Especially if they're being seen out of order too. Watching each individual scene on their own, especially if it's interwoven through hours upon hours of gameplay, I can totally see how the scenes would come off as fluff material to make the player care about Zelda and want to stop Ganon. I think part of what made it all 'click' for me was watching that thirty minute long video on YouTube with all of the flashbacks edited together and in chronological order. I'm not going to be able to actually play Breath of the Wild for a few months (too broke to get a Switch or a Wii U right now), so I've been spoiling myself and watching all the cutscenes and looking up as many details as possible. Sure, I think it all could have been elaborated on more, but between the cutscenes, flashbacks and some of the various journal entries that are scattered across the game, Zelda's personal arc just really resonated for me.Īh, see I think that's part of the big difference in perspective here. Hell, Mipha's also the only Champion to get mentioned during the game's True Ending, with Zelda talking about how she wants to talk to Mipha's father and offer him some closure on the death of his daughter. There's a reason why Mipha's the Champion who gets special focus out of the four in BotW, with the whole elaborate lore of being childhood friends with Link and how she was prepping to court Link for marriage, as well as how her death impacted the relationship between Zoras and Hylians. It's even foreshadowed by Mipha's lines to Zelda just before Calamity Ganon appears- and really, Mipha is Zelda's symbolic foil in the game. Zelda's power awakens once she stops trying to talk to the gods and use her wisdom, and instead acts purely on her instinct to protect Link. Zelda's payoff moment- where she figures it out- is really in those last two flashback scenes where she saves Link from the Guardian and then gets everything ready for when Link wakes up in a century's time before heading out to face Ganon.
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