@âtreefroggyâ#p140116 what the heck, I donât remember this. Also youâre short seven rupees!!
@âconnrrrâ#p140119 I also just finished unlocking Knuckle, the secret third tingle brother. Requires the use of the tingle tuner GBA link cable.
A weird thing about this side quest is that in the HD version thereâs absolutely no in-game allusion to these statues existing, or where they are (as there is no Tingle Tuner). ||And since theyâre essentially found by bombing completely random locations, they're practically impossible to just stumble upon naturally.||
All statues are still attainable though, as is finding Knuckle and the accompanying dialogue. Odd way of handling it but it was very satisfying finding them as a Wind Waker head who already knew all the locations from playing the original countless times.
@âtreefroggyâ#p132224
This is the first time Iâve seen someone talk about Zelda in the way that I understand it. Iâve always been sort of dumbstruck by people who say the games don't really have narratives or by people who think of it as purely an adventure/puzzle game.
An excerpt of something I wrote and published about two years ago:
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Then thereâs Breath of the Wild, which broke my heart and made me weep because Iâm a human with a heart who was once a child with the exact same heart beating in the exact same chest to the staccato rhythms of Link slashing his little Kokiri sword in a neverending forest full of lost children, lost even to themselves, swallowed by the labyrinthine forest where I first watched a god die even though I saved it.
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I saved it. I remember saving it. I remember the spiders. I fought them all. I killed them all with my little sword. Even the big one festering inside the Great Deku Tree, poisoning it. I killed even that one. I did everything I could, and still the god died right in front of me. It died and it felt like a curse that would haunt me â Link â for the rest of my life, sending me on a perilous quest across Hyrule to stop a rising evil while I was only a child. And I failed there, too. I failed. Ganon won. He won and I sacrificed myself to the goddesses, because of you, Zelda, to become untethered from time, from the reality I had done everything my tiny body could do to save everyone. To save myself. And none of it mattered. And so I went into the future only to discover the result of my failure. A wasteland. A haunted world. An emptied world. And I devoted the rest of my life to eradicating the poison my failure allowed to spread, only to be cast back in time to a world on the precipice of catastrophe that I would be unable to save it from, requiring me to sacrifice myself again to the goddesses to save everyone.
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Again.
While weâre on the subject, can anyone explain to me why Tingle has a cobra on his back?? Itâs been driving me mad for years.
@âkyleprocrastinationsâ#p140131 I also forgot about this. Did he have it in Majora also?
@âconnrrrâ#p140137 I don't think so. The only half explanation I can think of is that since windwaker has some famous cut content that maybe the cobra was going to mean something therein.
@âkyleprocrastinationsâ#p140151 it is either
a. just silly random
b. something we will never know
Tingle is shrouded in mystery. he has the cobra in wind waker. maybe it was to add a touch of edge. none of his brothers have it. he was put in jail because of his clothing. this is a very japanese thing, but his clothing made people very uncomfortable so, like a criminal he was locked up. maybe the cobra was the straw that broke the tingle's back. I could see that being very threatening, like a yakuza. I think I just sussed out a likely reason for the cobra-- it justifies throwing him in jail. and he needed to be in jail for the game to work and to have the fun of bustin em out.
@âtreefroggyâ#p140152 Iâm picking up what youâre putting down. Maybe the cobra is his prison tat. âEveryone called me Cobra inside.â (even though he was the only one thereâŠ) Or, yeah, could be just silly lol so random and we'll never really know more.
@âkyleprocrastinationsâ#p140155 the rats though
Got all the trees and started ng+
Fucks me up how formative thisân was for me as a kid. I was raised by a 75 year old woman, I have a blonde little sister, and I was 12 when the game came out. I projected onto the game harder than I ever would again probably, since this was after PokĂ©mon blue and earthbound. And then what a big part of my relationship with my ex it was. She was pretty immature and wasnât much into real relationship stuff so it was short lived, but she loved wind waker and I had hacked her Wii so she could play it on a crt I got for her so she played through the whole thing while we were together. And (spoiler for sex talk maybe tmi) >!she wanted to have novelty sex while she was playing âvideo gamesâ aka wind waker, so I obliged lol!< so I have a lot of memories with this game even into adulthood lol
Personally I always thought this was insane and boring and tedious but I think Iâm gonna shoot for getting all the figurines⊠maybe.
Going back to 3D Zelda to do the tedious collections like skullutas, is an act of vengeance
@âtreefroggyâ#p140447 Fun useless fact, we are almost as far removed from Ocarina of Time 3Dâs releaseâŠ
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⊠As Ocarina of Time 3D was removed from Ocarina of Timeâs release.
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I would almost have kept this post for the exact matching day but weâre not talking about something important like Shining Force II here so I am pretty sure I would have forgotten and missed itâŠ
I guess I have good timing after all for my 100th-ass replay of OoT
https://x.com/ZeldaDungeon/status/1726918377099399275?s=20
[#CelebritiesPlayingGames](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/99-celebrities-playing-games)
@âconnrrrâ#p141810 normally this kind of reminder makes one feel old, but with these zeldas I've been pleasantly surprised. skysword is only 12 years old? nice.