Vini256 on 11 June 2017
| Majin-Tenshinhan said: The Legend of Zelda has been my favourite franchise for almost my entire life, ever since I played A Link to the Past at age ... 4 or 5? Unfortunately, much like the opening poster here, Breath of the Wild makes me really sad. Almost every semblence of what makes a Zelda game Zelda is gone, and given the hugely positive reception to it, it's not likely to stray away from the course that Breath of the Wild has put it on. It wouldn't be as bad if any other game series was similar to Zelda, but unfortunately it's always been one-of-a-kind. People could never really say "Oh, it's just like Zelda" about any other game series, and unfortunately, that statement now holds true for Zelda as well. |
That's basically how I feel about it. I see BotW as a survival/sandbox game with Zelda characters, otherwise its structure barely resembles a Zelda game to me. I also agree completely with your second point, and it's something that I was going to make a thread about the other day but ultimately decided not to. 3D Zelda games have a very specific gameplay structure and there's no other franchise that's equivalent to it. Sure, games like Beyond Good and Evil/Okami/Darksiders came close, but it's just not the same.
