Nausica or Lapita and not think that maybe there was some inspiration weaned from those movies, right? Yeah, they're definitely drinking from a common pool, if nothing else. Yeah, I feel like the Legend of Zelda, you know, if it did begin as just progressing through dungeons in a sort of linear fashion, that is pure Tower of Druaga, which is a tower with 60 floors, and you go through them one by one, and it's full of secrets. And there's knights that have shields, and you have to hit them from behind. And…
you get out there, you've got an open world, but you know, okay, I need to go to this palace, and this palace, and this palace, and then I can go to the castle. Once you get to the dark world, it very much pushes you towards that the palace number one to get the hammer. But beyond that, there are a lot of dungeons you can sort of like, well, which which one do I want to go to first? Which one's closer to this one? And indeed, you mentioned taking an item out. I always to this day, I always go to the marsh before…
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... Yeah. And it can, you know, it can be formulaic now, but it certainly wasn't with a link to the past. Like, that was fresh and new and amazing. What I think what the past does get right is that it sort of starts off a little rigid in that when, you know, when you when you begin the quest and you get out there, you've got an open world, but you know, okay, I need to go to this palace, and this palace, and this palace, and then I can go to the castle. Once you get to the dark world, it very much pushes you towards that the palace number one to get the hammer. But beyond that, there are a lot of dungeons you can sort of like, well, which which one do I want to go to first? Which one's closer to this one? And indeed, you mentioned taking an item out. I always to this day, I always go to the marsh before I go to the ice dungeon, because the ice dungeon has this one stupid complex puzzle where you're supposed to push a block down a series of holes. And only when he gets to the very, very bottom, can you push the block onto a switch and then get to the end of the dungeon. Whereas if you go to the next one, which is technically like, I think it's like level five or six, but technically, if you go to the next dungeon first, and get the wand that makes just makes a block appear out of nowhere, if you get that one first, and then leave, you can go back to the ice dungeon and just skip that whole goddamn puzzle. Okay, you want to block on this ...