Breath of the wild is **** change my mind.

[stayhomeneet]

Played about 60 hours, just had to do the final divine beast and kill gannon but I started playing persona 5 so I'll go wrap it up later. Not interested in the lazy sequel either.

I am a huge zelda fan and a huge open world rpg fan but in my mind never the twain should meet.

Compare BOTW to something like The Witcher 3 and you'll see why it's ****, hell if you don't want to say BOTW is an rpg then compare it to Red Dead 2.

The world is boring, the story is boring and threadbare, the enemies are boring, the music is boring hell I could go on all day here.

Zelda is at its best when it's 20-25 hours of tight Nintendo perfection, you blast through it in a week, with diverse dungeons and settings and sick moment to moment gameplay.

BOTW is a fun sandbox for about 10 hours but it wears thin, and without an amazing story and characters to keep me engaged I found it seriously lacking.

[bongowongo]

Overrated game. One of the most boring experiences I've ever had.

[dontstopbelief]

Zelda games overall are hella overrated, probably one of the most overrated franchises in gaming history

[WHChampion]

I've been putting off playing this since I bought my Switch about a year ago. Just feel like it's going to be a disappointing slog from everything I've read.

Zelda is at it's best as a 10-15 hour game without any fluff.

[stayhomeneet]

I've been putting off playing this since I bought my Switch about a year ago. Just feel like it's going to be a disappointing slog from everything I've read.

Zelda is at it's best as a 10-15 hour game without any fluff.

I was the same as you but many people said it was amazing so I figured OK I'll give it a go.

To be honest it's "okay" and there is some fun to be had but overall all the concerns I had for it turned out to be warrented

[phaginator]

Really liked it, alteast if you let yourself get immersed in the world.

[Islandboyo]

Played it for a few hours and could no longer be bothered.

[blazenbb]

Overrated game. One of the most boring experiences I've ever had.

Unfortunately this. Was one of the main reasons I bought a switch too. It’s easily as overrated as Witcher 3

[MiamiLife305]

Played 20 minutes and quit

No thanks to that mindless "exploring" of a "open world"

[freeburn]

Don't fux with nintendo crew

[phaginator]

If you aren't an autist that needs dopamine triggers every second to be entertained then you will appreciate the open world of BOTW.

[leafs43]

The problem with BotW is that the game openly punishes you for fighting.

Fighting gets you no advancement of your character and only breaks your equipment. There is no point to fighting.

[Basedhumanwaste]

Lots of good stuff in the game. However the breaking weapon mechanic is just unnecessary inventory management, and the dungoens if you can even call them that, a staple in the series, sucked ass. Not only were there just four of them, they were tedious and pretty much identical. In addition Calamity Ganon is a poor villain, compare that nonsense to ganondorf in ocarina of time.

Great open world game, but failed at the core gameplay that has made the legend of zelda a revered title

[Muzzlrpress]

I thought it was kewl.

[Voidgaze]

Fun to dive into at the beginning, but it was just too much sandbox for me tbh.

I'm very selective on which open world games I spend time on these days.

[CrimsonSteel]

I tried to play Breath of the Wild two or three times and it kinda sucks ass.

Nonexistent music, and when it kicks in, sounds like generic garbage. Ooh wow, old themes redone with jazz chords! OMG, so innovative!
Instead of unique temples with memorable themes with significant thought put into them, 100+ generic copy-pasted "dungeons"
What is this horrible voice acting? King sounds like a zoomer trying to sound old, princess Zelda sounds absolutely ridiculous, like a terrible Dany impersonation. And 100 years old Impa sounds like a TikTok influencer doing a very poor attempt at old woman voice.
Barely any story to speak of, and when you do get any backstory, they lazily depict it on tapestries.
No recipe system, just shoot off from the hip in the dark.
At least a quarter of the time is spent in menus.
Weapons break every 10 strikes.
GIANT, MASSIVE open world...with nothing in it. Wow, the same goblin fight again! So epic!

An overrated heap when you compare it to other Zelda games. What makes me most puzzled is how people justify the endless fetch quests of Breath of the Wild but trash every Ubisoft title. I'd say BotW is even worse than the worst Assassin's Creeds games in terms of boring repetition.
Breath of the Wild, to me, in a word? Bland.

[TokenV]

spot on OP

srs

and I am/was a huuuuge Zelda fan

[MonsieurWhite]

Lots of good stuff in the game. However the breaking weapon mechanic is just unnecessary inventory management, and the dungoens if you can even call them that, a staple in the series, sucked ass. Not only were there just four of them, they were tedious and pretty much identical. In addition Calamity Ganon is a poor villain, compare that nonsense to ganondorf in ocarina of time.

Great open world game, but failed at the core gameplay that has made the legend of zelda a revered title

Agreed. My favorite moments were traversing the "dungeon" of the castle, peeking around corners in a small confined area. Suspenseful music, rare items, lots of secrets to discover. Shame that was the singular area in the game I could find that.

