Boomerang

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	Back to the Realm Related Pages Previous Editorial Next Editorial Editorial List Got any comments? You can tell me by using... The form Email Message Board The opinions on this page are those of the Mariner. Do not use any of this unless you get permission from him. Remember, you can write your own editorials on pretty much anything video game related. Just write to me Last Update 12 - 2 - 00			I must warn you, I have no intention of making this a thought provoking editorial. I'm bored, feel I need to write another editorial before I get back on the net, and feel like rambling.  And that's what this is, a ramble.  Ooh, what fun. Boomerang.  Hands down, no contest, best weapon in all of Zelda.  It just is.  It's the boomerang.  What's so special about it?  I don't know, but it's still cool.  The boomerang was my staple weapon in Zelda 1.  Still is.  Perhaps it's just the fact that you get it first.  Here you are, roaming around in that first dungeon, with your button empty.  Assuming you don't have bombs at this point.  And after a bloody battle with a bunch of Goriyas, who should come to 3d Zelda, you are rewarded with a boomerang.  OK so maybe that's not it.  Maybe it's the fact that you can throw it in 8 directions.  That's kind of spiffy.  And then there's that little trick where if you press one direction and then quickly press a different direction it will move like a knight in chess.  It takes a lot of practice (well not really), so don't yell at me if it doesn't work, ok?  Or maybe it's the simple fact that it looks cool.  I don't know.  It's just a boomerang.  But it's still fun.  Maybe I should have it be the Weapon of the Week sometime.  Oh well. Boomerang.  Yes I am starting the same way as last paragraph, so sue me.  Anywho, stupid Microsoft doesn't think anywho is a word.  But that's not what I was going to say; it's just that I have a squiggly red line underneath it now.  But anywho, the boomerang just never returned to the glory of the first game.  It's coolness just diminished somehow.  Take Adventure of Link for example.  It didn't even exist.  Maybe that's why no one liked it.  Yes, that must be it.  No boomerang=bad Zelda.  Well, the game wasn't bad, but a lot of people didn't like it.  No boomerang is bad.  And then there's LttP.  It did better in this game.  It was the first weapon you received besides the candle (did you know Zelda won't let you into the tunnels without your candle.  Stupid Zelda).But it was kind of slow and ugly.  Besides, it pretty much disappeared once I got the hookshot.  I mean, the hookshot does everything the boomerang does and more.  And I didn't even know about the magical boomerang until my second time around.  Who wants to spend all their time throwing stuff into a pond anyways?  And don't get me started on LA.  I didn't even know there was a boomerang in it.  Who would put a boomerang near the end of the game?  How dumb.  Grrr.  OoT wasn't too bad.  Except that you get it so late in the game.  Sure, you use it in Jabu Jabu, but then what?  You become an adult.  And in MM, as cool as double boomerangs are, they're just fins.  But I'll take it.   So we're back to the beginning here. Boomerang. A fun word to say. Try it. Boooommeraang.  I'll say it again.  Boomerang.  Why did Miyamato put it in?  I'm not complaining.  Are you?  I should hope not or I'll beat you with a toaster.  Or throw a boomerang at you.  I want a boomerang.  Well, kind of.  I don't know what I'd do with it.  Maybe I'll just play Zelda and throw the boomerang there.  And I'm running out of things to say.  I hope you've learned how cool the boomerang is.  I hope you go throw it around.  Me, I've got stuff to do now.  So long and thank's for all the fish.  But only if the fish have detachable fins that can be thrown like boomerangs.