More About Zelda: Skyward Sword
Nov. 25th, 2011 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelMy most excellent spouse said last night that one of the reasons he loves the Zelda series is because it sends the message that humanity is fucked.
He was quite serious; the opening sequence to The Wind Waker makes that one perfectly clear. The people waited in vain for a hero who did not come. Sucks to be them. No matter what a particular incarnation of Link and Zelda manage to do, at some point the forces governing the universe call a reboot and they and all the planet go through the wringer once more, with feeling.
This is also part of what draws me to Kaga-era Fire Emblem; the first five games act as installments in one long planet-wide struggle, and the ones that come chronologically last (FE2 and FE3) both end with the promise that at some later date, things are going straight back to hell. Every victory of humans over The Bad Stuff is a temporary reprieve, not because God is a bastard but because humans are so damned good at initiating their own destruction. (I'd love to know how the ending to Tear Ring Saga goes!)
Anyway, I could forgive a lot of FE13 (even her-- maybe) if the "turbulent era" of its setting is actually some kind of post-apocalyptic world where the shiny heroes of old didn't come at all or actually failed. That would be a nice change of pace.
He was quite serious; the opening sequence to The Wind Waker makes that one perfectly clear. The people waited in vain for a hero who did not come. Sucks to be them. No matter what a particular incarnation of Link and Zelda manage to do, at some point the forces governing the universe call a reboot and they and all the planet go through the wringer once more, with feeling.
This is also part of what draws me to Kaga-era Fire Emblem; the first five games act as installments in one long planet-wide struggle, and the ones that come chronologically last (FE2 and FE3) both end with the promise that at some later date, things are going straight back to hell. Every victory of humans over The Bad Stuff is a temporary reprieve, not because God is a bastard but because humans are so damned good at initiating their own destruction. (I'd love to know how the ending to Tear Ring Saga goes!)
Anyway, I could forgive a lot of FE13 (even her-- maybe) if the "turbulent era" of its setting is actually some kind of post-apocalyptic world where the shiny heroes of old didn't come at all or actually failed. That would be a nice change of pace.
