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This Week in Games - "Next stop, Hyrule!"

We've all been there: the best part of playing a Zelda game is roaming around. Not delving into the temples, not chasing after specific goals—just roaming around, riding Epona, whacking baddies, and visiting your favorite locals. It's fishing at the local spot, it's admiring the attendant at the Bombchu Bowling Alley, and it's helping Anju get her cuccos back in their pen.

I'm not into fighting games much and something about the art style for Idol Showdown is off to me. I'll stick with HoloCure for my Hololive fan game of choice. But I can appreciate the fact some FGC bros are really upset with Idol Showdown for some weird reason.

I do find it fascinating the conversations around the game and its lore, which the article put into perspective. Zelda hasn’t reached Tolkien levels of lore and world building yet, but it’s getting closer as the decades go on.

Who ISN’T still reeling from the entire Mega Man Legends 3 fiasco?

I'll be honest, I was very bitter over how the gaming industry snubbed Battle Network, Mega Man Zero, Mega Man Star Force and Mega Man ZX for such a long time. So anytime people brought up how sad they were about Mega Man Legends 3 failing, I'd ask them how many copies of Mega Man Zero they'd bought (because it felt like only die-hard Mega Man fans cared about MMZ).

Following on that last point, while I agree that the frustration with MML3's cancellation got old, I have to wonder whether more people buying the other series would have made that much difference (or whether it's reasonable to expect the same group of people to care about all of them), considering Legends doesn't share gameplay, setting, or characters with any of them and is basically its own weird cult-classic PS1 thing.

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Following on that last point, while I agree that the frustration with MML3's cancellation got old, I have to wonder whether more people buying the other series would have made that much difference (or whether it's reasonable to expect the same group of people to care about all of them), considering Legends doesn't share gameplay, setting, or characters with any of them and is basically its own weird cult-classic PS1 thing.

Legends is the logical ending to all of the Mega Man games; they introduce Elysium as a concept in Mega Man X, Mega Man Zero follows up on the idea when Dr. Weil devastates the world, and ZX shows it beginning as a society where Reploids and humans are indistinguishable. ZX advent shows it further, which is basically where the Synthetics and Carbons come in from Legends.

At the risk of being pedantic, I don't think Zelda will ever reach the same level of the Legendarium. Tolkien made a whole world and deeply considered stuff as tiny as how the languages developed and changed; stuff for Zelda is only really considered when the games need a new thing. The "Zelda Timeline™" wasn't made until Skyward Sword came out, because Nintendo really wanted to push it being the "prequel" for the Zelda series, for all the good that did 'em (turns out, nobody really cares where Ganon and the Master Sword came from). And while it's cool that TotK spoiler[continues to expand on the lore by referencing Demise and stuff], there's still a ton of other stuff that's just been left on the shelf because it's not involved with the Ganon/Zelda/Link dynamic. So screw you if you're invested in stuff like the origins of the Majora's Mask, Termina, Holodrum, Subrosia, Labrynna, the Oracles, the Picori, further details on Lorule, the remaining deities besides the Three Goddesses (remember how the Goddess of Time was a big deal in OoT and MM?), the Twili...

Who ISN’T still reeling from the entire Mega Man Legends 3 fiasco?

I do also wonder how many people actually played to the end of Legends 2 and are waiting for a resolution, despite how often it comes up online.

Who ISN’T still reeling from the entire Mega Man Legends 3 fiasco?

There are plenty of interesting hooks left in the Mega Man verse to explore. but it's kind of like how even though Castlevania never did a story set in 1999, we already have enough surrounding context to fill in the blanks. There are just some scenes you have to... compartmentalize on a replay, that's all. Getting a real sequel that lets us put those questions to rest would be great, but at the same time, there's also a chance we may not like the answers.

But anyway, more importantly, just like everybody else, I'm incredibly excited about the biggest launch of the month, the direct sequel to a beloved game that improves on the first one in every way: Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2.

... anybody? Anybody else excited to send their furry kids off to war in a sentient tank again?

The ESRB does point to there being some amount of sexual innuendo in Final Fantasy XVI, citing certain scenes where a character "[caresses] and [straddles] a man in bed." The trailers have already hinted at people boning (and from what we've seen, it's been between heterosexual partners). Square Enix has gone on the record that they're hoping for a "Game of Thrones"-esque tone with this new Final Fantasy, which has never sat well with me considering there's a way to make that work that I don't really trust many writers to achieve. "Being like Game of Thrones" just feels like a license to be an edgelord, in my eyes.