the comforting discomfort of twilight princess

a retrospective of sorts that analyzes the spiritual themes of the legend of zelda: twilight princess through its aesthetics, world design, story and characters. a personal look at how the game informed a lot of my sensibilities today including accepting incredibly weird and unconventional ideas in the real world or art. happy 20th anniversary! chapters: 00:00 - why is twilight princess my favorite zelda? 02:39 - ordon’s great characterization 05:38 - introduction of contrasts, duality and credit to miyamoto 08:28 - introduction to midna, the twilight and being othered 10:38 - hyrule’s decay and kakariko’s connections 13:39 - link’s character shown through colin’s courage 15:12 - spectrums: diverse cultures and tones 19:24 - warmth and darkness from npcs 22:41 - seeing midna clearly and loving the unconventional 29:31 - arbiters grounds; snowpeak; temple of time; city in the sky; erosions of time 36:42 - zant’s duality 39:48 - ganondorf 43:09 - light and darkness create twilight; humanity short updates + sarcastic comments bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dogninja.bsky.social maybe i'll stream twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/dogninjatv see the anime i've watched and liked https://myanimelist.net/profile/Dogninja see the video games i've played and liked https://backloggd.com/u/Dogninja/ see the movies i've watched and liked https://letterboxd.com/Dogninja/ find me at other places on the web Various other links: https://t.co/XDAUBPfBYi sources: twilight princess script i grabbed some of midna’s lines from: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e97eb9f0... iwata asks interview: https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/... #videoessay #retrospective #zelda #twilightprincess