Completing Tears of the Kingdom

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On January 1, 2025, I completed the main story of the Nintendo Switch video game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Defeating Ganon/Ganondorf is a monunental task for anyone who plays Zelda games. Right after the completion of the "main quests" list of the game, I was at 66% completion. Here were a few statistics of the playable character Link before the final boss battle—

  • 30 hearts
  • 3 stamina wheels
  • Hylian armor set, 3 stars, 36 defense
  • Soldier armor set, 3 stars, 54 defense
  • Champions's leathers, 3 stars, 22 defense
  • Royal shields of at least 55 defense
  • Royal bows of at least 38 offense
  • 10 ancient blades
  • Fused weapons of at least 40 offense
  • 10 sunny meals, at least 3 recovered hearts
  • 5 high-level defense meals

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a video game curated by Nintendo trough the Legend of Zelda franchise. Released in 2023, the video game proved to be a highly profitable offering. Like all Zelda games, Tears of the Kingdom is exclusive to Nintendo Switch, so the aspiring player has to buy Nintendo Switch hardware first. Depending on the hardware design, the Nintendo Switch may cost roughly ₱20,000. When plugged in, it consumes up to 40 watts.

Invoking the metaphysical expansionist doctrines such as fictional realism, the multiverse, and modal realism, I posit that Link and all other so-called "fictional characters" are real people, surely existing in foreign universes. Just because we cannot see entities and forces from the perspective of the environment that we ihabit doesn't mean that they really do not exist. Be mindful of your arbitrary standards of what is "real" and what is "fictional." If you can "think" of something, that "something" surely exists in the multiverse. Everything we can ever "imagine" is a real thing, just located in different regions of the cosmos.

Link is highly privileged

The ending as inferred in Tears of the Kingdom is suggestive how fortunate and optimistic Link is compared to other in-game heroes: the hero of Hyrule emerges unscathed and gets back his original arm right after defeating something called Demon King Ganondorf. Link generally recovers rapidly after defeating monster bosses. Link has the support of the spiritual realm, which then ensures him soaring resillience. In Tears of the Kingdom, aside from Princess Zelda, all Hyrulean leaders—be they Purah, Teba, Tulin, Yunobo, Sidon, Yona, Rito, and Buliara—know Link and strongly support the Hylian especially since Link's entry into their domains. Link is essentially a high-ranking military officer and a royal guard who employs an extremely wide variety of high-quality armor and weapons to defend Hyruleans, defeat monsters, or simply go mining. If you think that Link is a tragic protagonist, think again, as Link is easily one of the most fortunate heroes humanity has ever inferred.

Many video games assign their characters sharply more tragic backgrounds. As there are so many of them, I would like to detail one of those more tragic heroes instead. Clive Rosfield as inferred in Final Fantasy XVI has to endure constant treason in Valisthea. Clive's mother Anabella Rosfield is as degenerate as we can guess: selling their country Rosaria in exchange for marriage to the even more degenerate Sylvestre Lesage, which then led to Sylvestre's crown prince Dion Lesage going further into the abyss. Clive frequently sees his younger brother Joshua Rosfield in a critical state, often the result of the outstanding conflict in Valisthea. Clive Rosfield may be a formidable character, but his administration of a gargantuan creature called Ifrit gives him distressing responsibilities. When Clive defeats the main antagonist of his world, the future of his survival is uncertain, as his hand gets petrified. If Link were to see Clive Rosfield, the former would be thankful of how optimistic his background is.

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