I love Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess the most of all the zeldas because when you get to the halfway point of the game and the sages give you the gigantic fetch quest for the mirror that is the entire second half, Link's face is this "you have got to be fucking kidding me" resting Link-face expression the entire time

stares up at the sages

i fought a giant undead dragon

i rode my horse across fucking hyrule

i touched a monkey paw

don't TALK to me about the turning into a wolf thing

MY NEW BEST FRIEND NEARLY DIED.

BECAUSE YOU.

AND NOW I HAVE TO DO A FETCH QUEST

This is the face of a man who just wants to live in a rural farming village, raise goats, maybe flirt with the local chieftain's daughter, and die peacefully in his bed

he in no way wants to be here

but here he is

THIS!

I know it's not the "best" zelda game in the series, nor is it the best-looking but like

man

idk

i just love it

and i love midna

I like it because they tried some different stuff with it which was cool

Talk about it!

Other things I like about this game: Link has like three totally separate occasions on which he tries to refuse the hero's call and really only accepts it right after this specific screenshot

when he and midna look at one another and go like "well fuck it" and nod that yes they'll do the stupid fetch quest

He's courageous, of course, because Link is by definition a brave person, but it's interesting to compare him to the various other Links and see just how much he didn't immediately appoint himself Chosen Savior

(i mean, he did do that, just because the game has got to continue somehow, but ultimately there are so many dang kidnappings in this game as if to force him to involve himself)

multiple lengthy story quests are about only engaging with saving the kingdom exactly as far as various forms of extortion can force Link to do so, while explicitly placing Link's goal as getting various children/friends to safety

Like, I hate the escort-the-wagon mission as much as anyone, which is a lot because that mission is a frustrating slog

but it does show Link's priorities in this story

Sure, you meet Zelda early and there's this sense of connection and fate between Link and the Princess, but ultimately you get a real feeling that as stunned as he is in her presence, neither of them have all that much to do with one another

indeed, canonically, they meet maybe two or three times in their entire lives, this time around, and both go right back to doing what they do

Heck, Link's from Ordona, which isn't even in Hyrule

She's literally not his princess, in this one. It'd be like one of us going on a quest to rescue the Canadian PM

LET THE BOY RAISE GOATS IN PEACE, GANON

It appears that many of the things I like about this game are just Link being resistant to the eternal tide of Zelda Narrative