Ryan Sands and his daughter, Naomi, have always shared a passion for creativity and drawing, but neither anticipated what happened while playing FromSoftware's epic.
This is genuinely adorable, thanks for sharing the story!
I had a similar experience with my daughter when I played through Breath of the Wild again with my daughter when she was 4-5 years old (she’s 9 now). She’d encourage me to complete every side mission in the game in a way I wouldn’t have the patience to on my own. We really went on an adventure in that world together.
She’d continually want to go back and ask me to play it more for her to watch, asking me to find more things for us to see and do. Thankfully, BotW is a) my favourite game ever and b) there is a whole lot more stuff to do so I was always happy to oblige.
Our obsession eventually seeped out of the game into the real world. She particularly loves playing role play with dolls/lego/us and so we ended up making home-made print and cut-out paper dolls of all the BotW characters that we would role-play with, literally all day long. This way we could play games with all the lesser-known characters as well! (We had a running gag where my interpretation of King Dorephan would endlessly talk on and on about when he was a young zora whenever asked about anything).
That Elden Ring map and other pictures, though, particularly reminded me of a picture she drew for me - I remember her proudly presenting it to me (I wasn’t aware she what she had been working away on) and it was such a complete annotated collection of all the BotW characters she loved, I’d post a photo but I think comments are text-only here. It’s genuinely one of my most treasured possessions and summed up the journey we explored together.
Ah, this is so great! You cannot control what your children are into, but I do wonder sometimes that if because video games are so normalized in my home, as the result of my job, that it does not seem special, so there's less of a "hmm, what's this" quality to them.
Omg, this story! I love seeing how she translated the characters into her drawing ability and style. Some kids get really discouraged that they can't do it "right". Maybe it's the DIY/zine mentality from her parent. Very cool, what a great project
My oldest struggles with the "right" idea. She likes to be perfect, she likes to copy. She's okay with coming up with her own ideas and is very crafty, but when she's actually trying to imitate, it can prove very frustrating when it goes awry.
this was great, dude.
Thanks, bud! Been too long!
This is such a cool story - and I'm with you: I'm slightly jealous of this story.
But also a really cool way to highlight that it isn't always about playing the game, and that there are many different aspects to enjoying a game!!
I think that's exactly right.
This is genuinely adorable, thanks for sharing the story!
I had a similar experience with my daughter when I played through Breath of the Wild again with my daughter when she was 4-5 years old (she’s 9 now). She’d encourage me to complete every side mission in the game in a way I wouldn’t have the patience to on my own. We really went on an adventure in that world together.
She’d continually want to go back and ask me to play it more for her to watch, asking me to find more things for us to see and do. Thankfully, BotW is a) my favourite game ever and b) there is a whole lot more stuff to do so I was always happy to oblige.
Our obsession eventually seeped out of the game into the real world. She particularly loves playing role play with dolls/lego/us and so we ended up making home-made print and cut-out paper dolls of all the BotW characters that we would role-play with, literally all day long. This way we could play games with all the lesser-known characters as well! (We had a running gag where my interpretation of King Dorephan would endlessly talk on and on about when he was a young zora whenever asked about anything).
That Elden Ring map and other pictures, though, particularly reminded me of a picture she drew for me - I remember her proudly presenting it to me (I wasn’t aware she what she had been working away on) and it was such a complete annotated collection of all the BotW characters she loved, I’d post a photo but I think comments are text-only here. It’s genuinely one of my most treasured possessions and summed up the journey we explored together.
Ah, this is so great! You cannot control what your children are into, but I do wonder sometimes that if because video games are so normalized in my home, as the result of my job, that it does not seem special, so there's less of a "hmm, what's this" quality to them.
Omg, this story! I love seeing how she translated the characters into her drawing ability and style. Some kids get really discouraged that they can't do it "right". Maybe it's the DIY/zine mentality from her parent. Very cool, what a great project
My oldest struggles with the "right" idea. She likes to be perfect, she likes to copy. She's okay with coming up with her own ideas and is very crafty, but when she's actually trying to imitate, it can prove very frustrating when it goes awry.
Showing a 5 year old girl a From Software game... When I think of my 5 year old that would be something terrifying :-D
Part of what's fun about kids growing up is figuring out what does/doesn't scare them. I agree that most kids would probably not be into it!