welp, that was a post

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 * Setting up servers
 So recently, I have been setting up servers for my committee at uni and my own home server since I am transferring from a vps.

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 I GOT MY LEGAL NAME CHANGED!!!

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+#+title: "My thoughts on Tears of the Kingdom"
+#+date: 2023-09-01T16:39:47+02:00
+#+draft: false
+#+categories[]: Games
+#+tags[]: Zelda TotK BotW Games Switch Nintendo
+
+Hello again, been a while hasn't it?
+You know, existing can sometimes be just enough.
+During the summer, I started a playthrough of the new Zelda game and it leaves me with opinions.
+I thought I would write about it to explain my opinions on the game and fully understand what I even think.
+So let's get into it, shall we?
+
+* Me and other Zelda games
+When I was a kid, I was introduced to Zelda by my uncles, playing Wind Waker, Link's awakening and later Twilight Princess.
+It got me hooked on the games, the exploring was a great and going through dungeons.
+I would go on to play most of the main line Zeldas and they offer different experiences but all offered something that I enjoyed.
+The scope of Ocarina of time, the creepy nature of Majora's Mask, the plot of Skyward sword, it was all so much fun.
+
+** Then Breath of the Wild came out
+I experienced it later than most people, other than the one time I got to try to speedrun it at a friends house.
+The scale of it, and the fact that it had so many points of interest available to one just walking through the world.
+I enjoyed it a lot.
+
+*** The tools available
+There were complaints about the weapons breaking but I felt, with the addition of the bombs and other tools, was a puzzle to solve.
+You could always traverse the world without using one of the powers.
+Sure, they could make it easier, as seen in speedrunning with bomb jumps or stasis hits.
+When approached with a mountain range one could climb it, sometimes with more difficulty than others.
+Take the waterfalls of the Zora domain,
+one could use the ice blocks on the side of the waterfalls to climb,
+but you could also use the Zora armour or take a different route by climbing.
+
+*** The dungeons and repetition
+The dungeons in the game were hype approaching them.
+They were big, causing issues for the inhabitants of the world.
+But when actually doing the dungeon, it was a an exploration to get to some switches to then defeat an unrelated boss that felt that it didn't have a build up.
+It felt like a let down.
+When actually facing Ganon though, it did hold up since they had set him up with a castle to either sneak or battle your way through.
+
+*** The story and it's presentation
+The base contents of the story in BotW is well presented and you immediately understand what happens.
+Zelda, Link and the other heroes were overpowered, so Link was sent to regenerate while Zelda held up the fortress.
+You wake up in a different world, where it seems that Ganon more or less has won, and you have to return to save Hyrule.
+But to get more information, you have to find points that you can see in pictures.
+These pictures have the issue of being in specific locations that are easy to miss for an adventurer.
+
+* Here comes Tears of the Kingdom
+So I got to borrow my friends old switch to play Tears of the Kingdom.
+I bought the game myself, and a new pro controller to get to play it.
+I started it and had mixed feelings quickly.
+Hearing Fi from the sword did have me in tears when it broke though.
+
+** The toolbox
+What made feel bad was how things, like the powers were introduced and how some of them seemed necessary for progressing on the platform.
+Coming from Breath of the Wild, this felt very strange.
+You had to build boats with a ultrahand,
+that when using pro controls (as I did since I dislike the clutter that it shows on the screen),
+doesn't tell you how to deconstruct things if you mess up.
+Ascend is built in the same way,
+but instead of you constructing the solution (which there might be different ways, but all include ultrahand),
+the world is designed to use ascend.
+
+The teleport system also affects how you traverse the world, since the world is almost 2/3 times the size.
+There are specific points of interest that allow you to travel from the overworld to the sky or the underdark,
+which means that you have to be able to get to them in an easier way.
+The teleport makes this so much easier.
+But this makes the simple walking around and finding something interesting feel like a waste.
+
+Fuse, fuse, fuse.
+This ability makes me dislike the combat so much.
+Instead of finding interesting weapons out in the world,
+you have to fight enemies to then convert your weapons into something new.
+You can't ensure that the weapons will work as it was intended,
+since you will want to deal the most damage.
+Then a sword can become more like an axe due to the nail you fused.
+And the normal weapons,
+that are simple to understand,
+are almost unusable due to breakage being ramped up.
+I ended up just using the bow,
+since that will work as one would expect no matter what,
+and adding bombs to specific arrows rather than gathering bomb arrows is a change that I approve of.
+
+** The dungeons
+The dungeons have a similar problem with the switches.
+You arrive at a dungeon, and need to hit a button that depends on a switch of some form.
+But the boss is actually setup.
+It is them that is shown to affect the areas.
+Queen Gibdo is making the storm, Colgera is making the snow storm, and Mucktorok is slinging out the sludge (I have yet to get to death mountain).
+So the reward does feel related to what you are working for when helping these areas out.
+
+I am doing TotK a bit of a disservice here though, with how the switches are made.
+They are more interesting,
+since they aren't all based on moving an area with the use of the map,
+but they are in large part the same concept.
+
+** The story
+In TotK, the story starts in a much clearer way, and introduces this old civilization.
+Zelda has been transported through time.
+It feels way more in depth compared to BotW.
+It does however conflict a bit with other games in my mind,
+in particular with Skyward Sword,
+but that is something that doesn't really matter when it comes Zelda.
+The way to get more information is by talking to the different factions, and finding the tears.
+The tears are the same idea of the pictures from BotW,
+but implemented way better,
+since you can see theme way easier.
+The issue that was raised to me by a friend,
+was that the world doesn't react to you gaining more information about what has happened if you don't do it in the correct order.
+If you finish the tears before dungeons,
+it gets a bit messed up.
+Also, if you decide to go to another region than Rito in the beginning, you won't get the foundations of the tears explained either.
+So TotK fails a bit in their ability to explain the story due to them not wanting to limit how you navigate the world.
+
+* What does this mean?
+I think that some of the ideas that Tears of the Kingdom introduces creates an interesting game,
+but it bases a lot of what was created in Breath of the Wild and suffers therefore.
+A game that either focuses a lot on the story or the exploration is what I think I want from a game.
+And I am not saying you can't have both, but it will need to make sure that either aspect doesn't infringe on the other.