Breath of the Wild problems that must be addressed for Switch sequel

Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch soon. Here's what Nintendo needs to change for the sequel.

[HeisenbergX]

The stupid annoying weather system where a thunder can hit you in span of 10 seconds, weapons that break in 5 minutes, paper thin story, kinda disappointing boss battles, and some laughably awful soundtrack mainly the battle themes and the repetitive shrine theme (other than those the soundtrack is excellent)

[LMosche]

It is one of the highest rated therefore objectively one of the best games of this generation from a reason. You sound like a salty fan of multiplatform recycled un-innovative garbage.

[HeisenbergX]

not sure if you are serious or just trolling ..

[nommers]

If I make up a lot of random review sites, let’s say more than the total number of reviews that Botw has, then aggregate the reviews to a 50/100 average for Botw on another made up site akin to meta critic, I guess that would be even more objective. I mean they’re numbers. How can they be wrong?

[Aghashie]

😂😂😂

I wonder if you actually played the game 🤔

Weapons are made of paper. Story can be condensed to a single paragraph. Copy and pasted dungeons. Non existent soundtrack. And a lot of rain.

Does anyone ever wondered if there is an umbrella item in the game? I did. Never found it.

Does anyone went through the sword trials expecting never to switch weapons again? I did. The sword brakes anyways 😭

Happened to you that started raining as soon as you started a climb? All the time 😂

BotW is an amazing game, but is nowhere near perfect. Hopefully Nintendo is listening.

[Dragonscale]

Its subjectively not objectively lol. So what exactly was so innovative about this game then, not that much when you look at it objectively tbh.

[Multigamertom]

Breath of the Wild is amongst the best game this generation. Alongside Witcher 3, God of War. You sound like a person that is hurt because it hurts you a Nintendo game can be such a master piece.

Annoying weather system? Perhaps you can’t figure out metal conducts electricity and you get several warning prompts. You heard of unequipping?

Weapons breaking there are dozens of weapons that drop from enemies it never is a problem.

Minimal story, music is a design choice. Does Mario need a story no? Zelda always has minimal stories.

You never played the the game sit down troll.

[rainslacker]

You know...your chances of being hit by lightning while holding something metal, while in a thurderstorm, are not significantly higher than being hit by lightning without metal. The thing about conductors, is that the human body is just a good an attractor of electricity as Steel is. Steel would be a better conductor of electricity, but in order to conduct, you have to attract. Now, if you're holding a 20 foot rod in the middle of a field, yeah, your chances go up. But this is more due to the nature of electricity and lightning trying to find ground, and it starts at the highest point. Wearing steel toe boots in the rain isn't going to make me fear for my life though. Plus, armor and weapons are typically processed in ways that make them less of an electrical conduit....otherwise, all those battles in the rain way back in the day would have ended with huge fields of smoldering bodies.

[TK-66]

"Weapons breaking there are dozens of weapons that drop from enemies it never is a problem."

If anyone honestly didn't find out that the Blood Moon respawns enemies with the same weapon everytime, and didn't then fast travel to farm for weapons they like, then I'm questioning how I can take any of their analysis regarding this game seriously.

[CaptainObvious878]

uuuhhhh... *rolls eyes*

You're precious zelda isn't the best game ever, deal with it.

It's not even in the top 10 or even 20.

[Razmiran]

Oh god, I bet even your loved ones think you are annoying

[Razmiran]

The game literally tells you "Do not wear metal during a thunderstorm"

[HeisenbergX]

Ok so every time when there is a thunderstorm and that is often you have to go into the inventory and unequip anything metal sure that's not annoying at all.. it's a totally unnecessary gimmick that gets annoying after playing a while. Also related to the wonderful weather system in the game is the rain.. so Link can apparently climb any bare surfaces like he's Spider Man even freaking bare surfaces of ICE !! but starts sliding from stuff immediately even seconds before rain even starts. -.-

[Vegamyster]

HeisenbergX. You can use lightning storms to your advantage, you can use magnetism on metal boxes or dropping weapons etc in your inventory to hit enemies, there is also a armour set that prevents all electric damage.

[TK-66]

@HeisenbergX

"so every time when there is a thunderstorm and that is often you have to go into the inventory and unequip anything metal sure that's not annoying at all.."

You're gonna love Death Stranding, lol.

Also, it is by definition not a gimmick. Please learn what words mean before using them.

"so Link can apparently climb any bare surfaces like he's Spider Man even freaking bare surfaces of ICE !! but starts sliding from stuff immediately even seconds before rain even starts. -.-"

And there's fucking goblins too!!! I mean, liek, dafuq. Nintendo needs to map out the biology and evolutionary line of Goblins for me to believe they can exist... /s

What do you want? A rock climbing simulator? Gtfo with this criticism, lol.

[HeisenbergX]

@Vegamyster yeah i know whats in the game and whats not i have found everything in BOTW and spent at least 150h or more in the game and having rubber armour doesnt change the fact that you still need to unequip your previous one it’s annoying.. and not to mention you need to find the rubber armour set first 😂. Oh god and rest of the comments i refuse to believe this is real life 😂 you guys really believe that this game is perfect..

