The Zelda theme song is in the game. finding it was legitimately one of the highlights of the entire experience for me. It's probably my all-time favorite version of the theme song, too.
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Breath of the Wild: 2 years have passed since its release, how do you feel about the game today?
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The Zelda theme song is in the game. finding it was legitimately one of the highlights of the entire experience for me. It's probably my all-time favorite version of the theme song, too.
Yeah I keep thinking about it. Specifically, I'm taken aback that such a recent game could be my "favourite" game of all time. It's a little baffling mainly because my previous favourite games were from my childhood (i.e. they hold a special place in my heart, nostalgia, etc.). But BotW may have outdone them still. I'm still pondering it though.
I just wish the game had classic Zelda style dungeons and bosses. The Divine Beasts did not cut it for me.
The exploration mechanics are quite possibly some of the best of all gaming history, I'd put it up there with Myst and Silent Hill and other of the same calibur.
Combat though... well it's defiantly fun and experimental, but the traditional hack n slash of the game is very stock standard and bland. Boss battles are open ended but they are all easily exploitable and are over too quickly.
Combat though... well it's defiantly fun and experimental, but the traditional hack n slash of the game is very stock standard and bland. Boss battles are open ended but they are all easily exploitable and are over too quickly.
I do wish that there was gear that allowed to climb in the rain. Also the bosses were actually terrible. That's a complaint that I can agree with. A lot of other complaints such as the weapon durability and horse riding really didn't bother me at all. It's my favorite Zelda soundtrack and one of my favorite soundtracks of all time.
Echo this, I've shown a lot of great games to my GF, BOTW is the only game she wants to play by herself
This is the game of all eternity right now and I am still in love. My 6 and 3 year olds have recently gotten into it and I love watching them play. I join in ever so often and soon enough I'm going to go through it again with all the DLC.
I certainly would have enjoyed the shrines to be classically themed but the puzzles were top notch! This game took pushing blocks and lighting torches to the next level. Man Zelda puzzles were getting so tired until now.
Love exploring and finding Koroks. One of the best things in my opinion. I always felt like I was on a real life nature hike.
I certainly would have enjoyed the shrines to be classically themed but the puzzles were top notch! This game took pushing blocks and lighting torches to the next level. Man Zelda puzzles were getting so tired until now.
Love exploring and finding Koroks. One of the best things in my opinion. I always felt like I was on a real life nature hike.
Wow, thanks for sharing that story. Congratulations on finding an activity that you love to do that also helps your daughter.
I only have to see the name of a picture of it to make me want to start playing it again. It deserves all of the praise it received
I'll never forget the first time I arrived at Hateno Village. It was raining really hard that night as I was gliding down from Mount Lanayru. I saw those lights in the distance and somehow I managed to land before my stamina ran out. I went inside one of the farm houses to chill for a bit and man I felt so damn cozy. It was like I personally found shelter during a storm. Hearing the Hateno Village theme for the first time gave me goosebumps. Crazy how the game was full of these small but impactful moments.
I bought it at launch due to the lack of general choice. I couldn't get into it for many of the same reasons others have stated.
I beat OoT last year (my first Zelda), so I decided to go back to BOTW and I found it quite engaging and interesting the second time around. Now that OoT familiarized me with the world of Hyrule, I find the world quite fun to explore. Still working through it at a relaxed pace.
That said, I wouldn't give the game a 10/10 and it sure didn't deserve the GOTY awards it got when Mario Odyssey was released the same year.
I beat OoT last year (my first Zelda), so I decided to go back to BOTW and I found it quite engaging and interesting the second time around. Now that OoT familiarized me with the world of Hyrule, I find the world quite fun to explore. Still working through it at a relaxed pace.
That said, I wouldn't give the game a 10/10 and it sure didn't deserve the GOTY awards it got when Mario Odyssey was released the same year.
When I think my first Zelda game was Link's Awakening on the Game Boy when I was 11, it kind of blows my mind that there are 3 and 6 year olds out there who are experiencing Zelda for the first time through Breath of the Wild on today's hot new handheld. Lucky kids! Long live the eternal gods of gaming, Nintendo.
To me, BOTW is going to become a game with a lot of longevity that keeps you coming back to it.
I think it's what the series desperately needed.
Absolutely loved exploring, finding new places, finding towers, etc., the feel of it, the confidence of the design and presentation.
But I still haven't finished it. I got really discouraged when I got the Master Sword and discovered that it still breaks. Don't mind the idea of weapon degradation, but stuff is way too fragile. And I really don't like the Divine Beasts as dungeons.
