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Cadence of Hyrule confirmed for June 2019, new gameplay
- Thread starter Atheerios
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There are two different seasonal calendars - meteorological which groups the months into four 3-month periods, and astronomical which are based on our position to the sun and use the equinoxes and solstices are start and end points (usually around the 21st of December, March, June and September respectively).
Both are valid.
I, for one, welcome our pagan overlords. Praise the solstice.
I do, yes. I see the merit in establishing a cross cultural standardised definition of seasons that work across the northern hemisphere. But it's hard to rewire decades of basic timekeeping understanding and it's a lot easier to just be cross about computer games.
I mean, it was, but the reason why wasn't because it taught the definition of seasons used in my country for hundreds of years.
As I said, Japanese always use the astronomical definition so if an announcement comes from Japan, one should adjust accordingly.
As you pointed out it's probably worse for countries in the southern hemisphere. For Australians, when a game is announced for spring, it actually comes out in autumn.
I'm thinking the cheeseburger is some kind of drum - not sure if it's a specific reference (maybe a Goron drum?) but that would make more sense to me
I wanna say that the necklace and cheeseburger are actually instruments - bells or tambourine and a drum?
Accidentally posted a previous version that I already fixed, heh. Fixed.
You're telling me that they teach that spring starts June 1 in Japan?
>defining "normal" by culture or country
:thinkingemoji:
For us here "spring" is march to may. Defining it by astronomical means only makes sense when there's a unified global nation, and the people here on Earth are anyting but unified at the moment.
God, this game looks so fucking good! The original announcement got me to play CotN and seriously, don't sleep on this one - even as someone who is terrible at rhythm games, it's one of the best indie games I've played.
I just hope the OST takes tracks from games across the series as well as throwing in some original beats here and there. I trust in the composer though, he is mad talented.
I just hope the OST takes tracks from games across the series as well as throwing in some original beats here and there. I trust in the composer though, he is mad talented.
Not really though? If grouped by months it could be completely arbitrary. Someone living in the tropics doesn't experience seasons in the same way someone in the higher latitudes does, so seasons based on months make even less sense in those places, but even in the tropics the earth still rotated around the sun. Seasons are based on the position of the earth in relation to the sun (and seasons themselves are caused by the tilt of the earth) and are not just an arbitrary set of months. I can't imagine how anyone can think otherwise.
This thread is my punishment for never playing Oracle of Ages.
lmao
People in here arguing about whether June is Spring and Summer when there's an amazing game we should be talking about.
Also, Winter starts on June 1st, fight me!
Also, Winter starts on June 1st, fight me!
you're not normal if you don't use the normal way to tell the damn season
soon people are going to tell me they size stuff with their feet or something
I am totally on board with the classic Zelda enemy/musical instrument mashups. Gleeokenspiel is still the better pun, but Gomaracas is solid, too. Did we get a bongo/dodongo yet? I can't remember if that happened or if it just needs to happen.Ghoma + maracas = Ghomaracas
Also worth noting on that image: That's Link AND Zelda. Co-op confirmed?
I mean, meteorological seasons are a thing used by meteorologists - don't know what else to tell you
But back to the game - it looks good!
Staff Post: Stop debating seasonal definitions and get back on topic.
Official Staff Communication
This thread is not about relative perspectives of seasonal cycles. Get back on topic and discuss the game.
It's a turned-based game that has special restriction, that's all.
Man this looks lovely.
I couldn't get into Crypt of the Necrodancer but I'll give it another try for Zelda.
I couldn't get into Crypt of the Necrodancer but I'll give it another try for Zelda.
My opinion exactly, I wish it was just a 2D Zelda set in both games universes but with normal Zelda movement. Eh I guess I have to wait for that Zelda Gameboy remake at years end.
Very few people in the tropics care at all about concepts like "spring" or "summer", because they make no sense from a weather standpoint. In Tanzania when I lived there we had the long dry season, followed by the long rainy reason, followed by the short dry reason, followed by the short rainy season. They had no time equivalents in any of the northern hemisphere temperate seasons and were not analogues of them.
Those seasons derive from a particular use in a historical and agricultural context. As have the northern hemisphere temperate ones. That someone has tried to (pseudo-)scientifically squeeze these cultural concepts into particular phases of earth's position relative to the sun smacks of the kind of bad-practice prescriptive linguistics that we thought we'd left behind in the trying-to-fit-latin-onto-English 19th century.
Original was randomly generated but this one looks like an actual handcrafted map. We don't know yet.
