Thursday 6 October, 2005

I think I've realized what is the MOST distinctive Zelda characteristic of a Zelda game. (at least of the 2D ones I've played). Cutting the grass!

Yeah! One of the things you start out doing the most is...cutting the grass with your sword. You never know when you'll turn up some money, perhaps a heart..or even some other goodies. I think it is kind of cute how in this particular game, the reasons why that happens are explained. Namely, the tiny Minish people like t o hide little things in the grass so that humans find them and feel good. Yay!

Hunh. That's really interesting (haven't played Zelda much), because:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusanagi

See especially para. 4 of "Legends".

That is funny!

Grass-cutting comment is actually a bit of a joke since although you do spend a lot of time doing just that, it is one of the few mindless and repetitive things you can do in Zelda (though you never HAVE to). In fact, whenever you leave an area and then return, all the grass has grown back. You basically do it to get a coin or two.

Nice comment, I was completely unaware of the info you pointed to... I thought it was particularly cool that so many games have used the sword name in some way or another. Thanks!