#rinrant

The GTS has seriously become the biggest pile of garbage I've ever seen. I don't have Ruby or Sapphire, so I can't collect the HA Unova starters, so I was hoping to pick an HA Oshawott in the GTS. Oh how naive I was. Everyone wants a god damn shiny mew for EVERYTHING. On the rare accounts I see someone put up a HA otter for something I actually have, I trade the pokemon, and the Oshawott doesn't even have the HA. So god damn stupid. The GTS is a joke and you can't do any serious trading on there anymore which makes it damn near impossible for someone to complete their pokedex. 

/endrant

Don't get me wrong, it's a hella fun game. One fun Zelda reference to another for Zelda fans and I love mowing monsters down with everyone. And oh-me-oh-my that music is fantastic.

But...

I have tried with every fiber of my being to like Lana but I just can't bring myself to. She is SUPER cute and she's fun to play as, but when I see Lana and her part in the story, I am reminded of bad fanfics where the authors write their own mary-su in it to get them in a relationship with the main character. That's what she reminds me of. A mary-su. (Don't even get me started on the fact she gets a Skull Kid costume while WE get NO Skull Kid, save for a half-a-second cameo in Kid Link's moves.)

Don't get the wrong idea, I have no problem with new characters being introduced in the Zelda franchise, I love it! Hell, I even ended up really liking Cia for the cray-cray obsessive fangirl that she is towards Link. I mean, have you seen her stage? Yeesh. But the way they went about Lana is all wrong. You don't make a good character by giving them a cute anime girl look, flashy outfits, giving them all the references to forcefully convince fans that she belongs in the world of Zelda, and give them crazy powers.

I mean for Hylia's sake, they gave her the triforce of power. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? LANA gets the triforce of power? I can't even... please... PLEASE.

The whole I'm-in-love-with-Link thing was completely unnecessary and only proves my Lana-Mary-su image more. If you want to create a new character, that's cool with me man, but don't make her so shallow as that you HAVE to shoehorn the attraction towards Link with her. She could have been a solid character without it. I was rolling my eyes when she was saying goodbye to Link with a sad eyes and hurrying off while Link sadly watches while looking like he just lost a waifu in his harem.

I don't know where I was going with this, but I needed to rant this out. This is my gaming blog so this is where I'm ranting to. Trust me, I don't blame anyone for taking a liking to Lana, I really don't. All the more power to you. This is solely just my opinion. I really do love the game and it's super fun and there are plenty of scenes in this game that I loved (my favorite was Ghirahim and Zant's endless kissing-of-Ganandorf's-ass scene, as it made me chuckle.)

It's definitely a recommendation to Zelda fans.