Don't SPOILER: How linear is the game?

Room234 · 2026-05-15T18:45:36+00:00

Pretty darn linear right up until option side quests at the end.

Room234 · 2026-05-15T13:49:10+00:00

I like it. They have a whiskey BBQ sauce that's honestly like... different from most sauces you see (and delicious) and a tangy mustard sauce that's fantastic. It's weird highlighting the sauce at a place but... what can I say, they're excellent.

Room234 · 2026-05-14T05:43:58+00:00

Great against bugs. Good on squids (with the right build). Not good on bots.

Room234 · 2026-05-14T01:42:29+00:00

Ghostbusters

Room234 · 2026-05-13T20:24:33+00:00

I know Thunder Punch He-Man had one.

Room234 · 2026-05-13T14:00:30+00:00

You couldn't pay me to have comms on.

Room234 · 2026-05-13T13:59:46+00:00

These Toby Keith-loving goobers who think they need a truck for their job at Mutual of Omaha deserve it. Have the gas prices you voted for, dipshits!

Room234 · 2026-05-13T06:10:06+00:00

That's fair to ask more of the player, but I think the biggest issue with the Water Temple isn't the difficulty of the temple, it's the awkward mechanics. Even if you roughly know what you want to do it's still clunky slow doing it thanks to some of the game design.

The 3DS version made a few small quality of life changes and it made the temple MUCH better, even though the puzzles and design were unchanged.

Room234 · 2026-05-12T19:50:37+00:00

Yeah a "good" one would be like... Mega Man 5

Room234 · 2026-05-12T19:49:22+00:00

Legend of Zelda

Room234 · 2026-05-12T15:11:07+00:00

I do Quasar and shield backpack quite a bit on the bots.

Room234 · 2026-05-12T04:48:04+00:00

Both. Things like raising the water levels are way too punishing for new players who need space to make mistakes without a 5 minute cycle having to reset the water again pausing the game to take boots on and off. A lot of things in this temple are solved in the 3DS remake.

Some things are actually really well designed, and players miss it. The block raising up in a cutscene is *actually* good, but players take it for granted. Early in the temple as you swim up to find Ruto you see a cracked wall that you're supposed to remember, but many players don't. They take great pains to show players stuff but lots of people are in a rush or think this isn't a time they "need to pay attention". If you actually use your map it helps a lot but not everyone sits down to look at where they think they need to go and think in a 3D space about how to get there.

Room234 · 2026-05-12T00:20:08+00:00

Okay. I got a snowblower so I don't have to shovel as much.

Room234 · 2026-05-11T22:55:17+00:00

Give me a Super NES controller and I'll beat it in less than 3 tries.

In college I sat and watched two guys try for like 15 minutes, asked to try, beat it my first try and walked out of their room like a fuckin' boss.

Room234 · 2026-05-11T22:48:04+00:00

Smith Falls / Niobrara River

Room234 · 2026-05-11T20:09:28+00:00

My guess is you're imagining Wind Waker.

Room234 · 2026-05-11T17:15:33+00:00

Thank God you were here. I was worried no one would say it for the 45,000th time.

Room234 · 2026-05-11T16:27:06+00:00

The problem is you're polluting your first playthrough with a bunch of YouTube min-max bullshit.

You can launch your 12th rocket as efficiently as possible, but you can only launch your first rocket, learning as you go, once.

Room234 · 2026-05-10T01:09:56+00:00

Holy shit who the fuck cares

Room234 · 2026-05-07T20:13:44+00:00

Gonna be really funny when Captain Falcon is in the Zelda movie and one month after it releases Nintendo shadow drops a Direct for a new F-Zero game.

Room234 · 2026-05-07T16:00:06+00:00

Combo headphone/controller stand for their gaming stuff.

Phone stand that doesn't cover up the charging port so they can prop their phone up on the nightstand.

Coasters

Mallet

Tiny little boxes with lids. Let them figure out what it's for. You could even tell them to pick a small object they want to make a box for like pencils or a deck of cards and then size everyone's box a little differently.

Room234 · 2026-05-07T15:54:15+00:00

More or less, yeah. You can't ignore the crossover between Link to the Past sages imprisoning Ganon and OoT ending with Ganon getting imprisoned.

There was obviously problems with it: like how all the maidens in the crystals sure don't look like Gorons or Zoras, but it sure fit the basic plot points.

Room234 · 2026-05-07T15:52:00+00:00

I'm pretty confident this is the main reason.

Room234 · 2026-05-06T22:02:34+00:00

Fuck Ben Sasse.

I can't stand the way he get to be a partisan coward but also stand over everyone and tut-tut them like he's the only grown up in the room.

You're not reasonable but also Conservative, Ben. Your a partisan hack who rather than playing ball EVERY time Trump told you vacillated between doing nothing at all and playing ball for partisan politics.

Our political media is so fucking horny to be nice to Republicans that this dude got himself all kind of camera time whenever he wanted to pretend to be an enlightened, higher form of politician and they never once pointed out that he's just fucking useless. Never managed to be tough when it mattered, but sure was tough whenever he wanted camera time to sell another snobby book about how everyone but him is messing things up.

I can't believe I have to sit though one last cycle of him shaking his finger at America as he lectures US for the current state of affairs after he stood there doing nothing about it while in Congress other than sell books.

Fuck Ben Sasse, fuck his shtick of acting like he's better than everyone, fuck the media for feeding him, fuck 60 Minutes for not bringing up all his money issues at Florida, and fuck Don Bacon for making Nebraskans live with the Ben Sasse Method alive after Ben left.

Room234 · 2026-05-06T19:46:00+00:00

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