Let's play some goddamn Nintendo.

Primary focus is Nintendo, and it's skewed heavily to retro stuff. But that doesn't mean I'll completely ignore other content. I can be critical at points so fanboys, ye be warned.

I am currently going through Nintendo Power Magazine and playing as many of their featured games as I can, you can check out any of my thoughts playing games in the tag #pocket_plays

By all means alert me of accidentally relogging harmful content, but please tell me why it's harmful. And don't waste my time with ship discourse.

I can't be bothered to tag things regularly, so follow at your own risk. I only pledge to avoid posting spoilers for a thing until it's been out for a few months, and I will try to tag it with spoilers for a little while.

Asks are welcomed, but I'm not the most up to date person in the world so don't think i'm being an asshole for not getting your jokes or references, and if yo uwish to ask me something unrelated to the topic this blog covers, do so at my main account @always-thirsty-pocket, if you have an ask in relation to Pokemon, ask @kanto-jhoto, this is a pokemon-free zone aside from the occasional crossover pic.

For those of you who clicked my display pic and you're not looking at my blog on the side of your tumblr dashboard, if you want to do a deep dive, I recommend opening the full blog up to make use of my long music playlist that I worked hard to assemble.

Like if you dare to suggest "Maybe this new Ocarina of Time remake could potentially be open air" you get a lot of people bristling their neck hairs and hissing and shitting their pants because they think that also means OOT is going to have spider-man like climbing, 120 shrines, no traditional dungeons, no rewarding side quests, a story that is segmented and told through flashback cutscenes probably experienced out of chronological order, weapon durability, fusing, 999 collectibles with several good rewards and one useless one at the end, and no progression gating at all.

None of these things are symptoms of the open world at all. They're Symptoms of the Zelda Team trying something different, and some of them worked better than others.

People also seem to think open worlds cannot have progression gating at all which is nonsense. Even Skyrim had quests you could not do without meeting the right requirements.

If you ask me, a lot of things people don't like about BOTW and TOTK are going to be things that give those games their identity, and will not feature in later games, or at least not to the same form or degree.