Absolutely loved exploring, finding new places, finding towers, etc., the feel of it, the confidence of the design and presentation.
But I still haven't finished it. I got really discouraged when I got the Master Sword and discovered that it still breaks. Don't mind the idea of weapon degradation, but stuff is way too fragile. And I really don't like the Divine Beasts as dungeons.
I hate the movement in this game quite a bit... like... I tried to play today and moving on the small switch screen and maneuvering against enemies is just not fun to me.
But the moments where it's actually progressing and I'm not just running through empty fields are great.
But the moments where it's actually progressing and I'm not just running through empty fields are great.
Great but flawed for me (to be clear, I hate open world games, and this one does better than most, but still falls into a couple trappings)
I'm curious about my hero's path, but not enough to buy the dlc
I disliked the game for how disjointed each champion's section is (price of freedom, I know), and how little story there was, and I certainly wasn't interested in buying the other dlc to know more
I'm curious about my hero's path, but not enough to buy the dlc
I disliked the game for how disjointed each champion's section is (price of freedom, I know), and how little story there was, and I certainly wasn't interested in buying the other dlc to know more
i was dead-sure that the game was going to be my favorite ever. it's been a while since i had a 'favorite-ever' game. the idea died out around 12 years ago... but an open-world zelda game where you can go anywhere and do anything and that trailer?
it left me realizing that part of what i like about zelda is the motivation. ocarina of time had it, as simple as it is. the wind waker has it in spades (and pays off with a fantastic ending). majora's mask, skyward sword, and link's awakening have it too. even games that aren't so strong in the story department have memorable characters like zelda from spirit tracks and midna from twilight princess.
breath of the wild featured a pretty great link, a relateable zelda, and lots of fun side characters. there just wasn't any urgency. the trailer from january 2017 is promoting a much fuller experience, and i wish i could play that game.
it left me realizing that part of what i like about zelda is the motivation. ocarina of time had it, as simple as it is. the wind waker has it in spades (and pays off with a fantastic ending). majora's mask, skyward sword, and link's awakening have it too. even games that aren't so strong in the story department have memorable characters like zelda from spirit tracks and midna from twilight princess.
breath of the wild featured a pretty great link, a relateable zelda, and lots of fun side characters. there just wasn't any urgency. the trailer from january 2017 is promoting a much fuller experience, and i wish i could play that game.
One of the greatest games of all time. Bought the switch just for it and even if I never played another game on switch, it would be worth it just for this game.
It's such a risky move to take a beloved series and completely reinvent it, but they managed to pull it off and make it my favorite Zelda game.
Playing it on launch, it completely made the Switch promise of console games on the go a reality. I've owned every handheld since the gameboy and loved so many games on them, but this is the first time I felt like I was playing a game on a handheld that felt like a "console" game and not a "handheld" game.
It's such a risky move to take a beloved series and completely reinvent it, but they managed to pull it off and make it my favorite Zelda game.
Playing it on launch, it completely made the Switch promise of console games on the go a reality. I've owned every handheld since the gameboy and loved so many games on them, but this is the first time I felt like I was playing a game on a handheld that felt like a "console" game and not a "handheld" game.
i can't tell if you're gonna be happy or disappointed when the next 3D Zelda game is a multiplayer action adventure game where you and two of your friends trawl Hyrule to collect the freshest and niftiest ingredients with which to craft the legendary Tri-Course Meal
A handful of story-related weapons can be repaired. All other weapons can be found again many times over.
I would advise you use your best weapons. You'll quickly replace them with better ones as you progress. If you hold onto a "really strong" weapon for too long it'll soon be one of your weakest.
Didn't like the shrines, honestly felt like filler content most of the time and I got several of the combat ones out of order so those were frustrating as well. Felt the concept could have been done better.
Weapon degrading is a big negative, especially with how oppressive it is, soulsborne games having it is annoying but I never really butted up against it.
The healing system also breaks combat a lot. And I didn't really like the combat anyway.
Edit: Weirdly enough I connected the most with the small story snippets that were there with the memory images that you could find in the world.
Weapon degrading is a big negative, especially with how oppressive it is, soulsborne games having it is annoying but I never really butted up against it.
The healing system also breaks combat a lot. And I didn't really like the combat anyway.
Edit: Weirdly enough I connected the most with the small story snippets that were there with the memory images that you could find in the world.
