I’ve been loving this new Zelda game on the Nintendo Switch. The puzzles are wonderful, and it’s often a very funny game. All of the interior spaces are well thought-out and believable to me. I took a few screen captures from the beginning of my game to share here.

First of all in the image above, I noticed the sheer number of rugs in the space. The rugs and their different sizes and colors led me to believe that a unique individual has made their home here, possibly over many years. I’m also in love with the kitchen space in this environment and the vanity.

There are many more spaces with similar motifs in different color schemes. Some of the rugs and objects look similarly patterned as in other scenes but they are still unique. The rolled mats in the scene above added a lot of texture and dimension to the sense of space for me.

I liked the space above because it seemed like a cozy study to me. The lantern on the desk with the papers on the wall and the open book spoke to me.

I liked how different cities had different design feels, like the image below where there is only dark hardwood, no rugs. The wooden planks each seem to be a bit unique. There are splits and grooves in different places in each floorboard.

Too, I like how every little home has a unique plant. When I look back through the screen captures in this post, each place has a unique plant - there is one cactus that seems to show up twice but that’s it. The standby Zelda ceramic pots are the only thing that seem to be mass-produced in this game, something I have never thought about before in all the Zelda I’ve ever played.

These rooms definitely made me stop and appreciate them, so much that I figured I might as well post about them. Like most videogame players, I often fly through areas very quickly so I can get to the next thing or the next area. But I liked pausing for a bit in this game to notice what was around in each place. It seems to me that a lot of thought went into it all.