If you've never read it, the Skyward Sword announcement is as good a reason as any to read Tevis Thompson's indelible essay Saving Zelda, originally published following the Wii release of SS. It reads a bit differently, perhaps, in the wake of BotW. http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/
I'm not going to litigate a 9-year-old essay that I didn't even write with you. Disagree with it, reject it! That's fine. But the value of criticism is not in whether or not we agree with the argument being made. And I love it when I can feel myself getting better at a game.
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I'm expressing my disgust with the argument that games should be harder. I don't think it's a valuable perspective, I think it's a deeply myopic and xenophobic perspective. No criticism is above criticism.
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That's a perfectly valid reaction. If you're interested, I'd suggest reading more of his work. You'll see Tevis as a critic and a person doesn't really care about difficulty as such, he cares about games that fuck us up or change us in some way, that don't just blandly comfort us
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