My second favorite part was probably the island where you lose all equipment and start from scratch. Evertide Isle?

[2010JW]

It's really good. But if you go in thinking of it as a Zelda game it'll feel weird

Absolutely love the graphics, exploration, finding the little cities and different types of living things (gorons, zoras)

But the four beast dungeons fuking suck. Feel like they drag on and makes it less fun. Barely beat two and put off the game but will return later

[OT2000]

It’s a great game especially for its target youth audience and Zelda die hard fans. I hated the weapons breaking and lack of some kind of increased strength or something if you explored and fought more.

But all in all it’s a great game.

[TokenV]

It’s a great game especially for its target youth audience and Zelda die hard fans. I hated the weapons breaking and lack of some kind of increased strength or something if you explored and fought more.

But all in all it’s a great game.

- great game

- for Zelda die hard fans

pick one

[Tanerian]

Pretty much how I felt.

It was fun to run around for a while... But just didn't work as a Zelda game for me. **** got repetitive really fast, same exact shrines over and over and over. No reason to actually fight things. Lackluster as **** music

4 dungeons, and they were lame af. A final boss you can literally just walk up to and beat at the beginning of the game if you want, with equipment powerful enough to do so found all throughout Hyrule Castle.

Meh, whatever. The game was very visually appealing. But I don't enjoy Sandbox games to begin with so I donno what I expected.

It's probably still better than Skyward Sword... So there's that.

If you wanted a Zelda Sandbox, congrats.

Hopefully we'll get an actual classic Zelda game some time in the near future though.

[ViolentZ]

u spent way too much hous on a boring game

[DolphinPilot]

omfg Nintendo keeps rehashing the same games over and over again for 30 years omg nothing is changing srs same bullchit every time









































OMFG did you play breath of the wild they totally changed the winning formula wtf were they thinking I was so bored nintendo is so stupid and retarded don't change what works nintendo yeah try that hurrrr

[Tanerian]

omfg Nintendo keeps rehashing the same games over and over again for 30 years omg nothing is changing srs same bullchit every time

I literally never hear anyone say this. The fact that they keep making the same games, successfully, for 30 years is a point of pride for Nintendo fans. Thats the type of thing you hear from jaded Xbox fans, maybe.

Skyward Sword was a classic formula Zelda game, and it was absolute chit.

I don't really think BOTW is a "bad" game... It's just not much like a Zelda game.

[TokenV]

I literally never hear anyone say this. The fact that they keep making the same games, successfully, for 30 years is a point of pride for Nintendo fans. Thats the type of thing you hear from jaded Xbox fans, maybe.

Skyward Sword was a classic formula Zelda game, and it was absolute chit.

I don't really think BOTW is a "bad" game... It's just not much like a Zelda game.

so much this

they could've just created a completely new IP for that chit

[WiseOldApe]

I really liked the game and the Nintendo switch platform - that's just me though.

The problem with BotW is that the game openly punishes you for fighting.

Fighting gets you no advancement of your character and only breaks your equipment. There is no point to fighting.

There's a level up system, it's just not announced - it's why the enemies turn from blue to grey/purple and become worse than the one eyed trolls/onyx, or whatever they're called.

[phaginator]

BOTW is all about exploration and THE core of what a Zelda game is, look what Miyamoto said, the creator of Zelda. It's what he always wanted a Zelda game to be.


Ironic how some "die hard" fans don't like it...

[TokenV]

BOTW is all about exploration and THE core of what a Zelda game is, look what Miyamoto said, the creator of Zelda. It's what he always wanted a Zelda game to be.


Ironic how some "die hard" fans don't like it...

it started like that on NES due to hardware limitations, did a complete 360 for the next

following this they established the success formula and produced the one peak gaming experience after the other

now you tell me this was all unintended and the original formule is as it should be?

[phaginator]

it started like that on NES due to hardware limitations, did a complete 360 for the next

following this they established the success formula and produced the one peak gaming experience after the other

now you tell me this was all unintended and the original formule is as it should be?

I'm only telling you what the actual maker of Zelda wants/wanted Zelda to be.

Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto stated in an E3 interview that Zelda: Breath of the Wild “directly harkens back to the wide-open design philosophy of the very first Legend of Zelda”. Miyamoto explained, saying that “as the series progressed,there were more added features. As we started doing that, we realized that the game was becoming more and more sequential. We really wanted to go back to the original spirit of Zelda, which is freedom”. Miyamoto went on to state how “in past Zelda titles, there was a tendency for NPCs to explain everything about the world. We went back to the origins of Zelda, where [starting the game] you don’t know who you are, what you are supposed to do. In this new game, as you interact with nature and the world around you, you learn who you are”.

BOTW is THE Zelda game.