#hobbular

If it's any good for self study, would you be willing to share an ISBN or title or something so I can find it?

Probably! Though you might want an audio component to get the benefit of it. There are tons of resources including online self-study options at Dysgu Cymraeg / Learn Welsh, including freely available PDFs of this textbook. It's the Mynediad / Entry Level textbook (North Wales) (South Wales is also available).

They also have graded story books so you can start reading books from a really early stage.

(I've finished BotW only once, but I've started like 4-5 games. The final boss fight interests me so much less than, for example, getting Tarrey Town up and running.)

Age of Calamity is a very different kind of game from other Zeldas, with its beat-em-up missions instead of puzzles and dungeon exploration, so there’s that. I’d say to watch a little gameplay by somebody else before buying the game, just to make sure it’s a style you like. Or maybe you already play other games like it and know you enjoy that kind! ^.^ (I wasn’t sure I’d like the gameplay but it turns out I do!)

I really can’t recommend the story and characters more highly. AoC gets some flack in the greater LoZ fandom sometimes for “not being canon” (debatable since the Zelda timeline is so branching and warped anyway and there’s stuff in the game that definitely influenced TotK) but to be honest, as I said in my tags on that reblog, it does SO MUCH with the characters especially, to show their personalities and relationships. Even tiny details like messages that pop up from characters when you get 1,000 KOs in a mission or what they say when you put them on a team together in the character selection screen, are delightful. Just watching cutscenes gives the overview and most important story moments, but so much more is revealed through the actual progression and dialogue during missions, too.

There’s even some mission maps where you get to go inside locations that by botw time are just ruins or that are much more closed-off to you in botw!

WHAT ARE THEY EVEN TEACHING KIDS NOWADAYS!!!!!! you are exempt from this complaint obviously as you ARE the only one out here educating the youth

well maybe you SHOULD be reading people’s hats then huh. have you thought about that

oh shit does picasa even exist anymore?