yeah botw was so revolutionary that any attempt at a sequel was probably going to be a bit of a letdown lol

imo if you go into totk expecting basically "big botw dlc" you'll have a great time. it doesn't fundamentally change much, but it's a fun collection of goofy new stuff added on top of botw

it's... kinda forgettable? it's not Bad or anything, but it doesn't leave much of an impression imo. Reusing the botw map kinda kills the fun of exploration, and the construction stuff is neat but not enough to carry the whole game

afaik most people I know basically landed on "eh it's fine I guess"

basically it limits how bad the worst days can get, and increases the likelihood of good days. I still can't just go "today I will Focus!" and expect success, but over the course of a few weeks/months I get a lot more done. it's been a pretty big boost to my overall quality of life

it definitely helps break the "pacing in circles thinking about all the things I need to do instead of doing any of them" loop, but it isn't a magic Lock In button either, at least for me. There's a lot of individual days where it doesn't seem to do much, but *on average* it's pretty positive

holy shit lets fuckin go

to be clear I also spend an enormous amount of time fucking around with hue/sat and curve adjustments lol

most of the people posting it are way, way better than me, so like, don't read too much into this lol

just really funny seeing people raving about making the skin pink and raising the values until the darkest shadows are above 50% gray, while I'm over here like "yeah dude I am aware" lmao

distinctly remember seeing some fanart like a year after I played it and going "wait who the fuck is that???" before realizing it was literally one of the main party members lmao

you only ever see characters as either cute pixel sprites, or dialogue-box portraits. the sprites are tiny and the portraits are cropped SUPER tight around the faces, so you never really get a clear look at anyone's clothes or hair

it works fine in context, but it feels very odd afterwards

whoa that's a good version

currently pulchra zenzone is causing more of this type of art than usual. but it really is like... surprisingly uncommon most of the time

edelgard/lysithea is surprisingly rare, at least in fanart. the game has an ending where they team up and get revenge on the crest wizards, and then fix lysithea's lifespan problem, and then basically run the world as gay empresses lmao

man, don't talk to me with a fuckin ai-generated nia pfp

hell yeah lol, I borrowed it from a friend in the early 00s but I have no idea where they got it from

yeah the weird CGI surrealism vibe has absolutely stuck with me. sorta Myst-ass/Bryce3D look but boiled down to like pure minimalist essence

holy shit Ballance Mentioned

yeah the amount of Stuff described in disc 2's text would have easily made a 300+ hour game lol. reducing scope by cutting gameplay instead of cutting plot is a really weird/unusual decision, which makes it interesting to me

I actually kinda like disc 2 lol

by that point the combat/dungeon-crawling is kinda getting old, so transitioning into essentially a visual novel punctuated by boss fights and occasional exploration honestly feels great? I know 90s gamers felt ripped off, but the game's already long as hell anyway

oh my god lol I didn't know that was theirs

just checked the wikipedia like "surely that was the F.E.A.R monolith, not the xenoblade monolith" but holy shit