maybe it was dragged somwhere into the big tabantha canyon, or to the forgotten temple

you try to visit rito village but the snow and cold there got so bad that you cant even reach it without special gear, and when you do reach it its utterly frozen in thick ice and not a single soul is there, the perch of vah medoh is knocked over building a bridge as a subtle hint as to in what direction perhaps, its intriguing bc clearly they have to be SOMEWHERE, maybe they tried to use vah medoh to evacuate but bc its losing power and doesnt have a skilled pilot they crash land it into the mountains, now trapped there and due to the storm not able to send anyone out to get help, maybe some did but they didnt make it and you can find them on your way and rescue them, and bc of the storm being so bad no one can get out and no one can get in (except for our special boi linky ofc) and even after the storm has weakened they dont immediately go back and act like everythings normal, maybe theres an extra mission afterwards helping them rebuild the village but not exactly the same as it was but fortified, different to account for things like this happening again, establishing the crashsite of vah medoh as a second outpost, or a temple, to thank it for bringing them out of immedaite danger but couldnt go all the way

theres so many places that are so clearly modeled around botw that are entirely unused now bc they had to remove all things shiekah for no reason, the holes they left jsut being holes where somethings clearly missing or some chest with a gem in it while the new shrine thing is within view distance a few meters away, might as well have put them in the exact same place bc it really doesnt make a difference

(like alot of those ideas im using for the rewrite which changes many things but you get the point right??)

and its even worse imo with the building stuff, bc now you dont even have to journey there you can fly glide and literally drive there instantly like a giant skip button so you cant even appreaciate the way to it, you skip to one important part to the next

and then points of interest are REPEATED AGAIN, like with shrines and lightroots and settlements and big mines- that is the opposite of satisfying gameplay, you dont have to explore shit bc its all in the same place which is probably why they only did tiny changes to those few spots and nothing else bc they knew most people would run right to those so it gives the illusion of changes (which are half reversable or barely a change at all) and even those are STILL meaningless

its right up there with having even MORE grind with less substance to it than in botw, the shrines and krogs got a lil old but at least the environment, its subtle storytelling etc were something- and totk just bloated everything with more little meaningless collectables while not changing anything meaningfully (and instead pretends that some things where never there and those new boring things were always there)

more shriens with shorter puzzles or none at all, more krogs with the same reward system, over a hundred tiny caves that all blend together bc they are all so similar and you really only do them for yet another colelctable for old gear and ONE cool new one with a bad effect after which the things collected become uselessreally, souls to collect to buy you a single armor set, rewards being largley reused old stuff from botw (imo you should have a chest in your house, yes YOUR house, that got most of the standard versions of botws armor in it so you dont have to buy it all again??? but you gotta think of going home first and dont have to use it- make new versions of them alternatively so you can choose if you want the old one or new one and also LEAVE ONE AT YOUR HOUSE WITHOUT HAVING TO SELL IT SO YOUT INVENTORY ISNT AS ENDLESSLY SCROLLING AS YOUR STUPID ARROW BAR)

theres new effects from food and armor thats largely useless (like the attack when hot?? why wouldnt you you jsut combine an armor and a potion- put on hot armor and drink an attack potion? its way more efficient no?? idk i found it to be yet another effect thing to bloat my inventory especially when NPCs keep giving you shitty effect food)

the whole sonanium (zonaite?) collecting with multiple ways to convert it into yet another currency??? huh???? AND have it be the thing for you to autobuild with?? when you need it upgrade your battery which takes an insane amount of those stones?? wells, while finally an actual well are NOW ALSO LIKE A COLLECTABLE and im gonna take a wild guess that the reward is utterly disappointing too

the fairies are all blocked by much more annoying means than in botw (like i wouldnt want to carry those NPCs three meters away in their little cart antoehr time please) and the amount of material AND MONEY NOW you need is so much higher for no reason (if its their attempt to make the game harder its the lamest way to do it)-

all while instead of expanding on the foundation of botw they ripped it out to build a new one while pretending they are both there (im so so slaty about this .... a sequel like this should expand upon the stuff of the first game, both in theme, narrative, mechanics and more and not ... replace it with slightly different versions of it while abandoning everything established before and really only using it as a way to skip having to make you care about some characters bc you might still care about them from the other game)

i could go on, as always lol, anyway, i really really dont get why this got into the final game ..

why the hell was there no postman in totk that chases you down like in twilight princess

help

good lord what is happening to that bears face!!!!

once you notice how few characters in media have brown eyes it really becomes impossible to not pay attention to it and its been bothering me ever since

oh my god it just doesnt stop huh, i was already sus of the whole bluesky thing half of twitter was jumping on and now they are seriously just jumping right into that new 'threads' bs too like really?? the thing from instagram? the thing from instagram that only has one timeline and its not chronological? that you will see stuff from people you dont follow? that is all just one big algorythm maschine? that is owned by facebook?? that you cANT DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT FROM WITHOUT DELETING YOUR INSTA???? THAT THING THAT ISNT ALLOWED IN EUROPE BC OF ITS VIOLATIONS OF DATA PRIVACY LAW??????? THAT THING FROM FACEBOOK I THOUGHT WE ALL AGREED UPON NOT LETTING IT BE THE WINNER OF THE WHOLE TWITTER IMPLOSION ?????????

every one of those "twitter alternatives" has some sort of problem i guess but aRE PEOPLE REALLY CHOOSING TO GO TO THE ABSOLUT WORST OF THEM ALL??????

as sad as twitter going up in flames is, tumblr, as of now, not being in the list of banned rival social media on twitter is very funny

took me a long while to realize that miasma is called gloom in english, i thought people were calling the hands gloom-hands as a cutesy name fnjvgn,kdfvnsdnjskl

there goes my favorite drawing software ...

i defended their plans for the version2 and all, bc i didnt see much wrong with it and liked csp alot, but i guess i should have become a hater back then already

after that one big mistake that sparked so much outrage they really said but how can we actually lose EVERYONE, they saw deviantart doing it and thought BET I CAN DO IT FASTER

(they say they dont use user data but are basing it on stable diffusion of all things, they literally only ask people to think morally/ethically when using it to not use stolen stuff like thats ever worked with anything ever, plus "we cant guarantee that there will be no copyright infringement" OH YOU DONT SAY)