She's No Midna, Though

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Been too sick to do much the last few days, so as it turns out I’m getting the full Skyward Sword experience. Which is tons of fun, more so than I was led to believe from everyone else's lackluster response. While I really don’t like Jean-Pierre du Fancibald, the Cirque du Soleil runaway I got for a nemesis,* the boss fights are a blast and they finally went all-out with the FINDING TREASURE aspect, which is awesome. (Also, I am in love with the Parella. Call it my cephalopod bias, but they are the best new species.)

Even F1’s obvious statements and stupid statistics aren’t nearly so obnoxious if you just pretend she’s being voiced by Anthony Daniels.

I keep scribbling down commentary as I play, though, and I kind of want to put it all together into a semi-liveblog of the game. I suppose nobody else would really be interested, but I find myself entertaining. What else is a blog for?


*It's not like it's impossible to do a cool non-Ganon nemesis in Zelda, dammit. Zant would've been fine without Ganondorf, and Majora was pretty effective for all its dialogue was mostly incoherent shrieking.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I love Let's Play writeups of games, whether or not I've played 'em myself. I highly encourage the liveblogging of Zelda.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I also would approve of this liveblogging. I don't play videogames myself (my frustration threshold is too low), but I still like lots of the stories and bits about them.

I remember actually having quite a bit of fun watching a friend of mine play through FFVII back in the day, and I've enjoyed a number of skellington1's anecdotes about playing Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

I like Ghirahim as a villain. Yes, he's camp, but he's also creepy when he wants to be. It's a fun combination. And he gets to show his own characterisation rather than just being "guy in a mask -> tantrumming manchild -> Oh look, Ganon's back!" like Zant was.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I thought it was tremendous fun to watch Zant decompensate. And they managed to tell quite a lot of his character with his pre-battle tantrum, where he shows a full sense of twisted entitlement. It also complemented Ganon nicely--you get to see just the kind of mind the King of Evil feeds off of.

Ghirahim doesn't come off as creepy to me, just annoying. But I have never really liked the Draco Malfoy style villains.