One personal critique of totk of mine is the Sage abilities

All of them - except Tulin, his is A+++++ I'm so proud of him - they all... kind of suck. They work for their respective dungeons yeah but once you finish them? 😬 The second best I'd have to say is Yunobo's his roll ability is really useful when it comes to cave exploration and depths voyages for rock breaking but then you have Mineru's who is handing for traversal in gloom and lava situations but not at all in combat, Riju's which I only use for when I need emergency extra damage in critical situations and Sidon's the actual fucking worse with his discount Wish dot com Daruks protection and the water slash ability that doesn't hit the opponent 80% of the time.

And then things get even worse when you're running around and the following you and either constantly in your way or constantly spawning and despawning and respawning every five fucking seconds it gets annoying where I only now have Tulin and one other sage to handle whatever situation I'm in and if there is none I'm only traveling with Tulin because he's the best and most reliable, important, all around useful to have and the only time I turn him off is rare situations where I specifically don't want him to kill certain enemies like the rock octarocks that can fully refurbish your weapons because he's THAT GOOD. He's like a little feathery death machine.

Honestly the Sages (except Tulin I CAN'T stress that enough) are such a downgrade game play wise in comparison to the champions in breath of the wild. The champions were all balanced, reliable, and each one important and tailored to each aspect of the overall the the entire time you played:

Revail - focused on vertical traversal, got you places quicker and convenient. Also could be such a life saver to be escape from dire combat situations like you don't know how many times this bird helped me survive guardian encounters. Tulin's ability is a lot like his in a way and serves the same purpose, only sending you horizontal instead of vertical and while I do miss the vertical wind I do get why they made it that way since we have asend now which sort of does the same thing but on a slower, situational scale but I do very much appreciate the horizontal wind and it's also just as helpful.

Daruk - focused on defense, gives you three free hits before enemies can damage you and can absolutely save you life in dire encounters there's not much left to say, it's a fairly simple ability but it's one of the most helpful that will you will use and probably never take off for the entire game the moment you get it. Sidon's is the equivalent of this. It sucks. A lot. Only has one use and you have to walk your way over to his tall lank ass to activate it instead of just pressing a button (we will come back to this point later)

Urbosa - focuses on offense, my God. This is the most overpowered combat focused ability like. Ever. No wonder its the second largest to take to charge. There's so much versatility when it comes to this move, it activates as you charge up an attack you you get that charge move you'd get anyway without it AND an enemy deleting area of effect in such a large radius???? Insane. Riju's is sort of the equivalent but you have to do it with arrows (again and the bullshit walking up to her to physical activating it which I've personally accidentally triggered her ability at least A THOUSAND times when I'm just mashing A to collect stuff) and it's a lot less powerful, which hey I get this one I'm not too mad at being less stronger than the original with just how insane stupid overpowered Urbosa's fury was.

Mipha - health/life, this is the one ability that statistically probably doesn't get used as much as the other three (depending on what kind of player you are 💀) but I'd argue it's literally the most helpful out of the four. It's quite literally you're free fairy in a bottle, your free escape death because your stubborn horse Romeo kicked you off the bridge of Hylia twelve separate times card (true story) If you're stupid plan fails and you get practically one shotted by a lynel it's Mipha whose saving your ass AND SHE EVEN GIVES YOU EXTRA YELLOW HEARTS!!! Mipha is amazing and it sucks totk didn't give an equivalent ability because it would've personally helped me during SO MANY frustrating moments in my first initial playthrough it's such a same.

My point here is the champions abilities were all as equally useful and balanced, as you unlock them you use them all playthrough and never really stop using them and they naturally become a part of the game play loop and it's nice. The Sages aren't like that besides Tulin and a occasionally Yunobo and Mineru they're just... meh. Forgettable. AND THE WAY YOU ACTIVATE THEM??? THE ACTUAL FUCKING WORST. In breath of the wild the champions abilities were so easy and each of them had a dedicated button to hold down (except Mipha's whose activates automatically the second you reach zero hearts) and it was all so convenient. There's no reason the Sages powers should work the way they do, having to run over to them mostly during battle to press a for the ability to come up only for them to run away from the the mere second you need them and just keep doing so again usually in battle when you NEED them (I'm looking directly at you Sidon) AND GOD FORBID YOU TRY AND PICK UP A GROUP OF ITEMS LYING ON THE GOUND. It's all so miserable. There's no reason Nintendo thought it'd be better than convenient dedicated button presses like the last game there was no reason!! But at least and not shockingly Tulin proves again to be the best sage and his ability has it easy to use and the prompt automatically pops up when you pull out the paraglider, when you're the most likely to use it anyway.

