WereKitten on 04 March 2009
| largedarryl said: Well many people in this thread do help prove my point. The pure genius that is Zelda is really a 2 sided coin. On one side, you are given a simple story that is predictable, mainly driven by great gameplay. This creates an approachable game to those gamers that find strong story driven games repulsive. Now Nintendo have always done a great job with Zelda keeping the in you face story very subtle and not game breaking. The other side of this coin shows that Zelda games have very deep stories that present many moral, religious and philosophical undertones that do not intrude on the primary entertainment factor that video gaming is there to present. |
Disagree on this. People can find moral, religious and philosophical undertones wherever they want, especially in tales built of fairytale material and universal myths.
But they are the lowest common denominator of any narration: try to find a single fantasy plot that doesn't dabble in good, evil, friendship, betrayal, love or hubris.
