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I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”
#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism
Early video game designer: Okay, we’re just about done with this level
Video game designer’s manager: Great! Did you figure out what to put at the end?
designer: Yeah, we put this tough, nasty, mean, ugly monster that the player has to beat. We made sure killing the monster feels as rewarding as possible.
The best and most interesting thing Breath of The Wild was able to achieve through storytelling was including “ancient magic iphone” as one of your tools unironically without making it feel cheesy. Like “your bombs are an app on your phone and also u can take pictures” like thats hilarious but also a good excuse for link to not own a massive backpack full of his inventory?
They literally put in things like “we had cellphone towers and motorcycles before the lazer robot war” in a zelda game and kept it a believable fantasy setting.