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Cake day: February 14th, 2025
  • Lizzie Rose@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?English
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    2 days ago

    I’m almost finished with Skyward Sword HD which for the most part I have really enjoyed. There have been a couple major frustration points because of game design tropes that unfortunately several Zelda games have included since OoT. The story and characters have been amazing overall, though, and I am looking forward to seeing the conclusion this weekend.

    Late-game Skyward Sword Spoilers

    One trope that I strongly dislike in the newer Zelda games is “forced stealth.” OoT is the first game (IIRC) that had stealth sections, and I feel like a lot of the games that have come after include it. The multiple stealth sections was my biggest knock against Echoes of Wisdom, and in Skyward Sword to put a section so late in the game and also take away all of my items was jarring and un-fun for me.

    Skyward sword also committed a sin on multiple occasions (including the above) of forcing me to re-traverse through an area I had already traversed through because of some contrived reason. The volcano was the worst, having to re-traverse it with the carry bot, and then again during stealth was just tedious and not fun. Flooding the forest was a neat idea in theory but then having me do a huge collect-a-thon where I had to surface every time I wanted to use Dowsing was pretty awful and felt like just a way to extend my play time.

    After I finish Skyward Sword I think I’m going to pick up Twilight Princess on GameCube. This is another Zelda game that I’ve never had a chance to play, and consensus seems to be to play the GC version over the Wii version (I don’t have access to a WiiU).

  • Lizzie Rose@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Followup to our previous post, a new communityEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Why, though? Just looking at the number of places this was cross-posted to it’s clear that there are already too many trans-related comms that fracture what little user base Lemmy has anyway to the point where very few posts get any activity at all. And looking at the sidebar for this new comm, it appears that it’s purpose could have been completely fulfilled by several other existing comms instead of splitting yet again.

    I am starting to think that we should be looking to merge comms and build a larger community in one place, and then decide that certain topics need their own space. This feels like a solution in search of a problem, to me.

  • Lizzie Rose@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?English
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    17 days ago

    I finished the main quest of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom over the weekend, and found most of the collectables. I decided to use a guide to get the last few and was really pleased with myself at how few I hadn’t found on my own. This is the first game in a long time that I just sat down and enjoyed without any guides or looking anything up on the internet, and it was an absolutely amazing experience.

    After that I started on Skyward Sword HD, another Zelda title that I have never played before. I’m still not sure about the controller controls but I’ve made it through the first dungeon and I have enjoyed it so far. I might give the Switch motion controls a try and see if they feel more natural, and I might also boot it up on my modded Wii just to compare; I feel like the Wiimote would feel more sword-like in my hands 🤔

  • Lizzie Rose@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone•How's your week been?English
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    1 month ago

    I’ve been super busy, my SO had knee replacement surgery about a week and a half ago and I’ve been doing my best to be with her as much as possible while also taking care of my place and cat about 90 minutes away. I have taken the extra driving time to practice my fem voice though, and I have a fairly convincing customer service voice coming along nicely!