yeah.. he was a little obsessed during lock down which I can kind of understand.. gave him a sense of exploring he didn't get in real life.. i really like the skills he's developed at combat which don't involve the dodge-flurry thing.. he's really good at the game and has a huge inventory of outfits and elixirs and recipes but maybe he's missed some side stuff .. he is only six.
I tried to introduce my son to Zelda a couple of times but no interest. I have a feeling they’re gonna head into the list of dad games along with Halo and the Sony first party stuff. Not a knock of their quality but the new gen of players are having their gaming lexicon set by totally different things.
I didn't get into a zelda until after LA was released and I must have been 10 or so. Unless you have an iq3000 genius I'd say that's the right age.
As an aside, I dealt with a pupil's University application last session that claimed they were "reading full sentences from newspapers aged 14 months". I challenged them on it to which they said "well I can't give you video footage".
Later, in their application to study English, I should add the most important lit they had read was teen lit. Was one of the best conversations I've ever had with a kid. "You can't put the Twilight saga in a ucas application". *
Spoiler:
*now, without gatekeeping there is a space for absolute high level study of trends of teen literature.
But to say this is what inspired you to go and do first year Romantic literature is a romp.
if he's got outfits.. perhaps try putting on the rubber outfit and removing any metal swords in the thunderstorms
He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
I couldn’t quite think of the right phrase tbh. Focus wasn’t it but I was also fairly conscious that I needed to finish the post with something that I didn’t feel could be construed as me having a pop at another badgers parenting. Leaving the 350 hours hanging made me worry I could have been seen as casting judgement.
Maybe do it in a different order so the play through feels substantially different? Non felt easier or harder to me at the time and i just thought the anti clockwise thing was a way to close down the distance traveled.
Other than that fuck awful stealth section my only real complaint is that its not a Zelda I want to replay.
Its a game about discovery rather than big moments so when I went back for a replay it had lost quite a bit of the appeal.
My second play through was entirely different to my first, but I never finished the game again. A three heart run is a lot of fun, but being limited to doing only the divine beasts means you burn out early as shrines are out of the question. Doesn't leave much other than the odd weapon or armour piece to find.
Really hope the sequel addresses that and Nintendo make it truly an endlessly replayable game.
On this play through, my second, I’m considering doing just shrines and getting all costumes and powered up etc. plus the house you can build and load it with weapons and then going straight for Ganon in the castle. So ignoring the divine beasts completely but still going to those areas for the shrines and shops and costumes etc. To be honest the divine beasts were not my favourite part. All shrines and all costumes/armour seems a more enticing target second time round.
That was awkward and unsettling, never post anything like it again.