Finally, My Inner Need To Collect Things Is Satisfied!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Appreciate a Dragon Day
National Nothing Day
Religious Freedom Day
Haru-No-Yabuiri (Japan)
National Day of Peace (El Salvador)

 

What I love about The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is how there is a way to make the Final End Boss Of Doom absurdly easy so that you stand there and smack him for three seconds and the game is over.* You don't even have to move. It is not easy to get that privilege, though: it’s a reward for being totally obsessive-compulsive about acquiring everything in the game, but it’s worth it just to be able to laugh maniacally at the pitiful antics of your latest Archenemy.

 

My other favorite thing about that game is how unbelievably dark it is. Not only does it have a giant looming grimacing moon that’s going to destroy the world, it also has mugging, child marriage, child negligence, aliens, death, abusive relationships, money laundering, theft, the kidnapping of unborn children, pirates, ninjas, depression, skulls with bat wings, suicide, more death, voyeurism, and torture. And the entire premise is based on stealing the identities of dead people.

 

Now I’m playing Starfox: Command.  Will Nintendo ever get over its infatuation with the DS stylus?  God knows.


*The secret to the Fierce Deity Mask is to take it with Chateau Romani. Good stuff, that.

Comments

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

Will Nintendo ever get over its infatuation with the DS stylus?

God, I hope not. The stylus makes it possible for me to actually play games again.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* I'm just the opposite. "AGH GO UP YOU STUPID SHIP WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WTH BUTTONS, ANYWAY?!"

At least I haven't had to shout at this game yet. That's a way to make you feel just mildly silly.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

My fingers don't work right on both hands, so anything I can control one-handed with the stylus is a godsend. I haven't been able to game properly in eight years. T.T So I hope you will excuse me for approving highly of Nintendo and its stylus love affair!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Aha! I can believe that. I'm pretty klutzy with the stylus; but the reason I asked was that I actually just thought it was funny that Nintendo seemed to go with the philosophy, "Look, we made this stylus, and dammit, we're gonna use it!"

Sorry about the finger thing, though. That must heartily suck.

[viizou.livejournal.com]

I'm personally loving the way you have to use the stylus in Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I think the stylus is justified in this case, because you can really do things with it that you can't with buttons (latch onto stuff, create complex trajectories for projectiles).

But I'll admit, a lot of times, it's pretty redundant.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That has some really good stuff to it. (Actually, so does the Starfox game (the tactics board is cool); it's just that when it gets to FLYING or just WALKING with the stylus that it does a little too far for me.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some of the uses the find for it are pretty silly, I admit. Gimmicks ahoy!

It does, but mostly I'm used to it, except for the occasional pout and whine to save my sanity.

Question

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Where do you get that list of holidays that appears at the top of your posts?

Re: Question

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Holidays.net. (Sometimes I add my own comments, but it's always bolded so you can see when it's me.) For some reason people are really seeming to like them lately.

[alietf.livejournal.com]

"child negligence, aliens, death, abusive relationships, money laundering, theft, the kidnapping of unborn children, pirates, ninjas, depression, skulls with bat wings, suicide, more death, voyeurism, and torture."

Even though I've played the game through several times, I'm having a hard time figuring out the connections... I can has hint? :D

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*glances at list*

*takes a deep breath*

Pamela's dad. Aliens attacking Romani Ranch. Dead Deku tree at the beginning, dead Darmani, dead Mikau, implied death of Goron Elder. Putting your rupees from a chest in the bank, going back in time, and getting the same rupees again and putting THEM in the bank. Curiosity shoppe selling stolen goods, as well as Link stealing all sorts of shit. Pirates stealing the Zora eggs. Pirate Gerudos. Ninjas. Gorman the circus leader's silent, unrelenting depression. SKULLS WITH BAT WINGS. The ninjas blowing themselves up after you defeat them. Skullkids and ghosts and zombies, oh, my! Guys who ask for photos of lady pirates and Zoras who spy on singers in their rooms. The monkey getting lowered into a vat of boiling oil.

Did I leave anything out? Oh, yes--they also have A GUY WHO LIVES IN A TOILET. Literally IN THE TOILET. That is a messed up game.