Eva was playing Zelda as I walked in yesterday

[conuly]

Specifically, she was rescuing Yunobo. That is one catchy tune!

But very noticeable and not entirely like the rest of the atmospheric background music I've heard in this game. As we came around to the gongs* again, I asked "So... what's up with this music?"

Jenn: It's abandoned mine music.
Me: That explains it.
Eva: I love how you're pretending that makes sense.
Me: What are you talking about? I'm not pretending.

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Eva's right. The music doesn't scream "abandoned mine".
6 (28.6%)

You're right, it does.
15 (71.4%)

Anyway, then she went and helped build Tarrytown for a while, fetching lots of people (all with names ending in -son...) and wood and organizing a wedding. Because this is the important thing to do. The big boss will just spin his wheels while you do all the petty side quests, right? Definitely won't take over the world until you get there, because he just has to see the look on your face! (Besides, that wouldn't be playing fair, now would it?)

* Bells? Deep chimes? Not sure what to call it, honestly.

Comments

[zesty_pinto]

If there's one thing you learn that is most important about sandbox games, it's that it's NEVER about doing the main quest, but about dicking around.

For example, every Fallout game since 3 is relatively short... if you do the main quest only. Doing that though basically neglects that there's hundreds of thousands of things to do while you're going from point A to B.

I've had to be careful with my playthrough of Witcher 3 because I got dangerously close to finishing the game, but I still have a bunch of cards to win off of people, a couple more quests denoting my questionable morality, and a few more monster parts to get to max out my hoarder's stash of unique weapons and armor.

I'm actually going through Death Mountain as well. There's a robot lizard throwing fireballs everywhere! My concern? Catching tiny gray lizards.

[zesty_pinto]

This should be the theme song of every sandbox game.

[conuly]

Yes, but it seems weird when you think about it from the perspective of a person actually living in that world. (Also, I guess hardly anybody knows how close they are to collapse?)

[zesty_pinto]

In fairness to BoTW: everyone left alive aside from maybe a handful of people are not aware of the dangers inherent. Everyone else is either:

-worrying about local problems (e.g. robot lizards)
-worrying about REALLY local problems (e.g. that kid whose sheep gets stolen)
-worrying about local gossip

Kind of close to real life these days, in that regard.

I also like to think of that manga I Am A Hero, where there's a zombie epidemic where it makes a bit of a social commentary on how Japanese folks are so polite and jaded by social media that they can't take the infections seriously until long after the fact. I know America's a bit different, but I think reality would follow a somewhat similar tune.

[conuly]

The castle is surrounded by a purpley cloud!

[zesty_pinto]

Yeah, and the moon turns red every so often, but it's okay as long as we still get to farm our lands and some guy can sell us moblin horns and screws belonging to ancient machines, damn it!

[conuly]

At least the food tastes better when we cook it under a randomly occurring blood moon. Even if we were helpless against the monsters that beat us up while we were looking for truffles. (Honestly, the NRA is crap but I still don't get why none of these people pick up arms against the bokoblins that oppress them. They aren't that freaking hard to kill.)

[zesty_pinto]

Only a small handful of people are willing to put the effort for some reason, which amazes me since it takes more stamina to tame a horse. Based on what farm equipment those bokoblins get their grubby hands on, I'd say they would be able to beat them up easily just from that alone.

The rock people are especially impressive though because there's a lava monster camped out on one of their freaking roads. Maybe it doesn't detect them because it's like a Predator and only responds to "cold" things?

[conuly]

And they seem to have endless hearts, given that bokoblins only beat them up and never kill them.

[zesty_pinto]

Must be that all-truffle diet. Truffles do give extra hearts...!

[conuly]

TRUE.

(Also, why can't anybody find fairy fountains around here? Lazy, lazy. Solve your own problems, folks!)

[conuly]

(Though every time we come across a bokoblin camp that isn't actively beating people up, Eva comments that we're really murdering members of an early complex society.)

[zesty_pinto]

I mean, Hylians wouldn't have this problem if they weren't made of delicious meat, am I right?

(I think the reminder text while loading even admits they will pretty much eat anything they can fit in their mouth short of rocks and other hard things).

The lizard people I have no choice, though, as they keep camping next to my shrines. WHY MUST THEY BLOCKADE MY QUEST FOR PROGRESS??

[conuly]

You gotta get the right mask to avoid them.

[zesty_pinto]

Don't have it yet, sadly. The monster fetish guy with the laugh that sounds like it comes from a squeeze toy only has Bokoblin and Moblin flavor. I have le sads about it.

[conuly]

You have to get more divine beasts.

[zesty_pinto]

But that means doing more plot!! Can't I just go Fairy hunting and keep trying to up my robot armor? :(

[conuly]

Not forever.