Destructoid - Series-wide spoiler warning,
It's been just over five months since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild opened to a landslide of perfect scores from the media at large. I was beginning to think we as a gaming community had gotten past hyperbole, but many have been quick to declare this the best Legend of Zelda game, the best open world game, and the overall best game of all time.
NE: "We're looking at every single Nintendo franchise on Switch and evaluating how they grew and changed during the Switch's life cycle."
The composer took to Twitter to share that he actually stepped back from the position in July 2023, though this is the first time he has publicly acknowledged it.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..
I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
I'm a big Zelda fan and I can honestly tell you BOTW is overrated. Now before people start downvoting me and getting mad just know that I love BOTW, but it's far from the best Zelda game or even close. The game is lacking in content, the enemies are the same, but with different colors and the final boss (Ganon) is disappointing. You would think after those easy 4 divine beasts he would give a better challenge. When you complete 50 shrines it's no reason to do anymore since every shrine has only minor differences. The side characters are boring and lack any support. The world is dead and empty and the game has a lack of music previous Zelda games had. I completed this game and would give it no higher than a 9. It does not deserve those 10/10's or that high 97 score on Metacritic.
I'm playing it on the wii u its Kool but not what it was made out to be but I still got a ways to go
The larger majority of the people saying it's over-rated are the ones that think so BECAUSE it's a Zelda game, who give very little credit to what it does right and compare it to every other open world game in existence to try and nit-pick it apart.
There are, granted, a few people out there who feel it doesn't merit more than an 8, and are very fair about their reasons, but those types are few and far between, in comparison to those that just outright score it a 6 or lower "because Zelda rides off of its name and nothing more."
It's got high scores based off of its own merits, not just because it's Zelda.
And it deserves that high 90's metacritic score, because the majority of people who play it and review it feel the same way.
It's a memorable adventure worth coming back to. Over and over again. Even if only for exploring in and of itself.
As for me?
I have a few complaints about it, sure, and wouldn't call it perfect in every respect.
But few 10 out of 10 games actually ARE perfect in the first place, and merit that score based off of how fun, replayable, and memorable they are for the reviewers.
I still say it merits a 10. Or at the very least, if I'm, personally, being overly-critical and nitpicky, an 8.
Kind of annoying that pretty much every critique of BOTW makes some mention of all the tens and the praise other reviewers had for the game -- makes it feel more like a reaction to the praise than a balanced critique of the game's actual merits and flaws.
Nice try with the troll post.