I hope but highly doubt in enviable story DLC that we get enhanced versions of the sage abilities like botw did and maybe, just maybe the option to toggle button use for them. I feel like that would help even just a little bit.

I don't know how to end this post but look at him. I'm proud of him:

Best Sage :)

Yunobo I have some news

selfies with the sages✨

sages squad ! 💎

HORRA ITS DONE this was a very fun challenge to do :]

Well, so far I'd like to strangle all of them but one:

I'm sorry, are you allergic to me??

Sage? No, no; that's my pickaxe.

Useful. Adorable. Perfect.

I've never questioned the unethical state of shark-fin soup so many times in my life.

Old Yunobo stuff from awhile back

After that Fire Temple, these two really deserved a relaxing soak

YUNOBO NOOOOOOOOO

sorry no art yet btw, coming soon!!! lmk if you want more of my silly clips:)

Totk characters as strawberries.

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...you know something else extremely fucked I just thought of?

So what we've seen in tears of the kingdom so far, the malice pouring out of Death Mountain and the big fuck off cyclone in the Hebra region specifically, these of course are going to very much effect/be a hindrance to the Goron and Rito and going off this I'd safely assume that same things of those magnitudes happening in the Lanayru and regions as well effecting the Zora and Gerudo as well; like something dealing with the water in Zora's domain and... you know how in ocarina of time Twinrova brainwashed Nabooru to fight as an Iron Knuckle? ...wouldn't it hypothetically be something if we *somehow* got Iron Knuckles back? I'm just saying I'm pretty sure out of all the races besides Hylians that the Gerudo would be the one that Ganondorf is going to be the most pissed at. I mean... at one given time they were his people, and now they're just allies with Hyrule? One of its chieftains close enough to get a high military position and closely befriend a previous Queen and current princess? I don't think he's going to take to it very kindly to me point were I'm sort of sure they're going to get the worst. How worse? Brainwashing the current people into mini bosses. It'd be extremely fucked and I doubt with modern day Nintendo it'd happen but it'd 100% fit Ganon's MO if it did and besides with what he said in the last trailer he doesn't care about ruling Hyrule anymore - he wants it destroyed and I can guarantee he's taken down his own past group of people with him.

Going off that, you want to hear something that makes what said above even more tragic? So age of Calamity, I have... feelings on it but what if something like this happens:

So you know how Terrako the egg guardian goes back in time and eventually bring the "new champions" Sidon, Teba, Yunobo, and Riju (and Patricia) back in time as well? From the breath of the wild stand point, when does this exactly happen? Right after? 🤔 Hear me out - what if it starts shortly before totk, and they're gone for awhile (depending on how timeflow in the main timeline works but stay with me) Now I know the community would throw an absolute uproar over the suggestion but... what if while all the shit that is happening in tears of the kingdom and all Hyrule's races are suffering, what if they're gone the whole game until the very end because they've been sucked into the age of calamity timeline by Terrako to fix all the shit there meanwhile everything that could go wrong is going wrong in the main timeline. Like a fucked up equalizer to timelines except one gets a happy ending and the other already awful tragic one becomes even more awful and tragic.

I highly doubt any of it but like. In a twisted way I'd really want this to be the case, like yay in the age of calamity timeline it's a golden route yay fix it fanfiction but in consequence of successfully thriving back the Calamity in that timeline the main timeline is 4x times weaker with them going leaving Link and Zelda moreso alone to deal with all this shit. It's extremely fucked but like 😤 I love the potential angst to it. 😤

Tears of the Kingdom

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And here’s the totk one ♡

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something old, something new

some drawings that I had sitting for a while :]

Sages of the Kingdom Pin Set!

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