I’d already been led to expect that the first book is the weakest in the trilogy, so I kept moving and started reading the second book. I’m glad I did, because--as you’ll find in this spoiler-free review--I found it to be an improvement on the first book in the trilogy. However, just how much of an improvement was it?

In this session, we’re going to take what we developed in the previous session and really flesh it out. I’m going to break down how I write my arcs and talk about what I do to ensure successful, cohesive improvisation during a session. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find links to download the template that I use for writing an arc. If you have your own that you’d like to use, feel free to use that! My template is also fairly focused on Dungeons and Dragons, but it can easily be modified to any other system.

The canon (that means no CD-I, Hyrule Warriors, or even, sadly, Lampshade of No Real Significance Zelda Games. I originally used Tiermaker for this, which you can see in the video version of this post (linked down below). For this version of the content, I've reorganized it so that the games appear in their actual order. You'll see my least favorite first, then we'll work our way up to my favorite Zelda game out of all of them.

I had a pretty good idea of what I was in for within the first few pages of the book. I started reading this shortly after the high I had from The Fires of Vengeance and it took me a couple of days to finish, so it was a fairly quick read. What did I think of it, though?

In this third part of my fifteen-part homebrew campaign series, we work out the necessary components of our arc and prepare to flesh it out.

I’m going to say right off the bat that I think that genre is loose, weird, and ultimately up to interpretation. You can usually discern if something is sci-fi, contemporary, or fantasy (though some stories even like to mix and mash these broader genres). However, once you get into subgenres, things get really messy and you end up with completely meaningless in-fighting among readers over whether or not something qualifies as a particular genre.So, I acknowledge that I’m being a bit hypocritical by listing my favorite genres and story types when I don’t actually think subgenres have consistent or reliable definitions. I don’t want to argue about whether a particular book meets some particular website’s specific definition of a single subgenre, so take my list here with a grain of salt; it’s my subjective opinion.