The Legacy of Zelda | How Tunic Embraces a Classic (Patreon)

The Legacy of Zelda | How Tunic Embraces a Classic

With the release of the phenomenal Tunic, we take a look back at Nintendo's original the Legend of Zelda and explore how its manual and obtuse mysteries were always good design. Tag along as we venture into the ancient realm of ruins, mystery and dusty instruction booklets. Guest voice: @Nichtschwert 00:00 Opening 03:12 Tunic and the Importance of Paratext 12:38 All the Cool Foxes Love Brainveinias Today! 18:19 Why the Legend of Zelda Was Always Good 24:47 Conclusion 28:38 Patreon 30:56 Spoilers PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/transparens TWITTER: https://twitter.com/transparencyboo #TheLegendofZelda #Tunic #GOTY2022 BONUS MEME This video was fun to make because like half of it are just static shots from the manual, which I guess is easy, but you're also limited by not being able to show every page while also needing to vary the selections. A hard balance. Maybe that's the developer's intention? Can you imagine if they had a video essayist easy mode where there are like 100 pages in the manual with fully animated pictures and everything. You could have Tunic as a little poseable v-tuber fursona and everything. Oh, right, we've been calling that little fox Tunic internally, but I guess their real name is Ruin Seeker or something. We ended up just saying "fox boy" in the video because it rolls off the tongue. "Fox boy toy box" is really funny to say, you should write that in the comment section if you see this. By the way, it's funny how Tunic is a fox, while in A Link to the Past you become a rabbit and in Twilight Princess you become a wolf, which means that Tunic fits somewhere in-between on the scale. Maybe the fox is Link's fursona or something? Although I guess everyone loves foxes. Who doesn't love foxes? That was the secret ingredient to the Dark Souls games all along, have a fox protagonist. Brilliant! Elden Ring got snubbed off being game of the year simply because you can't play as a little sneaky forest critter. Harsh but fair lesson to learned! Every game should just feature a fox uncovering an instruction book like some lost media nut. What are you even doing if your video game doesn't have that going for it? Get it together, Miyazaki! Who needs lore if I can have "press A to jump"?