CosmicComet
Senior Member
He rubbed his hands together like he does when he lifts something clearly heavy for him and he makes a strain, thats audiable and your excuse is that it was "karate-esque" shouts? roll eyes (sarcastic) I dsiagree, it sounds to me just like a sound a guy straining to lift something. The speed he lifts it at supports me, he lifts it slowly at around 2000 joules. Raziel quickly and easily without a sound bent low like Link did to pick his block up but instead of slowly lifting it, he throws it over. If Link could do it easily why would he lift it first? why did he not go from crouching position to lift it and toss it from there? logically he cant.
-He rubs his hands. Ok. What does this signify other than a point you wish to magnify to mean more than what the end results show? Nothing.
-He lifted it. Off the ground. Easily. There was no wavering in the lifting speed, nor did his arms buckle from the strain. Raziel didn't make a sound, but then he has hardly any battle grunts to recycle in the first place. Also, Raziel's tipping over and pushing took a full 2 seconds whereas Link LIFTED the entire thing off the ground in a second of him reach down to grab it. Link is operating at a greater strength level here as Raziel is only tilting up (and by definition this means only part of the weight is being operated on) of a similar sized object.
-The sounds mean nothing when the visuals take precedence. It is a reach. Hell, his 'grunt' when he threw it was even less than the 'grunt' when he initiated the action. That tells us the necessary strain he required was nothing great. You can try get somewhere with this pointless deconstruction i.e. 'why didn't he just toss it from the start', but it is just that, pointless.
There is no contradiction anywhere, there is nothing that requires that he had to toss it from the start. I suppose it's just Nintendo's way of demonstrating that Link is 'building up strength'. The simple explanations that don't even need to be mentioned in the first place, such as mine, are the ones that are accepted. Simply a general tenet.
Also, the 'grunt' argument is pretty bunk anyway as its not consistent. In Scenario's video, he makes two different initial sounds when he lifts up the two pillars, the similarity is that both times they are brief unstraining combat sounds, these are not equal to the sorting long, teeth gritting groan associated with weight struggling.The only consistent thing about them is that the short sound he makes as he's tossing it.
-There is no conclusion to make but that Link's feat is clearly the better one.