2011-05-26, 06:44 PM
案山子 Wrote:But most won't notice any story, which is my point. They'll focus on what they actually experience: The gameplay and crap.
Zelda's story isn't an obvious one when you're playing it. It's basically like Kingdom Hearts's where it's sort of disconnected here and there, pretty abstract, having to piece together each puzzle piece until you get a decent story, but you really won't even understand unless you paid attention to every detail since the late 80s/early 90s till this day.
You expect kids these days to know what the pineapple Kingdom Hearts's story is about? Hell no, most people don't even understand that pomegranate, and it's the same for Zelda. Over the years it's like, ''who the pineapple gives a pomegranate anymore about where the story is going?''. I mean, I love Zelda and all or I wouldn't have played it all these years, eating up all the games like it's shrimp, and I even have a Link skin on Minecraft, but I just don't think there's much real story experience when actually playing most of the games. A story is only really most apparent in Majora's Mask where you get to ''get personal'' with the NPCs in the game, learn about them, how they interact with each other, and how your actions affect them, etc. It even gets pretty emotional at certain points. The other Zelda's don't reach this kind of story... they just don't.
Even the story behind why the Skull Kid was the way he was is pretty sad.
The KH point is sort of wrong. Kingdom hearts, while yes is played for the gameplay, is also played for the story. Every single numbered title (as well as BBS) rewards players for completing certain gameplay challenges with... more story. The secret reports and the secret movie at the end of them are all there for anyone who wants to find them. It's not the gravy on the cake, but the prize itself, IMO.
For something like the fantasy genre of games, solid gameplay just doesn't cut it by itself, it has to work in tandem with a solid and appealing story.
Every single Zelda games was made to fit into the overall canon of the series, so to say that the story is not paid attention to is sort of absurd. And yes, the timeline exists officially, Nintendo just doesn't want anyone to know it.