Link’s first open world venture is still a masterpiece – here’s why.
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.
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The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has again commented on the possibility of revisiting the style of past entries in the series – but there are no plans as of now. Speaking with RTL Nieuws, Aonuma said that games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were possible because of what came before them.
Which is very sad. I still wish we could get a zelda like twilight princess, the dark tone and theme in the traditional style. But times have changed and the masses prefer open world sandbox. Smh. Perhaps we can get a proper hd remake of ocarina of time some day.
I played 100 hours of Tears of the Kingdom, enjoyed it, but ready for a game like that next.
If they can bounce between 2D and 3D Mario games, they can bounce between classic and modern Zelda games too. I thought this was a given when the Switch combined a handheld with a primary console.
Then this is where I part ways. I won't disagree with anyone who says that the old formula was getting stale. And I do think BoTW in a few ways was a step in the right direction, but there's way too much good that was left with the old formula in the transition.
Well that sucks. I still love the classic formula WAY more than the Hyrule Engineering Simulator
"Link’s first open world venture is still a masterpiece"
The original LoZ was open world you morons and so were every other one.
GamingBolt is comically hot garbage.
Loved this game! Can't wait to play part 2 on my Nintendo Switch
What I found awesome was the freedom. Never was I restricted to a quest area that if I left I got a game over. Too many open world games do that and always tick me off. Only other game I played with this amount of freedom was Oblivion
Hoo boy. Nothing gets people fired up quite like breath of the wild on this site. We know we know, its the worst game ever made, nintendo fanboys should be put in gas chambers, etc
Got bored and never finished it, but from what I’d played, I would give it like an 8.5.
Game systems were nice (well apart from how weak weapons were which I personally didn’t like) but nothing ground breaking.
Technically well put together most definitely. Although I just wish the Switch had a bit more power. Those jaggies on a big screen are awful.