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Wyrdness on 06 July 2019
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thetonestarr said:
I tried to justify voting BotW over SM64 because BotW is inarguably the better game,

BUT

BotW didn't do anything new, didn't bring anything to the table that we didn't already have. It just did what it did magnificently. One of the best games of all-time, to be certain, and my love for it is surely illustrated in the fact that I've personally sunk over 300 hours into it.

But SM64 was simply groundbreaking. Game changing. And it proved that the platformer didn't have to die just because of 3D gaming. And even today, 23 years later, I can still go back to it and enjoy it.

BOTW did though it's the only game that allowed for actual absolute freedom in both approach and mechanics as the result it does what many games have tried to do in the past and lets the player decide how the game plays out whether you go straight to the final boss, play through the story, play the game as an action title etc... It's the only game that does this many games before like Mass Effect and so on tried doing this with locked in choices but it wasn't as free as people hoped.

Edit: An example of the freedom to approach situations how you like.