Is Breath of the Wild really that good?

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Kyuu said:
All games that exceed 95 are overrated. But BotW seems like a very high quality game and that is all that matters to me. As long as a game's quality hits 90 in my book, I don't mind it being overrated..

Though from what I've seen, a few gameplay sections annoyed me a little. Some dude on youtube is just sitting over a cliff or a rock, throwing these infinite blue bombs which the pig-faced enemies keep following to trigger them to explode. This goes on and on for like 5 minutes... is that supposed to be funny or what?

I think this type of game is better played than watched. Part of the enjoyment is in how many possibilities are open to you. If you see an enemy camp, you can ignore it, sneak in and use stealth, lure enemies near canyons and push them over, etc. I showed my mom the game last night, and her comment was that she preferred watching me play the last game I showed her (Uncharted 4), even if I'm having infinitely more fun playing BotW.

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OT: I'm a huge Zelda fan, so my opinion probably isn't what you're looking for, but it's quite easily the best open world game I've ever played. Only a few minutes in, it fixes the biggest issue I had with Skyrim...in that you can climb the God damned mountains. This was huge for me, and exponentially increases the open world aspect. Almost everything is traversible, you get several tools early on, and there's a huge selection of weapons and items to use. I can already see that no two playthroughs of this game will be the same, because there's just so many possibilities, and I love every bit of it.

Metacritic needs a system that lets you filter out 0 reviews...because even broken games deserve better than that. This game though, I honestly think the deserves the high merit. It's really is something else.