Now, about that Link and Zelda thing going on... *only beginning spoilers*

[MagmarFire]

Am I seriously the only one who's obsessing over it? -_-;

This is one of the driving forces of how I think Skyward Sword's story is among the absolute best in the franchise (perhaps moreso than Majora's Mask, even, and that's saying a whole friggin' lot). It was an excellent way to establish a dynamic between the two, and aside from it being a very satisfying source of fluff--which, as I'm a romantic myself, I can't get enough of when I'm in the "zone" of it all--it was a major source of motivation to actually go out and track her down, for both Link and for me.

One of my minor complaints about Spirit Tracks was the lack having an overarching story hook that made you want to know more, because, as I said before, a lot of the backstory and all that was already told. That isn't to say I thought the story was bad; far from it. It's just that I felt they told a substantial amount of their story at the beginning, and there wasn't as much left for the player as a reward for completing all of these challenges.

It's interesting because Skyward Sword did something very similar in its beginning. It told a distant-past story of some big bad getting sealed away, staging the setting. The clincher here is that there was much more after this. We find out more about Skyloft; about our characters; about the Master Sword; and frankly, about the entire franchise as a whole. As good as even Twilight Princess and--dare I say it?--Majora's Mask were, their stories didn't shake up the overarching story of the franchise (but obviously, the latter was amazing in particular). This story does. Oh, dear Goddesses, does it ever.

And the game took me there with the hope that Link and Zelda could have another special moment together to tug at my heartstrings. ...And, of course, to find out what the heck she's been doing while I've been trying to track her down, but still.

This is how a Zelda story like this, or perhaps any romantically-rooted story, should be made. It should be made as a foundation for the characters involved, not as a shoehorned feature just to keep the shippers happy. And in general, the story should be made with major events being told in chunks with there being some compelling goal for both Link and the player in order to keep them wanting for more. With a pairing as adorable as these two, how could I not want to risk fictional life and limb to reunite them?

That said, what do you guys think of the pairing? As you can tell, I feel they pulled it off magnificently. You could say it fills my heart with rainbows, as it were. I can't be the only one here who loves the interaction between these two. I really can't.

Prove it so, for my sake.