This is looking really pretty and I'm heartened to see that they have made some changes to support the more modern gameplay and controls. Glad I nabbed a pre-order on the cheap, I think this seems to be turning out better than I initially thought it would.

I pre-ordered this as well. It looks awesome.

This isn't my favorite Zelda game, but I'm looking forward to playing this, too! It's still really fun and I'm glad I pre-ordered it. I'm just jealous of all those YouTubers who go flown out to preview it, apparently. Did Nintendo pay for all those plane tickets? I miss the days when I was in that circle. Oh well, sorry, sometimes I get discouraged about these things.

Nintendo probably did pay for it. The industry is always chasing those with the most clout - unfortunately, that seems to be on YouTube these days. But I don't much care for the format and I never really engage with gaming YouTube.

It's just hard because that's what I worked so hard in college, to do. And for a while I was like those YouTubers, getting to do all that cool stuff. But after the dot com bubble burst I was never able to fully bounce back. It's hard sometimes when I have to get up in the morning to go to a job I don't like just to pay the bills and while I'm getting ready I hear about all these YouTuber upstarts getting to go do stuff like that. Very discouraging. I know I should get my own YouTube channel but then I'd have to find the funds to get all the equipment I would need and I lack the knowhow to do all that stuff and a lot of these YouTubers have help, too, and I don't have that. It would just be me. Plus I don't know if I'd want to spend all my time chasing YouTube algorithms and such. Life just doesn't work out the way you want it to sometimes.