i was overwhelmed by your collective emotion.

With Wind Waker done, I'm now officially halfway through my Zelda franchise playthrough, which is great. The first game came out in 1986 and this has me caught up as far as 2002. (There is a timeline order for Zelda games that I could have gone with, but I went with release order for a few reasons. First and foremost, I fell ass backwards into this by jumping in at 1991 with A Link to the Past because Switch Online had it, then I was like "oh, Switch Online also has the NES games," and it just snowballed from there. Second, the timeline is fake and half-assed so it's not like there's a lot of Deliberate Story Growth I could pick up on if I went through the games in timeline order (although much love to the podcast I listen to that does exactly that). FINALLY, I personally think it's more interesting to track the evolution of the series itself - playing in release order means I can see the first time the series introduces an element, and I can see what gets dropped after one game and what gets brought back and becomes a regular fixture in the Zelda formula. I like that! This was the first game with Rito and Koroks and Beedle and enemies that drop non-generic items and a bunch of other stuff! NERD SHIT!

Anyway this game ruled let's go. Full spoilers, it's a Zelda game, I went to some dungeons and collected some relics and then fought Ganon, who cares about spoilers. Like if you were going to play it next week don't read this but you're not going to play it next week.

( the legend of zelda: getting negged to shit by a talking boat that's also a baby boomer )

I am making more of an effort to Actually Play the Games I Own and decided the easiest way to make a quick dent was to play the shortest ones first, so...here some of the games I've played in the last week or so. Most of these games are largely unspoilable but there are major spoilers for the end of Brothers. I don't necessarily recommend Brothers - if it was already on your radar you should avoid this entry and play it! It was a good experience! But if it's not on your radar I can tell you like twenty things I'd rather see you try than Brothers, so just read this it's fine.

( brothers: a tale of two sons )

( journey of the broken circle )

( the legend of zelda: four swords, kind of )

( disc room )


(I was going to do more games but then I ran out of steam, so: Oracle of Ages and Gris still on deck. ALSO UMURANGI. IT'S HAPPENING.)