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saveyourbrain2013-12-15 06:56 pm
bibliofilo) wrote in saveyourbrain2013-12-15 06:56 pm
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Questions Meme
This is a meme in which you TALK FOREVER. How it goes:
1. Make a thread for yourself in this post, listing the characters you play and your own name.
2. Go find someone's thread to jump and ask them A QUESTION. The question can be anything, RP related is common, of course, but not necessary. Who do you want to app most? What does Character A think about Character B? What's your favorite flavor of icecream?
3. Answer all questions asked of you! Once you have answered, end your response with a question for the person who first questioned you. This is important to keep the discussion going and going.
4. This goes back and forth indefinitely until someone gets tired and can't reply anymore.
5. Have a lot of fun! ♥
This game is a fun way to get to talk to people, headcanon, and learn things you didn't know before! Because it involves gives and take, it can go quite a while and everyone can participate and possibly make friends.
Here is an example.
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As for A Link Between Worlds I really liked it! So it came out two days before my school's finals period started, so I had to buy it at midnight and sprint through it in those two days, which I did (to 100% completion). Needless to say I thought it was too short, but I realize it was probably around 30 hours of gameplay, and I'm just a maniac when it comes to Zelda. As for the plot I'll be vague to avoid spoilers, but I really really enjoyed what they did with it. I've always been a bit :| about the handheld Zeldas because they so often lack the kind of emotional stories that the console ones have, but ALBW really delivers on that front pretty well. All of the supporting cast is adorable and they really snuck in character development for most of them in interesting ways. Where in OOT meeting the sages felt sort of Welp here's the next temple, here's the next sage, what are they gonna tell me now. the sages in ALBW have scattered cameos throughout the beginning third of the game which all feel like fun side quests in and of themselves.
It's got that great exploratory feeling that LTTP had because due to some of the game mechanics you literally have to go looking for cracks on the walls, and you wind up finding all sorts of fun things while searching around for all the ways back and forth from Hyrule to Lorule. The dungeons felt pretty short, but they were all fun to go through, especially the Thieves' Hideout, Dark Palace, and the sand one that I don't remember the name of.
The item rental system was actually a pretty cool twist on the classic formula. Letting players do the dungeons in any order was super refreshing after Skyward Sword. I might love that game to bits but it is the DEFINITION of overbearing railroading. Except for the first maybe 20 minutes of the game, and the final showdown, no one ever really tells you where to go or what to do, you just get to dick around and find the plot as it happens. It was great. Also even though I died fairly often it never became a drag to go out and farm for rupees, nor did I have to do it that much. Over the course of normal gameplay you rack up more rupees than in the past, and there are also a bunch of fun ways to get money outside of farming enemies or grass. Plus Ravio's design and dialog were all cute as heck and are fantastic.
But above all I loved the MUSIC in albw. Every theme, every tune, every little doot that came out of my 3ds speakers was magical. I've played a lot of games with great music, but very rarely do I notice it while playing the game. Normally it's only when I look up the music later do I realize how wonderful it is, but with this game I was consistently delighted with the tracks during gameplay. It was great, and really enhanced the exploratory nature of the game because just wandering around was enjoyable thanks to the soundtrack.
This has kind of turned into a love letter to ALBW, but let me be clear it had some rough spots. Zelda's role was sadly downsized, (although that's made up for somewhat by the prevalence of Hilda in the story), and I've never much liked the top down control mechanic. As much as I liked the overall story, I think Link's impact on Lorule while doing dungeons was a bit disappointing, and while the rental item system was fun I just flat out bought most of the weapons fairly early, meaning the shop didn't play much of a part later on. I think the flat Link sections that were used were used cleverly, but I think more probably could have been done with that mechanic overall. Most of my issues with this game are a matter of personal preference though, and all in all I really enjoyed it greatly.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ZELDA GAME?
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Out of the handheld/ported-to-handheld ones though, I'd say either Oracle of Seasons because it was my first one so there's kind of a massive nostalgia factor (plus it's a good game,) or A Link to the Past because opening up the Dark World and second set of dungeons blew my little thirteen-year-old mind.
Is there a weapon or item of Link's that stands out as your favorite?
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Favorite CR with Michelle currently?
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Right now? Wheatley, although it's not much of a competition because she's hardly had more than one thread with anyone else; I'm going to try and branch out a little more.
How about your favorite with Link?
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What are some of Michelle's favorites? Like food/color/book/animal?
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Color: Orange. Especially lighter/sunnier oranges, not so much bright neon highlighter orange.
Kind of cake: vanilla, with good frosting
Animal: I think she'd like birds. Let's go with crows and corvids, because they're kind of a thing in Portal 2 and if we need an IC reason she thinks their intelligence is pretty cool. (She's not a hardcore birdwatcher though, so she hasn't noticed the extent of what's going on with the city's pigeons.)
Book: haven't really thought about it. idk, anything I answered here would inevitably be based on my own preferences so maybe it's better if I don't
Movie, musician: I'm not familiar with enough things in what I decided her preferred genres would be to say. XD