Is Breath of the Wild really that good?

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The 78% is just troll reviews. It is obvious when you read them.

The game is definitely in my top five best games of all time. That puts it above a 95 at least. It isn't that there are any single new gimmicks that the game revolves around, but rather a multitude of new things combined with a great attention to detail. The world makes you want to explore it, and gives you all of the freedom to explore it how you wish, but it does this without copying and pasteing things. Every shrine is obviously different and well planned. Every camp is different and changes dynamics. Each forest has different things to find. So on and so forth. The world design is planned out well so that you are not constrained in what you want to do. The main quest is nonlinear unlike other open world games where you have to do things in their prescribed order for it to make sense.

And then if we look at the close details, everything is well crafted. Horses aren't controlled 1:1, but rather rely on a multitude of intuitive dynamics. Cooking is intuitive. Even combat is intuitive. You think not in game logic, but real-world logic when you are playing. That is awesome, because it adds a lot to immersion.

The game sets a goal to be totally nonlinear, and for the most part it succeeds flawlessly. For example, I can go fight the final boss without completing anything else, but there are consequences for this. I can go explore and I will be rewarded, not just by gaining equipment and resources, but because it is fun to look at the next mountain and see what is there. And the game is so dense and diverse that you don't know what to expect.

So yes, I think an A+ score is warranted. Whether or not it is a 96, 98, or 100 it does not seem to matter.