A lot of doodles

yeah sorry your princess came back wrong :(

Little ghirahim redesign thing! I had a few things going on in my mind with this one, namely: having him resemble the sword more, having him resemble Fi more, and having there be more continuity between his various forms

There are still some inconsistencies I'd like to fix (his skin changes color suddenly in his transitional form... I'd like to give him his opera gloves cracking look back), but for now I'm just gonna leave it as-is and maybe post fixes later.

Design notes, further explanations, and gameplay thoughts under the cut

Hello hello! I made a set of Fi redesigns for my rewrite (archive here) to go with the Ghirahim ones! Full lineup, design commentary, as well as some story info are all under the cut!

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

Majora's Wrath

(comic concept art)

rough goron design for my zelda comic, struggled with it for a while bc i didnt want to make their build too similar to demise, tho thematically it fits, ended up going for a more turtle-armadillo kind of approach and a tail just feels right for them and their habit of curling into a ball

since they are even older than the ones from skysw i figured it would still be plausible if they evolved into how they later looked from this

the mogma will need a slight redesign only and parakwa will mostly stay the same as in canon bc i think their goofy look just kinda fits xD

So I'm replaying Skyward Sword

I must speak my truth,, Botw/Totk link is not fox coded. he’s wolf dog coded come on the duality between duty and feral nature? Come onnnnnn, come oooooon

Hey jackal have you seen the totk wolf link player model mod

Bruh that’s so cute I was expecting a wolf link reskin or something but this is really cool too

yall reblog this with the most disappointing game u have ever played

like the one that was either a sequel or overhyped and then turned out to be trash?? mine was bioshock infinite

link you look weird

so guess what they released more interviews and i think given what a writing shitshow totk was and what they have been saying in all these interviews is actually painting a really bad picture; i dont have the time, nor the energy to go over every detail

but they were commenting on people wanting the more linear format back and aonuma himself basically said that he thinks people who feel like that do so only bc of nostalgia and "Why do you want to go back to a type of game where you're more limited or more restricted in the types of things or ways you can play?"

what .. the fuck, more freedom DOESNT automatically mean better??? like ... restriction can be a GOOD thing just as tooo much freedom can be BAD?? like in totk??? are you fukcing shitting me- what the hell are games even for then, has he had an awakening to the fact that he actually just loves sandbox games without realizing it???? im not playing fucking zelda for a sandbox, especially not when its advertised as a somethign else

its pretty clear that they want to keep this format going with everything they say there, ... maybe it really is over huh

also i hate how they kept talking around answering anything about story/lore; they go asked how ganondorf even connects to ganon since theres nothign about it in game, and all they got out was welllll we dont wanna say anything bc its up to the player; about every question you got the answer of "make somethign up yourself" which is just ... its really clear they dont actually care but dont want to say everything is meaningless actually, so they try to be vague about it and with doing that really just confirm they didnt think about it and they dont care- so no lore actually matters, nothing thats been said or established has any meaning bc they will get rid of it the second it crosses paths with their new -more freedom equals better- philosophy, they say its bc they want you to be "free" to think up anything but apparently dont realize that when there are no rules, no consistent lore or anything that it ROBS it, it stops having meaning, its fun to connect dots only when there are rules you need to work with and dots to connect in the first place, when you have an established world with its restrictions it drives you to think more creatively about things- but when there are no rules?? its fucking boring!! thats what it is!!

when you discard all rules i wont care to get invested into anything bc i know it will not be considered again, be done away with without any reason and wont have influence on coming or previous games ... bc there are no rules, anything is possible and everything can be changed any second, so nothing matters

(they also talked about the many viral videos of those very few dedicated people that make godzilla mechs in totk and how happy they are about that- i get that to some extent, but the way they kept talkign about it really just felt like it confirmed my suspicion that that whole mechanic was mainly implemented to let people do that since that gets shared around en masse making it seem like that is why people enjoy it while neither the game nor the narrative are build around it in any way ..)

it just makes all the time i spend thinking, feeling and theorizing about zelda like a true waste of time, bc nothing matters and there are no rules-

i am someone who greatly enjoys working with and around established lore/rules, its fun to me to recontextulize things by being smart or creative with it all without breaking anything or as little as possible of the established things!

if i wanted to do just do anything i want I COULD HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT bc theres nothing actually stopping anyone to just make up what they want! i DONT need canon to lose all rules for that??!!

maybe ill have to make myself believe the franchise ended with botw on a good note ... ono

the thing is, i GET they dont want to limit themselves too much with trying to adhere to lore and all, i GET IT, i still think there are things that should not be changeable without some majorly clever writing, but i still understand the sentiment- HOWEVER totk is, as i keep mentioning, A DIRECT SEQUEL! so it NEEDS to be coherent with the previous game to feel like it actually is one- WHICH IT DOESNT

to me botw felt alot like a set up game; a new world in a totally new kind of gameplay, its got history and background that is hinted at and told about but not too much that it gets boring- but it introduces you to a world and characters with alot of welll .. build up, that just felt like it NEEDS a sequel to truly capitalize on all that build up (like the shiekah tech mysterious origins and lost art, the whole royals forcing the shiekah to abandon it, the potential for interesting stories with the yiga alone MY GOD, and the whole where calamity gan even came from bc it must have an origin etc) and with the 2019 trailer it seemed like it WOULD omg they are using that build up to go hard with stories!! of COURSE there has to be a source of all that malice and calamtiy ganon trying to rebuild a body with malice and shiekah tech parts just makes sense to be connected to some source trying to break free of its shakles, and of course zelda would be an active involved character now, after so long of being separated and finally having been reunited, with the character build up she got through botws memories! and with all the mystery around the shiekah and their tech how couldnt you expand on that!

and then they treated it like any other zelda game and got rid of all of it instead. (even worse at parts anyway even without the continuity problems)

if you wanted to truly really get rid of all that botw had set up, for whatever stupid reason you would want to do that, but still have it be a sequel, one thats not some other continent or hundres of years later, you really dont have many options to make it work

but no. they dont do any of it.

not even wanting to confirm that calamity ganon was even connected to ganondorf at all?? its just plain stupid, stop calling it a direct sequel bc we can see it is NOT

and that just grinds my gears, over and over i fall back into asking WHY the FUCK would you do that???

it really does feel like someone, who has no knowledge nor interest in both the old titles AND botw was given the pieces to make totk and they just did whatever with it, and now they try to cover it up with "weeeeeellll we wanted you to be able to make up your own stuff :))"

this here is an interesting little thread on twitter about the whole "who actually wrote totk" which, although obviously nothing clearly confirming anything, DOES fit into that ... weirdness of totks writing

A really cool comm for @pocketseizure - I was asked to imagine what Zelda might look like if she had kept some dragon features ✨

Here ya go, a twili goober

What if I make this link into a werewolf lol

Is it really halloween season without a hot wolf boy moment (twili link but for some reason he is turning into a wolf)