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if it was a two-player multiplayer game, i think i'd be down. but if they go the single-player route again i really need a better way to present the story. there's enough going on in breath of the wild to have me interested in what's going on and keep playing, but they could have done a lot more to immerse the player in the story itself. the implementation feels like it was the final thing they added.
Roll your eyes all you want, but the industry itself recognizes it as a new standard.
I put over 100 hours into it on WiiU and if it wasn't for a backlog, I would replay it on Switch. I really wish Nintendo would remake the first two Zelda games with the engine.
I really enjoyed it, a swan song for the Wii U and a great launch title for the Switch. But I don't think I ever want to replay it. I'd take a sequel with some improvements and a different setting though. Exploring the same map of Hyrule just wouldn't be interesting a second time through.
I think it's a solid 7/10 game and I appreciate the risk from Nintendo to change things up, but there are quite a few things that stopped it from being great.
For the sequel Nintendo should focus on making exploration much more exciting, climbing cliffs and going to various locations just to find a korok seed or another shrine just doesn't cut it for me and it just kills my curiosity.
I'm also not a fan of the weapon degradation system no matter how people try and spin it, for me they should just add a better variety of enemies that require different tactics and weapons to defeat without the need for them to break.
Bring back the well crafted dungeons, they are sorely missed. I just feel Nintendo cut away too much of what makes Zelda games so enjoyable and the feelings and wonder I got from playing LttP, LA, WW etc where missing during my playthrough of BOTW.
For the sequel Nintendo should focus on making exploration much more exciting, climbing cliffs and going to various locations just to find a korok seed or another shrine just doesn't cut it for me and it just kills my curiosity.
I'm also not a fan of the weapon degradation system no matter how people try and spin it, for me they should just add a better variety of enemies that require different tactics and weapons to defeat without the need for them to break.
Bring back the well crafted dungeons, they are sorely missed. I just feel Nintendo cut away too much of what makes Zelda games so enjoyable and the feelings and wonder I got from playing LttP, LA, WW etc where missing during my playthrough of BOTW.
A standard that was pretty much executed back in 2012 with Far Cry 3.
The biggest one-up I can give BOTW over other open world games is the climbing. Being able to climb every single thing was wonderful for exploration.
The game is incredible in theory, but falls apart when you begin to realize how routinely formulaic everything is. It's hard to get excited exploring when you know the outcome will likely be a repetitive shrine or korok seed. I enjoyed it from a gameplay perspective at launch, but in seeing games like Red Dead which constantly introduce new elements, narrative beats, and ways to make the world come alive, you realize how truly empty BOTW is. It breaks my heart because I love Zelda, but I don't think there's anything revolutionary about the game at all. It pulls most of it's formula from Ubisoft open world games, which already feel incredibly dated.
The game had the perfect recipe to be incredible: it's one of the most well respected franchises in all of media, it had a lot of hype backing it, it launched alongside a new Nintendo console, and it marked the end of a slump for Nintendo and began a new era for them. I think those things make the event of first playing BOTW special. But this has skewed audience's ability to objectively critique the game. Isolate it from the noise around it, and you have a game that is lazy, empty, completely devoid of story, and highly repetitive. The longer we distance ourselves from the event of BOTW, the more we see how overrated it really is.
The game had the perfect recipe to be incredible: it's one of the most well respected franchises in all of media, it had a lot of hype backing it, it launched alongside a new Nintendo console, and it marked the end of a slump for Nintendo and began a new era for them. I think those things make the event of first playing BOTW special. But this has skewed audience's ability to objectively critique the game. Isolate it from the noise around it, and you have a game that is lazy, empty, completely devoid of story, and highly repetitive. The longer we distance ourselves from the event of BOTW, the more we see how overrated it really is.
Empty world with many fillers = open world perfection - Kotaku
I liked the game and I enjoyed it... but I really think it's overpraised.
I liked the game and I enjoyed it... but I really think it's overpraised.
I honestly don't think developers like Rockstar and CD Projekt are looking at that game at all tbh. Maybe I'm 2010, but we're already so far ahead of BOTW it's not even funny.
There are things about it that I wish were different, like not so many shrines and a few traditional dungeons, and also the well documented weapon degradation which was just way over the top, but regardless, it is still a masterpiece that in the years following has had everyone begging for their favorite franchise of choice to be given the "BoTW treatment".
I can't agree with this enough. The dark souls approach. It would've made obtaining different weapons in the overworld meaningful and the overworld would feel less empty.
