Destructoid: Breaking down why Breath of the Wild is highly overrated

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I myself have my own BOTW story.

The first Zelda I "played" was Wind Waker HD, and let me just say, I hated it (gasp). The formulaic puzzles, the real lack of knowing where you needed to go, it confused me way too much. It never felt like I was learning about the game. Wind Waker can be straight forward in knowing where to go, but that's where the HD comes in. From what I hear the HD version tries to be a little more open ended in the world, so I ended up getting lost half the time even though like it feels you can go anywhere when you can't or shouldn't (same story with Fallout 4).

When I picked up my Switch I reluctantly got Zelda, remembering my experience with WWHD. That being said, I have put over 50 hours into BOTW, and I set in down for a while once I got Deluxe, Arms, and Splatoon 2 (I unfortunately haven't finished the campaign yet). That being said, in terms of pure video games I have played in my life, BOTW is probably the greatest game I've ever played. My problem with Wind Waker's lack of true open world was gone, giving away to a true open world. Not once did I feel lost, because there was something at every corner. It felt like things I did had a purpose and affected the game around me, and I loved it. As someone who never liked open world RPG-like games (Fallout) and was never into the original Zelda series, I consider it to be a great entrance point for a new generation such as myself.

Are there imperfections? Yeah, but every game has them. BOTW took the problems I had with two things and turned it into something that has affected me in the way I see gaming forever, and for that I couldn't be happier to say in my eyes, it's a 10/10.