One dude even mentions Death Stranding for no reason, ahh listen my guy i havent played that game yet but from what i have seen inventory and cargo menagement is mandatory for that type of game well because it’s a game about delivery packages. In BOTW it’s not and it gets annoying after 30 hours.. not to mention after 100 hours.

And for the love of god calm yourselfs down nintendo fans i think the game is excellent and a true system seller.. ridiculously overrated and over prasied but still excellent !

[Vegamyster]

HeisenbergX

Nobody here is calling the game perfect, it's just a game mechanic that you can use and have fun with. Never mind if the weather bothered you so much you can go under any piece of cover whether a tent or the side of a cliff and create a fire to skip time, if the game frustrating you never would have put in 150 hours into it.

[nommers]

Zelda games have never had a prime focus on story. It’s weird when anyone ever says they’re good or they were actually looking for a good story in one.

[rainslacker]

I wouldn't say they were a focus, but at least they were there. many times anyways, as this isn't the first zelda game which barely had any story. BOTW didn't really have a story. Just a set up. It was basically like the first game. Princess was captured. Go out and save her. The motivations for why you'd do that aren't mentioned. The antagonists reasons for it are not really known. Why anyone cares in the first place don't exist. What the actual end result is after you save her are cursory. What will happen if you don't save her are meaningless.

I don't think every game story needs to be super deep, but in this day and age, something more than what BOTW offers seems more prudent than what they delivered. I mean, they put tons of lore into the game to explore, but that lore seemed pretty meaningless without a story to put it all into context. If they could spend God knows how many hours making up lore, they could have spent more than a few pages on the story itself.

I generally liked the game, even despite some criticisms I have about the game play. But the story was indeed lacking, and was the one thing that if done better, would have turned the game from a 8 for me, to an unequivocal GOTY experience.

[King_Noctis]

@rain

“ The motivations for why you'd do that aren't mentioned.”

Wait a minute dude, if you had played the game at all you would know that there are cutscenes, or in this case the game called them “Memories” sprinkled throughout your journey through the game explaining the story to you, your relationship with all the support character, and why only you can do what you do.

[iplay1up2]

"Thunder" is hitting you? That is a problem! 😂😂😂

[OzzY-waZZy]

Agree on all points. It had it's moments but overall one of the weaker Zelda games.

[Mithan]

The breaking weapons is annoying as hell. My biggest issue with the game.

[-Foxtrot]

If people played BotW and didn't even call out any of the games flaws or annoying things when reviewing the first game, giving it perfect scores and making out it was the best thing ever then lets be honest whether they address things or not they know it's going to get the same scores if not better for the sequel.

[Movefasta1993]

Less shrines 30 quality> 90+ boring shrines, but make them more difficult and more unique and make the rewards MEAN something, don't just give a sword that will break in 2 minutes. Obviously weapon breaking, give us an option to upgrade weapons, they can break still but reduce the time and let us repair them with whetstones for example, or take advantage of the mining and do it the monster hunter away, defeating enemies and finding ore to make new stronger weapons. More populated villages, they all feel like ghost towns. Add underwater sections and hire better story teller, hire a DECENT one because honestly whoever got paid to write botw had the easiest pay day in the industry aside from indie game story tellers.

[NecrumOddBoy]

Add back a good story, dungeons, special items, puzzle progression, the Triforce.

[Xaevi]

Personally love the minimalistic approach to the music, just need more variety. Weapon breaking needa go, a more simpler way of adding inventory space, something more interesting to do with Koroks, an actual story, no more towers to map out the world instead bring back Tingle, sword techniques, underwater swimming, more enemies. I could go on and on and on. Basically add everything awesome from previous games but in an open world setting and you have the most perfect Zelda

[monochromer]

Just take out the godawful, terrible, trashy, piece of garbage weapon degradation bullshit and I'll buy it day one.

[Teflon02]

I think the game needs a overhaul for the most part

[beanplant]

No fishing was huge letdown for me

[silenthillstrangler]

I've recently thought it would be a good time to finally play botw as it'd be cheap but its still close to the same price as release 2 years ago, ridiculous.

[PlayableGamez-]

-Ditch the weapon breakage
-Buff Links stamina gauage early game
-Reduce the amount of collectiables as it was obnoxious in BOTW
-Replace shrines with dungeons like previous Zelda games
-Make it where you can summon your horse on demand.

[fonger08]

-Less Shrines more dungeons
-minimize the weapon break system
-return of an overworked theme or theme(s)
-more villages/towns to discover

[OzzY-waZZy]

A Zelda game without real bosses and dungeons isn't a Zelda game. How people consider this a masterpiece when everything that made Zelda awesome wasn't there is beyond me. Music, Dungeons, Bosses, Interesting NPC's. Zelda's always been light on story but this took the cake. The coolest part of the game were the mini intros to dungeons, like sand surfing, wake-boarding.. that was cool.

[Rachel_Alucard]

120 shrines and 900 korok seeds spread everywhere with the same handful of objectives for them does not make a fun game. It's repetitive and lazy. Why they chose to throw more effort into content like that instead of Dungeons and gadgets I'll never know.

[TheGamez100]

A good story not through memories, traditional big dungeons, more linearity, the weapons system needs work, and alot of other great traditional zelda stuff etc etc.

[Neonridr]

traditional dungeons and the ability to repair broken weapons for sure.