/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5192569
>>5192583
I'M STILL
>IN A DREAM
SNAKE EAAATERRR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b5trPeM9wI&t=92

>>5128964
>Sadly Aonuma doesn't care about Zelda story. He just make everything as he goes.

idk. I suspect that this is what we're supposed to believe, but even before BOTW came out I was starting to suspect there's some sneaky Confucian tomfoolery at work in that series, which BOTW then confirmed big-style.

Meaning that, while I can't back it up without writing a giant wanky essay that nobody will read anyway, I think there's a sort of meta-narrative at work in the series which they've been slowly constructing... in reverse.
So many of the stories about how things turned out may just be lies to maintain the illusion that things are simpler than they really are (plus an advantage of building something in this way is that you can recontextualise genuine development weirdness as something intentional which you can retroactively give meaning to).

Point is... I think they really do care about the story. But they way they're implementing it requires that they make a show of acting much more casually than it seems like they should for such an important series.
Nintendo seems really aware of that fact that kids grow up with their games (and none of us used a time skip to become Old Links). The "real" story is experienced by somebody one step outside the narrative depth of the in-game protagonist, and I'm guessing that's the level at which everything is eventually meant to come together. There's some real fucking Ready Player One shit in BOTW if you really dig, but the whole thing seems to have this really intentional sense of... incompleteness. Which of course there's some bullshit dev story to handwave away, even though it's clearly an implicit design feature.

Anyway that's my "please abuse me" post for today.