The more screenshots I see of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the more I realize that this game is truly fabulous, if you know what I mean! See for yourself:
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| The boss baddie, Demon Lord Ghirahim, has impeccable taste in both makeup and earrings |
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| See what Zelda has to say about that! |
Now I don’t know much about Zelda or even Skyward Sword, really, but I’m very pleased by the graphical style of the game and those awesome birds everyone seems to be riding around, so if I had a Wii I’d probably purchase the game eventually. It’ll be interesting to see how the game is recieved when it comes out–from my understanding there’s a fair bit of back-and-forth already about whether it’s shaping up well or just trying to stand up against Ocarina of Time (which, by the way, I still haven’t played…).
In the process of writing the post I stopped by the Zelda Wiki and found out an interesting tidbit about Ghirahim… Apparently one of his ears is pointed and the other is round? I’ve only ever seen the pointed ear so I guess I couldn’t say for sure, but I bet someone’s done their homework. The more you know!
Also, in fairly related news, there’s a great interview with Yoshinori Ono on EGMNow regarding Posion (you may remember a certain post I made regarding her a while back). It’s definitely worth a read! The bottom line is that Capcom officially would like to stay ambiguous as to whether or not she a woman or a transgendered man and let the fans decide how they’d like to interpret her gender.
Ono said it, so case closed, right? What are your thoughts on the whole issue? How about the Zelda, are you excited for the game’s release, or could you care less?
I have to say from what I’ve heard about Skyward Sword, its going to be trying out a lot of new concepts and that alone has me interested in what they’ll do with it. As for Poison, as far as I’m concerned, we got the answer long ago: In U.S. and Europe, she’s a post op and in Japan she tucks her business away. (speaking of which she does a damn good job of that. Somehow I get the feeling she tapes it real tight :P) End of story.
I’ll be interested to hear what you think of Skyward Sword, Motherplayer, if you get a chance to play it before me! I probably won’t get around to it for a while, but I definitely would like to at some point…
I agree with you that the previous answer we got re: Poison was a lot better than this new one. Let’s stick to that!
Wait, so you’ve never played Ocarina of Time?? If so, please go out and buy a copy of it now. Or buy a Wii and then buy the game via the Wii Virtual Console. Or buy the 3DS remake.
Really, I’m far from the biggest Zelda fan in the world (I’ve barely played one since Ocarina), but this game is well worth playing, IMO.
As for Skyward Sword: It does indeed look mighty good at this point. I’m still not sure if I’m going to buy it, though. Like I said, I’ve barely played a Zelda game since OOT, and I don’t want to buy this one and then not play it. That said, I think I’ll buy it eventually, but I likely won’t buy it this year.
Oh, and I agree with both you and Motherplayer when it comes to Poison. Ono’s former comment about her (post-op in NA and EU and tucker in Japan) was far better than this more recent ambiguous one.
If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t played OOT either so I’m waiting til I get a 3DS to finally experience this game. And sadly I won’t be able to play SS due to….complications I’d rather not talk about. But the new saying on Poison just feels more like a copout. Keeping someone like poison up to interpretation just screams “Lazy”. At least before he put a concrete answer and it made sense. Quite franky I can believe Poison would be capable of both explanations to her gender easily.