no.6: Master Kohga - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
(suggested by CoCo_the_Malamute)
Some pictures deserve a soundtrack; this is one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p44G0U4sLCE
As a long time fan of the Legend of Zelda, I find myself being a divisive when it comes to the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. While I think they're fine games, I unfortunately feel that for every great thing they did for the series, they did something just as equally damning. I suppose that's just what happens when you go in a drastically different direction for a long standing series. For all the things I may dislike about these two titles though, the one thing I can say it's most net positive feature is Master-fucking-Kohga!
Say what you will, but this is what male perfection looks like! There's a lot to love about foil villains like Kohga, but more over the Legend of Zelda series needs more villains like this! Most of the villain roster is consumed by big dungeon bosses and while we may get a Zant or Ghirahim ever so often but in the end they tend to play second fiddle to Ganon or are simply never mentioned again. It's an unfortunate flaw in the series, so bless whoever made this chunky, red spandex glad clod of a ninja! You time with us may have been brief, but it will never be forgotten!
Thanks again to CoCo_the_Malamute for this suggestion!
(suggested by CoCo_the_Malamute)
Some pictures deserve a soundtrack; this is one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p44G0U4sLCE
As a long time fan of the Legend of Zelda, I find myself being a divisive when it comes to the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. While I think they're fine games, I unfortunately feel that for every great thing they did for the series, they did something just as equally damning. I suppose that's just what happens when you go in a drastically different direction for a long standing series. For all the things I may dislike about these two titles though, the one thing I can say it's most net positive feature is Master-fucking-Kohga!
Say what you will, but this is what male perfection looks like! There's a lot to love about foil villains like Kohga, but more over the Legend of Zelda series needs more villains like this! Most of the villain roster is consumed by big dungeon bosses and while we may get a Zant or Ghirahim ever so often but in the end they tend to play second fiddle to Ganon or are simply never mentioned again. It's an unfortunate flaw in the series, so bless whoever made this chunky, red spandex glad clod of a ninja! You time with us may have been brief, but it will never be forgotten!
Thanks again to CoCo_the_Malamute for this suggestion!
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>Save for Ganondorf and Majora, the series lacks any villains that are actual characters
But that's just not true, lots of them have real character and some are actually deeper than they first seem. :c
But that's just not true, lots of them have real character and some are actually deeper than they first seem. :c
Such as? Most villains in Zelda are monsters, which are cool and interesting but otherwise there's only a handful that are actual characters
Hilda, Byrne, Vaati as seen in Minish Cap, Zant, Cia, Ghirahim... Those characters don't exactly strike me as just cool-looking props or personality-less monsters.
Fair point, I guess it's easy to forget when the series makes little to no effort to reference any villain past their debut game.
Cia's lack of mention is more understandable, I guess, given the dubious canon status of Hyrule Warriors, but yeah, I wish the others got more attention too. At least Zant got a cameo in BotW via his helmet (and might I add, I absolutely love all the relics from the franchise's past that can be found throughout that game), and Hyrule Warriors of course let him and Ghirahim return as major threats, so that's something.
I think why they also tend to end up forgotten (even by myself who's favorite villain in the series is Ghirahim) is that they tend to suffer from the Nintendo curse of having to play second fiddle to the series standard big-bad in the end. This is why Skull Kid/Majora always stands out as they were the focal villains of their game and even if Majora was pulling the strings, we still saw Majora the entire time and he acted the same as Skull Kid, and angry, child-like creature with too much unchecked power.
True enough--with some of the ones I named though, it does at least kinda make sense that they only ended up secondary villains. Hilda, for example, only assisted Lorule's Ganondorf equivalent to protect Lorule, Twilight Princess was a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask and so Ganondorf served as the most obvious connection point while actually nicely explaining how Zant even managed to do as much as he did, Skyward Sword kinda needed a Ganondorf stand-in as his very origin point... And in Spirit Tracks and Minish Cap, of course, there is no Ganon or Ganondorf. Poor Vaati kinda just gets ignored a lot by Nintendo.
I feel it works for Zant, because Zant's true nature is pathetic and unfit to rule, so he needed something to leech off of. Most people disagree with this, but honestly he wasn't interesting to me until we learned he was a petulant child, not some ruthless dictator. Hilda was less a villain and more desperate to do whatever it took to save Lorule, so it made sense but it's a shame that Yuga had all this personality and cool paint-based powers and then just became Ganon in the end, and not even Lorule Ganon, just straight up Ganon. Byrne is another villain turned good, so that's not too bad, just the big bad of that game was super forgettable. Vaati has potential, but they really need to like figure out how to use him better. Ghirahim really bothered me though, not just as he's my favorite but because he had SO much personality and was the main antagonist and then is little more then a sword for "Not-Ganon." He had every right to be the main villain of that game but... I could go on about how fucked the story is of Skyward Sword.
Oh yeah, I forgot Ghirahim was basically Demise's Fi.
Despite nothing really indicating this until almost the end, iirc. :V
Despite nothing really indicating this until almost the end, iirc. :V
Only to reveal that the eternal, never-ending evil entity that is Ganon was just... another eternal, never-ending evil entity that looked just like Ganon but named Demise. Shoulda' stayed the evil avocado
I do find it kinda neat that Demise's pure hatred of the hero and the goddess is what marked Ganon as the destined villain all along, but yeah, how much cooler would it have been if the delightfully creepy femboyish mage was whose soul later reincarnated into Ganondorf? That would've been a pretty unexpected twist.
Also thanks for bringing up how cool and unique Yuga was prior to the final fight with him, I was guilty of kinda forgetting too... <:3
Also thanks for bringing up how cool and unique Yuga was prior to the final fight with him, I was guilty of kinda forgetting too... <:3
It's more that it was already established that Ganon's constant reincarnation was born out of pure hatred for Link and Zelda, so it was pointless to show it being the same thing just earlier. Though, that entire game dropped the ball as an origin story, especially in how the Master Sword came to be. I think Demise would have been better as more of a constant looming threat and something that is unstoppable; he just represents evil and how it can never fully be destroyed, but there will always be a hero to quash it, while Ghirahim was just a herald for it but eventually became it's harbinger.
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