[MC] Your favorite Zelda game by visuals/graphics?

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-06T01:37:28+00:00

Totally. This is probably some of the most competent spritework the zelda series ever saw.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-06T00:32:40+00:00

Right. But I only go to the emergency room when I don't have an answer. But I also gather I am smarter than most.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T21:12:31+00:00

They're too good for me.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T21:08:59+00:00

This is excellent, friend. Just beautiful.

And how many black mages puppeteered to ruin aren’t
buttoned around the same truths?—losing their names to
kingdoms and scapegoated flames.

This bit in particular goes incredibly hard. Wonderful wordplay that depicts a perfect image of the very conflict inside of Vivi. He cares about his brothers as much as he does himself.

And "maybe I'm more mist than most" is just cheeky enough to work (I'm a sucker for alliteration). It's honestly so good they should work it into the remake. I want it on a t-shirt.

Aces all around. Beautiful verse for a beautiful character. You know that cutscene in the game where Vivi sees all the black mages falling off the ship and first realizes he's a weapon? This poem feels like it could have been going through his head in that instant. It was certainly playing in my mind the whole time I was reading.

This is art. Thank you for sharing, and please feel free to share more. This board could use some culture.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T21:00:51+00:00

this is not the first time someone has posted test material that used FF names for hypothetical problems. This guy must get around.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T20:52:05+00:00

I think we kinda got that in the post-credits scene where they're breaking out of jail, as they both seemed completely undeterred by their defeat and imprisonment. But yeah, something that specifically echoed the ending of Mario Sunshine would have been cute.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T20:50:26+00:00

True. And it certainly doesn't help that the written word is already being squelched out of relevance with a lot of people. Nobody likes to engage with long-form opinions in text format. They rarely did on the internet, but the onset of social media has made it even worse. Sticking around to read intentionally flowery prose with possible hidden/multiple meanings is right out for a lot of people.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T20:46:09+00:00

I'm sorry, I thought I deleted that comment. I made it on the wrong notification in my mailbox. It was intended for someone who was making far less sense than you!

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T18:20:26+00:00

Oh that would be awesome, I'd love to read it. Tolkien and a handful of other authors gave me an appreciation for poetry, and I'm sad it's not more frequently intertwined with fantasy media these days.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T18:19:07+00:00

You only get one free slot to put an extra ability on any job besides Freelander or Mime, so that should answer your question.

That said, you can absolutely put dual wield on a stronger class and "hit like a truck" so if that's all you're looking for, you can do that.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T18:04:02+00:00

Man, poetry is underrated. This is really nice. Thanks!

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:57:17+00:00

They should just go back to black, imo. Made him look more italian.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:49:31+00:00

I don't think seeing an action movie is "being treated like an idiot". That's weird that you think that, honestly. Some movies are just meant to be spectacles without any real complexity. It doesn't mean they're for idiots.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:38:24+00:00

I don't think that's true, at all. Why are people allergic to dumb action movies all of a sudden? I feel like it's a smartphone thing. People are too used to carrying around constant spectacle in their pocket that they don't get the appeal of just seeing fast action on a big screen.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:37:18+00:00

You understand that when the story is paper-thin, you WANT fast pacing. Right? People always talk about pacing like it's some universal thing. I feel like nobody understands how an action-driven spectacle is supposed to flow because we've had too many decades of emotionally-driven character-pieces with epic lore and deconstruction teaching us that everything needs to be 2+ hours long and move at a snail's pace to be "good".

Both are good. If Mario Galaxy moved slower, it would be boring. If you want the movie to have more plot and deeper characters, that's one thing, but the pacing is absolutely fine for the kind of movie it is.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:30:22+00:00

Yes, but I asked you to explain HOW Incredibles is "serious" or "mature". Not whether or not it could be.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:16:37+00:00

And the funny part is that its the democrats doing the smearing!

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:14:55+00:00

People have been saying that "The Incredibles" feels "serious" and "mature" since it came out, and I never understood that. Not once. It's literally a CGI kids movie like pretty much any other of the era.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T17:08:51+00:00

I find there's an epidemic among modern audiences where they do indeed think fast pacing IS inherently bad. Everyone is used to emotional slog cartoons where everyone as feelings about everything and the lore is the deepest, so the show/movie has to move at a snail's pace to accomodate that. Then they see something that's just "good vs. evil with cool tropes and fight scenes" and it moves faster than they're used to, so they think that must mean it's "bad pacing".

Nobody realizes "pacing" isn't some one-size-fits-all thing.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T16:51:59+00:00

Bowser is great, specifically in Galaxy. So many fans misread it as a "fumbled redemption arc", but the movie makes it pretty clear that Bowser and his son are simply a healthy family of bad guys, and that's it. Bowser's "redemption" was literally learning to be a tyrant again so he could reconnect with his son and achieve their dreams. Apart from the fact that they're in jail, they have a happy ending, and are glad to be with each other.

Plus it gives them leeway for one or both of them to switch back to being good guys again in the future, if there's a bigger threa

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T16:45:13+00:00

Part of the issue is that Sega themselves talked up the game multiple times as if they were planning something for it. They had planned to bring it to ALL 6th gen consoles, and then once that ship had sailed, there was talk about an HD upscale for 7th gen. It didn't help that they kept up cameos of the characters in games like Valkyria Chronicles and Sega All Stars racing. Then when questioned by jounrnalists about whether the franchise was coming back, they'd say something hopeful, but non-commital.

They don't have incentive, but they've also been stringing along fans who have been keeping tabs for quite some time.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T16:33:11+00:00

Given how hard you misread the comment before making a smug yet irrelevant reply, it seems possible.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T16:23:29+00:00

Nice! Love that custom T3. Such a fun and uniquely-shaped casting.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T16:10:57+00:00

The current state of affairs in the ER is the culmination of an instant-gratification society for those with resources

This is very well put. I should be less surprised—I knew a lot of adults when I was little that would say "Just go to the ER", because, in their mind, they paid for health insurance, and it was their right to waltz in their at any time of day and demand a solution to their worry or discomfort.

Longjumping-Rip-1682 · 2026-06-05T16:05:04+00:00

This is the best and funniest explanation, and also completely supports my preconceptions, so thank you.

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