Beat Breath of the Wild, after five years 🥳🥳🥳
While I do think it's excellent, the best open world game until Elden Ring, it's aged a bit weirdly, and I question whether I think it's 'the best' Zelda game.
"Where'd you learn to cook, Truck Driving School?"
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I love the game, but I hope Ninty doesn't think they can only do BotW sequels for the series now. I want to see them experiment and take the formula in more new directions, while also respecting what came before.
(please port Wind Waker/Twilight Princess HD to Switch already)
I don't want to write a whole thread about it, but in eschewing so much of the Zelda formula, it excels at having its own identity, while not really being what I'm looking for in a Zelda game.
It's its own thing, and that's great.
Beat Breath of the Wild, after five years 🥳🥳🥳
While I do think it's excellent, the best open world game until Elden Ring, it's aged a bit weirdly, and I question whether I think it's 'the best' Zelda game.
Life has changed so much since I graduated college. I miss a lot from that time, but the debt certainly isn't part of it.
There's good (financial independence, awareness of my neurodivergency/gender identity) and bad (friends moving away, friend breakups, COVID) since then.
I just paid off my last set of student loans. Apart from some credit card debt I can clear next month, I'm debt free.
A decade ago, even five years ago, I doubted I could pay them off early. I figured I'd be paying my loans late into adulthood.
And now they're all gone.
I do find many of the lines are heavier on the English edition, blotting out some detail, as Ashinano prefers thin lines and cross-hatching.
I think this is due to the different paper and printing process. A very minor nitpick which doesn't impact my appreciation of the product.
I made it a point to buy the first volume when I was in Japan, along with the first volumes of the mangaka's other works.
I'd always thought about collecting all of them someday, but now I can do that with the English editions.
I cannot put into words how wonderful it is for me that Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is finally releasing in English.
I read it over a decade ago, but it has stayed with me more strongly than most other fiction. It's one of my favorite works of Japanese media.