mZuzek said:
TH3-D0S3R said:
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.
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I feel you about Wind Waker, though I don't think it was ever too different in the original version. Wind Waker was the first 3D Zelda to try to be truly open-ended and to feel like a sort of sandbox experience, but it failed at providing that (while Breath of the Wild succeeded).
Most Zelda games "suffer" from this - using quotes because in my opinion at least, it's only rarely an issue -, but there's at least one great one that is very much 100% straightforward you should try getting into, that game being Skyward Sword. It's pretty heavy on the story and the puzzle gameplay, but it never really leaves you clueless as to how to progress.
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